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Dr. Christos Georgakis
Director, Systems Research Institute
Professor, Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering, Tufts University
E-mail: Christos.Georgakis@tufts.edu
Biography:
In January 2004 Christos Georgakis joined Tufts University as Department Chair of Chemical and Biological Engineering.
He is the Founding Director of the Systems Research Institute of Chemical and Biological Processes
and a Professor in the Chemical and
Biological Engineering Department at Tufts. Previously, he was the Othmer Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Polytechnic University where he also served as the Head of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, and Materials Science. Under his leadership, the Department was renamed the Department of Chemical and Biological Sciences and Engineering. Between 1983 and 2001, he served as Professor of Chemical Engineering and the Founding Director of the Chemical Process Modeling and Control Center at Lehigh University, an Industry University Cooperative Research Center funded by NSF. At Lehigh he was honored in 2001 with the Iacocca Professorship in Engineering. From 1993-1996, Professor Georgakis also served as Visiting Professor at Delft University.
Professor Georgakis received his Chemical Engineering Diploma in 1970 from the National Technical University of Athens in Greece, his M.S. in 1972 from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. in 1975 from the University of Minnesota, both in Chemical Engineering. Upon graduation in 1975, he joined the Chemical Engineering Faculty at MIT as an Assistant and later as an Associate Professor. While at MIT, he also held the du Pont and Edgerton endowed professorships. In 1979, he was elected Full Professor at the School of Engineering at the University of Thessaloniki as the Chair of Measurement and Control. He joined the Lehigh faculty in 1983 and immediately became involved in the development and start-up of Lehigh's Chemical Process Modeling and Control Research Center. In 1979 he was awarded a Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Grant. In 1998 one of his publications was selected for the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award of the American Automatic Control Council. In 2001 he was awarded the Computing Award of the CAST Division of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He became a Fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineer in 1998 and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2004. He has given many plenary lectures and organized several professional meetings. He has served as the Chair of the Technical Committee on Process Control and the Chair of the Coordinating Committee on Industrial Applications of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC). In 2002 and 2003 he was the President of the American Automatic Control Council. Dr. Georgakis is a member of AIChE, ACS, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Phi Labda Upsilon, as well as a number of other societies.
His research efforts address broadminded Process Modeling and Control problems through innovative approaches. Primarily interested in the development of new modeling, dynamic analysis, and controller design methodologies, he has also remained aware of the real world implications of his research. He consistently strives both for mathematical vigor and for challenging application examples. His teaching, research, and service activities for more than twenty-five years have enabled him to interact and collaborate with many academic and industrial colleagues worldwide. He has actively participated in advancing the professional and research frontiers in several new directions.
Christos Georgakis' innovative research contributions are multifaceted. They range from Reactor Dynamics and Stability and Plant-wide Control to Statistical Process and Controller Monitoring, Model Reduction, and Closed-Loop Identification. He is presently also contributing to the area of Design and Control. Current research interests are focused in the following areas:
- Modeling Optimization and Control of Batch Processes by Use of Tendency Models. Recent efforts in this area have focused on the quantification of the model uncertainty and its impact on the optimization of the process and on crystallization processes.
- StoichioKinetic Modeling of Complex Chemical Reactions of Bioreactions for the Production of Pharmaceuticals
- Interaction of Design and Control. Recent activities have focused on the characterization of the Steady State and Dynamic Controllability Characteristics of a Process Design.
- Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Identification. The main theme of recent research activities has been the development of a nonlinear model predictive controller based on the concept of the reference system synthesis describing the desired closed-performance of the process. Other current activities include the development of closed-loop identification algorithms by use of sub-space techniques.
- Statistical Process and Controller Monitoring. Techniques here aim for the detection of changes and abnormalities in the operation of the process as well as of the controller.
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