Trainers Profile

Jaco Minnaar, Analytical Specialist, Timmerman Analytical, RSA

Jaco Minnaar obtained his MSc in Biochemistry in 2000 from the North-West University in South Africa. Jaco has 15 years extensive experience in research and laboratory management in the Agriculture, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Clinical Biochemistry, Food and Beverage and Pharmaceutical fields. Jaco Minnaar has strong background in ISO/IEC 17025 environments and is familiar with cGLP and cGMP Guidelines and has acquired hands on experience in operation, calibration and validations of sophisticated analytical instruments such as CE, HPLC, GC, GC-MS/MS, High Resolution MS/MS, FT-IR, Near Infrared (NIR) and other Spectroscopic Techniques.

Jaco Minnaar founded Timmerman Analytical in 2006 with the main objective to promote the use of multivariate data analysis and design of experiments (DoE) in South African Academic, Research and Private Industries.

Hussain Ali

Hussain has a M.Sc in Applied Statistics, M.Phil in Quality Control and an MBA in Marketing. He has more than 10 years of experience in data and image analysis in applications of biostatistics, clinical research, market research, quality control, climate science, Analytical R&D and more. Hussain’s expertise as an applied statistician enables him to identify and adopt the statistical methodologies most suitable for various applications and industries. His strengths include analytical thinking and creative problem solving skills.

Hideyuki Shinzawa

Hideyuki Shinzawa has an M.Sc in Agriculture, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kobe University, Hyogo Japan and is currently a Candidate of D. Sc in Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Kwansei Gakuin University, Hyogo Japan

Hideyuki Shinzawa has been exploring his skills in Near-infrared spectroscopic instruments, Infrared spectroscopic instruments, Raman spectroscopic instruments and Programming with Matlab language. He also has research interests and projects to his credits

• Investigation of calibration algorithm based on Genetic Algorithms and it's application
• Investigation of calibration algorithm based on kernel function and ensemble learning methods
• Investigation of spectral analysis technique based on Two-dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy
• Structural analysis of fatty acid with NIR and IR spectroscopy with Self-Modeling Curve Resolution (SMCR)
  Chemical imaging, multivariate analysis of functional materials
• Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) analysis with chemometrics

List of Publications (authored or coauthored)

• Effect of the window size in moving-window two-dimensional correlation analysis, J. Mol. Struct., 799, 28-33 (2006)..
• Effect of Band Position Shift on Moving-Window Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy, J. Mol. Struct., 799, 16-22 (2006).
• Computational Simulations and a Practical Application of Moving-Window Two-Dimensional Correlation Spectroscopy, J. Mol. Struct., 799, 111-120 (2006).
• Perturbation-Correlation Moving-Window Two-Dimensional Correlation, Appl. Spectrosc., 60, 398-406 (2006).
• Multi-objective Genetic Algorithm-based Sample Selection for Partial Least Squares Model Building with Applications to Near-Infrared Spectroscopic Data, Appl. Spectrosc. 60, 631-640 (2006).
• A New Method for Spectral Data Classification: Two-way Moving Window Principal Component Analysis (TMWPCA), Appl. Spectrosc., 60, 884-891 (2006).
• Investigations of bagged kernel partial least squares (KPLS) and boosting KPLS with applications to near-infrared (NIR) spectra, J. Chemometric., in press.
• Effect of Cholesterol and Other Additives on Viscosity, Self-diffusion Coefficient and Intramolecular Movements of Oleic Acid in the Liquid State, J. Phys. Chem., submitted.
• Self-Modeling Curve Resolution (SMCR) by Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Anal. Chim. Acta, submitted.
• Robust Curve Fitting Method for Optical Spectra by Least Median Squares (LMedS) Estimator with Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Appl. Spectrosc., submitted.

Dr. Narinder Singh Sahni

Dr. Sahni is a chemical engineer and received a Ph.D. in Applied Statistics with a focus on statistical process control (SPC) and Multivariate Analysis (MVA) from Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. He has 10 years experience in research and development both in industry and academia, dealing with multi variate analysis related to medical diagnostics. His expertise areas include analysis of data originating from gene expression technology, proteomics and bio-spectroscopy.

He has hands on expertise on Measuring, monitoring and optimizing production processes using on/in-line implementation of Near Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopic instruments (Process Analytical Technologies).

He has held several positions including Manager Data Analysis Group, Diagenic ASA, Oslo, Norway to develop, evaluate and integrate statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data. Research Scientist, MILLS DA, Oslo, Norway, Technical in-charge of development and maintenance of calibration models for prediction of vital characteristics of several products using Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopic instrument.

