University of Pennsylvania (May 2005 - Aug. 2008), Philadelphia, PA, USA Ph.D., Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering Thesis: Distributed Control of Robotic Networks Advisor: Prof. George J. Pappas
University of Pennsylvania (Sept. 2003 - May 2005), Philadelphia, PA, USA M.S.E., Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering Advisor: Prof. George J. Pappas
National Technical University of Athens, (Oct. 1997 - Nov. 2002), Athens, Greece Diploma (M.S.E.), Dept. of Mechanical Engineering Advisor: Prof. Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Research
Networked Systems and Science
Distributed Control of Networked Dynamical Systems
Distributed Robotics
Formation Control
Modeling and Identification of Biomolecular Networks
Hybrid Systems
Nonlinear Control, Optimization
Experience & Service
Experience
Research Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher (Aug. 2008 -present) GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Research Assistant (Sept. 2003 -Aug. 2008) GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Research Assistant (Nov. 2001 -Jul. 2003) CSL Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Teaching Ecperience
Co-instructor (Spring 2009) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA MEAM 620: Advanced Robotics (focus on distributed algorithms and robotic networks)
Teaching Assistant (Fall 2006) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA ESE 617: Nonlinear Control Theory
Teaching Assistant (Fall 2004) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA ESE 530: Elements of Probability Theory and Random Processes
Teaching Assistant (Fall 2004) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA ENM 503: Introduction to Probability
Achievements & Professional Societies
Honors & Awards
NSF Student Travel Award for the American Control Conference (2007, 2008)
NSF Student Travel Award for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2005, 2006)
Finalist, Best Student Paper Award, 45th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San Diego, December 2006
Graduate Research Fellowship (Sept. 2003 - Aug. 2008) Dept. of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Award of Academic Excellence in Engineering Sciences for the academic year 2001 - 2002. (Best Diploma Thesis Award) Awarded by the Technical Chamber of Greece
Professional Societies
Invited Session Organizer
Co-organized (with A. Agung Julius) an invited session on Modeling and Identification of Genetic Regulatory Networks at the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, WA, June 2008.
Society Memberships
Student member of IEEE since 2005 (Philadelphia Chapter) Control Systems Society Robotics and Automation Society
Member of the Technical Chamber of Greece since 2003 Mechanical Engineering
Affiliations
GRASP Laboratory (2003 -present) University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Control Systems Laboratory (CSL) (Nov. 2001 -Jul. 2003) Dept. of Mechanical Engineering National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Reviewer
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
IEEE Transactions on Robotics
International Journal of Robotics Research
IEEE International Conference on Decision and Control
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
American Control Conference
European Control Conference
Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control
IFAC World Congress
IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation
Selected Publications
Journals
M. M. Zavlanos and G. J. Pappas. (Dec 2008). "Distributed Connectivity Control of Mobile Networks", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24 (6), 1416-1428.
M. M. Zavlanos and G. J. Pappas. (Nov 2008). "A Dynamical Systems Approach to Weighted Graph Matching", Automatica, 44 (11), 2817-2824.
M. M. Zavlanos and G. J. Pappas. (Feb 2008). "Dynamic Assignment in Distributed Motion Planning with Local Coordination", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 24 (1), 232-242.
M. M. Zavlanos and G. J. Pappas. (Aug 2007). "Potential Fields for Maintaining Connectivity of Mobile Networks", IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 23 (4), 812-816.
D. V. Dimarogonas, S. G. Loizou, K. J. Kyriakopoulos, and M. M. Zavlanos. (Feb 2006). "A Feedback Stabi¬lization and Collision Avoidance Scheme for Multiple Independent Non-Point Agents", Automatica, 42 (2), 229-243.
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