George J. Pappas
UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation and Chair
Electrical and Systems Engineering (ESE)
Computer and Information Science (CIS)
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics (MEAM)
Honors and Awards: Ruberti Young Researcher Prize - 2010, Axelby Outstanding Paper Award - 2009, IEEE Fellow - 2009, Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) - 2004
Research Expertise: Control Systems | Robotics | Embedded Systems
George's research focuses on developing methods for the control of next-generation hierarchical and distributed systems. His research group focuses on developing analysis and design algorithms and tools for hybrid systems, which merge control systems with computing systems. Their methods have been used in developing algorithms for coordinated motion of fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles and multi-robot systems, analyzing the safety of next generation medical devices, and understanding the macroscopic behavior of biological networks.
Member of:- General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) Lab
- Embedded Computing and Integrated Systems (PRECISE)
- State-Secrecy Codes for Networked Linear Systems, Tsiamis, A. | Gatsis, K. | Pappas, G.J., IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2020
- Secure multi-party computation for cloud-based control, Alexandru, A.B. | Pappas, G.J., Privacy in Dynamical Systems, 2019
- Tuning Communication Latency for Distributed Model Predictive Control, Hu, H. | Gatsis, K. | Morari, M. | Pappas, G.J., IFAC-PapersOnLine, 2019
- Optimal temporal logic planning in probabilistic semantic maps, Fu, J. | Atanasov, N. | Topcu, U. | Pappas, G.J., Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2016
- Robust estimation using context-aware filtering, Ivanov, R. | Atanasov, N. | Pajic, M. | Pappas, G. | Lee, I., 2015 53rd Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing, Allerton 2015, 2016
Education:
PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences 1998 - University of California at Berkeley
MS Computer & Systems Engineering 1992 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS Computer & Systems Engineering 1991 - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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