He is a visiting Scholar at the Bioinformatics Center, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi India. Course taught: Microarray Informatics and also a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Food Science, Norwegian Agricultural University. Course taught: Experimental design (DoE) and multivariate data analysis(MVA).

Listed below are a few presentation/ publications made by Dr. Sahni

• Sharma, P., Sahni, N.S., Tibshirani, R., ... Lønneborg, A., “Array based detection of cancer based on gene-expression patterns in peripheral blood cells”, Breast Cancer Research 7, 2005.
• Sahni , N.S., Aastveit, A., and Næs, T. “In-line process and product control using spectroscopy and multivariate calibration”, Journal of Quality Technology 37(1), 2005.
• Sahni , N.S., Isaksson, T., and Næs, T. “Comparison of Methods for Transfer of Calibration Models in NIR Spectroscopy. A case study based on correcting pathlength differences using fiber optic transmittance probes in in-line NIR spectroscopy”, Applied Spectroscopy 59(4), 2005.
• Sahni , N.S., Isaksson, T., and Næs, T. “In-line near infrared spectroscopy in product and process monitoring in the food industry”, Journal of NIR spectroscopy, 2004.

Philip Robert Heraud

Philip Robert Heraud, is a trained bio-spectroscopist, received a PhD from Monash University, Australia (Clayton Campus) in 1999. His primary interest lies in Probing living cells using vibrational micro-spectroscopy to understand their responses to the environment. In vivo IR and Raman imaging of cells and tissues, e.g. A Effects of UV radiation on respiration and photosynthesis in marine phytoplankton. Analysis of spectral data and images using multivariate and other chemometric approaches.

In 2002, he was awarded as “Luigi Provasoli” from the American Phycological Society. He has extensive teaching experience in the areas of Multivariate Analysis and chemometrics. he is Faculty of Science, Monash University taught calculus, statistics, chemistry and biology for a combined Diploma in Environmental Science/ Bachelor of Science and also Member of Education Committee in the School of Biological Sciences, Monash University.

Mr. Ramnendra Mandloi

M. Tech from IIT Delhi, Black Belt with over 14 years of industrial experience with large automotive manufacturing organizations which includes execution of process improvement using Quality Management system, Six Sigma, TQM, Automotive Core Tools application i.e. FMEA, SPC, MSA, DOE. He has been involved in training and development of people from basic system tools to six sigma & lean tools for more than 2500 peoples.

He has worked in groups like Tata, Mahindra & Mahindra, Avtec (Formerly Hindustand Motors Ltd., PUP Division), Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. He has been instrumental in getting TS 16949 for these organizations in record time with the World's Best Certifying Agencies, including holding positions as Management Representative for ISO 9001, 14001, TS16949. He is Certified auditor for TS 16949, Lead auditor for ISO 14001 and certified auditor for CII Exim Award (Business Excellence Model based on TQM model of European Federation of Quality Management).

Brad Swarbrick, Vice President - Business Development

Brad Swarbrick (Vice President, Sales, CAMO Software - Europe & Oceania) is also a PAT specialist consultant and has over 10 years experience in the application of chemometrics techniques to Mid and Near Infrared Spectroscopic analysers in the Pharmaceutical, Agricultural and Chemical Industries. Brad was part of the Pfizer Global Process Analytical Technology (PAT) group based at the West Ryde Facility in Australia and recently developed the NIR and PAT programs for Sigma Pharmaceuticals, Australia largest pharmaceuticals manufacturer. Brad has extensive experience in the development and implementation of in-line analysers in both the Pharmaceutical and Agricultural sector and is currently the chair of the ISPE PAT Community of Practice in Australia.

Dr. Frank Westad, Chief Scientific Officer, CAMO Software AS

Frank Westad received his M.Sc in Chemistry and Data analysis in 1988, and completed his Ph.D. thesis “Relevance and parsimony in multivariate modeling” in 2000 with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His working experience over the years includes positions as Research Scientist with SINTEF, Consultant with IDT GmbH (Germany), Application Specialist with CAMO and Senior Research Scientist at the Norwegian Food Research Institute (MATFORSK) and GE Healthcare. His experience also includes numerous scientific papers, presentations at international conferences and teaching statistics, chemometrics and multivariate methods for the industry. After being a consultant for CAMO the past two years, he now holds the position of Chief Scientific Officer in the company.

Dr. Lars Gidskehaug, Senior Data Analyst

Lars is a specialist in multivariate analysis and chemometrics, with extensive experience in variable selection and validation. Lars received his M.Sc. in physical chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 2002, and finished his Ph.D. degree entitled “Development of chemometric methods for variable selection on microarray data” at the same university in 2007.

