Regular biography
George J. Pappas is a Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, affiliated with the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He holds the title of UPS Foundation Professor of Transportation, Electrical and Systems Engineering, and is also associated with Computer and Information Science, as well as Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. Additionally, he serves as Associate Dean for Research. His research interests are not explicitly detailed in the provided information.
Scholar-generated biography
George Pappas is a UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in Control theory, robotics, formal methods, trustworthy AI, and cyber-physical systems. His research focuses on the design and analysis of systems that integrate computation, communication, and control. Key areas include the development of formal verification techniques for safety-critical systems, the application of temporal logic in motion planning, and the study of robustness in AI systems. His work also addresses challenges in multiagent systems, wireless sensor networks, and epidemic modeling. Pappas has contributed to the understanding of flocking behavior in mobile agents and the development of frameworks for verifying system safety using barrier certificates.