Biographical Information

Panos J. Antsaklis is Professor of Electrical Engineering and Concurrent Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame.

He has been the H.Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Engineering since 2002. He served as the Director of the Center for Applied Mathematics of the University of Notre Dame from 1999 to 2005.

He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and holds MS and PhD degrees from Brown University. He has held faculty positions at Brown University, Rice University, and Imperial College of the University of London, England. During sabbatical leaves he has lectured and conducted research at MIT, Imperial College, NTUA and the Technical University of Crete, Greece.

His recent research focuses on Cyber Physical Networked Embedded Systems and addresses problems in the interdisciplinary research area of Control, Computing and Communication Networks, and on Hybrid and Discrete Event Dynamical Systems. His research addresses problems of control and automation and examines ways to design engineering systems that will exhibit high degree of autonomy in performing useful tasks. Application areas include transportation, manufacturing, and chemical process systems, as well as computer and communication networks. His work includes analysis of behavior based on mathematical models and design of control strategies for complex autonomous, intelligent, learning and reconfigurable systems. His research is funded by federal agencies (NSF, ARO, DARPA) and companies. See Research for details.

He has authored journals, conference proceedings and books. See Publications for details.

He has authored two graduate textbooks, "Linear Systems" (McGraw-Hill 1997 and Birkhauser 2006, with A.N. Michel).and "A Linear Systems Primer" (Birkhauser 2007, with A.N. Michel), and two research monographs, "Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems Using Petri Nets" (Kluwer Academic 1998; with J. Moody) and "Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach" (Birkhauser 2006, with M.V. Iordache). He has edited six books: "An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control" (Kluwer Academic 1993; with K. Passino), "Hybrid Systems II" & "Hybrid Systems IV" (Springer-Verlag 1995 and 1997; with W. Kohn, A. Nerode and S. Sastry), "Hybrid Systems V" (Springer-Verlag 1999; with W. Kohn, M. Lemmon, A. Nerode, and S. Sastry), "Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications: A Tribute to A.N. Michel" (Birkhauser 2003; with D. Liu), and . "Networked Embedded Sensing and Control: Workshop NESC'05 Proceedings" (Birkhauser 2006, with P. Tabuada). See Books for more information.

He was Guest Editor of the IEEE TAC Special Issue on Networked Control Systems (with John Baillieul, September 2004) and of the Special Issue on Networked Control Systems Technology of the Proceedings of the IEEE (with John Baillieul, January 2007). He was Guest Editor of special issues on Hybrid Control Systems in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (with A. Nerode; 1998), in the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems (with M. Lemmon; 1998), and the Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Hybrid Systems in the Proceedings of the IEEE in July 2000. He was the Guest Editor of the 1990 and 1992 Special Issues on "Neural Networks in Control Systems" of the IEEE Control Systems magazine (CSM) and the Guest Editor of the 1995 Special Issue on "Intelligence and Learning" in the IEEE CSM. See Special Issues for more information.

He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC). See the TAC website at www.nd.edu/~ieeecss for more information. He previously served as Associate Editor at Large and as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and of several other journals, and as an Editor of the IEE Control Engineering Book Series.

He currently serves as the President of the Mediterranean Control Association. See MCA for more information.

At Notre Dame he currently serves in several committees including the Executive Committee of the Academic Council of the University. See Committees for more information.

He was the 1997 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), the 1996 CSS President-Elect, Vice President-Conferences in 1994 and 1995, an elected member of the CSS Board of Governors 1991-1996, and the General Chair of the 1995 34th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in New Orleans. He was the Program Chair of the 30th IEEE CDC in England in 1991, and he has served as the General Chair of the 1993 8th IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Control in Chicago. He served as the IEEE Director and Alternate Director of the American Automatic Control Council, the U.S. National Member Organization of the International Federation of Automatic Control from 1994 to 1997. He was the Chair of the Technical Committee on Fuzzy and Neural Systems of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) 1999-2002. He was the Honorary Chair of the 1996 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Automation in Crete, Greece (MED96), of the 2008 16th MED in Corsica, France (MED08) and of the 2010 18th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation in Marrakesh, Morocco (MED'10). He was General co-Chair of the 8th and 15th MED in 2000 and 2007. He was the International Program Committee Chair for the 2007 European Control Conference.

He serves as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Dynamik Komplexer Technischer Systeme, Magdeburg, Germany where he has been a SAB member since 2002. In 2006-2007 he was member of the subcommittee on Networking and Information Technology of the President's Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST), that advises the President of the United States on Science and Technology federal policy issues regarding technology, scientific research priorities, and math and science education.

He is recipient of the 2006 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM).

He has been plenary and keynote speaker in a number of conferences and research workshops, and he is the recipient of several teaching awards at the University of Notre Dame.

He is an IEEE Fellow since 1991 for his contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems, a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Control Systems Society, a recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Member Award of the Control Systems Society, and an IEEE Third Millennium Medal recipient. He is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC, 2011) “For fundamental contributions to hybrid control systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, control of systems over networks and for leadership in the profession.”