Dr. Nick Sahinidis

Class of 2024-25

Professor
Holder of the Gary C. Butler Family Chair
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

Nick Sahinidis is a renowned scholar in the fields of mathematical optimization and machine learning. His work has influenced both academic research and practical applications, particularly through the development of widely used algorithms and software for optimization and machine learning.

Sahinidis earned his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association.

Honors include the INFORMS Computing Society Prize, the Beale- Orchard-Hays Prize, the Computing in Chemical Engineering Award, the Constantin Carathéodory Prize and the National Award and Gold Medal from the Hellenic Operational Research Society.

He serves as an editor for Optimization and Engineering, the AIChE Journal, Computational Management Science, Computational Optimization and Applications, the Journal of Global Optimization, Mathematical Programming Computation, Operational Research—An International Journal, Operations Research Forum and Optimization Letters.

Sahinidis has authored 18 books or book chapters and more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. He also holds one patent.

Sahinidis will collaborate with faculty and students in the Energy Institute.