This November, AIChE® holds its Annual Meeting in Boston, MA, and we're showing up...
The AIChE® Annual Meeting, held this November 2-6, 2025 in Boston, MA, brings academic and industry researchers together–from all career stages–who are seeking innovation and professional development. Here is a quick look at this year's Texas ChE participation:
TEXAS CHE ANNUAL RECEPTION
Monday, November 3 | 8-10PM
203 (Hynes Convention Center)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2
GRADUATE RECRUITMENT BOOTH
Details forthcoming.
FACULTY LECTURES, ABSTRACTS, SESSIONS + INVITED TALKS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 3
Assistant Professor Joaquin Resasco, Beata Kilos (Dow Inc) and Nicholas Brunelli (The Ohio State University)
Controlling Electrocatalytic Performance Beyond Actice Site | Invited TalkPioneers of Catalysis and Reaction Engineering
Monday, November 3 | 8-10:30AM, session: 9:30AM
102 (Hynes Convention Center)
Professor Hal S. Alper, Mattheos Koffas (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Whitney Stoppel (University of Florida) and Lawrence Stern (University of South Florida)
Celebration of Greg Stephanopoulos’ 75th Birthday Beyond the Test-Tube: Metabolic Engineering in Next-Generation Applications
Monday, November 3 | 12:30-3PM
301 (Hynes Convention Center)
Professor Venkat Ganesan
Engineering Ion Selectivity in Polymer Membranes | Invited TalkPolymer Simulations, AI/ML, and Data Analytics III
Monday, November 3, 2025 | 12:30-3PM, session: 12:45PM
Back Bay Ballroom A (Sheraton Boston)
Professor Nicholas Peppas
The Cato T. Laurencin Regenerative Engineering Society Founder’s Award
Celebration of Regenerative Medicine: Two sessions in honor of Nicholas Peppas' 50 Years of Research
Monday, November 3 | 12:30-3PM and 3:30-6PM
(details forthcoming)
Ph.D. candiate Kevin Reimund (Professor Benny Freeman)
Area 8A Excellence in Graduate Polymer Research | Invited Talk
Excellence in Polymers Research
Sunday, November 2 | 12:30-3PM
Back Bay Ballroom C (Sheraton Boston)
Assistant Professor Ilias Mitrai and Wentao Tang (NC State University)
Learning Lyapunov Functions Via Constrained Symbolic Regression
Advances in Process Control I, Computing and Systems Technology Division
Monday, November 3 | 3:30-6PM, session 3:48PM
110 (Plaza Level) Hynes Convention Center
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4
Assistant Professor Ilias Mitrai and Nikolaos Sahinidis (Georgia Tech)
Automated Discovery of Optimization AlgorithmsAdvances in Process Optimization I, Computing and Systems Technology Division
Tuesday, November 4 | 8:30-10:30AM, session 9:03AM
111 Plaza Level (Hynes Convention Center)
Professor Nicholas A. Peppas
Structure-Guided Solute Transport in Hydrogels: Diffusion Modeling in Multi-Arm PEG and Semicrystalline PVA Systems for Drug Delivery Applications | Invited Talk
Fluids and Transport in Biological Materials
Tuesday, November 5 | 3:30-6PM, session 3:30PM
301 (Hynes Convention Center)
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5
Assistant Professor Ilias Mitrai and Graduate Research Assistant Jiyong Lee
Understanding the Solution of Optimization Problems Via Explainable Artificial IntelligenceAdvances in Machine Learning and Intelligent Systems II, Computing and Systems Technology Division
Wednesday, November 5 | 8-10:30AM, session 9:24AM
110 Plaza Level (Hynes Convention Center)
Professor Michael Baldea, Professor of Practice Thomas Badgwell, alumnus B. Wayne Bequette, Ph.D. 1986 (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), alumnus Tyler Soderstrom, Ph.D. 2001 (Exxonmobil) and Yinlin Huang (Wayne State University).
In Honor of Tom Edgar’s 80th Birthday - Alumni, colleagues and friends are gathering on Tom Edgar’s 80th birthday to celebrate his contributions to engineering leadership, education and research.
Computing and Systems Technology Division
Wednesday, November 5 | 12:30-3PM
111 Plaza Level (Hynes Convention Center)
Professor Venkat Ganesan and Scientist Associate Zidan Zhang
Topology, Mechanical and Fracture Properties of Polymer Networks Formed Under Free Radical and Atom Transfer Radical Polymerizations
Polymer Networks and Gels I: Mechanics and Topology
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 | 12:30-3PM, session 2:30PM
Back Bay Ballroom C (Sheraton Boston)
Assistant Professor Gabriel Sanoja, Professors Joan Brennecke, Professor Benny Freeman, Post-Doc Aaliyah Dookhith, Ph.D. 2024 (Columbia University) and Graduate Research Assistants Justin Rosenthal and Tiffany Jeng.
Granular Double Networks As a Material Platform for Mechanically Tough and Permselective Olefin-Paraffin Separation Membranes
Polymeric Membranes for Gas and Vapor Separation
Wednesday, November 5 | 3:30-6PM, session 3:48PM
209 (Hynes Convention Center)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Assistant Professor Gabriel Sanoja, Graduate Research Assistant Anthony Arrowood and Matteo Ciccotti (ESPCI Paris)
Unraveling the Interplay between Viscoelasticity and Damage in Soft Polymer Networks: The Case of Interfacial Fracture
Polymer Mechanics, Processing and Rheology II: Theory, Modeling, and Experiments
Thursday, November 6 | 8-10:30M, session 10:15AM
Back Bay Ballroom B (Sheraton Boston)
TEXAS ChE ALUMNI AWARDS
Professor Jim Rawlings, B.S. 1979, (University of California, Santa Barbara)
2025 John M. Prausnitz AIChE Institute Lecture - recognized for his research devoted to the theory and application of chemical process modeling and predictive control of chemical industry processes.
Wednesday, November 5 | 11:15AM-12:15PM
Professor Haiqing Lin, Ph.D. 2005, (State University of New York at Buffalo)
Institute Award for Industrial Gas Separations - recognized for sustained contributions that have advanced the frontier of industrial gases technology
Previous Texas ChE recipients: Michael Baldea, 2019 | Don Paul, 2013 | Gary Rochelle, 2012 | Benny Freeman, 2008 | Keith Johnston, 2004
Tom Karjala, Ph.D. 1995, principal research scientist (Dow)
2025 AIChE Process Development Practice Award - recognized for his inventive approaches to innovative reactor design, reaction engineering, and piloting for the commercialization of new polyolefin products
