Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow

Technical University of Crete

Department of Production Engineering & Management

Phone:+30 28210 37289. E-Mail: nikos.bekiaris@dssl.tuc.gr

Research Interests
Theory: Distributed parameter systems. Delay systems. Nonlinear control. Adaptive control. Hybrid systems.
Applications: Traffic systems. Oil drilling and production. Automotive engines and catalysts. 3D Printing/Extruders. Networked control systems. Energy systems (including cooling systems and distribution networks). Rolling mills. Crowd motion systems.

List of Publications

Google Scholar profile

Our book

PArtial Differential Equation model-based COntrol of Traffic flow (PADECOT), HORIZON 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie IF

Teaching

Linear Systems (SYS 401), Undergraduate, Winter 2015, Winter 2016.
Control Theory With Applications (SYS 402), Undergraduate, Spring 2016.

CV

Positions

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2017--current), Department of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering (2015--2017), Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece

Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Production Engineering & Management (2015--2017), Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Advisor: Markos Papageorgiou
Postdoctoral researcher in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (2013--2015), University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Alexandre Bayen
Education

PhD in Aerospace Engineering (2013) from the University of California, San Diego
Advisor: Miroslav Krstic
MS in Aerospace Engineering (2010) from the University of California, San Diego
Control Systems and Dynamics
BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2007) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department.
Recognitions

Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship Grant (about 13.5% of the submitted proposals was funded in the 2016 Reintegration scheme), European Commission, 2017.
Best Paper Award, International Conference on Mobile Ubiquitous Computing, Systems, Services and Technologies (UBICOMM), 2015.
Chancellor's Dissertation Medal in Engineering (Best Dissertation Award in Engineering among 150 PhDs granted in 2013), Jacobs School of Engineering, University of California, San Diego, 2014.
Finalist for Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2013.
Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego, 2012.
Finalist for Best Student Paper Award, ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2010.
Jacobs Fellow, Jacobs School of Enginerring, UC San Diego, 2008.

Major Lectures

2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Tutorial Lecture: Control of Nonlinear Delay Systems (slides).
Working Experience

Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company (2012)
Technical Report : ``PDE-Based Control of the Oxygen Storage Level in Three-Way Catalytic Converters: Further Results and Experimental Validation"
Ford Research and Advanced Engineering, Ford Motor Company (2011)
Technical Report : ``PDE-Based Control of the Oxygen Storage Level in Three-Way Catalytic Converters"
Teaching Experience

Instructor, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete:
``Control Theory With Applications", Spring 2015.
Instructor, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete:
``Linear Systems", Winter 2015, 2016.
Co-Instructor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley:
``Control and Optimization of PDEs", Spring 2014.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego:
``Signal and Systems", Summer 2009, Fall 2009.
Teaching Assistant, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UC San Diego:
``Control of Distributed Parameter Systems", Fall 2008, Fall 2011.
Editorship

Guest Editor for the International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, special issue: Robust Adaptive Control: Legacies and Horizons.
Guest Editor for the Transportation Research Part C, special issue: Management of Future Motorway and Urban Traffic Systems
Associate Editor for the 14th IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems.
Conference Organization

One of the main organizers for the 1st Symposium on Management of Future Traffic Systems.