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You are invited to explore the Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory (CASL) in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University. This homepage consists of a description of the lab’s personnel; collaborations and academic guests; teaching and research activities; publications; software and online tools; and computing facilities.

This site is aimed at addressing prospective collaborators, post-doctoral associates, doctoral students, undergraduate students and colleagues in industry and universities. We hope that via this material you will become aware of the goals of the Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory and our dedication to excellence.

Brief Description of the Lab

The Computer-Aided Systems Laboratory is located in A-329, A-425, and A-426 of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton University. The teaching activities include lectures in the undergraduate courses of Design, Synthesis and Optimization of Chemical Processes and Process Control and lectures in the graduate courses of Nonlinear and Mixed-Integer Optimization: Fundamentals and Applications, Global Optimization, and Systems Engineering.

The research activities focus on five main areas:

1. Product and Process Design, Synthesis and Discovery
2. Product and Process Operations: Scheduling and Planning
3. Discrete-Continuous Nonlinear Optimization
4. Deterministic Global Optimization
5. Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics

Click here for a description of the computing facilities.

Principal Investigator

Biosketch Curriculum Vitæ

Christodoulos A. Floudas
Stephen C. Macaleer ‘63 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science,
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering
Princeton University
A325 Engineering Quad
Princeton, NJ 08544
P 609-258-4595  F 609-258-0211
floudas@titan.princeton.edu

News

• A cross-disciplinary collaboration among four research teams has developed novel peptides that have the potential to treat diseases involving inflammation. See also the press release of Princeton University.
• Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas was selected for the "One Thousand Global Experts-Short Visit" Program of China.
• GloMIQO released commercially through the General Algebraic Modeling System (GAMS version 23.8).
• Graduate student George Khoury was awarded an E-Council "Excellence in Teaching" Award.
• The awarding of the Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship to Rich Baliban reported on the Princeton University home page.
• Protein Design research by Prof. Jamie Link, Prof. Chris Floudas, and their graduate students featured in the Winter 2012 edition of EQuad News.
• Graduate student Eric First won third prize at the Princeton Research Symposium
• ZEOMICS: Zeolite Characterization Tool Featured on Princeton's Aspire Blog.
• Graduate student George Khoury selected as a 2011 NAF Alumni Honoree.
• Honorific Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship awarded to graduate student Rich Baliban for 2011-12 academic year.
• Graduate student Josephine Elia awarded Walbridge Fund Graduate Award
• Graduate student Eric First awarded National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship
• Prof. Christodoulos Floudas elected to National Academy of Engineering.
• Prof. Christodoulos Floudas' election to National Academy of Engineering reported on Princeton University home page and Carnegie Mellon's Department of Chemical Engineering home page.
• HIV research by Meghan Bellows-Peterson and Prof. Christodoulos Floudas in collaboration with a team from Johns Hopkins University reported as headline news on Princeton University home page
• More stories…