Prof. Biegler received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin in 1981. He received the Presidential Young Investigator Award from National Science Foundation(1985-1990); Computing in Chemical Engineering Award from AIChE (American Institute of Chemical Engineers) and ASEE (American Society for Engineering Education), respectively; McAfee Award and Lewis Award for Chemical Engineering Education from AIChE; and Best Paper awards from journals and workshop. Prof. Biegler is the associate editor of famous journals Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research and SIAM Journal of Optimization.
Prof. Biegler has authored or co-authored over 300 archival publications, authored or edited nine books and has given more than 50 invited presentations at national and international conferences. The textbook “Systematic Methods of Chemical Process Design”, co-authored with Prof. Ignacio E. Grossmann and Prof. Arthur W. Westerberg, has been widely used in process systems engineering education.
Professor Biegler's research centers around the development and application of concepts in optimization theory, operations research, and numerical methods for process design, analysis, and control. Topics in this area include: Advanced algorithms for flowsheet simulation, optimization, and sensitivity analysis; Development of large-scale nonlinear programming methods for optimization of systems of differential and algebraic equations; Optimization methods for data-handling problems; Synthesis of reactor-based flowsheets through quantitative targets.