Michael Kokkolaras awarded tenure
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Congratulations to Dr Michael Kokkolaras on being granted tenure! A member of McGill's research community since 2012, Dr Kokkolaras studies multidisciplinary optimization, simulation-based engineering design, uncertainty quantification, decomposition and coordination methods, modeling and validation, systems of systems, product families and optimization applications in engineering. He has co-authored 46 articles in archival journals, 59 papers in conference proceedings and 5 book chapters and has given more than 40 invited talks at academic, industry and government seminars and workshops. He served as Associate Editor of the ASME Journal of Mechanical Design from 2008 to 2014, and is currently Associate Editor of the CSME Transactions and the Optimization and Engineering journal. Read on to learn more about Dr Kokkolaras and his distinguished path to tenure.