Dr. Nikolaos Sahinidis

Biography

Nikolaos Sahinidis is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University and holds the Gary C. Butler Family Chair Professor at the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Georgia Tech. His research integrates computer science with operations research to address challenges in engineering, scientific areas, algorithms, software, global optimization, and mixed-integer nonlinear programs. He is actively involved in various applied fields, including chemistry and biology, as well as process and energy systems engineering. Sahinidis has served on editorial boards for leading journals and held prominent positions within the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), including the Chair of the INFORMS Optimization Society. His accolades include the NSF CAREER Award, INFORMS Computing Society Prize, Beale-Orchard-Hays Prize, Computing Chemical Engineering Award, Constantin Carathéodory Prize, and a Gold Medal from the Hellenic Operational Research Society. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of both AIChE and INFORMS.

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