Tom Badgwell

Thomas A. (Tom) Badgwell is Chief Technology Officer at Collaborative Systems Integration, an Austinbased startup providing systems integration services and software products for Open Process Automation (O-PAS) based systems. He earned a BS degree from Rice University and MS and PhD degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, all in Chemical Engineering. Tom’s career has focused on modeling, optimization, and control of chemical processes, with past positions at Setpoint, Fisher/Rosemount, Rice University, Aspen Technology, and ExxonMobil. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a past Director of the Computing and Systems Technology (CAST) Division, from which he received the Computing Practice Award in 2013. He has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Process Control and as a Trustee of the Computer Aids in Chemical Engineering (CACHE) Corporation. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the IFAC Technical Committee TC 6.1 Chemical Process Control in Industry.