Speakers

FOPAM 2026 Schedule

Sunday July 26 - Monday July 26 Optional Workshop "Process/Product Analytics and Machine Learning" 

Monday July 27 - Meeting Kickoff with Evening Reception and Keynote Speaker

  • 6:00  PM Welcome Reception

  • 7:00  PM Keynote Speaker: Dr. Brenda Remy, Head of Enterprise AI, General Electric Healthcare "The Enterprise AI Revolution: How AI Technologies are Unlocking Value Across the Med Tech Value Chain"

Tuesday July 28 - Sessions, Evening Poster Session with Hospitality

Emerging Methods in Generative AI

  • 9:00   AM Prof. Wei Wang, UCLA Dept of Computer Science "Foundation Models for Science and Beyond"

  • 9:45 AM Mr. Ibrahim Al-Sayed, VP Digital Transformation, Becton-Dickinson "Acceleration of AI and Digital Transformation in Manufacturing

  • 11:00 AM Panel Discussion

Session Chairs: Rolf Findeisen

Industrial AI and Machine Learning I

  • 1:30  PM Dr. Ivan Castillo, Senior Technology Manager, Dow "From Insight to Action: AI-Powered Decisions in the Chemical Industry"

  • 2:15  PM Mr. Dan Jeavons, President Applied Computing "Beyond the Black Box: Explainable AI for Process Industries"

  • 3:30  PM Panel Discussion

Session Chairs: Paulette Clancy, Jose Tabora

Poster Session I

  • 8:00 PM Poster Session and Hosted Hospitality

Wednesday July 29 Sessions, Evening Poster Session with Hospitality

AI and Machine Learning for Sustainable Process and Product Chemistry

  • 9:00  AM Prof. Noa Marom, Dept of Material Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University "Machine Learning the Excited State Properties of Crystalline Organic Semiconductors"

  • 9:45  AM Prof. Fengqi You, Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University "AI for Science and Sustainability: A Journey from Process Systems Engineering"

  • 11:00 AM Panel

Session Chairs: Bea Braun

Industrial AI and Machine Learning II

  • 1:30  PM Dr. Olav Lyngberg, VP Innovation and Technology Deployment, Janssen Pharmaceuticals "A Decade of Digitizing Pharmaceutical Manufacturing at JnJ: Lessons Learned and Future Directions"

  • 2:15  PM Dr. Johan Trygg, Head-Advanced Data Analytics, Sartorius

  • 3:30  PM Panel

Session Chairs: Benjamin Comer

Poster Session II

  • Poster Session and Hosted Hospitality

Thursday July 30 Sessions, Conference Banquet

AI and Machine Learning for Processes and Control

  • 9:00  AM  Prof. Fani Boukouvala, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech 
    "Synergistic Workflows of Machine Learning, Explainable AI and Mechanistic Modeling for Process Model Development"

  • 9:45 AM Prof. Ali Mesbah, Dept of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, UC Berkeley "Local-Global Learning of Interpretable Control Polices: The Interface between MPC and Reinforcement Learning"

  • 11:00 AM Panel Discussion

Session Chairs: 

AI and Machine Leaerning for Education and Workforce Development, including Responsible AI Discussion

  • 1:30  PM Profs. Carl Laird and John Kitchin, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, "Designing the Future Engineer: How AI Is Transforming Learning, Work, and Discovery"

  • 2:15  PM Prof. Y.A. Liu, Dept of Chemical Engineering, Virginia Tech, "Process Modeling, Design and Operation: Advances, Opportunities, and Workforce Development"

  • 3:30 PM Panel Discussion

Session Chairs:

 

 

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