• Appliances
• Automotive
• Aviation
• Chemical
• Financial
• Mechanical
• Manufacturing
• Polymers

This expert has a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Texas A&M University in College Station, TX.

This expert received a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from the University of Bombay in Bombay, India.

This expert specializes in process automation, modeling, and optimization of chemical processes, and advanced planning and scheduling (APS). Further expertise includes control, modeling, diagnostics, monitoring, and optimization projects in chemical, mechanical, and financial applications.

This expert is proficient in operations research, supply chain, process automation, and six sigma techniques. Further proficiencies include multivariate data analysis, time series analysis, genetic algorithms, advanced control, and artificial neural networks modeling techniques.

Other areas of specialty include Six Sigma Black Belt Engineering, basic finance, statistics, and design of demand forecasting business processes and tools. This expert also specializes in design of experiments, project management, design for Six Sigma, Six Sigma "Train The Trainer", and process control.

This consultant offers expertise specific to polymer particle size distribution, aircraft engine fault detection algorithms, and re-engineering. Other areas of expertise include demand forecasting business process and tools, line scheduling tool, and composites manufacturing analysis.

Additional experience and specialization this expert has includes auto dealership warranties analysis, automatic controllers, quality control, and tar cracker safety. Other experience and background includes clothes dryer dryness detection algorithms, chemical reactors yield optimization, data analysis, modeling, and optimization.

Consultant, Kevin Kennedy Associates Inc.

Certified DFSS/DMAIC Black Belt Engineer-Supply Chain, General Electric Advanced Materials, Mt. Vernon, IN

Engineer (Lead Professional Band), GE Advanced Materials, Mt. Vernon, IN

Chemical Engineer, Process Control and Modeling, R&D, GE Corporate R&D Center, Schenectady, NY

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Computational Science Methods Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Nonlinear Studies, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM

Projects have included re-engineering the process and tools for Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) in 7 global businesses, design of demand forecasting business process and tools for a major manufacturing facility, design capacity management tool for a beverage manufacturer, design and implementation of automatic controllers for a polymers manufacturing facility for quality control, improvement of particle size distribution measurement & control in a polymer development facility, design of algorithms for dryness detection & control in a clothes dryer, yield optimization in chemical reactors using data analysis, modeling, and optimization, analysis and troubleshooting of a composites manufacturing facility (for aircraft engine fan blades), design of fault detection algorithms for aircraft engines, analysis for auto dealership warranties, design of a novel solution for the safe operation of a tar cracker, and more.

This expert holds numerous patents, and is the author of numerous publications on topics related to and including recurrent neural networks in decoupling control of multivariable nonlinear systems, solution of lattice model by genetic algorithms, global optimization using a clustering algorithm in a genetic search framework, applications of genetic algorithms in chemical engineering, dynamical systems modeled by recurrent neural networks, recurrent neural network models in exact-linearizing de-coupling control of multivariable nonlinear systems, nonlinear system modeling, applications to modeling and control problems, genetic algorithms for controller design based on qualitative criteria, nonlinear control strategies, and more.