CEE Faculty Profile

Aris P. Georgakakos

Professor and Director, Georgia Water Resources Institute

Affinity Group: Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources
Office: Mason 281
Swing Space: IPST 422
Phone: 404/894-2240
Email: ageorgak@ce.gatech.edu
Web: http://www.gwri.gatech.edu

Biography

Dr. Aris P. Georgakakos holds a civil engineering Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Masters and Ph. D. degrees in water resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Georgakakos is currently a Professor at the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Tech, Head of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Water Resources Program, and [Read More]

Research Interests

  • Integrated water, energy, and environmental planning and management
  • Climate change impact assessments and adaptation planning
  • Flood and drought management
  • Hydro-thermal coordination and operational management
  • Crop modeling and agro-economic planning
  • Remote sensing of hydrologic variables
  • Information and decision support systems for river basin planning and management

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984.
  • M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1983.
  • B.S., Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1980.