Professional Activities (See Resume for Updates)

Prior to 2010

  • Organizer and National Organizing Committee Chair 12th IFAC Symposium on Transportation Systems, September 2-4, 2009
  • Organizer and General Chair of the 2008 International Trade and Freight Transportation Conference, September 1-3, 2008, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
  • Technical Program Chair of the 2007  IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, June 13-15, 2007, Istanbul, Turkey
  • Organizer and Program Chair of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems And Computing: Theory And Applications (ISYC), July 6-7, 2006, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
  • Technical Program Chair of the 2nd Annual National Urban Freight Conference, Dec. 5-7, 2007
  • Associate Editor for the 2008  IFAC Congress, July 2008, Korea
  • Chair of the IEEE Fellow committee of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Society 2006-2008
  • Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1999 to 2010
  • IEEE Control System Society External Member  IEEE-USA Transportation Policy   1995-2005
  • Organizer of the Workshop on Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, June 30-July 2, 2005, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
  • Invited participant to FHWA Advanced Research Think Tank Meeting, Berkeley, CA October 26-27, 2006
  • Steering Committee Chair IEEE 13th Mediterranean Conference, June 2005, Limassol, Cyprus
  • Technical Program Chairman IEEE 12th Mediterranean Conference, June 2004, Kusadaci, Turkey
  • Session Chair at IEEE Conference on Decisions and Control and European Control Conference, Dec. 2005, Seville Spain
  • Session Chair at IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sept. 2005, Vienna Austria
  • Control System Society Member on IEEE ITS Council Committee, 1997 to 2005
  • Control System Society Chair Member of Technical Activities Board, 2000 to 2005
  • Guest Editor on Special Issue on Adaptive Cruise Control, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sept. 2003, Vol. 4, No. 3
  • External Committee Member on IEEE-USA Transportation and Aerospace Technology Policy,  2000-2005
  • Vice-Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems, 2000 to 2005
  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on ITS 1999- 2004
  • Associate Editor for Automatica, December 1993 – 1995.
  • Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 1987 – 1990.
  • Member of the Editorial Board for the International Journal of Control. 1990-1995
  • Member of the Technical Review Panel for the IVHS-IDEA program of the Transportation Research Board, 1992- 2000.
  • Member of the Steering Committee on Advanced Vehicle Control Systems of IVHS America, 1992- 2000
  • Member of the Advisory Group on Highway Electrification and Automation Technologies Project for the Southern California Association of Governments, 1992
  • Session Chairman: The Third Yale Workshop on Applications of Adaptive Systems Theory, June 1983; 1984, 1989, 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997 American Control Conference; 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1993, 1996, 1997, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • Co-Organizer of the Montana Summer Institute on Current Issues in Adaptive Control, August 1984, 1985.
  • Session Organizer: 1986, 1990, 1992 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • Program Committee Member: 1987, 1992, 1997 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
  • Program Committee Member: IFAC 7th Symposium on Transportation Systems: Theory and Application of Advanced Technology, China 1994.
  • International Program Committee Member: IFAC Workshop on Robustness Issues in Adaptive Control, New South Wales, Australia, August 1988.
  • Program Committee Member: International Conference on Vehicle Navigation and Information Systems, Ottawa, Canada, October 1993.
  • General Chairman and Organizer of the Third IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on New Directions in Control and Automation, July 11-13, 1995, Limassol, Cyprus
  • Member of the IEEE Control System Society, Fellow Nominating Committee, 2000
  • Finance Chairman and Organizer of the 5th IEEE Mediterranean Symposium on Control and Systems, July 21-23, 1997, Paphos, Cyprus
  • International Program Committee Member: International Conference on Advances in Vehicle Control and Safety, AVCS’98, Amiens-France, July 1-3, 1998
  • Program Chairman of the 3rd IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2000

2010

  • Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2005-present
  • Member of the Board of Governors of the Mediterranean Control Association, 1998-present
  • Chairman of the IFAC Technical Committee on Transportation Systems, 2005 to 2009
  • Associate Editor of the 13th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems – ITSC2010
  • Associate Editor for 2010 Intelligent Vehicles Symposium  June 21-24, 2010 in University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
  • NSF Review Panelist NSF CPS Medium Panel, Transportation, P101806 June 7-8, 2010
  • Expert panel member for evaluating  ‘Concepts and Solutions for Zero-Emission Container Movement Systems’ for the Ports of Los Angeles/Long Beach and Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, 2010
  • Panel member of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cyprus committee (SEKAP) for accreditation of University programs in Cyprus 2007-2011
  •  Expert panel member to review test plans by the USDOT/VOLPE  to look into vehicle safety with focus on alleged unattended Toyota acceleration problem 2010
  • Invited Participant NSF-sponsored Workshop on ‘The Future of Intelligent Transportation Systems and its Implication with regard to Mobility and Sustainability’, Columbus, Ohio, May 4-5, 2010
  • IPC member IFAC Symposium Advances in Automotive Control, Munich, Germany, July 12-14, 2010
  • Member of the European Space Policy expert panel of the Ministry of Transportation and Works of the Republic of Cyprus 1/2009- present
  • Guest Editor of the special Issue on ‘Selected papers from the 2nd National Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach, CA, Dec. 2007’ Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Vol. 46E, issue 4, July 2010

