Dr. Imtiaz received his PhD (University of Alberta) degrees in Chemical Engineering. After completing his PhD degree, he worked as a Staff Consultant at Aspen Technology implementing advanced control systems for refineries, ethylene plants, methanol plants, and petro-chemical plants. He has implemented over thirty unit-wide model predictive controllers. He joined Memorial University as an Assistant Professor in 2010, promoted to Associate Professor in 2016. Currently he is the Head of the Department in Process Engineering at Memorial University. His research interests involve process monitoring, control systems, modelling, and alarm management. He teaches several graduate and undergraduate level including undergraduate course on Process Modelling and Model Analysis. He has published over 80 journal and conference articles in these fields. He holds several research grants including NSERC Discovery Grant. He is also a recipient of Imperial Oil University Research Award.