Dear CAST colleagues, On behalf of CAST Directors, I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2016 AIChE CAST Director's Poster and Student Presentation Awards. The winner of the CAST Director's Poster Award is: Ian Moskowitz at University of Pennsylvania (and currently Air Liquide) for his poster "Understanding Rare Safety and Reliability Events Using Transition Path Sampling<https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2016/webprogram/Paper466912.html>" The winner of the CAST Director's Student Presentation Award is: Nikolaos Lappas at Carnegie Mellon University for his presentation "A Theoretical and Computational Study of Continuous-Time Process Scheduling Models in the Context of Adjustable Robust Optimization<https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2016/webprogram/Paper465458.html>" I'd like to thank the award committee for their services. Please join us in congratulating the winners! Regards, Leo Leo Chiang, Ph.D. Associate Technology Director Chemometrics and Data Analytics Analytical Tech Center The Dow Chemical Company 2301 Brazosport Blvd., B-1819 Freeport, TX 77541 phone: 979-238-5377 fax: 979-238-0336 <http://www.dow.com/> 2014-2016 AIChE CAST Director 2016 AIChE Annual Meeting: CAST 10E Chair 2015-2017 AIChE Spring Meeting: Big Data Analytics Topical Chair 2017 AIChE Spring Meeting: Meeting Program Co-Chair 2018 AIChE Spring Meeting: Meeting Program Chair