Joel A. Paulson is an Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the Ohio State University (OSU) where he is also a core faculty member of the Sustainability Institute (SI) and an affiliate of the Translational Data Analytics Institute (TDAI). He joined OSU in 2019 after completing his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Chemical Engineering and a subsequent postdoctoral appointment at the University of California, Berkeley in the area of systems and control theory. He was the recent winner of the Best Application Paper Prize from the 2020 IFAC World Congress and NSF Graduate Research Fellowship recipient from 2011-2016. His research focuses on data-driven optimization and advanced control of complex systems under uncertainty with applications in next-generation biochemical and smart manufacturing processes such as continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing, chemical looping combustion, and non-equilibrium plasma jets.