She earned her BS degree in Chemical Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in Greece in 2008. She then moved to New Jersey to obtain a PhD in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering at Rutgers University, where she worked on modeling and optimization of continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing. Before joining Georgia Tech, she worked on methods for grey-box optimization and data-driven planning operations as a postdoctoral associate in both Princeton University and Texas A&M University. Fani’s future research interests lie on the interface of traditional process systems engineering and advanced data-analytics for the development of novel modeling and optimization tools with applications in energy and pharmaceuticals.