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Conference Presentations

  1. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output feedback control of nonlinear distributed parameter systems with unknown parameters using a two-tier adaptive identification method (105d), AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2021

  2. Pourkargar D.B., Model predictive control of integrated energy and chemical manufacturing systems (537h), AIChE Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, 2021

  3. Pourkargar D.B., Jogwar S.S., Distributed model predictive control of integrated process networks: Optimal decomposition for varying operating point, American Control Conference (ACC), New Orleans, LA, 2021

  4. Pourkargar D.B., Output feedback control of integrated lumped and distributed parameter systems using mobile sensors network (172g), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2020

  5. Pourkargar D.B., Jogwar S.S., Distributed model predictive control of integrated process networks using community detection (687g), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2020

  6. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Constrained control of dissipative distributed parameter systems via on-demand data-driven model reduction (399a), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2020

  7. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Control of semilinear dissipative distributed parameter systems with minimum feedback information, American Control Conference (ACC), Denver, CO, 2020

  8. Moharir M., Pourkargar D.B., Almansoori A., Daoutidis P., Decomposition and distributed control of integrated lumped and distributed parameter process networks, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach, FL, 2018

  9. Pourkargar D.B., Moharir M., Almansoori A., Daoutidis P., Distributed estimation and nonlinear control of a benzene chlorination process (40h), AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

  10. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-Based Control of Complex Process Networks in Smart Manufacturing: The Appearance of Cyber-Physical Systems, Cloud Computing, and Big Data Analytics (6id), AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

  11. Moharir M., Pourkargar D.B., Almansoori A., Daoutidis P., Graph representation and decomposition of diffusion-convection-reaction processes for distributed control (560a), AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

  12. Tang W., Allman A., Pourkargar D.B., Daoutidis P., Decomposition of optimization problems using community detection and its application in nonlinear model predictive control (359f), AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2018

  13. Moharir M., Pourkargar D.B., Almansoori A., Daoutidis P., Decomposition and distributed control of integrated lumped and distributed parameter process networks, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), Miami Beach, FL, 2018

  14. Pourkargar D.B., Almansoori A., Daoutidis P., Distributed model predictive control of complex plants: A systematic study of decomposition effects (497a), AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2017

  15. Pourkargar D.B., Moharir M., Tang W., Almansoori A., Daoutidis P., Nonlinear distributed model predictive control of gas sweetening processes (170a), AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2017 (Best Presentation in the Session Award, Session 170: Process Control Applications)

  16. Tang W., Pourkargar D.B., Daoutidis P., Relative time averaged gain array for distributed architecture design (497g), AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2017

  17. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks: Application to medicine and energy systems (7iq), AIChE Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, 2017

  18. Pourkargar D.B., Almansoori A., Daoutidis, P., Distributed model predictive control of process networks: Impact of control architecture, 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Toulouse, France, 2017

  19. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Spatiotemporal response shaping of transport-reaction processes via adaptive reduced order models, American Control Conference (ACC), Boston, MA, 2016

  20. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output Feedback Control of Transport-Reaction Processes with Unknown Parameters Using Adaptive Model Reduction with Minimum Feedback Information (582b), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2016

  21. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Adaptive control of chemical distributed parameter systems, IFAC International Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM), Whistler, Canada, 2015

  22. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Low-dimensional adaptive output feedback controller design for transport-reaction processes, European Control Conference (ECC), Linz, Austria, 2015

  23. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Wave motion suppression in the presence of unknown parameters using recursively updated empirical basis functions, American Control Conference (ACC), Chicago, IL, 2015 (Best Session Presentation Award in American Control Conference, 2015, Session ThA16)

  24. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Adaptive output feedback control of transport-reaction processes via two layer system adaptations (569g), AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015 (Finalist for the AIChE Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Director’s Student Presentation Award)

  25. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Estimation of spatially distributed processes via adaptive model reduction using mobile sensors network (583a), AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015

  26. Pourkargar D.B., Shahri S.M.K., Rioux, R.M., Armaou A., Spatiotemporal modeling and identification of CO2 adsorption columns (662d), AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015

  27. Pourkargar D.B., Robust adaptive model predictive control of chemical and biological systems (6it), AIChE Annual Meeting, Salt Lake City, UT, 2015

  28. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Adaptive control of dissipative distributed parameter systems via recursively updated reduced order models (555f), AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2014

  29. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Shaping the spatiotemporal dynamics of transport-reaction processes via adaptive proper orthogonal decomposition (610h), AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2014

  30. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Estimation of distributed parameter systems using recursively updated empirical basis functions (568y), AIChE Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2014

  31. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Robust dynamic shaping of distributed parameter systems via recursively updated empirical basis functions, Session CP7, SIAM Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2014

