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Atlanta, GA | Posted: January 2, 2013
Barbara Christopher
Industrial and Systems Engineering
404.385.3102
Summary Sentence:
Cited for academic leadership in the field of sustainability, energy, and environmental initiatives
Full Summary:
Craig Tovey has been appointed the David M. McKenney Family Professorship in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering for a three year term, beginning January 1, 2013.
Craig Tovey - Profile imageProfessor Craig Tovey has been appointed the David M. McKenney Family Professorship in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE) for a three year term, beginning January 1, 2013. The David M. McKenney Family Professorship was created by David McKenney (BS Physics 1960, B IE 1964) and is designed to enhance ISyE’s ability to “attract and retain eminent teacher-scholars to this position of academic leadership in the field of sustainability, energy, and environmental initiatives.”
“Craig has a sustained record of contributions to this field, and this professorship appointment provides a well-deserved opportunity to enhance his research and educational impacts,” said Jane Ammons, H. Milton and Carolyn J. Stewart School Chair and Professor in ISyE.
Tovey received his A.B. in applied mathematics from Harvard College in 1977 and both an M.S. in computer science and a Ph.D. in operations research from Stanford University in 1981. Tovey's principal research and teaching activities are in operations research and its interdisciplinary applications to social and natural systems, with emphasis on sustainability, the environment, and energy. His current research concerns inverse optimization for electric grid management, classical and biomimetic algorithms for robots and webhosting, the behavior of animal groups, and sustainability measurement.
Tovey received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985 and the 1989 Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for research in heuristics. He was granted a Senior Research Associateship from the National Research Council in 1990, was named an Institute Fellow at Georgia Tech in 1994, and received the Class of 1934 Outstanding Interdisciplinary Activity Award in 2011.
