Education

• 1981 PhD, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1981 MSc, Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 1976 BSc with First Class Honours, Chemical Engineering, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Interests

Process Control

• Nonlinear model-based control
• Intelligent control
• Model predictive control for uncertain processes
• Multirate and inferential control
• Data-driven, information theory approaches to industrial control
• Model-based control of reactive extrusion processes
• Plant-wide control

Process Synthesis & Design

• Design for operability and inherent robustness

Process Modelling and Identification for Control, and Applied Statistics for Process Operation

• Empirical nonlinear model development
• Hybrid Modeling
• Nonlinear model reduction
• Data-driven statistical approaches to industrial control system structure determination & design

Modeling and Analysis of Biological Systems

• Neurobiological control system structure and design (with industrial control applications)
• Systems analysis of cellular development
• Cellular modeling and analysis of cancer

Applications of Probability and Statistics in Molecular Biology

• Probabilistic and statistical analysis of gene expression
• Stochastic activity network modeling of cellular pathways