Dr. Craig Tovey

Biography

Craig Tovey is a Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He co-directs the Center for Biologically Inspired Design (CBID) and his research interests lie in operations research and its interdisciplinary applications within social and natural systems. He emphasizes sustainability, environmental issues, and energy management in his work. His current research includes inverse optimization for electric grid management, classical biomimetic algorithms for robots, web hosting strategies, behavioral analysis of animal groups, sustainability measurement, and political polarization. Tovey has received several accolades, including the Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for research in heuristics. He was a Senior Research Associateship recipient from the National Research Council and an Institute Fellow at Georgia Tech. His notable recognition includes the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce Test of Time Award for his co-authored paper on election control and the 2016 Golden Goose Award for interdisciplinary work on honey bee foraging behavior that led to the development of the Honey Bee Algorithm for optimizing web server allocation.

Research Interests