Prof. Petros Ioannou, University of Southern California, USA

(IEEE Fellow, Member of the NAE, Foreign Member of the EAS)

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 Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies. He also 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. He is an Affiliated Professor of the KIOS Center of Excellence at the University of Cyprus. 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. In 2008/2009 he was a faculty member at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies of the Cyprus University of Technology while on sabbatical leave from the University of Southern California.

His research interests are in the areas of robust adaptive control, vibration control, neural networks, nonlinear systems, vehicle dynamics and control, intelligent transportation systems and marine transportation.