Director, Systems Research Institute
Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University
E-mail: Christos.Georgakis@tufts.edu

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

For more information please see Dr. Georgakis' Curriculum Vitae.

Honors and Awards:

• Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control, 2007

• Bernard Gordon Senior Fellow in Systems Engineering, Tufts University, 2006

• Fellow of the 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), 1997

• 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

• 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

Selected Publications:

"Design of output constraints for model-based non-square controllers using interval operability" Journal of Process Control: 2007 (available online; with F. Lima)

"Steady stage optimal test signal design for multivariable model based control" Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 45 (25): 8514-8527 Dec 2006 (with Q. Zhan and T. Li)

"Factors Affecting on-line Estimation of Diastereomer composition using Raman Spectroscopy" Proceeding of ADCHEM 2006, also published at Control Engineering Practice 15 (10): 1257-1267 OCT 2007 (with Sze-Wing Wong, Gregory Botsaris, Kostas Saranteas, and Roger Bakale)

"Operability of Multivariable Non-Square Systems" Proceeding of ADCHEM 2006, (with Fernando Lima)

"On the Assessment of Controller Performance for Constrained Systems" Proceeding of the Seventh Italian Conference on Chemical & Process Engineering, Giadini di Naxos - Taormina, Italy May 15-18, 2005 (with Lilong Huang)

"Methodology for the steady-state operability analysis of plantwide systems" Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, v 44, n 20, Sep 28, 2005, p 7770-7786 (with Sivakumar Subramanian)

"Milestone report for area 7 industrial applications" Control Engineering Practice, v 12, n 1, January, 2004, p 113-119 (with McAvoy, Jounela, Patton, Perrier, and Weber)

For more information, please click here for a complete list of Professor Christos Georgakis' publications.

Student Advisees:
Foteini Makrydaki
Praveen Prasanna
Haris Siampanis
Dan Hines

Former SRI Students:
Fernando Lima
Rongrong Lin
Lisa Schupmann
Sze Wing Wong

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