Jeff Siirola is currently a Technology Fellow in the Eastman Research Division of Eastman Chemical Company in Kingsport Tennesee where he has been for 34 years. He received a BS in chemical engineering from University of Utah in 1967 and a PhD in chemical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1970. His areas of interest include chemical process synthesis, computer-aided conceptual process engineering, engineering design theory and methodology, chemical process development and technology assessment, resource conservation and recovery, sustainable development and growth, artificial intelligence, non-numeric computer programming, and chemical engineering education.

     Siirola is an international program evaluater and past engineering accreditation commissioner for the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He is also a trustee and past president of CACHE (Computer Aids for Chemical Engineering Education), and a member of the American Chemical Society, the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, and the American Society for Engineering Education. He has served on numerous National Science Foundation and National Research Council panels, and on the advisory boards of several journals and chemical engineering departments.

     Siirola is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was the 2005 President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.