Jayson Keels

Jayson Keels is a Senior R&D Engineer I at Milliken & Company, with a strong background in research and development within the chemical engineering field. Prior experience includes roles as Senior R&D Engineer/Scientist I at Honeywell UOP, where software tools for Model-Based Design of Experiments were developed, and Engineer/Scientist R&D II, focusing on kinetic-based process models for refinery operations. Jayson began a strong academic foundation as a Graduate Student Research Assistant at the University of South Carolina, contributing to catalyst design and reactor construction, and also gained international experience as a Graduate Research Intern at Dalian University of Technology. Jayson holds a PhD and a Bachelor's of Science in Engineering, both in Chemical Engineering from the University of South Carolina.