Ruth Misener

In 2012 she was awarded a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellowship for her postdoctoral training with Efstratios N. Pistikopoulos at Imperial College London.^[6] Misener works in the Computational Optimisation group at Imperial College London, where she is interested in bioprocess optimisation and petrochemical process network design.^[7] She has several industry collaborations, including being academic friend for ExxonMobil.^[8][5]

In 2017 she was awarded an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship for "software development for novel engineering research".^[9] The aim of this fellowship was to develop new "decision-making software constructing and deploying next generation process optimisation tools".^[9] In 2022 she was awarded a highly prestigious BASF/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data-driven Optimisation.^[10] She has co-authored several publicly available software tools for global optimisation including:

• APOGEE (pooling)^[11]
• GloMIQO (mixed-integer quadratically constrained quadratic programs)^[12]
• ANTIGONE (mixed-integer nonlinear programs)^[13]

She is the director of the Computing & Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.^[14]

In 2013 she was awarded the Journal of Global Optimization award for Best Paper.^[15] In 2014 she won the American Institute of Chemical Engineers W David Smith Graduate Student Paper Award.^[16] In 2017 Misener won the Sir George Macfarlane Medal from the Royal Academy of Engineering for excellence in the early stage of her career.^[17] She also won the 2017 Royal Academy of Engineering Engineers Trust Young Engineer of the Year.^[18][19] She was included in the Innovation category of American Institute of Chemical Engineers 35 Under 35 list.^[20]