We are pleased to announce the participation of Professor Christos Georgakis, as the invited speaker of the CES-WGP3 opening ceremony on Tuesday, October 3 2017.

 

 

Dr. Christos Georgakis is Professor and Director of the Systems Research Institute (SRI) of Chemical and Biological Processes, Dept. of Chemical and   Biological    Engineering, Tufts University, USA. He received his ChemE Diploma from National Technical U. of Athens, his M.S. from University of Illinois and his   Ph.D. from   University of Minnesota. His research interests are in 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 and applied   mathematics. He is a Fellow   of the International Federation of Automatic Control since 2007, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)    since 2005 and the American   Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE) since 1998. He has received numerous awards and distinctions, including the   Computing in Chemical Engineering Award   from the CAST Division of the AIChE and the Bernard Gordon Senior Fellow in Systems Engineering distinction from   Tufts University.