- Ph.D., 1975, Chemical Engineering, U. of Minnesota
- M.S., 1972, Chemical Engineering, U. of Illinois
- Chem.Eng. Diploma, 1970, Chemical engineering, National Technical University, Athens, Greece
Dr. Christos Georgakis is Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University where he has also been the Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering. In 2017, he has been recognized with the Tufts University’s Distinguished Senior Scholar Award.
Research Activities: Data-Driven and Hybrid Models of Processes, Optimization, and Control. Batch Processes, Nonlinear Control, Process Identification, Statistical Process Control, Interaction of Process Design and Control, Machine Learning Applications in Process Systems Engineering. More information here.
Biographical Sketch: His 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. 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). More information about hen cab be found here and here.
Honors and Awards
- Distinguished Senior Scholar Award, Tufts University, 2017
- Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2007
- Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering, Tufts University, 2007-
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2005
- Othmer Distinguished Professor, Polytechnic University of NY, 2002-2003
- Iacocca Professorship, Lehigh University, 2001-2002
- Computing in Chemical Engineering Award; CAST Division of the AIChE, 2001
- Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award; American Automatic Control Council, 1998
- Fellow, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE), 1997
- Affiliate Fellow, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), 1995
- Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar, 1979-1983
- Edgerton Professorship, 1977-1979; Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- du Pont Professorship, 1975-1976, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Phi Lambda Upsilon, 1970; Sigma Xi, 1988
- Second Prize, Greek Mathematical Society, 1965