2026 Christos Georgakis: Engineering and Technology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Engineering and Technology	51	3848	3691	1123	1029	293	10126

Research.com Recognitions

2007 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Christos Georgakis is affiliated with Tufts University in the United States. Their research spans a range of topics within engineering and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a strong focus on control and systems engineering, molecular biology, and computational theory and mathematics.

Their published work includes four papers in Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, as well as contributions to Computers & Chemical Engineering, AIChE Journal, IFAC-PapersOnLine, and Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering. The research topics covered include advanced control systems optimization, viral infectious diseases and gene expression in insects, fault detection and control systems, advanced multi-objective optimization algorithms, process optimization and integration, optimal experimental design methods, and gene regulatory network analysis.

Machine learning in process systems engineering: Challenges and opportunities (2023) - Computers & Chemical Engineering
Process Systems Engineering Perspective on the Design of Materials and Molecules (2021) - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Optimization of pharmaceutical reactions using the dynamic response surface methodology (2020) - Computers & Chemical Engineering
Data-Driven Optimization of an Industrial Batch Polymerization Process Using the Design of Dynamic Experiments Methodology (2020) - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
Meeting the challenge of water sustainability: The role of process systems engineering (2020) - AIChE Journal

The frequent co-authors of Georgakis include Yachao Dong, R. Bhushan Gopaluni, Jason Mustakis, Leo H. Chiang, and Mehmet Mercangöz. Their collaboration network indicates a strong interdisciplinary approach combining engineering with applied molecular studies.

Georgakis's primary fields of study are divided mainly between engineering and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, showing a balance between theoretical and applied research domains. Subfields reflect this with significant work in control and systems engineering and molecular biology.

The scientist has received recognition in the form of fellowships from prominent organizations: the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2007 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2004.

Best Publications

Disturbance detection and isolation by dynamic principal component analysis

Wenfu Ku;Robert H. Storer;Christos Georgakis

1848
Citations
Plant-wide control of the Tennessee Eastman problem

P.R. Lyman;C. Georgakis

633
Citations
Dynamic simulator for a Model IV fluid catalytic cracking unit

R.C. McFarlane;R.C. Reineman;J.F. Bartee;C. Georgakis

279
Citations
A changing grain size model for gas—solid reactions

Christos Georgakis;C.W. Chang;J. Szekely

267
Citations
Systematic estimation of state noise statistics for extended Kalman filters

Jaleel Valappil;Christos Georgakis

159
Citations
How To NOT Make the Extended Kalman Filter Fail

René Schneider;Christos Georgakis

154
Citations
A new measure of process output controllability

David R Vinson;Christos Georgakis

153
Citations
Application of an extended Luenberger observer to the control of multicomponent batch distillation

Enrique Quintero-Marmol;William L. Luyben;Christos Georgakis

141
Citations
Control of emulsion polymerization reactors

John Dimitratos;Guillermo Eliçabe;Christos Georgakis

141
Citations
Plantwide regulatory control design procedure using a tiered framework

Randel M. Price;Christos Georgakis

133
Citations
Dynamic modeling and state estimation for an emulsion copolymerization reactor

J. Dimitratos;C. Georgakis;M.S. El-Aasser;A. Klein

129
Citations
Throughput Manipulation in Plantwide Control Structures

Randel M. Price;Philip R. Lyman;Christos Georgakis

120
Citations
Control of a solution copolymerization reactor using multi-model predictive control

Leyla Özkan;Mayuresh V. Kothare;Christos Georgakis

117
Citations
Process systems engineering tools in the pharmaceutical industry

Gregory M. Troup;Christos Georgakis

113
Citations
Nonlinear dynamic matrix control for high‐purity distillation columns

Apostolos Georgiou;Christos Georgakis;William L. Luyben

112
Citations
An experimental study of adaptive Kalman filtering in emulsion copolymerization

John Dimitratos;Christos Georgakis;Mohamed El-Aasser;Andrew Klein

105
Citations
On the use of extensive variables in process dynamics and control

Christos Georgakis;Christos Georgakis

102
Citations
The role of PtOx in the isothermal rate oscillations of ethylene oxidation on platinum

C.G. Vayenas;C. Georgakis;J. Michaels;J. Tormo

100
Citations
Studies in the control of tubular reactors-I General Considerations

C. Georgakis;R. Aris;Neal R. Amundson

96
Citations
Tendency modeling of semibatch reactors for optimization and control

C. Filippi;J.L. Greffe;J. Bordet;J. Villermaux

95
Citations
Expansion of experimental mode shape from operational modal analysis and virtual sensing for fatigue analysis using the modal expansion method

Marius Tarpø;Bruna Nabuco;Christos T. Georgakis;Rune Brincker

93
Citations