Professor Christos Georgakis was recently elected a fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). The IFAC Fellow Award is given to persons who have made outstanding and extraordinary contributions in the field of interest of IFAC, in the role of Engineer/Scientist, Technical Leader, or Educator.

Christos, the past chair of the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Tufts University and the Bernard M. Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering, is only the second U.S. Chemical Engineer to be honored with this distinction and among only fifteen selected worldwide this year. Georgakis was chosen for this honor “for seminal methodological contributions to chemical process control and for fostering highly productive Industry/University research collaborations.” Professor Georgakis is also a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers and the American Association of the Advancement of Science. He has held endowed Professorships at the Polytechnic University, Lehigh University and MIT.