News and Press

Awards

2019-07-15 00:00:00 - Finalist, Best Student Paper Award, American Control Conference, July 2019 (as advisor)

2019-04-15 00:00:00 - Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICCPS, Montreal, Canada, April 2019

2018-12-15 00:00:00 - IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE CSS

2017-05-15 00:00:00 - Best conference paper award at ICRA 2017

2017-05-14 00:00:00 - Best robotic vision paper award finalist at ICRA 2017

2017-04-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas receives the Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring

2017-04-14 00:00:00 - Best Poster Award, IoT Design & Implementation (IoTDI)

2016-07-15 00:00:00 - O. Hugo Schuk Best Paper Award (theory), American Automatic Control Council

2015-04-15 00:00:00 - Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICCPS, Berlin, Germany,

2015-03-15 00:00:00 - George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research

2014-06-15 00:00:00 - O. Hugo Schuck Best Paaper award at American Control Conference

2014-04-15 00:00:00 - Best paper award at ICCPS 2014

2013-07-15 00:00:00 - Konstantinos Gatsis wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 American Control Conference

2013-06-15 00:00:00 - Finalist for Best Paper at ACC 2013: Konstantinos Gatsis wins the Best Student Paper Award in the 2013 American Control Conference

2012-04-15 00:00:00 - Best Presentation Award, Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)

2011-05-15 00:00:00 - Finalist, Best Manipulation Paper Award, IEEE ICRA, Shanghai, China

2010-12-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas Receives Ruberti Young Researcher Prize. The Ruberti prize recognizes distinguished cutting-edge contributions by a young researcher to the theory or application of systems and control.

2009-12-15 00:00:00 - George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society

2009-12-14 00:00:00 - Antoine Girard and I received the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award from the IEEE Control Systems Society.

2008-11-15 00:00:00 - Elected IEEE Fellow

2008-05-15 00:00:00 - Hadas Kress Gazit wins the Charles Hallac and Sarah Keil Wolf Award for her Ph.D. thesis.

2008-03-15 00:00:00 - ONR MURI award on heterogeneous unmanned network teams.

2007-10-15 00:00:00 - The valet parking paper is a finalist for the best paper award at IROS 2007.

2007-04-15 00:00:00 - Hadas Kress Gazit and Georgios Fainekos are finalists for the best student paper award at the 2007 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation.

2006-12-15 00:00:00 - Michael Zavlanos is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2006 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in San Diego, CA.

2005-03-14 00:00:00 - Penn leads MIT, Berkeley, Santa Barbara, and Yale to MURI award!

2004-12-15 00:00:00 - Stephen Prajna is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in the Bahamas.

2004-06-15 00:00:00 - Hakan Yazarel is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2004 American Control Conference in Boston, Massachusetts.

2004-05-15 00:00:00 - NSF Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE)

2002-02-15 00:00:00 - National Science Foundation Career Award.

2001-12-15 00:00:00 - Paulo Tabuada is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2001 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Orlando, Florida.

1999-05-15 00:00:00 - Eli Jury Award for Excellence in Systems Research, University of California at Berkeley

1998-12-15 00:00:00 - Finalist for the best student paper award at the 1998 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in Tampa, Florida.

In the Press

2024-03-15 11:02:58 - George Pappas comments on the new EU AI Act (In Greek)

2024-02-15 11:06:09 - George Pappas on the new AI undergraduate program at Penn

2024-02-12 11:11:35 - George Pappas’ NAE Election covered by Daily Pennsylvanian

2023-08-15 11:13:11 - George Pappas comments on AI revolution in health, Kathimerini (in Greek)

2023-07-15 11:14:15 - HIAS Symposium: Bridges in Education, Science, and Innovation (In Greek)

2022-06-24 11:16:39 - Εκπαιδευοντας την Ελλαδα στην καινοτομια, Καθημερινη (in Greek)

2021-06-24 11:15:14 - George Pappas interview at Greek newspaper Kathimerini (In Greek)

2015-09-15 00:00:00 - Wenn Google die Temperatur im Wohnzimmer runterdreht

2013-04-15 00:00:00 - George Pappas comments in “Can control theory make software better?”

Lab News

2024-07-11 10:48:51 - Charis Stamouli receives Best Student Paper award at ACC 2024

2021-12-15 00:00:00 - Alena Rodionova receives Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC

2019-11-15 00:00:00 - Andreea Alexandru is a Rising Star in EECS

2019-08-15 00:00:00 - Anastasios Tsiamis is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2019

2017-12-15 00:00:00 - V. Tzoumas is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC

2017-07-15 00:00:00 - T. Tsiamis is finalist for the Young Author Prize at IFAC 2017

2013-07-15 00:00:00 - Konstantinos Gatsis wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 American Control Conference

2013-03-15 00:00:00 - Future Vision: George Pappas Ushers in New Era for ESE

2013-01-15 00:00:00 - Penn Research Team Awarded $2.75 Million as Part of New ‘Swarm’ Computing Center

2011-06-15 00:00:00 - Wireless control networks wins Honeywell’s OneWireless Competition in Phoenix, AZ.

2008-10-15 00:00:00 - Georgios Fainekos wins the 2008 Frank Anger Memorial ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Student Award.

2008-07-01 00:00:00 - Kathimerini article on ISER 2008 on cover page (in greek).

2008-06-15 00:00:00 - Philadelphia Inquirer article on getting robots to act more naturally.

2008-06-01 00:00:00 - RSS 2008 workshop

2008-05-15 00:00:00 - Robotics Trends Insights article on MAST project.

