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In the Memory of Christodoulos A. Floudas:A Celebration of Outstanding Academic Accomplishments

Ignacio E. GrossmannDepartment of Chemical Engineering

Center for Advanced Process Decision MakingCarnegie Mellon UniversityPittsburgh, PA, 15213 USA

Department of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton University

May 6, 2017

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Soterios Papoulias - GAF ChemicalsChris Floudas – Princeton, Texas A&MStratos Pistikopoulos – Imperial College, Texas A&MNick Sahinidis – U. Illinois, Carnegie MellonVasilios Voudouris - Vereniki SolutionsDimitrios Varvarezos - AspenTechChristos Maravelias – U. Wisconsin-Madison

My former Greek Ph.D. Students

NTUA

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Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Erle Nye '59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence Texas A&M University

Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Emeritus Princeton University

Christodoulos (Chris) A. Floudas1959-2016

In Memoriam

Huge loss to Process Systems Engineering

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2016: A Sad Year for the Optimization Community

Jonathan M. Borwein (1951–2016) Univ. Newcastle, Dalhousie University

Jitka Dupâcová (1939–2016) Univerzita Karlov, Prague

Roger Fletcher (1939-2016) Dundee University, Scotland

Christodoulos A. Floudas (1959-2016) Princeton University, Texas A&M

András Prékopa (1929–2016) Eötvös Univ., Technical Univ. Budapest, Rutgers Univ.

Philip Starr Wolfe (1927–2016) Princeton, IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center

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Born August 31, 1959 in Ioannina, Greece

Diploma of Chemical Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1982)

Ph.D. Chemical EngineeringCarnegie Mellon University (1986)

Director, Texas A&M Energy Institute, Erle Nye '59 Chair Professor for Engineering Excellence Texas A&M University (2015 – 2016)

Stephen C. Macaleer '63 Professor in Engineering and Applied ScienceProfessor of Chemical and Biological EngineeringPrinceton University (1986 – 2014)

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Ph.D. Carnegie Mellon September 1982-December 1985

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Ph.D. thesis: "Synthesis and Analysis of Flexible Energy Recovery Systems".

Floudas, C.A., A.R. Ciric and I.E. Grossmann, "Automatic Synthesis of OptimalHeat Exchanger Network Configurations," AIChE J. 32, 276 (1986).

376 citationsFloudas, C.A. and I.E. Grossmann, "Synthesis of Flexible Heat Exchanger Networks for Multiperiod Operation," Computers and Chemical Engineering 10, 153 (1986).

90 citations Floudas, C.A. and I.E. Grossmann, "Automatic Generation of Multiperiod Heat Exchanger Network Configurations," Computers and Chemical Engineering 11, 123 (1987).

68 citationsGrossmann, I.E. and C.A. Floudas, "Active Constraint Strategy for Flexibility Analysisin Chemical Processes," Computers and Chemical Engineering 11, 675 (1987).

311 citationsFloudas, C.A. and I.E. Grossmann, "Synthesis of Flexible Heat Exchanger Networks with Uncertain Flowrates and Temperatures," Computers and Chemical Engineering 11, 319 (1987). 115 citations

Chris was a pioneer of superstructure optimization

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Feasible at FH1 = 1 and =1.8Infeasible at FH1 = 1.37!

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Some interesting facts about Chris at Carnegie Mellon:

- As he was finishing his Ph.D. degree:“ It should be possible to solve nonconvex MINLP problems to global optimality”

- While doing his Ph.D. degree he was an outstanding soccer player

- Tough Teaching Assistant grading design reports“What do you think Prof. Grossmann will think of you with these kind of mistakes”

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1986: Miami AIChE Mtg. 60th Sargent Birthday

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• Deterministic Global Optimization

• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Product and Process Operations: Planning and Scheduling under Uncertainty

• Discrete-Continuous Nonlinear Optimization

• Product and Process Design, Synthesis, and Discovery

Chris’ successful career at Princeton (1986 – 2014)

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Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas

ResearchActivities:l ProductandProcessDesign,Synthesis,andDiscoveryl ProductandProcessOperations:PlanningandSchedulingunderUncertaintyl Discrete-ContinuousNonlinearOptimizationl DeterministicGlobalOptimizationl BioinformaticsandComputationalBiology

KeyContributionsin:• Theoryandalgorithmsindeterministicglobal

optimization,derivative-freeoptimization• Optimizationunderuncertainty• Planningandschedulingofcomplexsystems• Processsynthesisandglobaloptimizationforhybrid

energysystemsforfuelsandchemicals• Proteinstructureprediction,refinement,anddenovo

proteindesignviadeterministicglobaloptimization

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FinalAppointmentsDirector,TexasA&MEnergyInstituteErleNye'59ChairProfessorforEngineeringExcellenceArtieMcFerrinDepartmentofChemicalEngineeringTexasA&MUniversityStephenC.Macaleer'63ProfessorinEngineeringandAppliedScience,EmeritusProfessorofChemicalandBiologicalEngineering,EmeritusPrincetonUniversity

