News and Press - George J. Pappas

Awards

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

Apr 15, 2019 - Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICCPS, Montreal, Canada, April 2019

Dec 15, 2018 - IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE CSS

May 15, 2017 - Best conference paper award at ICRA 2017

May 14, 2017 - Best robotic vision paper award finalist at ICRA 2017

Apr 15, 2017 - George J. Pappas receives the Provost’s Award for Distinguished PhD Teaching and Mentoring

Apr 14, 2017 - Best Poster Award, IoT Design & Implementation (IoTDI)

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

Apr 15, 2015 - Finalist, Best Paper Award, ICCPS, Berlin, Germany,

Mar 15, 2015 - George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research

Jun 15, 2014 - O. Hugo Schuck Best Paaper award at American Control Conference

Apr 15, 2014 - Best paper award at ICCPS 2014

Jul 15, 2013 - Konstantinos Gatsis wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 American Control Conference

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

Apr 15, 2012 - Best Presentation Award, Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN)

May 15, 2011 - Finalist, Best Manipulation Paper Award, IEEE ICRA, Shanghai, China

Dec 15, 2010 - 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.

Dec 15, 2009 - George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society

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

Nov 15, 2008 - Elected IEEE Fellow

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

Mar 15, 2008 - ONR MURI award on heterogeneous unmanned network teams.

Oct 15, 2007 - The valet parking paper is a finalist for the best paper award at IROS 2007.

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

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

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

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

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

May 15, 2004 - NSF Presidential Early Career Award in Science and Engineering (PECASE)

Feb 15, 2002 - National Science Foundation Career Award.

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

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

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

In the Press

Mar 15, 2024 - George Pappas comments on the new EU AI Act (In Greek)

Feb 15, 2024 - George Pappas on the new AI undergraduate program at Penn

Feb 12, 2024 - George Pappas’ NAE Election covered by Daily Pennsylvanian

Aug 15, 2023 - George Pappas comments on AI revolution in health, Kathimerini (in Greek)

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

Jun 24, 2022 - Εκπαιδευοντας την Ελλαδα στην καινοτομια, Καθημερινη (in Greek)

Jun 24, 2021 - George Pappas interview at Greek newspaper Kathimerini (In Greek)

Sep 15, 2015 - Wenn Google die Temperatur im Wohnzimmer runterdreht

Apr 15, 2013 - George Pappas comments in “Can control theory make software better?”

Lab News

Jul 11, 2024 - Charis Stamouli receives Best Student Paper award at ACC 2024

Dec 15, 2021 - Alena Rodionova receives Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC

Nov 15, 2019 - Andreea Alexandru is a Rising Star in EECS

Aug 15, 2019 - Anastasios Tsiamis is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at ACC 2019

Dec 15, 2017 - V. Tzoumas is a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at IEEE CDC

Jul 15, 2017 - T. Tsiamis is finalist for the Young Author Prize at IFAC 2017

Jul 15, 2013 - Konstantinos Gatsis wins the Best Student Paper Award at the 2013 American Control Conference

Mar 15, 2013 - Future Vision: George Pappas Ushers in New Era for ESE

Jan 15, 2013 - Penn Research Team Awarded $2.75 Million as Part of New ‘Swarm’ Computing Center

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

Oct 15, 2008 - Georgios Fainekos wins the 2008 Frank Anger Memorial ACM SIGBED/SIGSOFT Student Award.

Jul 01, 2008 - Kathimerini article on ISER 2008 on cover page (in greek).

Jun 15, 2008 - Philadelphia Inquirer article on getting robots to act more naturally.

Jun 01, 2008 - RSS 2008 workshop

May 15, 2008 - Robotics Trends Insights article on MAST project.

Apr 15, 2008 - CNET article on bio-inspired cooperation of multiple robots.

Apr 14, 2008 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on two major research grants.

Apr 13, 2008 - CPSWEEK 2008

Feb 15, 2008 - GRASP leads $22M center on autonomous micro-systems (MAST).

Feb 15, 2007 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on MSE in Robotics.

Aug 15, 2006 - Philadelphia Inquirer article on fighting fire with robots.

Aug 14, 2006 - New MSE in Robotics

Aug 13, 2006 - Robotics 2006 at Penn

Oct 15, 2005 - Matisse is released

Aug 15, 2005 - Workshop on Swarming

Jun 15, 2005 - Workshop on Medical Devices

Apr 15, 2005 - Student Workshop on Nonlinear and Hybrid Systems

Mar 15, 2005 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on multi-university swarming project.

Nov 15, 2004 - Penn Engineering News article on Talent Takes Wing.

May 14, 2004 - Daily Pennsylvanian article on PECASE award.

May 13, 2004 - National Science Foundation press relase on 2002 PECASE award.

May 12, 2004 - White House press release on 2002 PECASE award.

May 11, 2004 - University of Pennsylavnia press release on 2002 PECASE award.

Apr 15, 2004 - NSF press release on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.

Apr 15, 2004 - Wired News article on our NSF ITR project with Caltech and Minnesota.

Mar 15, 2004 - HSCC 2004 at Penn

Aug 15, 2001 - University of Pennsylvania press release on NSF ITR project.

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

Aug 15, 2000 - University of Pennsylvania press release on DARPA MoBIES project.

Lectures

Mar 15, 2024 - Plenary Speaker, American Control Conference, July 2025

Nov 15, 2022 - Keynote, NSF Cyber-physical systems PI meeting, November 2022.

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

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

Jul 15, 2020 - George J. Pappas delivers semi-plenary at the 2020 IFAC World Congress

Apr 15, 2020 - Keynote, CyberPhysical Systems Week, CPS-IoT WEEK, Sydney, April 2020.

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

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

Apr 15, 2017 - Keynote Speaker, Florida Institute for National Security, Gainesville, FL, April 2017.

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

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

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

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

Nov 15, 2015 - Plenary, International Conference on Complex Systems Engineering, Hartford, CT, November 2015.

Aug 15, 2015 - Keynote, European Forum Alpbach, Technology Symposium, Alpbach, Austria, August 2015.

Mar 15, 2015 - Keynote, ECEDHA Annual Conference & Expo, Hilton Head, SC, March 2015.

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

Feb 15, 2015 - George J. Pappas delivers the Mercer Distinguished Lecture at Rensselaer

Sep 15, 2014 - 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

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

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

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

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

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

Dec 15, 2011 - Approximate Bi-simulation Bridging CS and Control

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

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

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

Feb 15, 2011 - 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.

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

Nov 01, 2008 - Nokia lecture @ Berkeley

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