George Pappas
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering
University of Pennsylvania
George J. Pappas received the B.S. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering in 1991, the M.S. degree in Computer and Systems Engineering in 1992, both from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY. In 1994, he was a Graduate Fellow at the Division of Engineering Science of Harvard University. In December 1998, he received the Ph.D degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Pennsylvania. His is currently an Assistant Professor and Graduate Group Chair in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, where he also holds a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.
George Pappas is the recipient the NSF CAREER award in 2002, and the 1999 Eliahu Jury Award for Excellence in Systems Research from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He was also a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the 1998 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
His research interests include hierarchical control systems, embedded hybrid systems, distributed control systems, nonlinear control systems, geometric control theory, with applications to flight management systems, robotics, and unmanned aerial vehicles