Tryphon T. Georgiou
Tryphon T. Georgiou
Distinguished Professor
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, Irvine (UCI)
Samueli School of Engineering
4200 Engineering Gateway Building, Irvine, CA 92697-3975
tryphon@uci.edu
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Tryphon T. Georgiou is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine, where he has been since 2016. From 1989 to 2016 he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, where he held the Vincentine Hermes-Luh Chair in Electrical Engineering (2002–2016) and directed the Center for Control Science and Dynamical Systems (1990–2016); he is Professor Emeritus there. Earlier he was on the faculty of Iowa State University (1986–1989) and Florida Atlantic University (1983–1986). He received the Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1979 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1983.

His research spans stochastic control, the geometry of optimal transport and Schrödinger bridges, analytic interpolation and moment problems, robust control, stochastic thermodynamics, and mathematical physics.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE, IFAC, SIAM and AAAS, a Fellow of the Hellenic Institute for Advanced Studies, and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA). He is a four-time recipient of the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society (1992, 1999, 2003, 2017).

Awards & Recognitions

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2022

  • 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

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)