2020
Mar. 25th, 2020
Harwinder’s paper titled “Approximate dynamic programming based control of proppant concentration in hydraulic fracturing” has been selected as the 3rd prize of “Best Paper Awards 2018” by Mathematics Journal.
Mar. 25th, 2020
Professor Kwon has been awarded the “2020 Young Investigator Grant” by Korean-American Scientists and Engineers Association (KSEA).
Mar. 13th, 2020
Hyun-Kyu’s paper titled “Multiscale modeling and multiobjective control of wood fiber morphology in batch pulp digester” was accepted in AIChE Journal.
Mar. 10th, 2020
Prashanth has been selected for “2020 Association of Former Students Distinguished Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research“. Congratulations, Prashanth!
Mar. 10th, 2020
Hyun-Kyu and Kaiyu’s conference proceedings have been accepted for poster and oral presentations, respectively, at the 2020 MIT “A+B” Applied Energy Symposium on August 12-14, 2020.
Mar. 6th, 2020
Professor Kwon has been awarded the “2019-2020 TEES Young Faculty Fellow Award” by the College of Engineering, Texas A&M University.
Mar. 6th, 2020
Dongheon, Hyun-Kyu, Niranjan, and Parth gave oral presentations at 7th Annual ChEGSA Research Symposium, Texas A&M University.
Mar. 5th, 2020
Parth successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations, Parth! He will join Intel as a Data Scientist.
Mar. 4th, 2020
Prashanth has been awarded the Paul & Ellen Deisler Fellowship by Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering. Congratulations, Prashanth!
Mar. 3rd, 2020
Bhavana successfully defended her MS thesis. Congratulations, Bhavana!
Mar. 1st, 2020
Dr. Sang Hwan Son (Ph.D. from Seoul National University, South Korea) has joined our group as a postdoctoral researcher. Welcome Sang Hwan!
Feb. 17th, 2020
Mr. Hyoung-Geon Lee has joined our group as a visiting scholar. He is currently a M.S. student at Inha University, South Korea. Welcome Hyoung-Geon!
Feb. 6th, 2020
Shuai successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Shuai! He will join Sealand Securities in China as an Equity Analyst.
Jan. 21st, 2020
Silabrata has passed the PhD program Qualifying Exam. Congratulations, Silabrata!
Jan. 14th, 2020
Prashanth successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations, Prashanth! He will join Phillips 66 as a Technology Staff Engineer.
Jan. 14th, 2020
Dongheon’s paper titled “Identification of cell‐to‐cell heterogeneity through systems engineering approaches” was accepted in AIChE Journal.
2019
Dec. 22nd, 2019
Saad’s paper titled “Deep hybrid modeling of chemical process: Application to hydraulic fracturing” was accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
Dec. 13th, 2019
Professor Kwon has been awarded the “2019 Distinguished Teaching Award” by the Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University.
Nov. 14th, 2019
Shuai’s paper titled “Liquid flammability ratings predicted by machine learning considering aerosolization” was accepted in Journal of Hazardous Materials.
Nov. 13th, 2019
Mr. Yeon-Pyeong Jo has joined our group as a visiting scholar. He is currently a M.S. student at Inha University, South Korea. Welcome Yeon-Pyeong!
Nov. 10 – Nov. 15, 2019
Professor Kwon, Abhinav, Dongheon, Hyun-Kyu, Niranjan, Prashanth, and Saad attended 2019 AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL and gave eighteen oral and poster presentations on behalf of the entire research group (Please see “Contributed Presentations” section under Presentations for details).
Oct. 21th, 2019
Professor Kwon has been elected as 10E programming coordinator for the Computing & Systems Technology (CAST) Division in AIChE for 2022.
Oct. 18th, 2019
Silabrata and Parth have joined our group. Silabrata is a Ph.D. student and Parth is a M.S. student. Welcome all!
Oct. 11th, 2019
Bhavana has been selected to present her poster at the 8th Annual U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Women in Clean Energy Symposium and Awards, held in College Station, Texas on November 13-14, 2019 at Texas A&M University. Congratulations, Bhavana!
