ISyE professor Augustine Esogbue is among nine safety, management, and engineering experts tapped by NASA to lead its Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel (ASAP). All former members of the panel resigned in September 2003 after being criticized by the Columbia Shuttle investigators and members of Congress for being ineffective.

The new panel is expected to play an important role in the ongoing safety assessment and review of the Space Shuttle program as it prepares to return to flight.

Esogbue, who also serves as director of the Intelligent Systems and Controls Laboratory, is one of only two members selected to the panel who hold academic appointments. The rest were selected from the military and private industry. The U.S. Congress chartered the panel in 1967, after the tragic fire aboard Apollo I, to act as an independent body advising NASA on the safety of operations, facilities, and personnel.

Esogbue has been at Georgia Tech since 1972. In 1976, he founded Georgia Tech's chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers, and he now serves as its faculty advisory. His research interests include dynamic programming, fuzzy sets, decision making and control in a fuzzy environment, and operations research with applications to socio-technical systems such as health care, water resource management, and disaster control planning.

As director of the Intelligent Systems and Controls Laboratory, Esogbue is currently investigating a hybrid approach to intelligent control via fuzzy sets, neural networks, and reinforcement learning theories, as well as its application to various large-scale nonlinear and uncertain dynamic systems.



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