Dr E. Antonio Del Rio Chanona is a Lecturer at the Department of Chemical Engineering and the Centre for Process Systems Engineering, Imperial College London. His research interests include the application of optimisation and machine learning techniques to chemical engineering systems. He has been awarded numerous awards including the fellowship from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom (2017) on “sustainable excretable biofuels process design and optimisation”, the Danckwerts-Pergamon Prize for the best Ph D thesis of his year at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, University of Cambridge (2017), designated a Top Young Author by the International Federation of Automatic Control (2018), awarded the Sir William Wakeham award by the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London for outstanding research achievements and contribution to the department (2019), received the Nicklin Medal by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChem E) in recognition for exceptional research that will have significant impact in areas of process systems engineering, industrialisation of bioprocesses, and adoption of intelligent and autonomous learning algorithms to chemical engineering (2020).