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Christos Georgakis
Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Education:
1970, ChE Diploma, Technical University, Athens, Greece
1972, M.S., University of Illinois
1975, Ph.D., University of Minnesota

For additional details, please see the Systems Research Institute website.

Research Interests:

  • Modeling, Optimization, and Control of Batch Processes
  • Model Predictive and Nonlinear Control
  • Identification and Model Reduction
  • Statistical Process and Controller Monitoring
  • Integration of Process Design and Plant-Wide Control
  • Applied Mathematics

Honors and Awards:

  • Best Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Tufts, 2008
  • Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2007
  • Bernard Gordon Senior Fellow in Systems Engineering, Tufts, 2006
  • Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2005
  • Computing in Chemical Engineering Award; CAST Division of the AIChE, 2001
  • O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award; American Automatic Control Council, 1998
  • Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 1998
  • Affiliate Fellow, Foundation for Research and Technology–Hellas (FORTH), 1995
  • Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar, 1979–1983
  • Phi Lambda Upsilon, 1970; Sigma Xi, 1988
  • Second Prize, Greek Mathematical Society, 1965

Named Professorships:

  • Othmer Distinguished Professor, Polytechnic University 2002-2003
  • Iacocca Professorship, Lehigh University, 2001-2002
  • Edgerton Professorship, 1977–1979; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • du Pont Professorship, 1975–1976, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Graduate Students:

Andrew Fiordalis

Courses Taught:

  • ChBE 101 Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
  • ChBE 109 Process Dynamics and Control
  • ChBE 110 Optimization
  • ChBE 194 Design of Experiments

 

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