Dr. Aris Georgakakos

Biography

Aris P. Georgakakos holds a civil engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as well as Masters and Ph.D. degrees in water resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently a Professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech and serves as the Director of the Georgia Water Resources Institute. His research focuses on technology transfer activities aimed at developing and implementing prototypical information decision support systems for integrated water resources assessment, planning, and management. The systems combine data from conventional and remote sources, GIS, and models from various disciplines, including climate, hydrology, agricultural science, water resources, wetland and river ecology, hydro-thermal power systems, economics, statistics, and operations research. Aris has been involved in decision support systems in several regions globally, including the southeast U.S., California, Brazil, Jordan, Greece, China, and various African countries. His work has been sponsored by several U.S. government organizations and international development agencies. Georgakakos publishes extensively and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Hydrology, serving on national committees that advise the U.S. Government on critical climate adaptation and water resources policy issues. He was also the Convening Lead Author for the water resources chapter in the 2014 National Climate Assessment.

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