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Venkatasubramanian’s research contributions have been in the areas of process fault diagnosis and risk management, materials discovery analytics, pharmaceutical engineering, free-market dynamics, and income inequality. In risk management, his group has developed a novel framework for modeling and analyzing systemic failures such as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Global Financial Crisis, and the Upper Big Branch mine disaster. In materials discovery, by combining first principles knowledge with data science techniques, his group pioneered the development of a framework, called Discovery Analytics, for the rapid discovery and design of new materials such as fuel additives, rubber compounds, catalysts, pharmaceuticals, and nanomaterials. In the area of emergence, an important challenge facing 21st century science is in understanding how complex adaptive systems composed of millions of relatively simple interacting entities produce complex emergent behavior. Such emergent behavior is seen in a wide range of phenomena such as the behavior of ant colonies, market bubbles, income inequality, and brain consciousness. Venkatasubramanian has developed a novel conceptual framework, called statistical teleodynamics, that synthesizes key concepts and techniques from artificial intelligence, game theory, statistical mechanics, systems engineering, economics, biology, and philosophy to understand and model such emergent phenomena.

Venkatasubramanian received his BS in chemical engineering from the University of Madras, his MS in Physics from Vanderbilt, and a PhD in chemical engineering from Cornell. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which also awarded him the Computing in Chemical Engineering award in 2009. He joined the faculty of Columbia Engineering in 2012. Prior to that, he taught chemical engineering at Purdue University, where he won the Norris Shreve Prize for outstanding teaching three times.

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