Professor Christodoulos A. FloudasRecognitionsandHonorsl NationalAcademyofInventors,2015l AcademyofAthens,CorrespondingMember,2015l P.V.DanckwertsMemorialLecture,2015l ThomsonReutersHighlyCitedResearcher,2015(for2003-2013)l ConstantinCaratheodoryPrize,2015l ThomsonReutersHighlyCitedResearcher,2014(for2002-2012)l TIASFellowandEminentScholar,2013-14l NationalAwardandHELORSGoldMedal,2013l AIChEFellow,2013l NationalAcademyofEngineering,2011l GraduateMentoringAward,PrincetonUniversity,2007l AIChEComputinginChemicalEngineeringAward,2006l AIChEAndreasAcrivosAwardforProfessionalProgressinChemicalEngineering,2001

GoogleScholarh-index 88Citations 29,267JournalArticles >335

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Anirudh SubramanyamNikolaos LappasChristopher HanselmanAkang Wang

Victoria AshleyAthanasios I. PapadopoulosDaniel Montolio-RodriguezMirko StijepovicSelma AttilhanKerron GabrielSabla AlnouriSumit Bishnu

Rohit Kumar SinglaKulijeet Singh

Harjot Kaur

Granville Paules IVAmy CiricAvanish AggarwalAntonis KokossisPolycarpos PsarrisMichael LuybenV. VisweswaranConor McDonaldCostas MaranasClaire AdjimanCarl SchweigerStephen HardingWilliam EspositoJohn KlepeisHeather SchafrothXiaoxia LinZeynep GumusClifford MeyerStacy JanakScott McAllisterHo Ki FungChrysanthos GounarisMeng Piao TanRohit RajgariaPeter DiMaggioPeter VerderameMeghan BellowsAshwin SubramaniRichard BalibanRuth MisenerJosephine EliaEric FirstJames SmadbeckGeorge KhouryYannis GuzmanAlex NiziolekOnur OnelLogan MatthewsMelis OnelBurcu BeykalJoseph CostandyCosar Doga DemirhanWilliam Tso

Stylianos MavromatisVictor Briones-VallejoVipul MehtaEftychia MarcoulakiPiyush ShahSameer MokashiAlberto Alva ArgaezLalita TantimurathaAlexandros StrouvalisZhighang ShangPatrick LinkeRamgopal UppaluriElaine GaoAlexandros KourakisRichard BarnesClaudia Labrador-DarderSiyu YangDu DuMarilena TsakalovaKaterina MountrakiCostas PyrgakisAntonis KorkofygasParaskevi KarkaGeorge LignosMelina PsychaMirela TsagkariGeorge Panayiotou

Barun K. NandiRanjan DasVijaya K. BulasaraSanjay K. ChattopadhyayMulari PujariAmrita AgarwalChina KanigantiB. ChandrasekharD. VasanthY. RameshE. Sriharsha

Georgia-Roumpini Iordanidou

Ioannis PapamichailHaitao HuangAileen CheungTimothy SheldonBernardino Pereira-LoMilica FolicApostolos GiovanoglouRodrigo Blanco-GuttierezEmmanuel KeskesAnastasia ApostolakouAlexandros LymperiadisMichaela PollockAlexander DunnettJavier Rodriguez-PerezNiall Mac DowellFrances PereiraJens SchreckenbergAndrei KazantsevHeiko StrubingVassileios PapaioannouCharles BrandManolis VasileiadisKhalil RhazaouiEirini SiougkrouZara GanaseAbidhakim HassanChristina-Anna GatsiouNikolaos KazazakisDimitris NerantzisAikaterini DiamantiRallia-Iliana VelliouPanatpong HutacharoenSuela JonuzajSmitha GorinathGeorgia LazarouEdward GrahamSiti Hajar Khalit

Carnegie Mellon, PhD, 1986Princeton University, 1986-2014Texas A&M University, 2015-2016

October 2016

Georgia KouyialisRadu Baltean-LugojanMiten Mistry

Sezen Vatansever

Yi Man

S. Marjan VarediJiyhang ParkYu ChenAlissa KernerJeremy MintyMichael NelsonSida WangTatyana SaleskiScott ScholzCorine Jackman

AcademicTreeofProfessorChristodoulos A.Floudas

Chris Floudas: Major Inspiration for Young Researchers in PSE

20 post-doctoral associates: Boukouvala, Ierapetritou, Hassan

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Dear Fotini and Ismini:

We would like to offer you our deepest sympathy to you. You can both be proud for having had as a loving husband and father such a prominent and respected intellectual leader. Chris will be sorely missed. May he rest in peace. Our thoughts and prayers are with him.

Love, Ignacio