Professor and Associate Chair, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Email: martha.grover@chbe.gatech.edu

Education

B.S., Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1996

M.S., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 1997

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, 2003

CRESP Research Interests

• Process Monitoring
• Process Control
• Crystallization

Brief Biography

Martha Grover is a Professor in the School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech.  She earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and her MS and PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Caltech.  She joined Georgia Tech as an Assistant Professor in 2003, and received an NSF CAREER award in 2004.

In 2011 she received the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the Computing and Systems Technology Division of AIChE, and in 2018 she received the Himmelblau Award for Innovations in Computer-Based Chemical Engineering Education.

Her research program is dedicated to understanding, modeling, and engineering the self-assembly of atoms and small molecules to create larger scale structures and complex functionality.  Her approach draws on process systems engineering, combining modeling and experiments in applications dominated by kinetics, including surface deposition, crystal growth, polymer reaction engineering, and colloidal assembly.

She is a member of the NSF/NASA Center for Chemical Evolution, and Georgia Tech’s Decision and Control Laboratory.

Publications

Kocevska, S.; Grover, M. A.; Rousseau, R. W. (2019). “Monitoring the composition of low-activity nuclear waste using in-situ measurements.” Proceedings of the Annual Waste Management Conference, March 2019, Phoenix, AZ, accepted.

Kim, Y.; Dean, K.; Kawajiri, Y.; Rousseau, R. W.; Grover, M. A. (2018). “Unification of an empirical and a physically-based approach to crystallization monitoring,” Proceedings of the 2018 American Control Conference (ACC), pp. 5106–5112, Milwaukee, WI, June 2018. [Link]

Griffin, D. J.; Grover, M. A.; Kawajiri, Y.; Rousseau, R. W. (2016). “Data-driven modeling and dynamic programming applied to batch cooling crystallization,” Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 55(5), 1361–1372. [Link]

Griffin, D. J.; Grover, M. A.; Kawajiri, Y.; Rousseau, R. W. (2015). “Mass–count plots for crystal size control,” Chemical Engineering Science, 137, 338–351. [Link]

Griffin, D. J.; Grover, M. A.; Kawajiri, Y.; Rousseau, R. W. (2015). “Controlled crystallization of salts from nuclear waste solutions,” Proceedings of the Annual Waste Management (WM) Conference, 15235, Phoenix, AZ, March 2015. [Link]

Griffin, D. J.; Kawajiri, Y.; Grover, M. A.; Rousseau, R. W. (2015). “Feedback control of multicomponent salt crystallization,” Crystal Growth & Design, 15(1), 305–317. [Link]

Li, H.; Kawajiri, Y.; Grover, M. A.; Rousseau, R. W. (2014). “Application of an Empirical FBRM Model to Estimate Crystal Size Distributions in Batch Crystallization,” Crystal Growth & Design, 14(2), 607–616. [Link]

Griffin, D. J., Grover, M. A., Kawajiri, Y. and Rousseau, R. W. (2014), “A methodology for monitoring concentrations of complex waste solutions,” Proceedings of the Annual Waste Management (WM) Conference, 14182, Phoenix, AZ, March 2014. [Link]

Griffin, D. J.; Grover, M. A.; Kawajiri, Y.; Rousseau, R. W. (2014). “Robust multicomponent IR-to-concentration model regression,” Chemical Engineering Science, 116, 77-90. [Link]

Li, H.; Grover, M. A.; Kawajiri, Y.; Rousseau, R. W. (2013). “Development of an empirical method relating crystal size distribution and FBRM measurements,” Chemical Engineering Science, 89, 142-151. [Link]

Committee Service

• Program Chair, 2020 American Control Conference
• Secretary/Treasurer, Computing and Systems Technology Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers
• Trustee, CACHE Corporation (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering)
• Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Tech, beginning May 2019

Additional Information

Link to personal website: http://grover.chbe.gatech.edu

Link to Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=PgpLoqIAAAAJ