Principal Investigator
Ana I. Torres
Prof. Ana Inés Torres
Postdoctoral Researcher: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PhD Chemical Engineering: University of Minnesota- Twin Cities.
Chemical Engineering Diploma: Universidad Republica Oriental del Uruguay
BSc. Chemistry: Universidad Republica Oriental del Uruguay
Email: aitorres@cmu.edu
CV: link
PhD Students
Unnatti Sharma
MS Students
Undergraduate students
- Keerthana Karthikeyan (CMU ChemE junior): Keerthana joined the group in 2023. Her project is on decarbonization of oil industry
- Samuel Chai (CMU ChemE senior): Samuel joined the group in 2023. His project is on the recovery of minerals from end-of-life products.
Alumni
- Jimena Ferreira (Udelar PhD): Jimena joined the Torres' research group in 2018. She holds a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from Udelar Uruguay and a MSc. in Chemical Engineering from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where she used EMSO to develop a dynamic model for a biorefinery evaporator. Her PhD thesis focused on the development of surrogate models based on symbolic regression. She was co-advised with Professor Martín Pedemonte (Udelar, Uruguay).
- Mariana Corengia (Udelar PhD): Mariana joined the Torres' research group in 2017, after completing her MSc. in Chemical Engineering at Udelar, Uruguay in the area of fuel cells. Her PhD thesis was on the design and optimization of P2P and P2X systems, including storage in batteries and production of green hydrogen.
- Akhil Nair (CMU MS): Akhil joined the Torres' research group in 2021 after a 4-year stint as a Process Engineer at Bharat Petroleum Corporation. He holds a BS s in Chemical engineering from Government College Thrissur. He worked on Superstructure optimization entails developing Circular & Data-driven framework for Plastics recycling, to optimize the plastics value chain. He was co-advised with Professor Carl D. Laird.
- Samarth Palav (CMU MS): Samarth joined the group in 2021 after completing his Bachelors in Petroleum engineering from Mahrashtra Institute of Technology, Pune. He worked on the Design, Modeling and Optimization of recycling process for printed circuit boards. He was co-advised with Professor Lorenz T. Biegler.
- Nicolás Estefan (UDelar MS):
- Kevin Chang (CMU ChemE junior): Kevin joined the group in 2022 as a summer ChESS scholar. He worked on the production of green hydrogen from renewable sources
- Kevin Chang (CMU ChemE junior): Kevin joined the group in 2022 as a summer ChESS scholar. He worked on the production of green hydrogen from renewable sources
- Melvin Ofosu-Koranteng (CMU ChemE junior) : Melvin joined the group in 2022 as a summer ChESS scholar. His worked on modeling of triglycerides based feedstocks.