Alan Wang, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Managing day-to-day project execution and business development activities for energy natural resources and financial clients. Key project highlights include:- Energy and LNG commodity trading, origination, and risk management benchmark study- Biofuel SAF market assessment and competitive analysis- Waste recycle network modeling & strategic business planning- Commercial pricing & monetization strategy- E-commerce transformation market-entry strategy- Post-merger integration management

Managing project execution, client relationships, and business development activities for the largest U.S. energy and chemicals companies. Key project highlights include:- Climate risk assessment digital platform design & go-to-market- Biofuel market intelligence and supply resilience study- Net-zero target setting and GHG benchmark strategy- Commodity trading digital transformation- Energy value chain optimization

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-Technology Venturing: Performed decarbonization technology scouting and vendor evaluation on emerging digital automation/AI and low-carbon solutions. Conducted techno-economic analysis (TEA) and scenario-based market analysis to guide strategic partnership and investment decisions for carbon capture, hydrogen etc.- Technical Program Management: Technology development and deployment lead for modeling and optimization solutions supporting downstream manufacturing and planning operations.

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- Functioned an innovative technical leader within a core research group that owns the technology R&D of digital-twin hybrid models that combines data science and first-principle physics modeling for enterprise asset optimization: manufacturing automation, real-time optimization, carbon tracking, predictive maintenance, and process control.- Product Management: Developing data analytics engine that provides model solution transparency and what-if analysis capabilities. Awarded innovation technology of the year, and was commercialized globally to downstream refineries and chemical assets that improved manufacturing margin by $300M+.- Product Innovation: Pioneered the integration of carbon management capability to enable trade-offs between manufacturing profitability and energy efficiency in the refinery production and demand planning process. Enabled the business to quickly screen and identify low efficiency operating units. Improved the overall site-wide operating energy intensity index by over 15% while minimizing the impact on profit margin.

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- Digital Transformation: Led the deployment of the next-gen python optimization platform at a large-scale high-throughput manufacturing facility. Leading the digital transformation implementation and client engagement activities by building local expertise and capturing quick wins. - Digital Infrastructure: Led a key IT transformation initiative to migrate optimization software platform and the server hardware; the project completed months ahead of schedule, improved application utilization and reliability KPI by 60+%, and created $10M+ value.- Led the model development and deployment of a broad range of first-principle digital-twin real-time optimizers for technology verticals across global business units: crude distillation, FCC, hydro-processing, reforming, catalytic lubes; commissioning and revamping multiple applications with a portfolio value of $60M+.- Led data warehouse effort to centralize disparate data siloes into a modern data pipeline. Aggregated and synchronized model generated data with real-time sensor data to drive advanced enterprise-wide performance monitoring and data science modeling efforts.

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- Predictive maintenance: accelerated the fleet-wide intelligent predictive maintenance program leveraging model simulations and data analytics. Established the data pipeline and KPI dashboard for critical equipment health monitoring and failure mode effect analysis (FMEA). Enabled proactively identification of failing operating units and improved the overall site manufacturing margin by over 15% by minimize unit down time. - Manufacturing real-time optimization: Hydrocracking Reactor Catalyst Kinetic Tuning to predict the reactor severity and selectivity to product yield relationships after unit turn-around. Application deployment at a leading gulf-coast refinery leading to $1 million/year benefits.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

- Demonstrated technical readiness of a carbonate reaction pathway with high CO2 absorption capacity by 5-8 times and reduced the operating cost by 40%. Awarded an RFP by the Dept. of Energy (DOE) to scale the technology to an industrial-scale 15kWth pilot, which is now patented and commercially licensed.- Collaborated closely with a team of NREL scientists to design a novel reactor flow system that maximizes the thermal heat transfer efficiency of a concentrating solar system. Leveraging experimental data and fluid dynamic simulations, this pseudo "sand-battery" achieved over 90% thermal efficiency while costing a fraction of competing technologies.- Studied the thermoplastic characteristics of novel hydrocarbon feedstocks with applications in plastic recycling and biomass conversion under a high-temperature pyrolysis environment. Such clean energy conversion systems can significantly reduce the carbon footprint of chemical feedstock synthesis. - Involved in the technical feasibility study and pilot-scale testing of a novel iron-oxide based chemical looping system for clean energy conversion. Generates syngas or blue hydrogen with in-situ carbon capture. - Published four peer-reviewed articles as the first or second author in industry-leading academic journals on topics including carbon capture, reaction engineering, and fluidization system design.

Columbus, Ohio, Us

• Collaborated with professors/lectures on lesson planning and content preparation.• Organized on-going teaching assistance and exam review sessions for 3 undergraduate courses.• Guided groups of senior undergraduate students on their capstone design projects.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Business Entrepreneurship Fundamentals Certificate - Mgmt633

Advanced Process Decision-Processing Center Certificate, Chemical Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical And Biomolecular Engineering

Summer Institute, Mathematics