Ignacio E Grossmann | |
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Born | 1949 |
Alma mater | Universidad Iberoamericana, Imperial College London |
Known for | Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming |
Awards | Member of National Academy of Engineering |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Process systems engineering, optimization |
Institutions | Carnegie Mellon University |
Doctoral advisor | Roger Sargent |
Notable students | Marco Duran, Christodoulos Floudas, Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos, Nikolaos Sahinidis, Fengqi You, Christos Maravelias |
Website | http://egon.cheme.cmu.edu |
Ignacio E. Grossmann (born 1949) is an American chemical engineer. He is the R. R. Dean University Professor in the department of chemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. [1] Grossmann received his B.S. degree from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 1974. He did his M.S. and Ph.D. at Imperial College London with Roger W. H. Sargent [2] in 1975 and 1977 respectively. In 2015 he was the first recipient of the Sargent Medal of the Institution of Chemical Engineers, named in honor of his doctoral advisor. [3]
Grossmann is a member of US National Academy of Engineering, [4] and Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), [5] and a Fellow of Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). [6] He has a large academic family tree, [7] [8] and has an H-index of 122 by Google Scholar. [9] He is a member and former director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making, an industrial consortium that involves 20 petroleum, chemical, engineering, and software companies.
His main research interests are in the areas of discrete/continuous optimization, optimal synthesis and planning of chemical processes and energy systems, supply chain optimization, and optimization under uncertainty.
Grossmann has authored more than 700 papers [10] and is a co-author of the text book "Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design" [11] and author of the textbook "Advanced Optimization for Process Systems Engineering" [12] . His main contributions are through peer-reviewed articles on mixed-integer nonlinear programming, [13] [14] heat integration, [15] production scheduling, [16] among others.
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