Dr. Esogbue is a Professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the Director of the Intelligent Systems and Controls Laboratory which is currently investigating a hybrid approach to intelligent control via fuzzy sets and neural networks. He is also a key member of the NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. He is considerably involved in a number of civic activities locally in Atlanta and globally. Dr. Esogbue has received multiple national and international honors and awards including the NASA Public Service medal and Outstanding Citizen of Georgia and Goodwill Ambassador Awards for his work. Dr. Esogbue is also currently (as at 2014) the only African American member of NASA's Safety Advisory Pane.

Dr. Esogbue holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering with a minor in mathematics from the University of California, Dr. Esogbue received an M.S. in Industrial Engineering/Operations Research from Columbia University. He received a Ph.D in Systems Engineering and Operations Research from University of Southern California where he was the first African to obtain a Ph.D in the Industry and Systems engineering field. He has also studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received a certificate in advance health systems dynamic modeling. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, the Nigerian Academy of Sciences and Kerr L. White Institute for Health Services Research.

Dr. Augustine Esogbue is also the first black to make 3.98 GPA at John Hopkins University.