BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Born in
Athens,
Greece,
on October 18, 1956,
received the diploma in Mechanical and Electrical
Engineering from the
National Technical University of Athens in 1979, and
the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Florida in 1983.
Present position:
Since 1989: Professor in ECE Department, University of Minnesota
Past positions:
Past visiting positions:
1985-86: University of Minnesota
spring 1996 & fall 2004: National Technical University of Athens
1996 (Sept-Dec):
Medtronic, Minneapolis, MN
spring 2004: Mittag-Leffler institute, Sweden
Service:
Currently, serving as a co-director
of the Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center
together with Gary Balas.
Has served as an Associate Editor for
Elected to the Board of Governors of the
Control Systems Society
of the IEEE, effective January 2002,
Awards:
Co-recipient, together with
Malcolm Smith, of
the G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of
the
IEEE Control Systems Society in 1992 for the paper:
Optimal robustness in the gap metric,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 35:673-686, June 1990,
Co-recipient, together with
Malcolm Smith,
of
the G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of
the
IEEE Control Systems Society in 1999 for the paper:
Robustness Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems An Input-Output Approach,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 42(9): 1200-1221, September 1997.
Co-recipient, together with
Chris Byrnes
and
Anders Lindquist,
of
the G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of
the
IEEE Control Systems Society in 2003 for the paper:
A generalized entropy criterion for Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation: A convex optimization approach to certain problems in systems and control,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 45(6): 822-839, June 2001.
Recipient of a Best Instructor Award by the Institute of Technology
Student Board at the University of Minnesota in 1994.
Fellow of the IEEE in 2000.
Vincentine Hermes-Luh Professor of Electrical Engineering, University of Minnesota,
January 2002 ---
