Biography

George Papavassilopoulos graduated from the Varvakeion High School of Athens and received the Diploma in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in 1975 and the MSc and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1977 and 1979 respectively. In 1979 he joined the Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems of the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor and was later promoted to Associate and Full Professor with tenure. In 2000 he joined the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens as Full Professor where he was also the director of the Control and Decision Laboratory. In January 2020 he joined again USC where he is currently Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering Practice. His basic areas of interest are Controls, Optimization, and Dynamic Games. A considerable part of his research is in the area of Dynamic Stochastic Games. He has also conducted research in Decentralized Adaptive Control, Robotics, Optimization Algorithms, Target Interception, Jamming, Stochastic Learning Automata, Linear Complementarity Problems and Bilinear Matrix Inequalities for Robust Control, Automata, Linear Complementarity Problems and Bilinear Matrix Inequalities for Robust Control, Computational Complexity, Markovian Learning, Parallel Algorithms for Nonconvex Problems, Genetic Algorithms, and Nonlinear Filtering, Epidemics Spread Models. He has also done research in applications to Biomedical Engineering, Economics, Organizational Structures, Energy and Telecommunication Policy, Computer and Network Security, and Environmental Problems. His current teaching and research interests are in the area of Finance with emphasis on Optimization, Decision Making and Machine Learning.

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