Faculty Profile

Dimitri Mavris
Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis
Director of the Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory
Office: SST/Weber 301-A
Phone: 404.894.1557
dimitri.mavris@aerospace.gatech.edu
www.asdl.gatech.edu
Education
- B.S., Aerospace Engineering, 1984, Georgia Institute of Technology
- M.S. Aerospace Engineering, 1985, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, 1988, Georgia Institute of Technology
Biography
Dimitri Mavris is the Boeing Professor of Advanced Aerospace Systems Analysis at the Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the director of its Aerospace Systems Design Laboratory (ASDL). Dimitri Mavris received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. His primary areas of research interest include: advanced design methods, aircraft conceptual and preliminary design, air-breathing propulsion design, multi-disciplinary analysis, design and optimization, system of systems, and non-deterministic design theory. Dr. Mavris has actively pursued closer ties between the academic and industrial communities in order to foster research opportunities and tailor the aerospace engineering curriculum towards meeting the future needs of the US aerospace industry. Dr. Mavris has also co-authored with his students in excess of 450 publications. Dr. Mavris has received numerous awards and fellowships during his tenure at Georgia Tech. He is currently Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and a Fellow of the National Institute of Aerospace. He was selected as the 1999 Santa Fe Institute Summer fellow. Dr. Mavris is also the recipient of the NSF CAREER award. He has served in several Technical and Program Committees for AIAA and is the US representative to the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) Board. Academically, Dr. Mavris has been awarded Georgia Tech’s prestigious Outstanding Development of Graduate Assistants Award in 1999 and 2004, and in 2000 he received the SAE's Ralph T. Teetor Educator of the Year Award. He is the director of the Center of Excellence in Robust Systems Design and Optimization under the General Electric University Strategic Alliance (GE USA). And he is currently the lead investigator under the Federal Aviation Administration's Center of Excellence under the Partnership for Air Transportation Noise and Emissions Reduction (PARTNER).
Research
Formulation, development and implementation of comprehensive approaches to the design of affordable and high quality complex systems using visual analytics emphasizing:
- Disciplinary breath and depth while accounting for uncertainty and risk
- Multi-disciplinary analysis, optimization and design, including requirements definition and analysis
- Reduction of analysis, design process cycle time
- Physics based analysis and design of unconventional vehicles
- System-of-systems, architecture-based systems engineering



