Syncrude Canada Innovation Award/ Prix
d'innovation syncrude Canada.
Canadian Chemical News • Oct, 2007 • CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR CHEMICAL ENGINEERING 2007 AWARD
WINNERS/GAGNANTS 2007 DES PRIX DE LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE GENIE
CHIMIQUE
Sponsored by / Parraine par Syncrude Canada Limited
The Syncrude Canada Innovation Award is presented annually to a
resident of Canada, who has made a distinguished contribution to
chemical engineering before the age of 40.
Le Prix d'innovation Syncrude Canada est decerne annuellement
pour souligner une contribution importante au domaine du genie chimique
par un ingenieur chimiste de moins de 40 arts qui reside au Canada.
Martin Guay, MCIC
Queen's University
Department of Chemical Engineering
Martin Guay was born in Levis, QC in 1966. He received his BASc in
chemical engineering and biochemistry from the University of Ottawa in
1990. He completed his MSc in 1992 under the supervision of D. D. McLean
and obtained his PhD from the department of chemical engineering in 1996
under the supervision of D. W. Bacon and P. J. McLellan in the area of
nonlinear control theory and process control. While completing his PhD,
he joined the DuPont Canada Research Center in Kingston, ON in 1995 as a
research engineer where he stayed until 1997. In 1997, he joined the
department of chemical and materials engineering at the University of
Alberta where he took a tenure-track position which he left in 1999 to
join the department of chemical engineering at Queen's University
where he has been ever since.
Guay's research interests are in the area of process control,
control theory, and applied statistics. He is well known for both his
research accomplishments and his service to the control community. As a
young investigator, Guay has over 100 peer-reviewed publications and
peer-reviewed conference proceedings to his record with an upcoming book
to be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Advances in Industrial
Control series. He has made significant contributions to the analysis
and control of nonlinear processes in chemical engineering. His primary
research interest is in the field of control where he has made a number
of significant technical contributions both in control theory and
process control.
Guay received the prestigious Queen's University Chancellor
Research Award (2006) to pursue work on the development of real-time
optimization tools for drug delivery systems. His research has also been
recognized in the area of nonlinear model predictive control of fast
nonlinear systems. In 2005, Guay received the Premier's Research
Excellence Award for his work in the area of control of manufacturing
systems and real-time decision making support. In 2001, he served as
chair of the Systems and Controls Division. Since 2002, he has served as
associate editor for Automatica. He was offered a six-month visiting
professor position at the prestigious CESAME Research Institute at the
Universite Catholique de Louvain, in Belgium. In 200e, he served as
model-based control area co-chair at the IFAC ADCHEM conference. He has
also served as International Program Committee member for a number of
international conferences including the IFAC DYCOPS conference and the
IFAC ADCHEM. Guay's excellence in undergraduate teaching was
recently recognized by a Golden Apple Teaching Award which is awarded
every year by the Applied Science Undergraduate Student Association at
Queen's University.
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