Anthony Tzes
Professor
University of Patras
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Rio GR-26500, Greece
Phone: +30-261-0996453 (Lab) +30-261-0997309 (Fax)
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Dr. Anthony Tzes (Senior Member, IEEE) is Professor and Head (2009-13) of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University of Patras (UPAT) in Greece. He is a graduate of UPAT (1985) and has received his M.Sc. and doctorate from the Ohio State University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. From 1990 till 1999 he was (tenured associate professor) with Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
His research interests include Networked Controlled Systems, MEMs, Robotics, Mechatronics, Adaptive Control, Neural Networks and Fuzzy Logic Applications for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Adaptive Fuzzy Control, Instrumentation Embedded Systems, System Identification and Signal Processing.
Prof. Tzes has been a committee member of the Advanced Traffic Management Systems of the ITS-America organization, and has received research funding from various organizations including NASA, the National (U.S.) Science Foundation, the European Union (FP6), and the European Space Agency (ESA).
He has been the Chairman of IEEE’s Control Systems Society Greek Chapter, a member of the national (Greek) committee of the European Control Association (EUCA), member at several committees of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), and the national representative (2006-9) to EU’s FP7’s thematic area “Regions of Knowledge, Research Potential and Coherent Development of Policies”. He has served in various positions (Program Chairman (MIM ’00), Organizing Committee Chairman (ECC’07), General Chairman (MED2011)), and as IPC-member at several international conferences.
He has over ten years of experience as the director of the Instrumentation and Control Laboratory at NYU Polytechnic focusing on smart sensors and self-tuning systems. Concurrently, he served as the principal investigator of the Urban Intelligent Transportation Systems Center in New York, NY. While in Greece, he is the leader and principal investigator of the “Applied Networked micro Mechatronics Systems group”.
He has authored more than 60(190) papers published in international journals(conferences) and has served in the editorial board of several journals (e.g. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Circuits Systems and Computers, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems). He is a Visiting Professor at U. of Loughborough, UK.
He has supervised more than ten completed doctoral students, who are currently employed as faculty members or researchers in universities worldwide. His current research is funded by several national (Greek) and EU-projects.