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

Sept 22-24, 2008 : DARPA SToMP Review, Dana Point, CA.

Oct 15-16, 2008 : ARL MAST Kickoff, Univ. of Maryland, MD.

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

Nov 13, 2008 : University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.

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

April 13-15, 2009 : Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control, San Francisco, CA.

May 12-17, 2009 : IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Kobe, Japan.

June 24-26, 2009 : IEEE Med. Conf. on Control & Automation, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Dec 16-18, 2009 : IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Shanghai, China.