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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. He is member of the GRASP Lab and the PRECISE Center. He currently serves as the Deputy Dean for Research 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, distributed robotics, green buildings, and biomolecular networks. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and has received various awards such as the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, the George S. Axelby Award, and the National Science Foundation PECASE.

December 2011: George J. Pappas will be a semi-plenary speaker at the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference in Orlando, FL. More

June 2011: PRECISE students working on wireless control networks win Honeywell's OneWireless Competition in Phoenix, AZ. More

May 2011: Paper on wireless manipulation of single cells is a finalist for the Best Manipulation Paper award at IEEE ICRA 2011 in Shanghai, China. More

April 2011: George J. Pappas will be a plenary speaker at CPSWEEK 2011. CPSWeek brings together five leading conferences - HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, LCTES, and RTAS on various aspects on the research and development of cyber-physical systems. More

Ruberti Award December 2010: George J. Pappas Receives Ruberti Young Researcher Prize by
the IEEE Control Systems Society. The Ruberti prize recognizes
distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher to the theory or application of systems and control. More

 

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Receding-horizon Supervisory Control of Green Buildings. Truong Nghiem and George J. Pappas, In American Control Conference. San Francisco, CA, July 2011.

Wireless Manipulation of Single Cells using Magnetic Microtransporters. Mahmut Selman Sakar, Edward Steager, Anthony Crowley, Vijay Kumar, George J. Pappas. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Shanghai, China, May 2011.

Reputation-based Networked Control with Data-Corrupting Channels. S. Sundharam, J. Chang, K. K. Venkatasubramanian, C. Eniyoha, I. Lee, and G. Pappas, In Proceedings of Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), Chicago, IL, April 2011.

Resource-constrained LQR control under Fast Sampling. Jerome Le Ny, Eric Feron, and George J. Pappas, In Proceedings of Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), Chicago, IL, April 2011.

 

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