Panagiotis Tsiotras

David & Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair, Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech

Role: Scientist

Sites: CDL-Atlanta, CDL-Paris, CDL-Toronto

Stream: Space

Panagiotis Tsiotras holds the David & Andrew Lewis Endowed Chair in the Daniel Guggenheim School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is also the associate director at the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines. His current research interests include nonlinear and optimal control and their connections with AI, planning, and decision-making, emphasizing autonomous ground, aerial, and space vehicle applications. Panagiotis has published more than 350 journal and conference articles in these areas.

Prior to joining the faculty at Georgia Tech, he was an assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of Virginia. He has also held visiting appointments with MIT, JPL, INRIA, Rocquencourt, the Laboratoire de Automatique de Grenoble, and the Ecole des Mines de Paris (Mines ParisTech). Panagiotis is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award, the IEEE Technical Excellence Award in Aerospace Controls, the Outstanding Aerospace Engineer Award from Purdue, the Sigma Xi President, the Visitor’s Award for Excellence in Research as well as numerous other fellowships and scholarships.

He is currently the chief editor of the Frontiers in Robotics & AI, in the area of space robotics, and an associate editor for the Dynamic Games and Applications journal. In the past, Panagiotis has served as an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics, the IEEE Control Systems Magazine, and the Journal of Dynamical and Control Systems. He is a Fellow of the AIAA, IEEE, and AAS.