Faculty

Dr. Christos Georgakis

• Director, Systems Research Institute
• Professor, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Gordon Senior Faculty Fellow of Systems Engineering, Tufts University
• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota

Research Profile: Modeling, Optimization and Control of Batch Processes by Use of Tendency Models; Nonlinear Model Predictive Control and Identification; Statistical Process and Controller Monitoring; Interaction of Design and Control.

Education:

• Ph.D., Chemical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1975
• M.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1972
• Ch.E. Diploma, National Technical University, Athens, 1970

Research Interests:

• Data-Driven Modeling
• Design of Dynamic Experiments
• Optimization, and Control of Batch and Continuous Processes
• Non-linear Identification
• Statistical Process 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 Faculty Fellow in Systems Engineering, Tufts University, 2006 - Present
• 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

Named Professorships:

• 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 Dynamic Experiments: A Data-Driven Methodology for the Optimization of Time-Varying Processes" Ind. Eng. Chem. Res., Articles ASAP (As Soon As Publishable) Publication Date (Web): May 3, 2013 (Article), DOI: 10.1021/ie3035114
• "Process systems engineering tools in the pharmaceutical industry" Computers & Chemical Engineering 51, (SI) pp. 157-171 (with G. M. Troup)
• "How To NOT Make the Extended Kalman Filter Fail" Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research 52 (9) pp. 3354-3362 (with R. Schneider)
• "Data-driven, using design of dynamic experiments, versus model-driven optimization of batch crystallization processes" J. of Process Control 23 (2) pp. 179-188 (with A. Fiordalis)
• "Similarities and Differences between the Concepts of Operability and Flexibility" AICHE J. 56 (3) pp. 702-716 (2010) (with Lima, F., Z. Jia, and M. Ierapetritou)
• "Model Predictive Control and Dynamic Operability Studies in a Stirred Tank: Rapid Temperature Cycling for Crystallization" Chem. Engng. Comm. 197 (5) pp. 733-752 (2010), (with G.A. Buni, F.V. Lima, and C. Hunt)
• "Input-Output Operability of Control Systems; The Steady-State Case" J. of Process Control 20 (6) pp. 769-776 (2010) (with F. Lima)
• "Dynamic operability for the calculation of transient output constraints for non-square linear model predictive controllers" Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM) Koç University Campus, , Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-15, 2009 (with F. Lima)
• "A Model-Free Methodology for the Optimization of Batch Processes: Design of Dynamic Experiments" Proceedings of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes (ADCHEM) Koç University Campus, Istanbul, Turkey, July 12-15, 2009
• "Operability-Based Feasible Control Constraints for Several High-Dimensional Non-Square Industrial Processes", AICHE J. 56 (5) pp.1249-1261 (with F. Lima, J. F. Smith, P. D. Schnelle, and D. R. Vinson)

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