Panos Antsaklis
Panos Antsaklis is the H. Clifford and Evelyn A. Brosey Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Notre Dame and also Concurrent Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Engineering and of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics. He is a graduate of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and holds MS and PhD degrees from Brown University.
His research focuses on Cyber Physical Networked Embedded Systems and addresses systems, control and automation problems in the interdisciplinary research area of Control, Computing and Communication Networks. This research examines ways to design engineering systems that will exhibit high degrees of autonomy in performing useful tasks. High autonomy and ways to achieve it has been the driving force and the central theme of his research on the control of complex systems. Application areas include transportation, power, manufacturing, and chemical process systems, as well as computer and communication networks. His work includes analysis of behavior and control strategies for complex autonomous, intelligent, learning and reconfigurable systems. It is based on mathematical and data models of continuous, hybrid and discrete event dynamical systems. His recent work on a general theory for the analysis and robust design of Cyber-Physical Systems uses the energy-like concepts of passivity and dissipativity.
Publications
Overall, Antsaklis has 600 publications in journals, books and conference proceedings that have been cited over 30,000 times. He has co-authored three graduate textbooks on Hybrid and Linear Systems, three research monographs on Networked and Discrete Event Dynamical Systems and has co-edited six books on Intelligent Autonomous Control, Hybrid Systems and Networked Embedded Control Systems. Additionally, he has supervised numerous successful PhD students.Graduate Textbooks
- Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Fundamentals and Methods
- A Linear Systems Primer
- Linear Systems
Research Monographs
- Model-Based Control of Networked Systems
- Supervisory Control of Concurrent Systems: A Petri Net Structural Approach
- Supervisory Control of Discrete Event Systems using Petri Nets
Edited books
- Networked Embedded Sensing and Control.
- Stability and Control of Dynamical Systems with Applications: A Tribute to Anthony N. Michel.
- Hybrid Systems V.
- Hybrid Systems IV.
- Hybrid Systems II.
- An Introduction to Intelligent and Autonomous Control.
Recognitions
He is the 2006 recipient of the Engineering Alumni Medal of Brown University, recipient of the IEEE third Millennium Medal in 2000, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lorraine in France, 2012.At the University of Notre Dame he is the recipient of several teaching awards, including the 2013 Faculty Award and the 2020 Research Achievement Award. He is also the first Notre Dame faculty member to have been granted both of these notable awards.
He is Institute of [Electrical and Electronics Engineers|IEEE], IFAC and AAAS Fellow,
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2011. Citation reads: For distinguished contributions to the field of Systems and Control, particularly for feedback control of multi-variable systems, intelligent, hybrid and discrete event system.
- Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control 2010. Citation reads: For fundamental contributions to hybrid control systems, supervisory control of discrete event systems, control of systems over networks and for leadership in the profession.
- Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 1991. Citation reads: For contributions to the theory of feedback stabilization and control of linear multivariable systems.