Urmila Diwekar

President and Founder, Vishwamitra Research Insititue, USA

Title: Gynecology Obstetrics & Women's Health

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Biography

Dr. Urmila M. Diwekar is the president and founder of the Vishwamitra Research Institute, a non-profit research organization. From 2002-2004, she was a full Professor in the Departments of Bio, Chemical, and Industrial Engineering and the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). She was the first woman full professor in the history of UIC's department of chemical engineering. From 1991-2002 she was on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), with early promotions to both the Associate and Full Professor levels. In chemical engineering, she has worked extensively in the areas of simulation, design, optimization, control, stochastic modeling, and synthesis of chemical processes. Dr. Diwekar has made major contributions to research on batch distillation including authoring the first book on batch distillation and this work is well recognized. Uncertainties are inherent in real world processes. 

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