Tryphon Georgiou

Biography

Tryphon T. Georgiou is a UCI Distinguished Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. He studied at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece (Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, 1979), and the University of Florida, Gainesville (PhD 1983). Prior to joining the University of California, Irvine, he served on the faculty at the University of Minnesota, Iowa State University, and Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Georgiou has received the George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the years 1992, 1999, 2003, and 2017, he is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and a Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA).