Awards and Recognitions

• The 2006 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal Award (BEAM) of Brown University, May 2006
• List of BEAM Recipients

• President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) subcommittee on Networking and InformationTechnology. 2006-07
• PCAST Report Press Release
• PCAST Report on Networking and Information Technology (NIT)
• Members of Technical Advisory Group (TAG)

• Scientific Advisory Board (Fachbeirat) Member of the Max-Planck-Institut fur Dynamik Komplexer Technischer Systeme, Magdeburg, Germany 2002-2007, 2008-2010

• Interview in Structure and Interpretation of Signals & Systems, by Edward A. Lee and Pravin Varaiya, Addison Wesley, 2003. Pages 83-84.
  full text; shorter version(in book)

• Kaneb Teaching Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Univ. of Notre Dame, 2000
• Master Mentor of Graduate Students, the Graduate School, Univ. of Notre Dame, 1999.
• Outstanding Teacher Award for Undergraduate Teaching, Dept. of Electr. Engr., Univ. of Notre Dame, 1991.

• Founding President of the Mediterranean Control Association (MCA). President, since 1998.
• Honorary Chair, 16th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED’08), Corsica, France, June 25-27, 2008.
• General co-Chair, 15th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED’07), Athens, Greece, June 27-29, 2007.
• Honorary Chair, 4th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Automation, Crete, Greece, June 10-14, 1996.

• Program Chair, European Control Conference 2007 (ECC’07), Kos, Greece. July 2-6, 2007.

 

• IEEE Millennium Medal, 2000.
• IEEE Distinguished Member Award, Control Systems Society, 1998
• IEEE Distinguished Lecturer, Control Systems Society, 1996-2003.
• IEEE Fellow Award 1991.
  Citation reads:
   "For contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems."
• President IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), 1997.
• General Chair, 34th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, New Orleans, LA, December 1995.
• General Chair, 8th IEEE Intern Symposium on Intelligent Control, Chicago IL, August 1993.
• Program Chair, 30th IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control, Brighton, England, December 1991.

• 2001 Zaborszky Lectures in the Department of Systems Science and Mathematics, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, on March 19-21, 2001.

• Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship (Travel Grant) 1972-1977.

• Service Award, Saint Andrew's Greek Orthodox Church, South Bend, Indiana, 1996; for services as the Director of the Greek School and as the Founding President of the Hellenic Cultural Society.