George Pappas

George Pappas is the UPS Foundation Professor at the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, with secondary appointments in Computer and Information Sciences and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He serves as Associate Dean for Research and Innovation and Director of the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence.

• Primary Affiliation: Electrical and Systems Engineering
• Secondary Appointments: Computer and Information Sciences, Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics

Research Interests: Pappas specializes in control systems, robotics, autonomous systems, formal methods, and machine learning for safe and secure cyber-physical systems. His work bridges theoretical and applied domains in:

• Safe and Secure AI for Societal-Scale Systems
• Conformal Prediction and Risk Minimization
• Multi-Agent Coordination and Learning
• Formal Verification of AI-Enabled Systems
• Control Theory Applications in Robotics
• Emerging Data Science Methods

Selected Scientific Awards:

• 2024: U.S. National Academy of Engineering
• 2023: Best Paper Award, ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems
• 2021: EE Distinguished Alumni Award, UC Berkeley EECS
• 2020: IFAC Fellow
• 2020: Best Paper Award, IEEE ICASSP
• 2018: IEEE CSS Outstanding Paper Award
• 2017: IEEE ICRA Best Conference Paper
• 2017: Provost’s Award for Distinguished Ph.D. Teaching

Advising and Grants: Pappas has mentored over fifty students and postdocs now at leading universities. His research is supported by projects like THEORINET, EnCORE, and IoT4Ag, focusing on interpretable networks, core data science methods, and precision agriculture technologies.