Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Associate Professor, Technical University of Crete

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

Phone:+30 28210 37460. E-Mail: bekiaris-liberis@ece.tuc.gr

Research Interests
Theory: Distributed parameter systems. Delay systems. Nonlinear control. Switched systems. Control of large-scale complex systems. Adaptive control and learning systems.
Applications: Traffic flow control & estimation. Control of connected and automated vehicles. Biological transport systems. Occupancy detection in smart buildings. Automotive catalysts. Networked control systems.

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Our book

Micro-Macro Secure Control of Infinite-Dimensional Transport Systems (C-NORA), European Research Council 2022 Consolidator Grant

PArtial Differential Equation model-based COntrol of Traffic flow (PADECOT), HORIZON 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie 2016 IF

Research Team

I am continuously looking for highly motivated PhD/MS students (contact me for further information)

Teaching

Linear Systems (SYS 401, SYS 411), Undergraduate, Winter 2015--2024.
Control Systems (SYS 402, SYS 201), Undergraduate, Spring 2016--2024.
Nonlinear Systems (SYS 603), Graduate, Spring, 2019--2024.
Control of Distributed Parameter Systems (SYS 903), Graduate, Spring, 2025.

Positions

Associate Professor (2022--current), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Assistant Professor (2019--2022), Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow (2017--2019), 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
Lab director: Markos Papageorgiou
Postdoctoral researcher in the Departments of Civil & Environmental Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (2013--2015), University of California, Berkeley
Lab director: 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

IEEE Senior Member, 2023.
European Research Council 2022 Consolidator Grant awarded for proposal "C-NORA" (PE7 panel).
George N. Saridis Best Transactions Paper; 2019 outstanding research paper award (best Regular Paper published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems among all papers published within 2016-2018).
Grade A (fully meets the European Research Council's excellence criterion) awarded for 2020 ERC Starting Grant proposal "INSPIRA", ERC (PE7 panel).
Member of the research team, receiving the 2018 IEEE ITS Outstanding Application Award from the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society for Contributions in Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems and Applications.
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.

Lectures

2012 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
Tutorial Lecture: Control of Nonlinear Delay Systems (slides).
2020 International Graduate School on Control, European Embedded Control Institute
One-week short course (M02) on Control of PDEs and Nonlinear Delay Systems.
Editorship

Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, since 2024.
Associate Editor for Automatica, since 2019.
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2019--2025.
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 2020--2024 European Control Conference.
Associate Editor for the 2019, 2023 IEEE International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing.
Associate Editor for the 2018, 2019, 2021, 2022 IFAC Workshop on Time Delay Systems.
Associate Editor for the 2018--2020, 2022 IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Conference/Workshop Organization
Registration Chair, 2025 European Control Conference.
Control and Adaptation: Imagine What's Next, workshop organized within the 2024 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (in honor of Miroslav Krstic).
One of the main organizers for the 1st Symposium on Management of Future Traffic Systems.
Traffic Flow Control via PDE Techniques, workshop organized within the 2018 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Flyer
Industry 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"
Supervisor: Mrdjan Jankovic