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Ali Cinar is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology and his research focuses on modeling, monitoring and control of chemical and biological processes. He is currently the Associate Vice President for Research and Dean of the Graduate College. He received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A & M University in 1976. He held visiting positions at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada. His research interests include knowledge-based systems for intelligent management of process operations and supervisory control; multivariable process monitoring, performance assessment, fault diagnosis, and control; dynamic input-output model development for nonlinear and multivariable processes; quality and safety assessment and improvement in food processing; and modeling, simulation, and monitoring of biomedical systems. He has taught courses on process control, statistics, and statistical quality control at IIT and short courses to industry on process monitoring and fault diagnosis at IIT, company sites and various technical conferences. | 