Dr. Augustine Esogbue

Biography

Dr. Augustine Esogbue is a Professor Emeritus at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Industrial Engineering Operations Research from Columbia University, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering/Mathematics from UCLA. His research interests focus on Operations Research, Systems Engineering, and Large Scale Socio-technical Systems, including dynamic programming, fuzzy sets, decision making in fuzzy environments, and applications in healthcare, water resource management, and disaster control planning. Dr. Esogbue directed the Intelligent Systems Controls Laboratory and taught various courses, including dynamic programming, stochastic operations research, engineering design, and neuro-fuzzy control. He began his tenure at Georgia Tech in June 1972 as an Associate Professor, received promotion to Professor in 1977, and retired in October 2010, officially receiving the title of Professor Emeritus in December 2012.

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