Karlene A. Hoo

Biography

Dr. Karlene A. Hoo has a B.S. degree from the Univ. Pennsylvania and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Univ. of Notre Dame. All of her degrees are in chemical engineering. Prior to joining academia, she was an employee of Exxon Chemical Co. and the DuPont chemical Co. She has experience in research administration as co-Director of an Industrial consortium on Process Control and Optimization, as an Assoc. Dept. Chair, Assoc. Dean of Research in the engineering, and Assoc. Vice President for Research and Acting Vice President for Research at the university level. In 2011-2013, Karlene was a Program Director at the National Science Foundation in the Industrial Innovations and Partnerships in the Engineering Directorate. She then served as a tenured full professor of chemical and biological engineering and the Dean of the Graduate School at Montana State University. Dr. Hoo served as Professor & Dean, School of Engineering & Applied Science at Gonzaga University--the first woman in the Dean's role..

Dr. Hoo's research interests include modeling of complex dynamical systems, control system synthesis, multivariate statistics, and optimization with applications in chemical, petrochemical, and biological processes.