Dr. Sengupta is the Associate Director of the Gas and Fuels Research Center for Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES). Her roles include research collaboration development for the Center through mega project funds, industry partnerships, and other channels. She started her research career working on the natural gas based agricultural chemical production complex in the Lower Mississippi River Corridor. Her research was focused on process integration for developing chemicals from biomass within an existing industrial complex and quantification of sustainability using an optimization based approach. Following this, her first book titled “Chemicals from biomass: integrating bioprocesses into chemical production complexes for sustainable development” was published by CRC Press in the Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering Series in 2012. After her PhD from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, she went to work as a post doctoral fellow at the National Risk Management Research Laboratory of the United States Environmental Protection Agency in Cincinnati, OH. There, she worked on multiple research initiatives on sustainability and systems analysis through the Sustainable Technology Division. Specific projects included the Sustainable Supply Chain Design for Biofuels, a Co-operative Research and Development Agreement with Procter & Gamble on Sustainable Supply Chain Design of Consumer Products, and the use of sustainability metrics for decision making. She has several peer reviewed journal articles dealing with a wide range of topics like process integration, sustainability metrics, life cycle assessment etc. She is currently co-authoring her second book titled “Measuring Progress towards Sustainability”, a Springer publication. Dr. Sengupta has held several leadership roles at AIChE, primarily at the Environmental Division. She was a Director for 2011-2015, and is the current Programming Chair for the Division