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George J. Pappas: Heilmeier Research Award

George J. Pappas

George J. Pappas, Joseph Moore Professor and chair in the department of electrical and systems engineering, is the recipient of the 2014-2015 George H. Heilmeier Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for “fundamental contributions to embedded, hybrid and networked control systems.”

The Heilmeier Award honors a Penn Engineering faculty member whose work is scientifically meritorious and has high technological impact and visibility. Dr. Pappas’s current research interests include control theory and, in particular, hybrid systems, embedded and cyber-physical systems and hierarchical and distributed control systems, with applications to unmanned aerial vehicles, distributed robotics, green buildings and biomolecular networks.

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