Sep. 27th, 2019
Professor Kwon joins the Editorial Board of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering as an Associate Editor.
Sep. 26th, 2019
Professor Kwon (Co-PI) receives a DOE grant on “Dynamic Binary Complexes as Super-adjustable Viscosity Modifiers for Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids“. This project is in collaboration with Professor Akbulut (PI).
(Media Coverage: Akbulut and Kwon receive $1.8M DOE grant to study novel viscosifying agents)
Sep. 22nd, 2019
Prashanth’s paper titled “Enhancing total fracture surface area in naturally fractured unconventional reservoirs via model predictive control” was accepted in Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering.
Sep. 4th, 2019
Bhavana’s paper titled “Machine learning based adaptive model identification of systems: Application to a chemical process” was accepted in Chemical Engineering Research & Design.
Aug. 16th, 2019
Professor Kwon delivered an invited presentation titled “Multiscale modeling of paper manufacturing” at US-Korea Conference 2019, Chicago, IL.
Aug. 19th, 2019
Hyun-Kyu and Abhinav have been selected for the Next-Gen Manufacturing Topical Conference Travel Award and the CAST Director’s Student Presentation Award at the AIChE Annual Meeting 2019, respectively. Congratulations, Hyun-Kyu and Abhinav!
July 30th, 2019
Abhinav’s paper titled “Koopman Lyapunov-based model predictive control of nonlinear chemical process systems” was accepted in AIChE Journal.
July 24th, 2019
Professor Kwon (Co-PI) receives a DOE grant on “Deploying Intensified, Automated, Mobile, Operable, and Novel Designs (DIAMOND) for Treating Shale Gas Wastewater“. At Texas A&M University, Professor Mahmoud El-Halwagi (PI) and Dr. Debalina Sengupta (Co-PI) will participate in this project.
(Media Coverage: Enhancing sustainability of natural gas extraction via technological innovations in wastewater management)
July 20th, 2019
Professor Kwon delivered an invited presentation titled “Application of Virtual Reality (VR) based learning platform to Hydraulic Fracturing” at Future of Cyber Assisted Chemical Engineering Education (CACHE 50th), Breckenridge, CO.
July 15th, 2019
Professor Kwon (Co-PI) receives an NSF grant on “A New Tool for the Analysis of Glycan Recognition in Lectin“. This project is in collaboration with Professor Wu (PI).
(Media Coverage: Wu and Kwon develop a new theory to predict pathogen infection pathway)
July 11th, 2019
Professor Kwon delivered a presentation titled “Multiscale modeling and model-based feedback control of pulp digester” at 2019 American Control Conference (ACC), Philadelphia, PA.
June 26th, 2019
Hyun-Kyu’s paper titled “Modeling and control of cell wall thickness in batch delignification” was accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineeringg.
June 20th, 2019
Kaiyu’s paper titled “Model-based controller design framework for hydraulic fracturing to optimize shale gas production and water usage” was accepted in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
June 9th – 12th, 2019
Professor Kwon delivered an invited presentation titled “An operator theoretic framework for data-driven identification and control of hydraulic fracturing” at Machine Learning in Science and Engineering (MLSE) Annual Data Science Forum, Atlanta, GA.
June 7th, 2019
Kaiyu successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations, Kaiyu!
May 23rd, 2019
Professor Kwon delivered a presentation titled “Optimization framework for integration of shale gas supply chain network and dynamic model of hydraulic fracturing” at Applied Energy “A+B” symposium (AEAB2019), Boston, MA.
May 23rd, 2019
Dongheon has been selected for the 2019 KSEA-KUSCO Graduate Scholarship from Korea-American Scientists and Engineers Associations.
May 15th, 2019
Prashanth’s paper titled “Simultaneous measurement uncertainty reduction and proppant bank height control of hydraulic fracturing” got accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
May 10th, 2019
Dr. Yuchan Ahn’s paper titled “Optimal design of shale gas supply chain network considering MPC-based pumping schedule of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs” was accepted in Chemical Engineering Research & Design.
May 6th, 2019
Dongheon has successfully defended his PhD proposal and passed his PhD preliminary exam. Congratulations, Dongheon!
