Petros A. Ioannou was born in Cyprus. He received the B.Sc. degree with First Class Honors from University College, London, England, in 1978 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1980 and 1982, respectively.

 

During the period 1975-1978, he held a Commonwealth Scholarship from the Association of Commonwealth Universities, London, England. He was awarded several prizes, including the Goldsmid Prize and the A. P. Head Prize from University College, London.  From 1979 to 1982 he was a research assistant at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois.

 

In 1982, Dr. Ioannou joined the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems,  University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.  He is currently a Professor in the same Department and the Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies. He also holds a courtesy appointment with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering. He is the Associate Director for Research for the University Transportation Center METRANS at the University of Southern California since 2006.  His research interests are in the areas of adaptive control, neural networks, nonlinear systems, vehicle dynamics and control, intelligent transportation systems, freight transportation and intelligent flight control. He was visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia and the Australian National University in Canberra during parts of Fall of 1988, the Technical University of Crete in summer of 1992 and Fall of 2001 and served as the Dean of the School of Pure and Applied Science at the University of Cyprus in 1995-1997. As the Dean, member of the Senate and member of some vital for the University of Cyprus committees he pioneered the establishment of the School of Engineering at the University of Cyprus.

 

 In 1984 he was a recipient of the Outstanding Transactions Paper Award for his paper, "An Asymptotic Error Analysis of Identifiers and Adaptive Observers in the Presence of Parasitics," which appeared in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control in August 1982. Dr. Ioannou is also the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He also served as a Member of the Control System society on IEEE ITS Council Committee and his center on advanced transportation technologies was a founding member of IVHS America which was later renamed ITS America. He is currently Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. He is a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Society. He is one of the founders of the Mediterranean Control Association and a member of the Board of Governors. He was one of the founders of the IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference which has been taking place annually since 1992. He was one of the founders of the University Transportation Center, METRANS, at the University of Southern California and California State University Long Beach.

 

Dr. Ioannou is a Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and the author/co-author of 8 books and over 150 research papers in the area of controls, neural networks, nonlinear dynamical systems and intelligent transportation systems.

 

 

 

EDUCATIONAL RECORD

  • University of Illinois, College of Engineering, Urbana, Illinois. 1/80 - 8/82, Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, Thesis title: "Robustness of Adaptive Schemes with Respect to Modeling Errors."
  • University of Illinois, College of Engineering, Urbana, Illinois. 8/78 - 12/79 M.S. Thesis title: "Microprocessor Control of Double Magnet Suspension System."
  • University of London, University College, London. 9/75 - 6/78, B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering, June 1978. Thesis title: "Calibration of the Water Wave Tank."

Work Experience/Accomplishments

 

  • University of Southern California, Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems: Assistant Professor from Fall 1982 to Spring 1987. Associate Professor from Spring 1987 to 1992.

 

  • Full Professor from Fall 1992 to present

 

  • Joint Appointment with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, 2004-present

 

  • Founder of the Southern California Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies, 1991

 

  • Director of the Southern California Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies, 1991 to present.

 

  • Associate Director for Research, METRANS 2006-present

 

  • Visiting Professor, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, Summer 1992, Fall 2001

 

  • Visiting Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, Fall 1988

 

  • Visiting Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra Fall of 1988,

 

  •  Dean of the School of Pure and Applied Science at the University of Cyprus in 1995/1996 where he pioneered the establishment of the School of Engineering at the University of Cyprus

 

  • One of the founders of the Mediterranean Control Association, 1998

 

  • One of the founders of the IEEE Mediterranean Conferences which started in 1992 and became an annual event

 

  • One of the founders of the University Transportation Center METRANS at the University of Southern California/California State University Long Beach, 1999

 

  • Controls Group Leader 2004-2008

 

 

Consulting

 

  • ACORN Technologies, Technical Consultant, 1999 to 2002

 

  • Lockheed Company Technical Consultant, 1985 to 1993.

 

  • Ford Motor Company Design and implementation of an intelligent cruise control system on a Lincoln Towncar, June 1992 to 1994.

 

  • Project Trilby, General Motors Research Laboratories: A successful design and implementation of a steer-by-wire control system, July 1988.

 

  • Rockwell International, 12214 Lakewood Boulevard, Downey, CA  90241: Technical Consultant, 1985.

