Carl Laird

Assistant Professor

Research Page

Telephone: (979) 458-4514
Fax Number: (979) 845-6446
E-mail: carl.laird@tamu.edu

Mailing Address...
205 Jack E. Brown Engineering Building
3122 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-3122

Education

B.Sc., University of Alberta, 2000
Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon University, 2006

Awards & Honors

IBM Research Bravo Award, 2005
ChEGSA Symposium Speaker Award, 2003
Mark Dennis Karl Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award, 2002
Canadian National Sciences and Engineering Research Council Fellowship, 2000

Research Interests

Dr. Laird's research focuses on large-scale nonlinear optimization, parameter estimation, and parallel computing. Particular applications include network problems, where Dr. Laird has worked on developing algorithms as part of an early warning contaminant detection system in municipal drinking water networks. In addition, Dr. Laird is involved in the modeling and optimization of infectious diseases, working to determine the fundamental driving forces affecting the spread of infectious disease in both time and space.

Selected Publications

Pham, V.; Laird, C.D.; El-Halwagi, M. "A Convex Hull Discretization Approach to the Global Optimization of Pooling Problems", Accepted for publication in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2008.

C. D. Laird and L. T. Biegler, Large-Scale Nonlinear Programming for Multi-scenario Optimization, pp. 323-336, in Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Complex Processes, H. G. Bock, E. Kostina, H-X Phu, R. Ranacher (eds.), Springer (2008).

Zavala V.M.; Laird, C.D. and Biegler, L.T. A Fast Moving Horizon Estimation Algorithm Based on Nonlinear Programming Sensitivity. Journal of Process Control, 18 (9), pp. 876-884, 2008.

Zavala, V. M.; Laird, C.D. and Biegler, L.T. Interior-Point Point Decomposition Approaches for Parallel Solution of Large-Scale Nonlinear Parameter Estimation Problems. Chem. Eng. Sci. 63 (19), pp. 4834-4845, 2008.

Zavala, V. M.; Laird, C.D. and Biegler, L.T. Fast Implementations and Rigorous Models: Can Both be Accommodated in NMPC?. Int. J. Robust Nonlinear Control. 18 (8), pp.800-815, 2008.


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