Background

• Born in Athens, Greece, on October 18, 1956
  

• Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
  National Technical University of Athens, 1979
  

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
  University of Florida, 1983

Present position

Professor and Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Minnesota

Academic positions

Florida Atlantic University, 1983-86
Iowa State University, 1986-89
University of Minnesota, 1989-present

Selected Service

• General chair, International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, MTNS 2016, Minneapolis, July 2016.

• IMA Year in Control 2015-2016. Organizing Committee.

• Director of the Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center (1990 - )
  

• Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society of the IEEE (2002-2005),

• Associate Editor:
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1991-1992)
  Systems and Control Letters (1995-2010)
  SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (1988-1995)
  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007-2009)
  IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information (2009-2013)

Awards & Recognitions

• Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, 2011

• Fellow of the IEEE, 2000

• 1992 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  T.T. Georgiou & M.C. Smith
  Optimal robustness in the gap metric
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 35:673-686, June 1990
  

• 1999 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  T.T. Georgiou & M.C. Smith
  Robustness Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems An Input-Output Approach
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 42(9): 1200-1221, September 1997
  

• 2003 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  C. Byrnes, T.T. Georgiou and Anders Lindquist
  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
  

• Plenary speaker
  International Federation of Automatic Control
  Symposium on System Identification, Saint Malo, France, 2009
  

• Plenary speaker
  IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control, New Orleans 2007
  

• Plenary speaker
  International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems, Perpignan, France, 2000
  

• Best Instructor Award by the Institute of Technology Student Board
  University of Minnesota, 1994

Current Research Projects

• Optimal Mass Transport for Statistical Estimation, Image Analysis, Information Geometry, and Control
  co-PI Allen Tannenbaum
  AFOSR

• Low-complexity stochastic modeling of turbulent shear flows
  co-PI Mihailo Jovanovic
  NSF

• Geometry of Probability Distributions with Applications to Estimation, Sensing, Surveillance, and Navigation
  co-PI Allen Tannenbaum
  AFOSR

• Theory and Techniques for Controlling the Collective Behavior of Dynamical Systems under Stochastic Uncertainty
  NSF