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George J. Pappas is the Joseph Moore Professor and Chair of 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 has previously served 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.

April 2013: George Pappas comments in "Can control theory make software better?" More

March 2013: Future Vision: George Pappas Ushers in New Era for ESE More

January 2013: Penn Research Team Awarded $2.75 Million as Part of New ‘Swarm’ Computing Center More

October 2012: George J. Pappas will deliver a Science Keynote at the 2012 NSF CPS PI meeting in Washington, DC. More

June 2012: George J. Pappas will be an invited speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS) in Sao Paolo, Brazil. More

June 2012: George J. Pappas will be an invited speaker at the 4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS) in Eindhoven, Netherlands. More

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

 

 

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Differentially private filtering. Jerome Le Ny and George J. Pappas. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, September 2012. Submitted.

The wireless control network: a new approach for control over networks. Miroslav Pajic, Shreyas Sundaram, George J. Pappas, Rahul Mangharam. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 56(10):2305-2318, October 2011.

Compositional modeling and analysis of multi-hop control networks. Rajeev Alur, Alessandro D'Innocenzo, Karl H. Johansson, George J. Pappas, and Gera Weiss. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 56(10):2345-2357, October 2011.

Joint metering and conflict resolution in air traffic control. Jerome Le Ny, and George J. Pappas. AIAA Journal on Guidance, Control, and Navigation. 34(5):1507-1518, September-October 2011.

Graph theoretic connectivity control of mobile robot networks. Michael Zavlanos, Magnus Egerstedt, and George J. Pappas. Proceedings of the IEEE. 99(9):1525-1540, September 2011.

 

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