Prof Sirish Shah is the co-author of the textbook “Control loop performance assessment: Theory and applications”, Springer-Verlag, 1999.  Shah received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from Leeds University in 1971, an M.Sc. degree in automatic control from UMIST, Manchester in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree in process control (chemical engineering) from the University of Alberta in 1976. During 1977 he worked as a computer applications engineer at Esso Chemicals in Sarnia, Canada. Since 1978 he has been with the University of Alberta, where he currently holds the NSERC- Matrikon -ASRA Senior Industrial Research Chair in Computer Process Control.  

In 1989, Shah was the recipient of the Albright & Wilson Americas Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering in recognition of distinguished contributions to chemical engineering. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford University and Balliol College as an SERC fellow in 1985-86, and at Kumamoto University, Japan as a senior JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) research fellow in 1994. Shah's research over the last 25 years has focused on the broad area of computer process control. The main area of his current research is process and performance monitoring of closed-loop control systems and industrial processes. He has published extensively in academic journals and conference proceedings. He has been a consultant with a number of different industrial organizations. 

Dr. Lakshminarayanan (Laksh) was a Senior Consultant in the Development and Engineering Research Center of Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation in Japan since 1998 prior to joining the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, National University of Singapore. At MCC, he was involved in projects relating to the application of multivariate statistical methods for modeling, monitoring and control. He obtained his BEng in Chemical Engineering from BITS, Pilani, India (1988), an M.Sc. degree in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras, India (1991) and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Process Control from the University of Alberta, Canada in 1997. His research interests include process modeling and control, advanced data analysis and bioinformatics.