Research

The focal areas of teaching and research are intelligent systems and control, adaptive and learning  systems, fault diagnosis, computational intelligence and neural networks, cooperative control and distributed agents, monitoring and control of large-scale and safety-critical systems.

Highlights of International Academic and Professional Recognition

  • Elected founding member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts (2019-present)
  • Appointed Visiting Professor of Imperial College London (2019-present)
  • Recipient of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award – citation: for pioneering the use of neural networks and learning systems in monitoring and control (2016)
  • Recipient of the Cyprus Distinguished Researcher Award (presented by the President of Cyprus in November 2015)
  • Awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant (2021-2027)
  • Awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (2012-2018)
  • IEEE Fellow — for contributions to the theory and application of intelligent systems and control, (2006)
  • IFAC Fellow – for contributions to the theory and application of intelligent control and learning systems (2016)
  • Recipient of the Research Excellence Award from the University of Cyprus, [the first recipient of the award after it was established], (June 2015)
  • Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS), 2004-2010, (current Impact Factor: 11.68)
  • President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2012, 2013)
  • President of the European Control Association (EUCA) (2018, 2019)
  • Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2014, 2015,2016,2017)
  • Panel Chair for the evaluation of proposals submitted to the ERC Advanced Grant in the area of electrical and computer engineering (PE7), 2015, 2017, and 2019.
  • Invited Keynote Plenary Speaker at more than 55 international conferences.
  • Received more than 20,900 citations according to Google Scholar with an h-index = 70.
  • IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the area of computational intelligence (01/2010 – 12/2012)
  • Chair of the Awards Committee for the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2010, 2018).
  • Participated in 76 research projects/grants totalling more than €50 His research has been funded by several agencies and industry in the United States, by the European Commission and by the Research Promotion Foundation of Cyprus.
  • Elected AdCom Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (01/2008–12/2010)
  • Elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (01/2008–12/2010)
  • Published more than 400 articles in refereed journals, edited books and refereed conference proceedings, and co-authored the book Adaptive Approximation Based Control, published by Wiley in 2006. Also the holder of 6 patents.

Editorial Activities

  • Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (01/2004–12/2009).
  • Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE (1/2021-present).
  • Associate Editor of the Annual Reviews in Control (Elsevier) (1/2021-present).
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (1/98-12/03).
  • Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1/99-1/02).
  • Editor of the journal Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control, Now Publishers, (01/13-present)
  • Associate Editor, IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica (01/2016-present)
  • Advisory Board member of the SCIENCE CHINA Information Sciences, Science China Press, (10/2012-12/2016)
  • Advisory Board member of the Cognitive Computation Journal, Springer, (06/2010-present).
  • Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science (1/02-present).
  • Advisory Board member of the International Journal of BioSciences and Technology (01/2008-present)
  • Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, Inderscience Publishers, (6/05-12/14).
  • Associate Editor for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (1995-1998).

Other Professional Service Activities

  • Elected President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (01/2012-12/2013)
  • Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee (2014, 2015,2016, 2017)
  • Panel Chair for the evaluation of proposals submitted to the ERC Advanced Grant in the area of electrical and computer engineering (PE7), 2015, 2017.
  • Elected AdCom Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (01/2008–12/2010)
  • Elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (01/2008–12/2010)
  • Chair of the Awards Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2010 and 2018)
  • Member of the Awards Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (01/2004-present).
  • Vice President-Conferences of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (01/2002—12/2003).
  • Appointed Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (01/2007–12/2007)
  • Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Control, IEEE Control Systems Society (2003-05)
  • Member of the IEEE Steering Committee on Intelligent Control (1996-present).
  • Member of the IFAC Steering Committee on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (1997-present).
  • Member of the Technical Committee on Neural Networks of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (01/2004-present).
  • Member of the Executive Board of Mediterranean Control Association (06/2005-present).