He has worked with statistical genetics and method development at the Center for Integrative Genetics/Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Lars has published and reviewed articles in chemometrics and bioinformatics journals, as well as developing software packages for multivariate and genetic analysis.

Prof. Waltraud Kessler, Senior Data Analyst, Faculty of Applied chemistry, FH Reutlingen

Prof. Waltraud Kessler, is a trained physicist who worked several years in industry programming control systems, with the emphasis on multivariate data analysis. Several years work at the Institut fuer Angewandte Forschung at Reutlingen University, Germany, gave her the opportunity to plan and conduct research work within European Projects. Mrs. Kessler, specialized on statistical experiment planning and design and advanced techniques in multivariate data analysis and connectionist networks (neural nets), together with process control by optical spectroscopy. The results have been published in several scientific publications and industrial patents.

She started teaching multivariate data analyses and experimental design in the early nineties, in the chemistry department of Reutlingen University (Hochschule Reutlingen). In 2002, she was awarded Honorarprofessor for her engagement in lecturing, at Reutlingen University. Furthermore, the LARS-prize for excellent scripts was awarded to her by the commission of Hochschuldidaktik an Fachhochschulen in Baden-Württemberg. Her current lectures are on multivariate data analysis and experimental design in the master course program Bio- and Process analysis.

Prof. Kessler holds courses for CAMO in German, in Germany.

Prof. Pedro Rodriguez

Prof. Pedro Rodriguez, has more than 10 years experience in NIR spectroscopy and multivariate treatment of data, and has directed several doctoral theses and research works in this field.

Prof. Rodriguez holds courses for CAMO in Spanish, in Spain.

Dr. Barbara Giussani, Researcher, Laboratory of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, University of Insubria

Barbara Giussani received a Laurea degree and a Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry at the University of Insubria (Como - Italy). From 2005 she is a researcher in the laboratory of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry of the University of Insubria. She spent six months at the Chemometrics and Qualimetrics Group of the "Universitat Rovira i Virgili" (Tarragona - Spain). Her present research interests are focused on Chemometrics applied to Environmental Sciences, Catalysis and Cultural Heritage.

Dr. Giussani holds courses for CAMO in Italian, in Italy.

Gerben Mooiweer, Statistician and Sensory Consultant, Sara Lee/Coffee Tea/R&D

Gerben Mooiweer graduated from the Eindhoven University of Technology, Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department. He joined Sara Lee/CT/R&D in 1977 as a technologist on coffee roasting, decaffeination, nut fryer temperature control, rice drying and various other projects focusing on mathematical modeling. In 2000 he joined the CT/R&D Sensory Services Group as Statistician and Sensory Consultant. In this job he applied design of experiments and multivariate data analysis on a wide variety of data sources like sensory data, process data, and NIR/GC/MS spectra using The Unscrambler® software.

In 1989 he started to work for 1 day per week at the Eindhoven University of Technology as university teacher in the Separation Process Technology group of the Chemical Engineering and Chemistry department. In 2000 he switched to Laboratory for Industrial Mathematics Eindhoven (LIME) as a senior consultant.

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Dr. Katherine Bakeev, Chief Scientist & Product Manager, CAMO Software Inc.

Dr. Katherine received her BS from Case Western Reserve University, and followed with a Ph.D., Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She was awarded her masters in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology in 2001.

Before joining CAMO in March 2009, Katherine held various positions including at GlaxoSmithKline where she led efforts for development and implementation of PAT (NIR, UV-Vis, and Mid-IR) applications for manufacturing.

Katherine’s expertise is in the development and implementation of spectroscopic solutions for on-line measurement in manufacturing (PAT, near-infrared and UV-vis spectroscopy) for various industries. Katherine’s knowledge and experience includes pharmaceutical drug development, chemical development processes, and manufacturing. Much of her work has been using NIR and FTIR with the development and implementation of real-time monitoring applications for manufacturing.

Katherine has written articles and given numerous presentations on the use of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and on PAT. She is the editor of the book Process Analytical Technology: Spectroscopic Tools and Implementation Strategies for the Chemical and Pharmaceutical Industries. She is the recipient of the 2007 Craver Award in Applied Vibrational Spectroscopy . She is a member of the Society of Applied Spectroscopy (SAS) , and is the secretary of the organization for 2010-2012. She has served on the publication and nominating committees, and serves on the Editorial Board of the journal Applied Spectroscopy. She is the past president of the Council for Near Infrared Spectroscopy, a member of the Chairman’s Advisory Committee for the International Council for Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (ICNIRS), and a member of the ASTM committees E13 (Molecular Spectroscopy and Separation Science) and E55 (Manufacture of Pharmaceutical Products).