Babatunde Ogunnaike

Babatunde Ayodeji Ogunnaike (March 26, 1956 – February 20, 2022) was an American chemical engineer of Nigerian descent and the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware (UD). He died on February 20, 2022. He had waged a long battle with cancer.

Early life Ogunnaike was born on March 26, 1956, in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Education and career Ogunnaike attended the University of Lagos for his bachelor's degree, graduating with First Class Honours in chemical engineering in 1976. His title became the William L. Friend Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering when the name of the department was changed in January 2012. He led the Ogunnaike Research Group. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.

Ogunnaike acted as interim dean of the college of engineering at the University of Delaware beginning in July 2011, and was named dean of the College of Engineering effective July 1, 2013. He retired as dean on October 1, 2018, but remained on the faculty.

Research Ogunnaike is the author and editor of several books, including Random phenomena : fundamentals of probability and statistics for engineers (2009) and Process dynamics, modeling and control (1994). His books, papers and book chapters are used to educate engineers in instrumentation, systems and control at many universities. He was associate editor of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology and the American Chemical Society’s Industrial & Engineering Chemistry.

Selected publications Radhakrishnan, D.; Robinson, A.S.; Ogunnaike, B.A. (2018) Controlling the Glycosylation Profile in mAbs Using Time-Dependent Media Supplementation. Antibodies, 7, 1. Birtwistle, M.R., Rauch, J., Kiyatkin, A. et al. (2012). Emergence of bimodal cell population responses from the interplay between analog single-cell signaling and protein expression noise. BMC Syst Biol 6, 109.

Patents US Patent on Predictive Regulatory Controller.

Honors and fellowships 2021 Medal of Distinction: University of Delaware, December 7, 2021 (UD's highest non-academic award) 2019 David Ollis Lecture: North Carolina State University, December 2, 2019 2019 Johannsen-Crosby Lectures: Michigan State University, September 12, 2019 2019 Inaugural Costel D. Denson Lecture: Lehigh University, March 20, 2019 2018 Warren K. Lewis Award, American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2018 Roger Sargent Lecture: Imperial College, London, December 6, 2018 2018 Sheldon Weinbaum Distinguished Lecture: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, October 11, 2018 2017 Fellow, International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 2017 Honorary Professor, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China 2017 Ralph Peck Lecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, April 14, 2017 2017 Richard S. H. Mah Lecture, Northwestern University, September 20, 2017 2016 Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2014 Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors 2012 Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Engineering 2009 Fellow of American Institute of Chemical Engineers 2008 AACC Control Engineering Practice award 2007 ISA Eckman Award 2004 University of Delaware's College of Engineering Excellence in Teaching award 1998 American Institute of Chemical Engineers CAST Computing Practice Award Member of the American Statistical Association Member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science