Georgia Tech this week announced that it has selected Dimitri Mavris, a professor in the School of Aerospace Engineering, to become a Regents Professor.

Mavris’s nomination to this honor was formally approved by the University System of the Georgia Board of Regents earlier this month and is effective immediately. The Regents Professorship is reserved for outstanding, tenured full professors whose work is characterized by excellence in research and contributions to their professions and institutions.

The director of AE’s Aerospace Systems Design Lab (ASDL), Mavris is known for emphasizing academic excellence among the many graduate students he advises. He regularly authors journal and conference papers with his students, and, over the last 10 years, has graduated more than 300 masters and doctoral students.

“The greatest accomplishment, really, is the opportunity I’ve been given to develop people,” said Mavris who also holds the Boeing Professorship for Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis.

“To be able to support 600 or more students since I joined the ASDL [in 1998] is truly the biggest reward.”

Under Mavris’s direction, the ASDL has served as an unparalleled hub of multi-disciplinary system design and analysis work for a host of government and industry sponsors. Over the last 10 years alone, the lab has performed $125 million worth of research in new methods and tools and has anchored more than 200 research faculty, masters, and doctoral students.

Graduate and undergraduate students associated with ASDL have had the opportunity to work with a veritable “who’s-who” of industry giants, including Boeing, Lockheed, Rolls Royce, GE, NASA, and Pratt & Whitney, to name a few.

“It is hard to fully comprehend the wealth of resources and energy that Professor Mavris brings to his students and to the School of Aerospace Engineering,” said AE Chair Dr. Vigor Yang.

“He has generously provided his students with significant exposure to major research opportunities, reinforcing not only their technical finesse but their ability to manage real-world interactions.”

Mavris earned his undergraduate, masters, and doctoral degrees in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech. His research has focused on the formulation, development and implementation of comprehensive approaches to the design of affordable high-quality complex systems using visual analytics.

Mavris’s work as an educator and an engineering thought-leader has been widely recognized. He is a fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the recipient of the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Award. He is also a delegate to the United States Air Force Scientific Advisory Council. In addition to his membership on AIAA’s Institute Development Committee, he was recently appointed to direct AIAA’s Technical Aircraft and Atmospheric Systems Group.