Sebastian Pokutta

David M. McKenney Family Associate Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology
Visiting Scientist

Sebastian Pokutta received his master's degree (2003) and PhD (2005) in Mathematics from the University of Duisburg-Essen in Germany. Subsequent to his graduate studies, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the MIT Operations Research Center. Upon completion, Pokutta was appointed as an optimization specialist at IBM ILOG, and later joined KDB Krall Demmel Baumgarten, a risk management consultancy. He then returned to academia as a research scientist at the Technische Universität Darmstadt, and was a visiting lecturer at MIT, and a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg. He is now the David M. McKenney Family Associate Professor in the Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the director of the Interactive Optimization and Learning Lab and an Associate Director of the Center for Machine Learning @ GT.

Program Visits

Visiting Scientist