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PhD Candidate (ABD status), Chemical Engineering

West Virginia University, USA

• Strategies for Process Systems Mapping and Control Based on Operability Analysis, under Dr. Fernando V. Lima's supervision.
• GPA: 3.80/4.00
• • Development of emerging techniques for process operability calculations, involving mainly supervised machine-learning, constrained nonlinear programming (NLP) and automatic differentiation (AD) for efficient algorithm development.
  • Development of an open-source python package for process operability calculations, for ease of use and dissemination of operability algorithms in academia and industry.
• Control, Optimization and Design for Energy and Sustainability (CODES) Research Group leader.
  • CODES Research Group leader, supervising group activities, as well as organizing the group's semester schedule, workshops, weekly meetings and relevant announcements.

Master's Degree (M.Sc.), Chemical Engineering

Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

• Metamodel-based Numerical Techniques for Self-Optimizing Control.
• Academic Coefficient: 10.00/10.00
• • Developed a methodology capable of using Gaussian Process Regression (GPR) to aid the selection of controlled variables (CVs) in an industrial process, following the Self-Optimizing Control (SOC) methodology.

Exchange Student (International), Chemical Engineering

University of Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Exchange Student, participating in the "Science Without Borders" Brazilian scientific mobility program.
• British Degree Classification: Upper Second

Bachelor of Science, Chemical Engineering

Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil

• Academic Coefficient: 8.69/10.00

Researcher and Developer

Federal University of Campina Grande

• Research and development of a software called BRPWC for Petrobras, an automated software capable of easily selecting the most promising self-optimizing control structures in large-scale, industrial processes.

Process Engineering Intern

SigmaCT as a contractor to Braskem

• Experience in Vinyl Chloride Monomer (VCM) and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) production plants.

Metacontrol

• Metacontrol is a Python-based software which assembles several methodologies into a single bundle so that a fast implementation of the Self-Optimizing Control (SOC) technique can be achieved.

Opyrability

• Opyrability - A Python-based package for process operability analysis - is an open-source project for advanced process operability analyses. The opyrability codebase includes the main operability algorithms, supplementary analysis and visualization methods to allow for the assessment of simultaneous design and control objectives early in the conceptual phase.

• Sweeney D., Alves V., Sakhai S., Dinh S. and Lima F. V. Techno-economic Optimization of a Palladium Membrane Reactor for Steam Methane Reforming Industrial Process. AIChE Annual Student Conference, Phoenix, AZ. 2022.
• 3rd place at the 2022 AIChE undergraduate student poster competition award. Computing and Process Control Group II.