Petros Ioannou - Biography#

Petros A. Ioannou 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.

In 1982, Dr. Ioannou joined the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. He is currently the A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Chair Professor in the same Department and the Founder and Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies. He holds courtesy appointments with the Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Industrial System Engineering. He is also the Associate Director for Research for the University Transportation Center METRANS at the University of Southern California.

Dr. Ioannou was the recipient of the Outstanding Transactions Paper Award by the IEEE Control System Society in 1984 and the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. In 2009 he received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Application Award and the 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (former IEE). In 2012 he received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Research Award. In 2015 he received the 2016 IEEE Transportation Technologies Field Award. In 2016 he received the Senior Research Award from the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Transition to Practice Award from the IEEE Control System Society. In 2022 he was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering.

He is currently the Vice President for Membership of the IEEE ITS Society. Prior to that he was the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vice President for Publications. 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.

Dr. Ioannou is a Lifetime Fellow of IEEE, Fellow IFAC and AAAS and the author/co-author of 9 books and over 400 research publications in the area of controls and intelligent transportation systems. Since 1982 he received over $90 million in research funding and graduated up to now 40 PhD students

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