Hui Yuan

About Hui Yuan

12 years\' petrochemical industry experience in Process Control (Base Layer Control & APC), DCS (Honeywell Experion PKS & Foxboro I/A), PLCs (Triconex, Modicon, Tridon, and Honeywell Safety Manager), and Alarm Management (Alarm Configuration & Alarm Suppression), with focus on innovative control solutions and safety/reliability/product quality/environmental consideration• 4+ years’ experience in a Data analytics & Applied Statistics environment in Manufacturing industry; multiple years’ experience with data analytics software (e.g, Matlab, R, SQL, and Python) and visualization tools (e.g, JMP, and PowerBI)• 5+ years\' experience developing data mining techniques for Process Modeling & Analysis (PCA/PLS), Process Monitoring & Diagnosis (SPC, CPM)• Work closely with cross-disciplinary stakeholders such as operation personnel (operators and production team leaders), discipline engineers (process/mechanical/electrical/rotation/environmental engineers), technologist (instrument/analyzer/lab technologists), business personnel (production schedulers and economists), and senior management (department managers and production unit managers) to identify control/optimization opportunities across multiple product units and deliver solutions through teamwork• Perform root cause analysis for abnormal events on site via real-time data and trending analysis and/or causal reasoning/methodology, and feedback investigation findings and propose engineering design/solutions to stakeholders• Mentor/advise operational, technical and management stakeholders via proactively sharing the knowledge of control engineering, issuing engineering documentation (training packages, control narratives), and updating operating procedures• Hands-on experience on commercial hardware (Honeywell TDC and software (RMPCT, UniSim/HYSYS, OPC)

Experience

1. Staff Apc Control Systems Engineer

   Valero Energy Inc.

   May 2025 — Present · Memphis, TN, US

   Contributing to the revamp of two crude column APCs and one FCC APC, delivering projected benefits in the millions of dollars.• Shaping the refinery’s APC blueprint and roadmap for advanced process control development.• Improving site-wide controller performance, focusing on both regulatory and complex control systems.

Education

• China University of Petroleum - Beijing

  B.Eng (First Class Honours), Automation (Process Control Option)

  2001 — 2005

• Sheridan College

  Diploma, Workplace Communication Skills

  2012 — 2012

• Queen's University

  M.Eng. & Ph.D., Chemical Engineering (Process Control Option)

  2007 — 2015

• China University of Petroleum - Beijing

  M.Eng, Control theory & Control Engineering

  2005 — 2008

Skills

• Process Control
• Linear Programming
• Minitab
• Engineering
• Instrumentation
• Petroleum
• Labview
• System Identification
• Statistical Process Control
• Dcs
• First Principles Modeling
• Chemical Engineering
• Mathematical Modeling
• Control Systems Design
• Design of Experiments
• Lean Six Sigma
• Time Series Analysis
• Optimization
• Data Analysis
• Spc
• Matlab
• Petrochemical
• Simulations
• P&Id
• Foundations of Project Management
• Simulink
• Statistics
• Data Mining Tools (Pca & Pls)
• Refinery