Faculty
 Christos Georgakis
Professor
Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering
4 Colby Street, Rm. 150, Medford, MA 02155
Telephone: 617-627-2573 ~ Fax: 617-627-3991
christos.georgakis@tufts.edu
Education:
1970, ChE Diploma, Technical University, Athens, Greece
1972, M.S., University of Illinois
1975, Ph.D., University of Minnesota
For additional details, please see the Systems Research Institute website.
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
Honors and Awards:
- Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2004
- 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
Graduate Students:
Fernando Lima
Rongrong Lin
Lisa Schupmann
Szewing Wong
Selected Publications:
"Milestone report for area 7 industrial applications", Control Engineering Practice, (in press), (with Thomas Mc Avoy, Sirkka Liisa Jamsa Jounela, Ron Patton, Michel Perrier, and Harold Weber)
"On the operability of continuous processes", Control Engineering Practice, 11 (8) 2003, pp. 859-869 (with Derya Uztürk, Sivakumar Subramanian and David R. Vinson)
" Control of a solution copolymerization reactor using multi-model predictive control"; Chemical Engineering Science. 58, no. 7, (2003): 1207-1223 (with Leyla Ozkan and Mayuresh V. Kothare)
"Optimal Measurement System Design for Chemical Processes"; AIChE journal. 49, no. 6, (2003):1488-95 ( with Kenneth R. Muske)
"Accounting for Batch Reactor Model Uncertainty in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control of End-use Properties," AIChE Journal. 49, no. 5, (2003): 1178 – 1193 (with Jaleel Valappil).
"A simple graphic approach for observer decomposition"; Journal of Process Control. 12 (8) pp. 857-873 (2002), (with C. T. Chang, and Y. S. Lin)
Courses Taught:
- ChBE 101 Mathematical Methods in Chemical Engineering
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