Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Prof. Dr.  John Lygeros

Prof. Dr. John Lygeros

Head of Automatic Control Laboratory

ETH Zürich

Institut für Automatik

ETL I 22

Physikstrasse 3

8092 Zürich

Switzerland

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Research area

Automatic Control

John Lygeros grew up in Athens, Greece where he graduated from Athens College in 1987. He completed a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 and an M.Sc. degree in Systems Control in 1991, both at the Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, U.K.. In 1996 he obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. In the period 1996-2000 he held a series of research appointments at the National Automated Highway Systems Consortium, M.I.T., and U.C. Berkeley. In parallel, he also worked as a part-time research engineer at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, and as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Between July 2000 and March 2003 he was a University Lecturer at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U.K., and a Fellow of Churchill College. Between March 2003 and July 2006 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. In July 2006 he joined the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich where he is currently serving as the Professor for Computation and Control and the Head of the laboratory.

His research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of large scale dynamical systems, with applications to biochemical networks, energy systems, transportation, and advanced manufacturing.

John Lygeros is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the IET and the Technical Chamber of Greece. Between 2012 and 2015 he served in the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control System Society and in the Scientific Steering Committee of the Newton Institute, while between 2015 and 2018 he served as the Head of the Department of Infomation Technology and Electrical Engineering of ETH Zurich. Between 2013 and 2023 he served as the Vice-President Finances and a Council Member of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) and as a Board Member of the IFAC Foundation. Since 2020 he is serving as the Director of the National Centre of Competence in Research "Dependable Ubiquitous Automation" (NCCR Automation, https://nccr-automation.ch/)

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Membership

Since Membership
1993 Member, Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE)
1990 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1990 Member, Institution of Engineering Technology (IET)

Honours

Year Distinction
2023 Advisor, International Federation of Automatic Control
2023 Outstanding Service Award, International Federation of Automatic Control
2022 Key Innovation in Teaching at ETH (KITE) Award, Finalist
2019 Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellowship, University of Melbourne
2018 American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (with M. Schmitt, C. Ramesh and P. Goulart)
2018 European Research Council Advanced Grant
2016 Credit Suisse Award for Best Teaching, ETH Zurich
2016 IEEE Control Systems Society George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (with P. Mohajerin Esfahani and T. Sutter)
2014 Golden Owl teaching award, ETH Zurich.
2012 Golden Owl teaching award, ETH Zurich.
2009 Golden Owl teaching award, ETH Zurich.

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