May 2nd, 2019
Abhinav has successfully defended his PhD proposal and passed his PhD preliminary exam. Congratulations, Abhinav!
Apr. 29th, 2019
Abhinav delivered a presentation titled “An operator theoretic framework for data-driven identification and control of a hydraulic fracturing process” at Data-Driven Model Reduction, Scientific Frontiers, and Applications Workshop at Texas A&M University.
Apr. 22nd, 2019
Shuai has successfully defended his PhD proposal and passed his PhD preliminary exam. Congratulations, Shuai!
Mar. 31st, 2019
Professor Kwon has been selected for the “2019 Korean Institute of Chemical Engineers (KIChE) President Young Investigator Award”.
Mar. 8th, 2019
Abhinav, Dongheon, Hyun-Kyu, Saad, Prashanth, and Dr. Ahn gave oral and poster presentations at 6th Annual ChEGSA Research Symposium, Texas A&M University.
Feb. 28th, 2019
Saad successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations, Saad!
Feb. 28th, 2019
Saad’s paper titled “Enlarging the domain of attraction of local dynamic mode decomposition with control technique: application to hydraulic fracturing” was accepted in industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Feb. 25th, 2019
Hyun-Kyu’s paper titled “Multiscale modeling and control of Kappa number and porosity in a batch pulp digester” was accepted in AIChE Journal.
Feb. 15th, 2019
Shuai’s paper titled “Experimental and thermodynamic study of aerosol explosions in a 36 L apparatus” was accepted in Fuel.
Feb. 15th, 2019
Hyun-Kyu’s paper titled “The influence of hetero-multivalency on lectin-glycan binding” was accepted in Glycobiology.
Feb. 14th, 2019
Dongheon’s paper titled “Identification of a time-varying intracellular signaling model through data clustering and parameter selection: application to NFκB signaling pathway induced by LPS in the presence of BFA” was accepted in IET Systems Biology.
Feb. 8th, 2019
Niranjan awarded with the Qualifying Exam Excellence award given to those who demonstrated a strong grasp of chemical engineering fundamentals and excellent analytical skills. Congratulations, Niranjan!
Feb. 1st, 2019
Shuai’s paper titled “Developing quantitative structure-property relationship models to predict the upper flammability limit using machine learning” was accepted in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Jan. 21st, 2019
Prashanth’s paper titled “Modeling and control of proppant distribution of multi-stage hydraulic fracturing in horizontal shale wells” was accepted in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Jan. 20th, 2019
Prashanth’s paper titled “Understanding well head ignition as a blowout response” was accepted in Fuel Journal.
2018
Nov. 14th, 2018
Prashanth has successfully defended his PhD proposal and passed his PhD preliminary exam. Congratulations, Prashanth!
Oct. 28 – Nov. 2, 2018
Abhinav, Dongheon, Prashanth, and Professor Kwon attended 2018 AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, and gave thirteen oral and poster presentations on behalf of the entire research group (Please see “Contributed Presentations” section under Publication for details).
Oct. 10th, 2018
Bhavana, Parth, and Niranjan have joined our group. Bhavana and Parth are M.S. students, and Niranjan is a Ph.D. student. Welcome all!
Sep. 24 – 26th, 2018
Abhinav, Hyun-Kyu, Saad, and Prashanth presented their research at 2018 Texas A&M Energy Conference.
Sep. 11th, 2018
Professor Kwon delivered J.L. “Corky” Frank ’58 Graduate Seminar at Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering at Texas A&M University.
Sep. 7th, 2018
Priscille’s paper titled “Incorporation of sustainability in process control of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs” got accepted Chemical Engineering Research & Design.
Aug. 27th, 2018
Dr. Yu-Chan Ahn joins our group as a post-doctoral researcher. He was awarded with Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH), South Korea, in 2015. Welcome Dr. Ahn!
Aug. 6th, 2018
Abhinav’s paper titled “Data-driven identification of interpretable reduced-order models using sparse regression” got accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
Aug. 6th, 2018
Dongheon’s paper titled “Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling of multivalent binding of CTB proteins with GM1 receptors” got accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
Aug. 4th, 2018
Professor Kwon (Single PI) receives an NSF grant on “Enhancing Hydraulic Fracturing Productivity via Model-based Feedback Control“.
