Urmila M DiwekarUrmila Diwekar is President of the Vishwamitra Research Institute, a non-profit research institute that she founded to pursue multidisciplinary research in the areas of optimization under uncertainty and computer-aided design applied to energy, envirnment, and sustainability. From 2002-2004, she was a Professor in the Departments of Chemical Engineering, Bio-Engineering, and Industrial Engineering, and the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy, at the University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. From 1991-2002 she was on the faculty of the Carnegie Mellon University, USA. She is the author of more than 175 peer-reviewed research papers, 7 books, 15 chapters, has given over 350 presentations and seminars, and has chaired numerous sessions in national and international meetings. She has been the principal advisor to 43 Ph.D. and M.S. students, and has advised 13 post-doctoral fellows and researchers. Read More Read Less