Brenno Castrillon Menezes | Hamad Bin Khalifa University
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Dr. Brenno Castrillon Menezes

Dr. Brenno Castrillon Menezes


Assistant Professor
Engineering Management & Decision Sciences
College of Science and Engineering

  • Phone+974 66629835
  • Office locationLAS Building 302-D

Biography

Dr. Brenno C. Menezes holds a DSc and an MSc in Process Engineering from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has more than fifteen years of international experience as a process engineer and researcher in Smart Manufacturing and Engineering Management. 

Dr. Menezes has published many papers in top academic international journals, such as Computers and Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering Chemistry Research, and Computer Aided Process Engineering, among many others. His current fields of research include the areas of simulation and optimization, LNG value chain, precision agriculture, and machine learning.

 


Research Interests

  • Simulation and Optimization
  • LNG Value Chain
  • Precision Agriculture
  • Machine Learning

Experience

Assistant Professor

College of Science and Engineering; Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar).

2019 - Present
  • Young Researcher

    Center for Information, Automation and Mobility; Institute for Technological Research (Brazil)

    2018 - 2019
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    Department of Chemical Engineering; University of São Paulo (Brazil)

    2016 - 2017
  • Postdoctoral Fellow

    Department of Chemical Engineering; Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

    2015 - 2016
  • Process Engineer

    Refining Optimization; PETROBRAS PETROLEO BRASILEIRO S.A. (Brazil)

    2006 - 2015

Education

DSc in Process Engineering

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

2014
  • MSc in Process Engineering

    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

    2008
  • BSc in Chemical Engineering

    Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

    2004

Selected Publications

  • Franzoi, R. E., Menezes, B. C., Kelly, J. D., Gut, J. W., Grossmann, I. E.

    Cutpoint temperature surrogate modeling for distillation yields and properties. Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 59, 18616−18628.

    2020
  • Kelly, J. D., and Menezes, B. C.

    Industrial software for computer aided process engineering (CAPE) modeling and programming skills development. Computer Aided Process Engineering, 48, 2035-2040.

    2020
  • Kelly, J. D., and Menezes, B. C.

    Industrial modeling and programming language (IMPL) for off- and on-line optimization and estimation applications. In: Fathi, M., Khakifirooz, M., Pardalos, P. (eds) Optimization in Large Scale Problems. Springer Optimization and Its Applications, 152, 75-96.

    2019
  • Menezes, B. C., Kelly, J. D., Leal, A. G., and Le Roux, G. C.

    Predictive, prescriptive, and detective analytics for smart manufacturing in the information age. IFAC Papers Online, 52 (1), 568-573.

    2019