Dr. Cory Phillips, currently a Program Director at ARPA-E, is a chemical engineer specializing in chemical reaction engineering (CRE), heterogeneous catalysis and statistical modeling. Most of his career has been focused on the research, design and development of heterogeneous catalysts, reactors and processes that use and produce alternative fuels such as, oxygenates, hydrogen and renewable hydrocarbons across multiple scales by converting low-carbon feedstocks like fats, biomass and more recently, captured carbon dioxide. Over the last 25 yrs, he has held engineering and leadership roles at major automotive, oil&gas and refinery organizations down to cutting edge, climate technology start-ups. At ARPA-E, Dr. Phillips is leading two active programs; ROSIE ($28MM) focused on developing novel processing methods for decarbonizing the steel industry and CATALCHEM-E ($35MM), an unprecedented effort to pair AI with self-driving labs to accelerate heterogenous catalyst development thereby unlocking the future industrial processes needed to make low-carbon, commodity fuels and chemicals. He is also developing several other R&D programs; one focused on coupling fission derived nuclear heat into novel unit operations for industrial decarbonization applications and another looking at alternative processing methods for the domestic production of cathode active materials for Li-ion batteries.