Background

• Born in Athens, Greece, on October 18, 1956
  

• Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering
  National Technical University of Athens, 1979
  

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
  University of Florida, 1983

Present position

Distinguished Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine

Academic positions

University of California, Irvine, 2016 - present
University of Minnesota, 1989 - 2016
Iowa State University, 1986 - 1989
Florida Atlantic University, 1983 - 1986

Awards & Recognitions

• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2023
  

• Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, IVA, 2011
  

• Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), 2021
  

• Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2016
  

• Fellow, Hellenic Institute for Advanced Studies (HIAS), 2023
  

• Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), 2000
  

• 1992 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  T.T. Georgiou & M.C. Smith
  Optimal robustness in the gap metric
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 35:673-686, June 1990
  

• 1999 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  T.T. Georgiou & M.C. Smith
  Robustness Analysis of Nonlinear Feedback Systems An Input-Output Approach
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 42(9): 1200-1221, September 1997
  

• 2003 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  C. Byrnes, T.T. Georgiou and Anders Lindquist
  A generalized entropy criterion for Nevanlinna-Pick interpolation: A convex optimization approach to certain problems in systems and control
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 45(6): 822-839, June 2001
  

• 2017 G.S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society
  Yongxin Chen, T.T. Georgiou and M. Pavon
  Optimal Steering of a Linear Stochastic System to a Final Probability Distribution, Part I
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 61, no. 5, pages 1158 -1169, May 2016
  

• UCI Distinguished Professor, University of California, Irvine, 2018-
  

• Chancellor’s Professor, University of California, Irvine (2016-2018)
  

• Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical Engineering (2002 - 2016), University of Minnesota
  

• Best Instructor Award by the Institute of Technology Student Board, University of Minnesota, 1994

Selected Service

• Organizing committee: Institute of Pure and Applied Math, long program: Non-commutative Optimal Transport, Spring 2025

• Instructor: African Institute for Math. Sciences (AIMS), Quantum Leap Africa-postdoctoral program, Rwanda, April 2022

• Chair, Awards, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2018-2021

• General chair, International Symposium on the Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, MTNS 2016, Minneapolis, July 2016.

• IMA Year in Control 2015-2016. Organizing Committee.

• Director of the Control Science and Dynamical Systems Center (1990 - 2016)
  

• Board of Governors of the Control Systems Society of the IEEE (2002 - 2005),

• Associate Editor:
  IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (1991 - 1992)
  Systems and Control Letters (1995 - 2010)
  SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization (1988 - 1995)
  IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (2007 - 2009)
  IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information (2009 - 2013)