in the memory of christodoulos a. floudas: a celebration...
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In the Memory of Christodoulos A. Floudas:A Celebration of Outstanding Academic Accomplishments
Ignacio E. GrossmannDepartment of Chemical Engineering
Center for Advanced Process Decision MakingCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA
Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton University
May 6, 2017
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Soterios Papoulias - GAF ChemicalsChris Floudas – Princeton, Texas A&MStratos Pistikopoulos – Imperial College, Texas A&MNick Sahinidis – U. Illinois, Carnegie MellonVasilios Voudouris - Vereniki SolutionsDimitrios Varvarezos - AspenTechChristos Maravelias – U. Wisconsin-Madison
My former Greek Ph.D. Students
NTUA
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Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Erle Nye '59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence Texas A&M University
Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus Princeton University
Christodoulos (Chris) A. Floudas1959-2016
In Memoriam
Huge loss to Process Systems Engineering
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2016: A Sad Year for the Optimization Community
Jonathan M. Borwein (1951–2016) Univ. Newcastle, Dalhousie University
Jitka Dupâcová (1939–2016) Univerzita Karlov, Prague
Roger Fletcher (1939-2016) Dundee University, Scotland
Christodoulos A. Floudas (1959-2016) Princeton University, Texas A&M
András Prékopa (1929–2016) Eötvös Univ., Technical Univ. Budapest, Rutgers Univ.
Philip Starr Wolfe (1927–2016) Princeton, IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center
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Born August 31, 1959 in Ioannina, Greece
Diploma of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1982)
Ph.D. Chemical EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University (1986)
Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Erle Nye '59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence Texas A&M University (2015 – 2016)
Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied ScienceProfessor of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton University (1986 – 2014)
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Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon September 1982-December 1985
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Ph.D. thesis: "Synthesis and Analysis of Flexible Energy Recovery Systems".
Floudas, C.A., A.R. Ciric and I.E. Grossmann, "Automatic Synthesis of OptimalHeat Exchanger Network Configurations," AIChE J. 32, 276 (1986).
376 citationsFloudas, C.A. and I.E. Grossmann, "Synthesis of Flexible Heat Exchanger Networks for Multiperiod Operation," Computers and Chemical Engineering 10, 153 (1986).
90 citations Floudas, C.A. and I.E. Grossmann, "Automatic Generation of Multiperiod Heat Exchanger Network Configurations," Computers and Chemical Engineering 11, 123 (1987).
68 citationsGrossmann, I.E. and C.A. Floudas, "Active Constraint Strategy for Flexibility Analysisin Chemical Processes," Computers and Chemical Engineering 11, 675 (1987).
311 citationsFloudas, C.A. and I.E. Grossmann, "Synthesis of Flexible Heat Exchanger Networks with Uncertain Flowrates and Temperatures," Computers and Chemical Engineering 11, 319 (1987). 115 citations
Chris was a pioneer of superstructure optimization
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Feasible at FH1 = 1 and =1.8Infeasible at FH1 = 1.37!
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Some interesting facts about Chris at Carnegie Mellon:
- As he was finishing his Ph.D. degree:“ It should be possible to solve nonconvex MINLP problems to global optimality”
- While doing his Ph.D. degree he was an outstanding soccer player
- Tough Teaching Assistant grading design reports“What do you think Prof. Grossmann will think of you with these kind of mistakes”
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1986: Miami AIChE Mtg. 60th Sargent Birthday
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• Deterministic Global Optimization
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Product and Process Operations: Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty
• Discrete-Continuous Nonlinear Optimization
• Product and Process Design, Synthesis, and Discovery
Chris’ successful career at Princeton (1986 – 2014)
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Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas
ResearchActivities:l ProductandProcessDesign,Synthesis,andDiscoveryl ProductandProcessOperations:PlanningandSchedulingunderUncertaintyl Discrete-ContinuousNonlinearOptimizationl DeterministicGlobalOptimizationl BioinformaticsandComputationalBiology
KeyContributionsin:• Theoryandalgorithmsindeterministicglobal
optimization,derivative-freeoptimization• Optimizationunderuncertainty• Planningandschedulingofcomplexsystems• Processsynthesisandglobaloptimizationforhybrid
energysystemsforfuelsandchemicals• Proteinstructureprediction,refinement,anddenovo
proteindesignviadeterministicglobaloptimization
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FinalAppointmentsDirector,TexasA&MEnergyInstituteErleNye'59ChairProfessorforEngineeringExcellenceArtieMcFerrinDepartmentofChemicalEngineeringTexasA&MUniversityStephenC.Macaleer'63ProfessorinEngineeringandAppliedScience,EmeritusProfessorofChemicalandBiologicalEngineering,EmeritusPrincetonUniversity
Professor Christodoulos A. FloudasRecognitionsandHonorsl NationalAcademyofInventors,2015l AcademyofAthens,CorrespondingMember,2015l P.V.DanckwertsMemorialLecture,2015l ThomsonReutersHighlyCitedResearcher,2015(for2003-2013)l ConstantinCaratheodoryPrize,2015l ThomsonReutersHighlyCitedResearcher,2014(for2002-2012)l TIASFellowandEminentScholar,2013-14l NationalAwardandHELORSGoldMedal,2013l AIChEFellow,2013l NationalAcademyofEngineering,2011l GraduateMentoringAward,PrincetonUniversity,2007l AIChEComputinginChemicalEngineeringAward,2006l AIChEAndreasAcrivosAwardforProfessionalProgressinChemicalEngineering,2001
GoogleScholarh-index 88Citations 29,267JournalArticles >335
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Victoria AshleyAthanasios I. PapadopoulosDaniel Montolio-RodriguezMirko StijepovicSelma AttilhanKerron GabrielSabla AlnouriSumit Bishnu
Rohit Kumar SinglaKulijeet Singh
Harjot Kaur
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Georgia-Roumpini Iordanidou
Ioannis PapamichailHaitao HuangAileen CheungTimothy SheldonBernardino Pereira-LoMilica FolicApostolos GiovanoglouRodrigo Blanco-GuttierezEmmanuel KeskesAnastasia ApostolakouAlexandros LymperiadisMichaela PollockAlexander DunnettJavier Rodriguez-PerezNiall Mac DowellFrances PereiraJens SchreckenbergAndrei KazantsevHeiko StrubingVassileios PapaioannouCharles BrandManolis VasileiadisKhalil RhazaouiEirini SiougkrouZara GanaseAbidhakim HassanChristina-Anna GatsiouNikolaos KazazakisDimitris NerantzisAikaterini DiamantiRallia-Iliana VelliouPanatpong HutacharoenSuela JonuzajSmitha GorinathGeorgia LazarouEdward GrahamSiti Hajar Khalit
Carnegie Mellon, PhD, 1986Princeton University, 1986-2014Texas A&M University, 2015-2016
October 2016
Georgia KouyialisRadu Baltean-LugojanMiten Mistry
Sezen Vatansever
Yi Man
S. Marjan VarediJiyhang ParkYu ChenAlissa KernerJeremy MintyMichael NelsonSida WangTatyana SaleskiScott ScholzCorine Jackman
AcademicTreeofProfessorChristodoulos A.Floudas
Chris Floudas: Major Inspiration for Young Researchers in PSE
20 post-doctoral associates: Boukouvala, Ierapetritou, Hassan
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Dear Fotini and Ismini:
We would like to offer you our deepest sympathy to you. You can both be proud for having had as a loving husband and father such a prominent and respected intellectual leader. Chris will be sorely missed. May he rest in peace. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.
Love, Ignacio