 

  • HR TEXTRON, Systems Engineering Division, Irvine, CA  92714: Technical Consultant, May and June 1985.

 

  • Dynamic Systems, 2014 Silver Court West, Urbana, Illinois: Technical Consultant from October 1980 to September 1984.

 

  • General Electric Company, One River Road, Schenectady, NY  12435: Technical Consultant, 15 days, July - December 1981.

 

  • Ford Motor Company, P. O. Box 2053, Dearborn, MI  48121: Technical Consultant, 2 days in November 1980, 7 days in November 1981.

 

Professional Activities

 

  • Organizer and National Organizing Committee Chair 12th IFAC Symposium on Transportation Systems, September 2-4, 2009

 

  • Organizer and General Chair of the 2008 International Trade and Freight Transportation Conference, September 1-3, 2008, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

 

  • Technical Program Chair of the 2007  IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 13-15, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey

 

  • Technical Program Chair of the 2nd Annual National Urban Freight Conference, Dec. 5-7, 2007

 

  • Associate Editor for the 2008  IFAC Congress, July 2008, Korea

 

  • Chair of the IEEE Fellow committee of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Society 2006-present

 

  • Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1999 to present

 

  • IEEE Control System Society External Member  IEEE-USA Transportation Policy

 

  • Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems, 2005 to present

 

  • Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2005-present

 

  • Member of the Board of Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association, 1998-present

 

  • Organizer of the Workshop on Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, June 30-July 2, 2005, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

 

  • Invited participant to FHWA Advanced Research Think Tank Meeting, Berkeley, CA October 26-27, 2006

 

  • Steering Committee Chair IEEE 13th Mediterranean Conference, June 2005, Limassol, Cyprus

 

  • Technical Program Chairman IEEE 12th Mediterranean Conference, June 2004, Kusadaci, Turkey

 

  • Session Chair at IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control and European Control Conference, Dec. 2005, Seville Spain

 

  • Session Chair at IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sept. 2005, Vienna Austria

 

  • Control System Society Member on IEEE ITS Council Committee, 1997 to 2005

 

  • Control System Society Chair Member of Technical Activities Board, 2000 to 2005

 

  • Guest Editor on Special Issue on Adaptive Cruise Control, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sept. 2003, Vol. 4, No. 3

 

  • External Committee Member on IEEE-USA Transportation and Aerospace Technology Policy,  2000-2005

 

  • Vice-Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems, 2000 to 2005

 

  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on ITS 1999- 2004

 

  • Associate Editor for Automatica, December 1993 - 1995.

 

  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1987 - 1990.

 

  • Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Control. 1990-1995

 

  • Member of the Technical Review Panel for the IVHS-IDEA program of the Transportation Research Board, 1992- present.

 

  • Member of the Steering Committee on Advanced Vehicle Control Systems of IVHS America, 1992- present

 

  • Member of the Advisory Group on Highway Electrification and Automation Technologies Project for the Southern California Association of Governments.

 

  • Session Chairman: The Third Yale Workshop on Applications of Adaptive Systems Theory, June 1983; 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 American Control Conference; 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996, 1997, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

 

  • Co-Organizer of the Montana Summer Institute on Current Issues in Adaptive Control, August 1984, 1985.

 

  • Session Organizer: 1986, 1990, 1992 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

 

  • Program Committee Member: 1987, 1992, 1997 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.

 

  • Program Committee Member: IFAC 7th Symposium on Transportation Systems: Theory and Application of Advanced Technology, China 1994.

 

  • International Program Committee Member: IFAC Workshop on Robustness Issues in Adaptive Control, New South Wales, Australia, August 1988.

 

  • Program Committee Member: International Conference on Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems, Ottawa, Canada, October 1993.

 

  • General Chairman and Organizer of the Third IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, July 11-13, 1995, Limassol, Cyprus

 

  • Member of the IEEE Control System Society, Fellow Nominating Committee

 

  • Finance Chairman and Organizer of the 5th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Systems, July 21-23, 1997, Paphos, Cyprus

 

  • International Program Committee Member: International Conference on Advances in Vehicle Control and Safety, AVCS’98, Amiens-France, July 1-3, 1998

 

  • Program Chairman of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2000

 

 

 

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