Bryan Petrus received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA, in 2014.
He is currently a Process Automation Engineer with the Nucor Steel Mill, Decatur, Alabama, where he addresses the performance improvement of steel production subsystems for steel quality and productivity enhancement. Since joining Nucor in 2014, he has been a collaborator on several industry/university projects. He is the lead author/coauthor of more than 15 peer-reviewed publications in control of distributed parameter systems, steel casting, and power systems. His research interest has been in control theory, with a focus on nonlinear PDEs arising from models of industrial steel casting.