2008-04-15 00:00:00 - CNET article on bio-inspired cooperation of multiple robots.

2008-04-14 00:00:00 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on two major research grants.

2008-04-13 00:00:00 - CPSWEEK 2008

2008-02-15 00:00:00 - GRASP leads $22M center on autonomous micro-systems (MAST).

2007-02-15 00:00:00 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on MSE in Robotics.

2006-08-15 00:00:00 - Philadelphia Inquirer article on fighting fire with robots.

2006-08-14 00:00:00 - New MSE in Robotics

2006-08-13 00:00:00 - Robotics 2006 at Penn

2005-10-15 00:00:00 - Matisse is released

2005-08-15 00:00:00 - Workshop on Swarming

2005-06-15 00:00:00 - Workshop on Medical Devices

2005-04-15 00:00:00 - Student Workshop on Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems

2005-03-15 00:00:00 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on multi-university swarming project.

2004-11-15 00:00:00 - Penn Engineering News article on Talent Takes Wing.

2004-05-14 00:00:00 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on PECASE award.

2004-05-13 00:00:00 - National Science Foundation press relase on 2002 PECASE award.

2004-05-12 00:00:00 - White House press release on 2002 PECASE award.

2004-05-11 00:00:00 - University of Pennsylavnia press release on 2002 PECASE award.

2004-04-15 00:00:00 - NSF press release on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.

2004-04-15 00:00:00 - Wired News article on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.

2004-03-15 00:00:00 - HSCC 2004 at Penn

2001-08-15 00:00:00 - University of Pennsylvania press release on NSF ITR project.

2001-06-15 00:00:00 - Paulo Tabuada is a finalist for the best student paper award at the 2001 American Control Conference in Arlington, Virginia.

2000-08-15 00:00:00 - University of Pennsylvania press release on DARPA MoBIES project.

Lectures

2024-03-15 00:00:00 - Plenary Speaker, American Control Conference, July 2025

2022-11-15 00:00:00 - Keynote, NSF Cyber-physical systems PI meeting, November 2022.

2022-07-15 00:00:00 - Plenary Speaker, 39th Chinese Control Conference, Shenyang, China, July 2020.

2021-07-15 00:00:00 - Plenary Session, World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), Shanghai, China, July 2021.

2020-07-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas delivers semi-plenary at the 2020 IFAC World Congress

2020-04-15 00:00:00 - Keynote, CyberPhysical Systems Week, CPS-IoT WEEK, Sydney, April 2020.

2020-01-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas will be a plenary speaker at the Chinese Control Conference in Shenyang, China

2019-03-15 00:00:00 - Plenary Speaker, 38th Benelux Meeting on Systems and Control, Belgium, March 2019.

2017-04-15 00:00:00 - Keynote Speaker, Florida Institute for National Security, Gainesville, FL, April 2017.

2016-11-15 00:00:00 - Panel Keynote, CPS and IoT Foundations, NSF CPS PI meeting, Arlington, VA, November 2016.

2016-08-15 00:00:00 - Keynote Speaker, 45th International Conference on Parallel Processing, Philadelphia, PA, August 2016.

2016-05-15 00:00:00 - Banquet Keynote Speaker, Future of ECE, In honor of Shankar Sastry 60th Birthday, Berkeley, CA, May 2016.

2016-05-15 00:00:00 - Keynote Perspectives in Systems and Control Theory, In honor of Manfred Morari 65th Birthday, Zurich, May 2016.

2015-11-15 00:00:00 - Plenary, International Conference on Complex Systems Engineering, Hartford, CT, November 2015.

2015-08-15 00:00:00 - Keynote, European Forum Alpbach, Technology Symposium, Alpbach, Austria, August 2015.

2015-03-15 00:00:00 - Keynote, ECEDHA Annual Conference & Expo, Hilton Head, SC, March 2015.

2015-03-14 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas delivered the George R. Heilmeier Lecture, University of Pennsylvania, March 2015.

2015-02-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas delivers the Mercer Distinguished Lecture at Rensselaer

2014-09-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas delivered a Session Keynote lecture at the 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS),Chicago, IL, September 2014

2013-10-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas will deliver a Science Keynote at the 2013 NSF CPS PI meeting in Washington, DC., October 2013.

2013-04-15 00:00:00 - Keynote Speaker, Decision and Control Laboratory Student Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2013.

2012-10-15 00:00:00 - Science Keynote Speaker, NSF Cyber-physical systems PI meeting, National Harbour, MD, October 2012.

2012-06-15 00:00:00 - Invited Speaker, 22nd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS12), Sao Paulo, Brazil, June 2012.

2012-06-14 00:00:00 - Invited Speaker, 4th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (ADHS), Eindhoven, Netherlands, June 2012.

2011-12-15 00:00:00 - Approximate Bi-simulation Bridging CS and Control

2011-12-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas will be a semi-plenary speaker at the 50th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and European Control Conference

2011-08-15 00:00:00 - Invited Speaker, NSF Cyberphysical Systems PI Meeting, National Harbour, MD, August 2011.

2011-05-15 00:00:00 - Keynote Speaker, 11th Annual High Con dence Software and Systems (HCSS), Annapolis, MD, May 2011.

2011-02-15 00:00:00 - 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.

2010-05-15 00:00:00 - George J. Pappas will be a semi-plenary speaker at the 22nd Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC).

2008-11-01 00:00:00 - Nokia lecture @ Berkeley

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