Ruth Misener

Dr Ruth Misener is a Professor in the Computational Optimisation Group. Foundations of her research are in numerical optimisation algorithms and computational software frameworks. Applications include bioprocess optimisation under uncertainty and petrochemical process network design and operations.

Ruth holds an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship (2017-2022). Ruth has co-authored publicly-available software tools for global optimisation: APOGEE (pooling); GloMIQO (MIQCQP); ANTIGONE (MINLP). Ruth received the Sir George Macfarlane Medal as the overall winner of the 2017 RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year competition.

Experience

2020 - Professor in Computational Optimisation, Imperial

2017 - 2022 EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow, Imperial

2017 - 2020 Senior Lecturer in Computational Optimisation, Imperial

2014 - 2017 Lecturer in Computational Optimisation, Imperial

2012 - 2017 Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow, Imperial

2012 PhD, Princeton University

2007 S.B., MIT

Awards

• AIChE 35 Under 35, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2017
• RAEng Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2017
• Sir George Macfarlane Medal, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2017
• Best Paper Award for a Paper Published in 2013, Journal of Global Optimization, 2014
• W. David Smith, Jr. Graduate Student Paper Award, Computer-Aided Systems Technology Division of the American Institute for Chemical Engineers, 2014
• Top Reviewer, Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2013
• Best Poster, 2nd Belgian Symposium on Tissue Engineering (BSTE), 2013
• Research Fellowship, Royal Academy of Engineering, 2012
• Junior Research Fellowship (declined), Imperial College, 2012
• Excellence in Teaching Award, Princeton University School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, 2010
• Gordon Y. S. Wu Fellowship, Princeton University, 2007
• Graduate Research Fellowship, USA National Science Foundation, 2007

Membership of Professional Bodies

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery, 2017
• Member, British Computer Society, 2017
• Member, Institute for Operations Research & Management Sciences (INFORMS), Institute for Operations Research & Management Sciences (INFORMS), 2014
• Member, Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS), 2014
• Senior Member, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, 2007
• Tau Beta Pi – Engineering Honor Society, 2007