Dr. Aytekin Gel is a managing partner at ALPEMI Consulting, LLC, which is a small high-tech firm specializing on diverse areas such as simulation based engineering (SBE) applications on high performance computing (HPC) platforms, implementation of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) for next generation energy technology development, and quality improvement with Six Sigma for the existing products and processes. Prior to ALPEMI, he was the co-founder of Aeolus Research, Inc., a small business focusing on computational fluid dynamics (CFD) applications on custom designed Beowulf cluster type high-performance parallel computing platforms. He has been involved in the development of the open source code MFIX from NETL since 1999, which was the recipient of the 2007 R&D 100 award for contributions in redefining coal’s role for next generation power plants based gasifier technology. Through the INCITE award received between 2007-2010, he has performed first-of-its-kind commercial scale gasifier simulations (as displayed at MFIX website under Results section). As part of this effort MFIX was scaled up to 199 M cell grid resolution running across 74,000 cores on Cray supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He is currently leading the effort for uncertainty quantification in simulation based engineering applications such as gasifiers simulations for clean energy. He was awarded a NATO Scholarship to attend post-graduate program at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Brussels, Belgium during the 92-93 academic year. Dr. Gel earned his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University in 1999. He also holds an MBA degree from W. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University with specialization in Finance and Six Sigma Black Belt Certification for quality improvement. He has earned a Master’s degree in Quality, Reliability & Statistical Engineering from Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University in 2012.