Professor Dr. George Papavassilopoulos

Biography

George P. Papavassilopoulos graduated from Varvakeion High School in Athens and obtained a Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1975. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1977 and 1979 respectively. In 1979, he joined the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems at the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor and later became an Associate and Full Professor with tenure. In 2000, he became a Full Professor in the Department of Electrical Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens, where he directed the Control and Decision Laboratory. In January 2020, he returned to USC as an Adjunct Professor in Electrical Computer Engineering Practice. His research interests include Controls, Optimization, and Dynamic Games, with a significant focus on Dynamic Stochastic Games. He has conducted research in areas such as Decentralized Adaptive Control, Robotics, Optimization Algorithms, Target Interception, Jamming, Stochastic Learning Automata, and robust control. His work has applications in Biomedical Engineering, Economics, Organizational Structures, Energy, Telecommunication Policy, Computer Network Security, and Environmental Problems, with research support from NSF, AFOSR, and Greek EU grants.

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