Profile: Professor Braatz received his BS from Oregon State University (1988) and his MS (1991) and PhD (1993) from the California Institute of Technology. After a postdoctoral year at DuPont, he joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His honors include the Hertz Fellowship in 1991, the Hertz Doctoral Thesis Prize in 1993, the DuPont Young Faculty Award in 1995, the Xerox Award for Faculty Research in 1999, and the Donald P. Eckman Award from the American Automatic Control Council in 2000. Prof. Braatz is co-author of the books "Data-driven Techniques for Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Chemical Processes", "Identification and Control of Sheet and Film Processes", and "Fault Detection and Diagnosis in Industrial Systems".