Lorenz Biegler

Lorenz T. Biegler is the professor of Covestro University Professor, in the Chemical Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University. He was previously the Department head of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon from 2013-2018. His research interests lie in optimization of differential and algebraic systems, computer aided process engineering (CAPE), reactor network synthesis, and algorithms for constrained, nonlinear process control.[1] He has written two widely used textbooks, and over 400 scientific publications.

Lorenz Biegler
EducationPhD. (Chemical Engineering 1981), MS. (1979), BS. (1977)
Alma materUniversity of Wisconsin, Illinois Institute of Technology
Known forIPOPT, Systematic methods for chemical process design, Nonlinear programming: concepts, algorithms, and applications to chemical processes
AwardsHumboldt Prize,INFORMS Computing Society Prize, Presidential Young Investigator Award
Scientific career
FieldsOptimization, Chemical engineering
InstitutionsCarnegie Mellon University
Doctoral advisorDick Hughes

Work

In 1985 Biegler was awarded the Presidential Young Investigator Award, which lead to him starting the Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making at Carnegie Mellon University, along with Ignacio Grossmann and Art Westerberg.[2] Biegler has played a major role in the computer aided process engineering, has received various awards including the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, an honorary doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin, the INFORMS Computing Society Prize for developing IPOPT, an open source program for large-scale nonlinear optimization. [3] [4]

References
  1. "Lorenz T. Beigler". Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved January 19, 2021.
  2. "History of CAPD". CAPD - Center for Advanced Process Decision-Making. Carnegie Mellon University. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  3. "Lorenz T. Beigler". Informs. Retrieved October 4, 2020.
  4. "Computing in Chemical Engineering Award". AICHE. AICHE. Retrieved January 19, 2021.


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