Chemical Engineering – UCL
Vivek Dua received his PhD from Imperial College London and his Master of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and is currently Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UCL. He co-editor of the seven volume Process Systems Engineering book series. His research focuses on optimisation under uncertainty with applications in healthcare, energy, and the environment. His research activities mainly cover computational modelling, design, and optimisation. He has extensive experience in applying advanced optimisation techniques to chemical process systems, including multi-objective optimisation, dynamic optimisation, and model-based control. Professor Dua has published numerous papers in high-impact journals and has been involved in several collaborative research projects with industry partners. His current work is on machine learning based modelling and optimisation of power plants and recovery of metals from waste printed circuit boards, modelling of gene delivery for haemophilia B, data-driven modelling for biomass pyrolysis, modelling of cystic fibrosis, and development of novel methodologies for data-driven modelling and analysing data-driven models in the presence of uncertain parameters. His research is funded by research councils, charities and overseas governments and is in collaboration with a diverse background including experimentalists and clinical doctors.
