Bio
George J. Pappas is the Joseph Moore Professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds a secondary appointment in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, and is member and former director of the GRASP lab. He currently serves as the Deputy Dean in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. His research focuses on control theory and in particular, hybrid systems, embedded systems, hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, flight management systems, distributed robotics, and biomolecular networks. He has published numerous publications and has won various awards, including the National Science Foundation Presidential Early Career Award for Science and Engineering (PECASE). more...

Contact
Office : 460 Levine Hall
Mail : 200 South 33rd Street, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104.
Phone : (215) 898-9780
FAX : (215) 573-2068
E-mail : pappasg@ee.upenn.edu

Travel

May 19-23, 2008 : IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Los Angeles, CA.

Jun 11-13, 2008 : American Control Conference, Seattle, WA.

Jun 25-28, 2008 : Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland.

Jul 14-16, 2008 : International Symposium on Exp. Robotics, Athens, Greece.

Aug 28-29, 2008 : Embedded Systems Institute, Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Oct 19-24, 2008 : Embedded Software (EMSOFT), Atlanta, GA.

Dec 9-11, 2008 : IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico.