| Apr 07, 2025 | Dr. Jiang receives a $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation on project “CAREER: Data-driven, Physics-augmented Process Systems Engineering Framework for Digital, Sustainable Agriculture”. The NSF CAREER Award is the Foundation’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty who have the potential to serve as academic role models in research and education. Check out the OSU news release. |
| Apr 03, 2025 | Our group has been very productive in 2025, publishing 7 preprints so far that are under review or accepted. Topics include supply chain optimization, microgrid operation optimization, water infiltration modeling, Bayesian approach for inverse problems, multicomponent distillation optimization, process monitoring and analytics, and more. |
| Mar 21, 2025 | Dr. Jiang visited Arizona State University and gave a seminar talk “Toward Sustainable Chemical and Food Production via Process Systems Engineering Innovations” to faculty and students at the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport and Energy. |
| Mar 18, 2025 | Our amazing graduate student, Saba Ghasemi Naraghi, has successfully received an summer internship offer from American Airlines at its IT-Operations Research group. Congratulations, Saba! |
| Mar 12, 2025 | Our amazing undergraduate researcher, Tylee Kareck, successfully received multiple PhD offers from UT Austin, Texas A&M, and U of Utah. She will continue her graduate study at Texas A&M in Fall 2025. Congratulations, Tylee! |
| Dec 09, 2024 | We are excited to share our recent publication in Processes entitled “MOLA: Enhancing Industrial Process Monitoring Using a Multi-Block Orthogonal Long Short-Term Memory Autoencoder” as part of the Special Issue: Process Modeling, Simulation, and Optimization in Chemical Engineering. This work was led by Fangyuan Ma, a visiting scholar from Beijing University of Chemical Technology (BUCT). Collaborators include researchers from BUCT and Louisiana State University. |
| Aug 22, 2024 | In Summer 2024, Dr. Jiang delivered a virtual seminar in the PSE Seminar Series at the University of Minnesota (invited by Prof. Qi Zhang) and gave a talk at the ACS Fall Meeting (invited by Prof. Yuhe Tian). CLAMS member Alireza Miraliakbar and Dr. Jiang received travel awards to attend FOCAPD 2024 and gave a poster presentation. Dr. Jiang also chaired the “Design & Sustainability” session. |
| Jul 01, 2024 | In collaboration with Dr. Paritosh Ramanan, we are excited to receive funding from NSF’s Clean Energy Technology initiative for our project titled “EAGER: CET: Decentralized Algorithms for Integrating Decarbonized Chemical Process Heating with Renewable-driven, Electric Power Systems”. |
| Mar 19, 2024 | Prof. Jiang’s paper is among the top 10% downloaded AIChE Journal articles in 2023. This work was published in AIChE Journal’s 2022 Futures Issue, which features “creative early career researchers in chemical engineering”. |
| Mar 12, 2024 | A preprint on physics-constrained active learning for soil moisture estimation and optimal sensor placement is available here. This is a collaborative work with Prof. Bing Yao from University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Prof. Jianxin Xie from University of Virginia. |
| Mar 11, 2024 | We are excited to have Fangyuan Ma, a PhD student from Beijing University of Chemical Technology, join CLAMS as a visiting scholar. Fangyuan will work with the team over the next 6 months to develop novel fault diagnosis algorithms for industrial process monitoring. Welcome, Fangyuan! |
| Feb 02, 2024 | Invited and hosted by Prof. Cory Simon, Dr. Jiang visited the School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University and gave a seminar talk. |
| Jan 05, 2024 | In collaboration with Dr. Tony Cai, Chief Scientist at Fractionation Research Inc. (FRI), Dr. Jiang’s team received a two-year, $136,000 research funding from Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology to develop and prototype the real-time process monitoring and fault diagnosis framework to decarbonize industrial distillation processes. |
| Jan 04, 2024 | A preprint on fast, accurate, robust monitoring framework for fault detection and diagnosis of industrial processes is submitted to FOCAPD 2024 and can be found here. |
