Rakesh Nagi
head of pillar and Cheng Tsang Man chair, professor, engineering systems and design (ESD) Director, Aviation Studies Institute (ASI),
Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)
Rakesh Nagi is Head of Pillar and Cheng Tsang Man Chair Professor, Engineering Systems and Design (ESD) and Director of the Aviation Studies Institute (ASI) at the Singapore University of Technology and Design. He joined in August 2023. He is also Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (on leave). He served as the Department Head of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at UIUC (2013-2019). He also served as the Interim Director of the Illinois Applied Research Institute (2016 –2018). Previously he served as the Chair (2006-2012) and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) (1993-2013). He is a recipient of IISE David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2022), INFORMS Koopman Award from Military Application Society (2021, 2018), DARPA Graph Challenge, Champion (2020), and other awards.

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