Dr. Kyriakos Vamvoudakis

Biography

Kyriakos G. Vamvoudakis was born in Athens, Greece. He earned a Diploma in Electronic Computer Engineering, which is equivalent to a Master of Science, from the Technical University of Crete in Greece, graduating with the highest honors in 2006. After relocating to the United States, he pursued further studies at the University of Texas at Arlington under the guidance of Frank L. Lewis, obtaining both his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 2008 and 2011, respectively. Between January 2011 and 2012, he served as an Adjunct Professor and Faculty Research Associate at the University of Texas at Arlington and the Automation and Robotics Research Institute. He then worked as a project research scientist at the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems, and Computation at the University of California, Santa Barbara from 2012 to 2016. In 2018, he joined the Kevin T. Crofton Department of Aerospace and Ocean Engineering at Virginia Tech as an Assistant Professor. He currently serves as the Dutton-Ducoffe Endowed Professor at the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech, where he also holds a secondary appointment at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His expertise includes reinforcement learning, control theory, game theory, cyber-physical security, bounded rationality, and safe autonomy. He has received numerous prestigious awards such as the ARO Young Investigator Program Award in 2019 and the NSF CAREER Award in 2018.

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