Presidential Young Investigators Award

该奖项是在国家科学基金会总统青年研究者奖（PYIA）计划下为Manousiouthakis博士提供研究支持。PYIA计划的目标是为美国最杰出和最有前途的年轻科学和工程教师提供支持。该奖项旨在提高美国学术机构的能力，以满足学术和工业研究和教学对高素质科学和工程人才的需求。Manousiouthakis博士的研究领域是工业过程的控制。许多工业过程以动态模式运行，表现出非线性动态行为，建模不充分，可能有许多无法测量的过程变量。PI研究的中心主题是为考虑上述特征的线性和非线性控制系统的设计开发一个概念框架。整个任务的重要组成部分是过程模型的选择，测量，操作，控制结构和控制要求的过程修改，控制方案的统一，线性和非线性控制器的设计，以保持稳定性和性能，并考虑不确定性和安全性，最后验证所提出的控制策略。PI计划通过实验验证他在干蚀刻反应器、反渗透模块和蒸馏塔上的理论结果。

This award is to provide research support to Dr. Manousiouthakis under the National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Awards (PYIA) Program. The objectives of the PYIA Program are to provide support to the Nation's most outstanding and promising young science and engineering faculty. The awards are intended to improve the capability of U.S. academic institutions to respond to the demand for highly-qualified science and engineering personnel for academic and industrial research and teaching. Dr. Manousiouthakis' field of research is control of industrial processes. Many industrial processes are operated in a dynamic mode, exhibit nonlinear dynamic behavior, are inadequately modeled and may have many process variables that cannot be measured. The central theme of the PI's research is the development of a conceptual framework for the design of linear and nonlinear control systems that account for the above characteristics. Important components of the overall task are the selection of process models, measurements, manipulations, control structures and control-dictated process modifications, the unification of control schemes, the design of linear and nonlinear controllers that maintain stability and performance and account for uncertainty and safety and finally the verification of the proposed control policies. The PI is planning to experimentally verify his theoretical results for dry-etching reactors, reverse-osmosis modules and distillation columns.