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Dimitra Panagou received her Diploma and PhD degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2006 and 2012, respectively. She became a faculty member in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in September 2014. Prior to her current position, she served as a postdoctoral research associate at the Coordinated Science Laboratory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from 2012 to 2014. She has also been a visiting research scholar at the GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, and the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Delaware. Her research interests encompass multi-agent planning, control estimation, and the applications of safe and resilient unmanned aerial systems, as well as robotic networks and autonomous multi-vehicle systems across various domains. She has received several awards including the NASA Early Career Faculty Award in 2016 and the AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2017, recognizing her contributions to aerospace and robotics research.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science