Selected Publications (Full  text - pdf)

 Curriculum Vitae (Printable  Version - pdf)  

 Aerospace Engineering  Graduate Program

 Engine Control Research  Laboratory

 Dynamic Systems Control  Laboratory

Dept. of Mech. Engineering

N207 Engineering Building 1

University of Houston

Houston, TX 77204-4006

Tel : 713-743-4387

Fax: 713-743-4503

Email: karolos@uh.edu

SELECTED AWARDS, HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS

• Invited Speaker and Participant, International Workshop on Fixed-Point Methods for Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering, Banff International Research Center, University of Alberta, Canada, 2009.

  The interdisciplinary workshop brings together a group of world-class participants from diverse areas of science and engineering with the objective of pursuing innovative research an  collaborations

• Award for Outstanding Contribution as Conference Chair, International Association for Science and Technology for Development, 2008

• General Chair, 11th IASTED International Conference on Intelligent System and Control(ISC 2008), Orlando, Florida, Nov. 2008. 

• Invited Plenary Speaker, 6th International Congress of Mechatronics Engineering, Monterrey, Mexico, March 2008.
• Invited Visiting Professorship, Loughborough University, U.K., 2008
  
• ASME Professor of the Year, University of Houston, 2007
  
• Director and Principal Investigator of the Texas Workforce Commission project Aerospace Workforce Innovation Network, 2007-2009.
  
• Director and Principal Investigator of the NSF STEM Center at UH Accelerated B.S. to Graduate (FastGrad) Program in Engineering, 2007-2012.
  
• Invited Speaker, Workshop on New Directions for the Modeling and Control of Complex Systems, Agia Napa, Cyprus, June 2005.
  
• Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004.
  
• University Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award, University of Houston (Assoc. Prof Level), University of Houston, 2003
  
• W. T. Kittinger Outstanding Teaching Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2003
  
• ASME Professor of the Year, University of Houston, 2003.
  
• Outstanding Teacher Award for 2000-2001, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2001
  
• Outstanding Teacher Award for 1999-2000, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 2000
  
• Junior Faculty Research Excellence Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 1999
  
• Herbert Allen Award for Outstanding Contributions by a Young Engineer, ASME South Texas Section 1999
  
• Invited Lecturer and Short-Course presenter, International Summer School on LMI Methods in Identification, Optimization and Control, University of Compiegne, Compiegne, France, May 1999.
  
• Outstanding Teacher Award for 1998-1999, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 1999
  
• Rotary Stellar Award, Rotary National Foundation for Space Achievement, 1999
  
• Technical Educator of the Year, Clear Lake Council of Technical Societies, 1998.
  
• University Excellence in Research and Scholarship Award (Assist. Prof. level), University of Houston, 1998.
  
• ENRON Teaching Excellence Award, University of Houston, 1998.
  
• Outstanding Teacher Award for 1997-1998, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 1998
  
• Outstanding Achievement Award, 1997-1998 FIRST Robotics Competition, Pasadena ISD, 1998.
  
• AIAA Technical Educator of the Year Award, AIAA Houston Section, 1998.
  
• Bill D. Cook Scholar Award, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 1998.
  
• Ralph R. Teetor Award, Society of Automotive Engineers, 1998.
  
• ASME Professor of the Year, University of Houston, 1997.
  
• National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 1997.
  
• Outstanding Teacher Award for 1996-1997, Cullen College of Engineering, University of Houston, 1997
  
• ASME Professor of the Year, University of Houston, 1996.
  
• IEEE Control Systems Society Travel Award, 35th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Kobe, Japan, 1996.
  
• Session Best Paper Presentation Award, American Control Conference, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2003
  
• Scholarship, Summer School on Control Theory, Center for Research in Mathematics, University of Montreal, 1992.
  
• Scholarship, A. Onassis Foundation 1987-1993.
  
• Scholarship, I. Pateras Foundation 1987-1994.
  
• Who’s Who in Science and Engineering, 1994-present
  
• Member, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi
  
  
  

 Loughborough University -  Visiting Professorship

 IASTED Intelligent Control  Systems Conference 2008 -  Conference Chair