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Petros Ioannou

Petros Ioannou

Petros A. Ioannou is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California and holds the A.V ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Endowed Chair. He also holds courtesy appointments with the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Department of Industrial Systems Engineering. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies and co founder and Associate Director for Research of the University Transportation Center METRANS at the University of Southern California. Dr. Ioannou was the recipient of the Axelby Outstanding Paper Award by the IEEE Control System Society in 1984 and the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. In 2009 he received the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society (ITSS) Outstanding Application Award and the 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control. In 2012 he received the IEEE ITSS Research Award and in 2016 the IEEE Transportation Technologies Field Award. In 2022 he was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering.
Dr. Ioannou is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC and AAAS and the author/co-author of 9 books and over 400 research papers in the area of controls and applications and intelligent transportation systems.