2011

  • Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society, 2005-present
  • Member of Evaluation Committee of Private College and University Programs appointed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Cyprus, 2011-present
  • Panel Reviewer for the Department of Energy (DOE) ‘Driver Feedback Technology Area of Interest of the FY 2011 Vehicle Technologies Program Wide Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA-0000239)
  • Track Chair on Port Operations and Program Organizer Committee member of the 4th METRANS National Urban Freight Conference, Long Beach, CA, October 12-14, 2011
  • Program Committee Member of the 2011 IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Corfu, Greece
  • Chair of the external evaluation committee for the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of the Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece appointed by the Higher Education Quality Assurance Agency of Greece, May/June 2011.
  • Reviewer for the Research Grant Council (RGC) of Hong Kong, 2011
  • Reviewer for the EPSRC Research Grants, UK, 2011
  • Associate Editor for the Intelligent Vehicle Symposium June 2011 Kongresshaus Baden-Baden, Germany
  • Guest Editor for International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing on ‘New trends in Adaptive Control Systems’ 2011
  • Advisory Board Member for the Integrated Series on Intelligent Systems Books to be published by Zhejiang University and Springer

2012

  • Proposal Review for Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics (DINALOG), Netherlands
  • Program Committee of the 2012 International Conference on Logistics and Maritime Systems (LOGMS) to be held in Bremen, Germany, August 22-24 2012.
  • Guest Editor International Journal of Adaptive Control
    and Signal Processing, Special Issue on New trends in Adaptive Control Systems 2012
  • Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 2012-present
  • Associate Editor, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES’12) sponsored by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Istanbul July 24-27, 2012.
  • Program Committee Member of the 2012 International Conference on Logistics and Maritime Systems (LOGMS) held in Bremen, Germany, August 22-24 2012.
  • International Program Chair of the IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation to take place in Sept. 2012 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2013

  • Associate Editor of IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information 2012-present
  • External member of promotion committee of Prof. Papamichael Technical University of Crete, Greece
  • External member of promotion committee of Prof. Boutalis Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
  • Member of the committee for the external evaluation of the Postgraduate Programs of the School of Science and Technology (a. MSc in Information and Communication Technology Systems and b. MSc in Energy Systems) of the International Hellenic University, November 4 – 9 2013
  • 2013 ITSS Award evaluation committee
  • Member of the Council of Educational Evaluation-Accreditation (CEEA/SEKAP), Ministry of Education, Republic of Cyprus
  • Proposal Review for Dutch Institute for Advanced Logistics (DINALOG), Netherlands

 

University Services/Committees/Activities

 

Current

  • Director of the Masters Degree Program in Financial Engineering 2008-present
  • Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies 1992-present
  • Member of executive committee of METRANS 1999-present
  • Associate Director for Research for METRANS 2006-present

2013

  • Member of Engineering Faculty Council (EFC)
  • Member of Merit Review Committee for Research

2012

  • Member of the advisory committee of the Ming Hsieh Institute (MHI) 2011-present
  • Chair of the Evaluation Committee of evaluating the Chair of EE systems, 2012
  • Member of committee for Chair election EE systems, 2012
  • Member of Merit Review Committee for Teaching and Service
  • Member of Engineering Faculty Council (EFC)

 

2010-2011

  • Member of the Merit Review Committee for Teaching and Service 2010
  • Member of Engineering Faculty Council (EFC) Sept. 2010-present
  • Representative of EFC to the Division of Engineering Education (DEE) School of Engineering Committee, Oct. 2010-2011
  • Meeting with incoming MS students on Preview event on Financial Engineering Incoming Students, November 4, 2011, Town and Gown

2006-2008

  • Chair of Merit Review Department Sub-Committee 2004-2006
  • Controls group leader 2004-2008
  • Member of the Engineering Faculty Council 2004-2008

2004-2005

  • Chair of the Faculty Merit Review Committee of the Engineering Faculty Council 2005
  • Chair of the Department Research Merit Committee for 2004 evaluation
  • Engineering Faculty Subcommittee on Dean’s Evaluation, 2004/2005
  • Associate Chairman of Engineering Faculty Council 2004-2005
  • Member of University Faculty Senate 2004-2005
  • Member of University Research Committee 2004-2005
  • Member of Executive Committee for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure, School of Engineering, 2003-2005
  • Chair of Research Merit Committee 2005

2001-2003

  • EE-Systems Department Strategic Guidance Committee Member 2001-present
  • Chair of Research Merit Committee, 2001
  • Chair of Research Merit Committee , 2002
  • Member of Search Committee for EE-Systems Department Chair, 2002-03
  • Member of the EE-Systems Department Curriculum Committee 2002-present
  • METRANS Executive Committee Member 2000-present
  • Director Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies 1992-present
  • Member of Executive Committee for Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure, School of Engineering, 2003
  • Member of EE-Systems Nomination for Awards Committee 2003-present