Ruth Misener is a professor at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. Her research concentrates on the development of software and optimisation algorithms for energy efficient engineering and biomedical systems.

Education

Misener completed her bachelor's in chemical engineering at MIT in 2007. She moved to Princeton under

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for her PhD, "Novel Global Optimization Methods: Theoretical and Computational Studies on Pooling Problems with Environmental Constraints", which she submitted in 2012. Here she was funded by a Graduate Research Fellowship from the USA National Science Foundation. At Princeton she won an award recognising Excellence in Teaching.

Research

In 2012 she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship for her postdoctoral training with Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos at Imperial College London. Misener works in the Computational Optimisation group at Imperial College London, where she is interested in bioprocess optimisation and petrochemical process network design. She has several industry collaborations, including being academic friend for

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. In 2017 she was awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship for "software development for novel engineering research". The aim of this fellowship was to develop new "decision-making software constructing and deploying next generation process optimisation tools". In 2022 she was awarded a highly prestigious BASF/

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Research Chair in Data-driven Optimisation. She has co-authored several publicly available software tools for global optimisation including: * APOGEE (pooling) * GloMIQO (mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic programs) * ANTIGONE (mixed-integer nonlinear programs) She is the director of the Computing & Systems Technology Division of the

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Awards

In 2013 she was awarded the Journal of Global Optimization award for Best Paper. In 2014 she won the

W David Smith Graduate Student Paper Award. In 2017 Misener won the Sir George Macfarlane Medal from the

for excellence in the early stage of her career. She also won the 2017

Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year. She was included in the Innovation category of

''35 Under 35'' list.

References

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