| Oct 05, 2023 | A preprint on data-facilitated numerical framework for Richards equation to model water flow dynamics in soil is now available on arXiv. The paper has been submitted to Water Resources Research, the leading journal in hydrology and water resources. |
| Sep 22, 2023 | Invited and hosted by Prof. Fengqi You, Dr. Jiang visited Systems Engineering program at Cornell University and gave a seminar talk at its Ezra’s Round Table/Systems Seminar Series titled “Toward Sustainable Food and Chemical Productions via Systems Engineering Approaches”. |
| Sep 07, 2023 | We are excited to welcome Tylee Kareck to CLAMS! Tylee is a CEAT Undergraduate Research Scholar. She received a $1,500 scholarship to work with Dr. Jiang and Dr. Ramanan on power system analysis under industrial decarbonization. |
| Aug 15, 2023 | Dr. Jiang gave a seminar talk titled “Decarbonization of Industrial Distillation via Shortcut Modeling, Global Optimization, and Process Intensification” at Phillips 66 Research Center as the inaugural seminar AIChE Bartlesville Chapter. The seminar was well attended by research scientists and engineers from Phillips 66, Chevron Phillips Chemical, and ConocoPhillips. |
| Jun 17, 2023 | Saba, Zeyuan, and Dr. Jiang published three proceedings for the 33rd ESCAPE Conference in Computers Aided Chemical Engineering. These works span across PSE fields in online process monitoring, agrochemical supply chain optimization, and numerical methods for solving agrohydrological models. |
| Jun 15, 2023 | Dr. Jiang received an NSF award from I-Corps (under Translational Impacts) to prototype and commercialize his real-time process monitoring and fault diagnosis framework to decarbonize industrial distillation processes. |
| May 26, 2023 | CLAMS members Alireza and Dr. Jiang received travel grants to attend FOPAM 2023 Conference in Davis, California from July 30 to Aug 3. Alireza will be presenting a poster entitled “FARM: A Fast, Accurate, Robust fault detection and diagnosis framework for industrial process Monitoring”. |
| Feb 16, 2023 | Dr. Jiang was invited by the Department of Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering at OSU to give a seminar talk entitled “Creating a Sustainable Food Future by 2050 via Systems Engineering Approaches”. |
| Feb 14, 2023 | Graduate student Zeyuan Song was selected to present his work “A Data-driven Random Walk Approach for Solving Water Flow Dynamics in Soil Systems” at the 2023 CHE Spring Graduate Seminar. Congratulations! |
| Feb 13, 2023 | Prof. Akash Deep (IEM) and Dr. Jiang’s proposal idea on soil moisture sensing has been selected by the Rural Renewal Initiative to submit a full proposal. They will receive travel funds to visit a rural community. |
| Jan 22, 2023 | CLAMS welcomes Alireza Miraliakbar and Mehrdad Zomorodiyan as new graduate students! |
| Jan 19, 2023 | Dr. Jiang is selected for OSU’s NSF Innovation Corps (I-Corps) in-person site program and receives travel grants to help commercialize a software product for online process monitoring of chemical distillation units. |
| Nov 03, 2022 | CLAMS member Zeyuan Song’s paper on data-driven random walk approach for solving water flow dynamics in soil systems is selected for oral presentation at FOCAPO/CPC 2023, among the 48 manuscripts selected for oral presentation. Learn more here. |
| Nov 03, 2022 | Prof. Jiang’s paper on shortcut modeling of multicomponent homogeneous azeotropic distillation is accepted in Computer Aided Chemical Engineering featuring FOCAPO/CPC 2023. |
| Oct 02, 2022 | Prof. Jiang’s new paper is nominated to be published in AIChE Journal’s 2022 Futures Issue, which features “creative early career researchers in chemical engineering”. Learn more here. |
| Apr 04, 2022 | CLAMS group received travel grant for attending the NSF EPSCoR Artificial Intelligence & No-Boundary Thinking Workshop on April 3 and 4 in Little Rock, Arkansas. |
| Mar 27, 2022 | CLAMS group served as judges at the 2022 Oklahoma State Science and Engineering Fair (OSSEF) on March 26 and 27 held at the OSU campus. |
| Jan 10, 2022 | CLAMS welcomes Zeyuan Song and Saba Ghasemi Naraghi as new graduate students! |
| Nov 17, 2021 | Prof. Jiang gave a seminar talk on creating a sustainable manufacturing and food future via process systems engineering innovations at OSU’s School of Industrial Engineering and Management. |
| Aug 02, 2021 | We have openings for 1-2 graduate students starting in Spring/Fall 2022!👋 The position has been filled. |
| Aug 01, 2021 | Dr. Jiang joins OSU as an assistant professor |