UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Director - UTC Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering, Associate Professor
• Director of the United Technologies Corporation Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering
• Professor and Director of UConn Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering

Dr. George Bollas is the Director of the United Technologies Corporation Institute for Advanced Systems Engineering (UTC-IASE) at the University of Connecticut. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Connecticut, a process design expert and winner of the prestigious NSF CAREER Award and the ACS PRF DNI Award. He received B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and then worked as a postdoctoral research associate at the Chemical Engineering Department of MIT. At UConn, he is leading efforts to develop and explore novel system representations (steady state and dynamic models) of thermal fluid systems (TFS) in equation-oriented environments that allow system dynamic optimization, sensitivity and uncertainty analysis, fault detection and optimal control. Dr. Bollas is also the director of the Process Design Simulation and Optimization Laboratory (PDSOL). The lab pursues a balanced approach to experimentation guided by robust modeling and simulation of chemical processes, including experimental design, process scaling and control.

Job Titles:

• Associate Director for Research