Rahul Bindlish was named to his current role as Senior Technology Fellow for Process Automation at Dow in June 2024. As a senior fellow, he currently leads a team of Technology Principals to provide technology leadership and highly specialized technical problem solving for all Process Automation and Optimization related activities at Dow.
He joined Dow's Light Hydrocarbons Technology Center in 1999 where he led the technology implementation of advanced process controllers, real-time optimizers and feedstock selection models in multiple plants as part of the Light Hydrocarbons Advanced Control & Optimization (AC&O) program. He moved to Technical Expertise & Support Technology Center in 2004 where he has been leading the strategy development and technology implementation of advanced process controllers, real-time optimizers, site optimizers and scheduling applications for various businesses at Dow.
Rahul has co-authored numerous external publications and is a frequent speaker at 91成人短视频 (AIChE) meetings and Aspen Optimize conferences. He has received thirteen Dow technology center awards till 2024 for technology innovations that have resulted in a 10-year net present value of approximately $395 million at Dow. In addition, he was elected as an AIChE Fellow in 2023 and is the recipient of the 2017 AIChE Computing Practice Award for implementing advanced control & optimization methods that created significant value at Dow and his service to the process systems engineering community.
Rahul currently serves as AIChE CAST division 2nd vice-chair, 1st vice-chair and chair (2024-2026). He served as AIChE CAST division director (2020-2022) and also as programming chair for FOCAPO/CPC 2023 meeting. He also led Dow's efforts on the Synopsis project to develop process intensification modeling tools as part of AIChE RAPID Institute (2018-2022) in partnership with other members from academia and industry. Rahul has chaired Aspentech鈥檚 AC&O industrial user's group from 2009-2013; chaired several AIChE CAST division sessions and served on the programming committee of FOCAPO/CPC 2017. He received a Ph.D. (Ch.E.) from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1999 for his research on Nonlinear Control of Polymerization Processes.鈥嬧�� He also holds a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology-Kanpur and a master's degree in chemical engineering from Texas A&M University.