Distinguished Lecturer

Petros A. Ioannou received the B.Sc. degree with First Class Honors from University College, London, England, in 1978 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, in 1980 and 1982, respectively. In 1982, Dr. Ioannou joined the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California. He is currently the A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Chair Professor in the same Department and the Director of the Center of Advanced Transportation Technologies. He holds the prestigious title of University Professor and has courtesy appointments with the Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Industrial System Engineering. He is also the Associate Director for Research for the University Transportation Center METRANS at the University of Southern California. He is the founder and Director of the Master Degree program on Financial Engineering at USC. Dr. Ioannou was the recipient of the Axelby Best Paper Award by the IEEE Control System Society in 1984 and the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. In 2009 he received the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE) Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Society (ITSS) Outstanding ITS Application Award and the 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (former IEE) in UK. In 2012 he received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Research Award. In 2016 he received the IEEE Transportation Technologies Field Award (highest level in IEEE), the Senior Research Award from the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Transition to Practice Award from the IEEE Control System Society. In 2019 he received the User-Inspired Research Award in recognition and Appreciation of Excellence from the Viterbi School of Engineering. In 2022 he was inducted to the National Academy of Engineering and to the National Academy of Inventors and became foreign member of the Academy Europaea. In 2023 he became Foreign Member of the European Academy of Sciences. He is currently the Vice President for Membership Activities of the IEEE ITS Society. Prior to that he was Vice President for Publications and the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the International Journal of Control, Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He served as a Member of the Control System society on IEEE ITS Council Committee and his center on advanced transportation technologies was a founding member of ITS America. He also served as Associate Editor at Large of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and Chairman of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) Technical Committee on Transportation Systems. He served as a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE ITS Society for over a decade. He is one of the founders of the Mediterranean Control Association and a member of the Board of Governors and one of the founders of the IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference, which has been taking place annually since 1992. He is a co-founder of the University Transportation Center, METRANS, at the University of Southern California and California State University Long Beach. Dr. Ioannou is a Lifetime Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the author/co-author of 9 books and over 400 research publications in the area of controls, vehicle dynamics, neural networks, nonlinear dynamical systems, intelligent transportation systems and Financial Engineering. He served as a technical consultant to several automotive, aerospace and computer/electronics companies and as expert witness on robotics, automotive control and sensor systems and safety.