  32. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output tracking of spatiotemporal thermal dynamics in transport-reaction processes via adaptive model reduction, American Control Conference (ACC), Portland, OR, 2014

  33. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Feedback control of linear distributed parameter systems via adaptive model reduction in the presence of device network communication constraints, American Control Conference (ACC), Portland, OR, 2014

  34. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., A refined adaptive model reduction approach for control of fast evolving distributed parameter systems, 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems (MTNS), Groningen, Netherlands, 2014

  35. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output Feedback Control of Nonlinear Distributed Parameter Systems via Adaptive Model Order Reduction, Department of Chemical Engineering Research Symposium, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2014

  36. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Control of fast evolving distributed parameter systems via information aware model reduction recursions, 11th Annual College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2014

  37. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., APOD-based control of spatially distributed processes with limited sensor/controller communication bandwidth, 11th Annual College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS), The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2014

  38. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output feedback control of transport-reaction processes based on adaptive model reduction in the presence of sensor communication constraints (613a), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2013

  39. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Improving model reduction approaches for output feedback control of fast evolving spatially distributed processes (589c), AIChE Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA, 2013

  40. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Design of recursively updated reduced order dynamic observers for distributed parameter systems, Session CP4, SIAM Conference on Control and its Application, San Diego, CA, 2013

  41. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Control of dissipative partial differential equation systems using APOD based dynamic observer designs, American Control Conference (ACC), Washington DC, 2013 (Best Session Presentation Award in American Control Conference, 2013, Session MoA14)

  42. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output feedback control of distributed parameter systems based on adaptive model reduction, 10th Annual College of Engineering Research Symposium (CERS), University Park, PA, 2013

  43. Pourkargar D.B., Armaou A., Output feedback control of transport reaction processes using adaptive proper orthogonal decomposition (747d), AIChE Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, 2012

  44. Pourkargar D.B., Orkomi A.A., Boozarjomehry B.R., Thermodynamic and transport properties estimation of a complicated mixture of hydrocarbons by fuzzy clustering methods, 19th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA19) and the 7th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-7), Prague, Czech Republic, 2010

  45. Orkomi A.A., Pourkargar D.B., Boozarjomehry R.B., Approximate fuzzy feedback linearization of amine gas sweetening plant via genetic algorithm, 19th International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA19) and the 7th European Congress of Chemical Engineering (ECCE-7), Prague, Czech Republic, 2010

  46. Pourkargar D.B., Orkomi A.A., Boozarjomehry R.B., Fuzzy clustering of complex hydrocarbon mixtures, 4st International Conference of Fuzzy Information & Engineering, Amol, 2010

  47. Pourkargar D.B., Shahrokhi M., Optimal fuzzy synchronization, 4st International Conference of Fuzzy Information & Engineering, Amol, 2010

  48. Orkomi A.A., Pourkargar D.B., Boozarjomehry R.B., Effects of transfer function selection on optimal approximate feedback linearization of CO2 Absorption by amine solution, 1st International Regional Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Conference & 13th National Iranian Chemical Engineering Congress, Kermanshah, 2010

  49. Pourkargar D.B., Shahrokhi M., Synchronization of two chaotic chemical reactors, 1st International Regional Chemical & Petroleum Engineering Conference & 13th National Iranian Chemical Engineering Congress, Kermanshah, 2010

  50. Pourkargar D.B., Orkomi A.A., Boozarjomehry R.B., Fuzzy feedforward control of amine gas sweetening plant, International Conference of Control, Instrumentation and Automation (ICCIA), Tehran, 2010

  51. Pourkargar D.B., Orkomi A.A., Boozarjomehry R.B., Control of amine gas sweetening plant by approximate fuzzy feedback linearization via genetic algorithm, International Conference of Control, Instrumentation and Automation (ICCIA), Tehran, 2010

  52. Pourkargar D.B., Orkomi A.A., Comparison between PID and a novel model based controller in interactive chemical plants control, International Conference of Control, Instrumentation and Automation (ICCIA), Tehran, 2010​

Invited Presentations

  1. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Davis, CA, 2019 

  2. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, ExxonMobil Research and Engineering, Spring, TX, 2018 

  3. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Department of Chemical Engineering, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2018 

  4. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, CT,  2018 

  5. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Department of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering and Sciences, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL, 2018 

  6. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2018 

  7. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Department of Chemical, Biological and BioEngineering,  North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, 2018 

  8. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks: Handling complexity through model reduction and system decomposition, William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The Ohio State University,  Columbus, OH, 2018 

  9. Pourkargar D.B., Optimization-based control of complex process networks, Distinguished Junior Researcher Seminar, Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 2017 

  10. Pourkargar D.B., Output feedback control of transport-reaction processes via two-layer system adaptations, Applied and Computational Mathematics Research Program, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 2015

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