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Joel Paulson is the Gerald and Louise Battist Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining UW-Madison, he was a faculty member in the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at The Ohio State University (OSU) from 2019 to 2025, where he held the H.C. Slip “Slider” Professorship. He holds a B.S. degree (with Highest Honors) from the University of Texas at Austin, and M.S.CEP. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Chemical Engineering. After graduating from MIT, he completed a postdoctoral research appointment at the University of California, Berkeley, working in the area of systems and control theory. His current research interests are mainly in the areas of Bayesian optimization, scientific machine learning, and model predictive control. He is the recipient of several awards including the NSF CAREER Award, the AIChE 35 Under 35 Award, the IFAC World Congress Best Application Paper Prize, the Lumley Research Award, and the David C. McCarthy Engineering Teaching Award.