Richard D. Braatz (born July 19, 1966) is the Edwin R. Gilliland Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology known for his research in control theory and its applications to chemical, pharmaceutical, and materials systems.
He has received many honors, including the Hertz Foundation Thesis Prize, the Donald P. Eckman Award and John R. Ragazzini Award from the American Automatic Control Council, the Curtis W. McGraw Research Award from the Engineering Research Council, and the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize from the Antonio Ruberti Foundation and IEEE Control Systems Society.
[1] He is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Braatz made contributions in the areas of robust optimal control,[3][4] fault detection and diagnosis,[5][6] sheet and film processes,[7][8] and crystallization.
[9] After serving as a visiting scholar for a year at Harvard University, in 2010 he moved to MIT's department of chemical engineering,[10] where he continues research in systems and control theory and its applications.