Dr. Faisal Khan is the Mike O’Connor Chair II Professor and Head of Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering. He is also Director of the Mary Kay O’Connor Process Safety Center at Texas A&M University. He is also the Director of Ocean Energy Safety Institute (OESI), a US Department of Energy and US Department of Interior-funded applied R&D initiative. Dr. Khan is a former Professor and Canada Research Chair (Tier I) of Offshore Safety and Risk Engineering at Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada.

He founded the Centre for Risk Integrity and Safety and Engineering (C-RISE) at Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. His research interests include process safety, system safety and security, AI Safety and risk engineering. He is a Fellow of the Canada Academy of Engineers. He has authored over 600 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and mentored 89 Ph.Ds and 88 master students. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Process Safety & Environmental Protection (Elsevier) and Safety in Harsh Environments (Nature Springer).