Tufts celebrates the career of Christos Georgakis
Please join us as we celebrate the career of Dr. Christos Georgakis, Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering. Friends and colleagues will touch on the impact that Professor Georgakis has made during his nearly 50-year career in chemical and biological engineering.
Retirement Celebration for Dr. Christos Georgakis
Date: June 2, 2023
Time: 9:15 AM - 4:30 PM
Location: Distler Performance Center, 20 Talbot Avenue, Medford, MA 02155
Hotel recommendation: Hyatt Place Boston/Medford
Registration for the event is required.
Program
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The Education Years
Prof. Matthew Panzer, Chair
09:15 AM – 9:30 AM - Welcome
Prof. Emmanuel Tzanakakis, Tufts U.
Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering9:30 AM - 9:35 AM - Opening Remarks
Prof. Matthew Panzer, Tufts U.9:35 AM - 10:30 AM - Christos’ Scientific Journey
Prof. George Stephanopoulos, MIT10:30 AM - 11:30 AM - Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:15 AM – The High School Years,
Prof. Panagiotis Labropoulos, M.D., George Washington U.11:15 - 11:30 AM – The Undergraduate Years
Prof. George Stephanopoulos, MIT11:30 - 11:45 AM – The Graduate Years
Prof. Dragomir Bukur, Texas A&M U.
Prof. Hugo Caram, Lehigh U. -
The Professional Years
Prof. Fernando Lima, Chair
1:25 PM - 1:30 PM - Opening Remarks,
Prof. Fernando V. Lima, West Virginia U.1:30 PM - 1:45 PM – The MIT years
Dr. Jose Jacinto Monge-Gutierrez (Ph.D. Student @ MIT)1:45 PM - 2:05 PM – The Thessaloniki (ΑΠΘ) years
Prof. Lakis Mountziaris (Undergraduate @ ΑΠΘ)
Prof. Iacovos Vasalos (Colleague @ ΑΠΘ)2:05 PM - 2:25 PM – The Lehigh years
Dr. Yiannis Dimitratos (Ph.D. Student @ Lehigh)
Dr. Donald Bartusiak (Ph.D. Student @ Lehigh)2:25 PM - 3:00 PM – The Tufts years
Dr. Nikolai Klebanov (Tufts Undergraduate)
Prof. Fernando V. Lima (Ph.D. Student @ Tufts)
Dr. Zhenyu Wang (Ph.D. Student @ Tufts)
Ms. Jenna Fromer (Tufts Undergraduate)3:00 PM - 3:30 PM - Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM - The FIPSE Idea
Prof. Dominique Bonvin, EPFL, FIPSE Trustee and Treasurer
Prof. Mike Doherty, UCSB, FIPSE Trustee
Prof. Costas Kiparissidis, ΑΠΘ, FIPSE Trustee
Prof. Sirish Shah, U. of Alberta4:00 PM - 4:15 PM – Dean’s Remarks
Karol Family Professor Kyongbum Lee
Dean of Engineering4:15 PM - 4:30 PM - Recollections and Thanks
Christos Georgakis
About Dr. Christos Georgakis
Dr. Christos Georgakis' academic career started in 1975, as du Pont Assistant Professor and Edgerton Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT. Subsequently, he was Professor of Measurement and Control at the University of Thessaloniki in Greece where he initiated the Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute. He joined Lehigh University in 1983 where he founded and directed the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center, an NSF funded Industry-University Cooperative Research Center. Lehigh honored him in 2001 with the Iacocca Professorship. After two years as the Othmer Distinguished Professor at the Polytechnic University, in New York City, he moved to Tufts in 2004.
At Tufts, Dr. Christos Georgakis served as Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, where he was also the Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering. In 2017, he has been recognized with the Tufts University’s Distinguished Senior Scholar Award.
His research activities have been recognized by a multitude of awards both nationally and internationally. He was awarded in 1978 a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Grant. In 2001, he was the recipient of the Computing Award of the CAST Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the International Federation of Automatic Control. In 2002-03 he served as the President of the American Automatic Control Council. In 2012 he initiated a new series of conferences called Future Innovation in Process Systems Engineering (FIPSE).