Mr. Aniediong Umo is a native of Ukpom Abak, Nigeria. He received his B.Eng. (2011) and M.Eng. (2016) in chemical engineering from the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria. He joined the Akwa Ibom State University, Ikot Akpaden, Nigeria in 2018 where he is a lecturer II and the examination officer in the Department of Chemical /Petrochemical Engineering. He is an assistant examiner practical chemistry, National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB). He had served as a Presiding Officer Eghosa Grammar School Polling Unit, Edo State Gubernatorial Election July 2012, and was President of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Engineering Community Development Service, Ego, Benin City, July 2012-October 2012. He was awarded NYSC state merit award in 2012. His research activities are process design, fabrication, modeling, simulation, control and optimization. He has published nine papers in both local and international journals. His design and fabrication works include fixed bed gasifier, steam distillation unit for extraction of essential oil, made in AKSU foot operated hand washing and sanitizing system, fired tube steam boiler, soap extruder, pelletizer and tableting machine.

(1) R. Babalola, Y. Atiku, U. Isaac, E. Udoetuk, and U. Aniediong (2021). ?Assessment of Changes in Factors Affecting Bioremediation? Journal of Engineering, Science, and Technology, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 97-108. (2) Rasheed Babalola, Augustine O. Ayeni, Peter S. Joshua, Ayodeji A. Ayoola, Ukeme O. Isaac, Aniediong Moses Umo, Vincent E. Efeovbokhan, J. A. Omoleye, (2020). ?Synthesis of Thermal Insulator using Chicken Feather Fibre in Starch-clay Nanocomposites? Journal of Engineering, Heliyon.com, Open Acess, (2020)28452. SCOPUS Indexed journal. (3) Etim Bassey, Rasheed Babalola, Aniediong Umo and Itoro Centurion (2019). ?Debottlenecking of Atmospheric Crude Distillation Unit of a Niger Delta Refinery for Improved Heat Integration using Pinch Technology? American Journal of Engineering Research, vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 192-198. (4) Felix E., Alabi S., Umo A., (2019). ?A Regression Model for Estimating Sugar Crystal Size in a Fed-batch Vacuum Evaporative Crystalliser?, Chemical Engineering Transactions, vol. 75, pp. 553-558. (5) Umo A. M. and Bassey E. N. (2017) ?Thermodynamic Analysis and Optimization of Distillation Column: A guide to improve energy utilization,? KMUTNB International Journal of Applied Science and Technology, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 153 -160. (6) Umo, A. M. and Bassey, E. N. (2017). ?Simulation and Performance Analysis of Propylene-Propane Splitter in Petroleum Refinery Case Study,? International Journal of Chemical Engineering and Application, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 1-4. (7) Umo, A. M. and Alabi, S. B. (2016). ?Predictive Model for Post-Seeding Super-Saturation of Sugar Massecuite in a Fed-Batch Evaporative Crystalliser,? International Journal of Food Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 119-123. (8) Umo, A. M. and Alabi, S. B. (2016). ?Advances in Super-Saturation Measurement and Estimation Methods for Sugar Crystallisation Process,? International Journal of Food Engineering, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 108-112. (9) Umo, A. M., Egemba, K. C., Bassey, E. N. and Etuk, B. R. (2013). ?Optimization of Ethanol Fermentation of Cassava Wastewater Using Response Surface Method,? Global Journal of Engineering Research, vol. 12, pp. 13-23.