Nikos

Nikolaos Bekiaris-Liberis

Assistant Professor,  Technical University of Crete

Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

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

CV

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

Students (Highly motivated students to perform MS/diploma thesis, contact me.)
Teaching
Positions
  • Assistant Professor (2019--current), 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 Recognitions
  • 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 Editorship
  • Associate Editor for Automatica. 2019--current
  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. 2019--current
  • 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--2022 European Control Conference.
  • Associate Editor for the 2019 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 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"