*********************************
There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
*********************************
Atlanta, GA | Posted: August 19, 2020
Laurie Haigh
Communications Manager
Summary Sentence:
Sahinidis joined the ISyE faculty in August as the inaugural Gary C. Butler Family Chair and Professor.
Full Summary:
Sahinidis joined the ISyE faculty in August as the inaugural Gary C. Butler Family Chair and Professor.
ISyE Butler Family Chair and Professor Nick SahinidisProfessor Nick Sahinidis joined the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE) on August 15, 2020 as the inaugural Gary C. Butler Family Chair. Prior to this appointment, he was a professor of chemical engineering and director of the Center for Advanced Process Decision-making at Carnegie Mellon University and a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Throughout his career, Sahinidis has pioneered algorithms and developed widely used software for optimization and machine learning. His research won the INFORMS Computing Society Prize in 2004; the Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize from the Mathematical Programming Society in 2006; the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award in 2010; the Constantin Carathéodory Prize in 2015; and the National Award and Gold Medal from the Hellenic Operational Research Society in 2016. He is the editor-in-chief of Optimization and Engineering and a fellow of INFORMS and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Sahinidis received a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a diploma in chemical engineering from Aristotle University.
