Chapter Advisor
Augustine Esogbue, Ph.D.
Professor
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Email:
augustine.esogbue@isye.gatech.edu
Augustine O. Esogbue, Ph.D. is a full professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and director of the Intelligent Systems and Controls Laboratory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. In addition, he is a distinguished visiting research professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China and an honorary professor at Daqing Petroleum Institute in the Heilongjiang Province, China. He is recognized as one of the world's leading experts in dynamic programming, fuzzy logic and intelligent control, and the application of operations research and management sciences. Dr. Esogbue is also the only African American member of NASA's Safety Advisory Pane.
Prior to joining the Georgia Tech faculty in 1972 as an associate professor in industrial and systems engineering under a joint appointment with the Health Systems Research Center, Esogbue was a chancellor's distinguished professor of industrial engineering and operations research and management sciences at the University of California, Berkeley and an assistant professor of operations research and a member of the Systems Research Center at Case Western Reserve University on Cleveland.
Dr. Esogbue holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics from the University of California , Berkeley, a master's degree in industrial engineering and operations research from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in engineering operations research and control theory from the University of Southern California. He has also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received a certificate in advance health systems dynamic modeling. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Nigerian Academy of Sciences and Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research.
Dr. Esgobue has been a member of NSBE's National Advisory Board since the 1980s and the advisor of the Georgia Tech chapter since its founding. He currently serves as an advisor to the Programs Zone with a focus on the awards committee and academic excellence programs.