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Johannes Milz is an Assistant Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on optimization under uncertainty and optimal control in uncertain systems, with a strong emphasis on sustainability applications. He addresses large-scale optimization challenges using physics-based models and aims to contribute to the development of sustainable energy systems, including renewable tidal energy farms. He is dedicated to open science, developing reproducible numerical simulations, and sharing results publicly to make them accessible to a broad group of researchers and practitioners. Before joining ISyE, Milz was a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Munich, where he earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2021. He is also a Brook Byers Institute Sustainable Systems Faculty Fellow for the period of 2025 to 2027. His teaching includes deterministic and nonlinear advanced optimization, emphasizing model formulation and principled algorithmic understanding.
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