Aug. 1st, 2018
Harwinder’s paper titled “Approximate Dynamic Programming Based Control of Proppant Concentration in Hydraulic Fracturing” got accepted in Mathematics.
June 26 – 29th, 2018
Abhinav and Dongheon attended 2018 American Control Conference at Milwaukee, WI, and gave five oral presentations on behalf of the entire research group.
June 21st, 2018
The research proposal by Professor Kwon and Professor Kan Wu from Petroleum Engineering Department has been selected for funding under Fourth Annual “Energy Seed Grant” Research Proposal Call by Texas A&M Energy Institute.
June 11th, 2018
Prashanth’s paper titled “Optimization of simultaneously propagating multiple fractures in hydraulic fracturing to achieve uniform growth using data-based model reduction” got accepted in Chemical Engineering Research & Design.
June 6th, 2018
Priscille successfully defended her MS thesis. Congratulations, Priscille!
May 16th, 2018
Harwinder successfully defended his MS thesis titled “Model Order Reduction of Nonlinear Parabolic PDE Systems with Moving Boundaries Using Sparse Proper Orthogonal Decomposition: Application to Hydraulic Fracturing.” Congratulations, Harwinder!
May 16th, 2018
Our collaborative work with Professor Hung-Jen Wu (Chemical Engineering Department) and Professor Jeffrey D. Cirillo (Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology Department) titled “Hetero-Multivalency of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lectin LecA Binding to Model Membranes” got accepted in Scientific Reports.
May 15th, 2018
Dongheon’s paper titled “An integrated numerical and experimental framework for modeling of CTB and GD1b ganglioside binding kinetics” got accepted in AIChE Journal.
May 10th, 2018
Abhinav and Dongheon won Graduate Student Research and Presentation Grant funded by the Association of Former Students and the Office of Graduate and Professional Studies to attend 2018 American Control Conference at Milwaukee.
May 1st, 2018
Abhinav gave a talk at the workshop “Data-Driven Model Reduction, Scientific Frontiers, and Applications” at Texas A&M University
Feb. 26th, 2018
Abhinav’s paper titled “Handling of spatial heterogeneity using POD-based EnKF in model-based feedback control of hydraulic fracturing” got accepted in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
Feb. 20th, 2018
Dongheon’s paper titled Mathematical Modeling and Parameter Estimation of Intracellular Signaling Pathway: Application to LPS-induced NFκB Activation and TNFα Production in Macrophages” got accepted in Processes.
Feb. 1st, 2018
Harwinder’s paper titled “Model order reduction of nonlinear parabolic PDE systems with moving boundaries using sparse proper orthogonal decomposition” got accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
Feb. 1st, 2018
Prashanth’s paper titled “Model-based feedback control of oil production in oil-rim reservoirs under gas coning conditions” got accepted in Computers & Chemical Engineering.
Jan. 29th, 2018
Abhinav, Dongheon, Harwinder, and Prasanth’s conference proceedings submitted to 2018 American Control Conference are now accepted (Please see Conference Proceedings section under Publication for details).
Jan. 23rd, 2018
Abhinav, Dongheon and Prasanth’s conference proceedings submitted to 13th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering 2018 (PSE2018) are now accepted (Please see Conference Proceedings section under Publication for details).
2017
Nov. 4th, 2017
Professor Kwon (Co-PI) receives a DOE grant on “SYNOPSIS: Synthesis of Operable Process Intensification Systems“. At TAMU, Professors Stratos Pistikopoulos (PI), Sam Mannan (Co-PI) and Faruque Hasan (Co-PI) will participate in this project.
(Media Coverage: Texas A&M Energy Institute, led by Pistikopoulos, selected for $6.3M RAPID institute project.)
Aug. 2nd, 2017
Professor Kwon (Co-PI) receives a grant from Hilcorp Alaskar, LLC to begin a project on “Well Ignition as a Blowout Response”. This project is in collaboration with Dr. Abu Rashid Hasan.