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Associate Fellow of AIAA, 2024
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Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists (overall) and World's top 1% Scientists in Automation, 2023
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Two papers recognized as Google Scholar Top Papers in the area of Automation and Control Theory, 2023
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Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Fall Semester 2022 CIOS Honor Roll, 2023
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Appointed Dutton-Ducoffe Professor, 2022
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Two papers recognized as Google Scholar Top Papers in the area of Automation and Control Theory, 2022
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Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists (overall) and World's top 1% Scientists in Automation, 2022
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Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: 2021 CIOS Award, 2021.
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Invited Participant, US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) 8th Arab-American Frontiers of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Symposium, Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, 2021
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Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists (overall) and World's top 1% Scientists in Automation, 2021
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Student Recognition of Excellence in Teaching: Class of 1934 CIOS Honor Roll, 2021
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GT Chapter Sigma Xi Young Faculty Award, 2021
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Two papers recognized as Google Scholar Top Papers in the area of Automation and Control Theory, 2020
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Listed in World's Top 2% Scientists (overall) and World's top 1% Scientists in Automation, 2020
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Article Selected as Cover Page in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, vol. 30, no. 9, 2020
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ARO YIP Award, 2019
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Best Associate Editor Award, Control Theory and Technology, Springer, 2019
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Senior Member of AIAA, 2019
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NSF CAREER Award, 2018
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DoD Minerva Research Initiative Award, 2018
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Paper on “Optimal and Autonomous Control Using Reinforcement Learning: A Survey,” is listed at the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Publication Spotlight, 2018
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Paper recognized as one of the Google Scholar Top Papers in the area of Automation and Control Theory, 2018
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International Neural Network Society (INNS) Young Investigator Award, 2016
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Senior Member of IEEE, 2015
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Inclusion of the 2010 Automatica paper in the IFAC Virtual Special Issue of Annual Reviews in Control (This virtual special issue highlights papers published between 2010 and 2013 that have appeared in the six journals of the IFAC), as one of the papers with the highest citation rates in the control field, 2014
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Certificates for Four Research Articles Featured in ScienceDirect Top-25 List of Most Popular (Hottest) Articles in Automatica, Elsevier, 2010-2013
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Honor by the Office of the Provost and the University Library for Creative Works and Awards, University of Texas at Arlington, 2011
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Best Researcher Award, Automation and
Robotics Research Institute, 2011
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Best Paper Award for Autonomous/Unmanned
Vehicles, 27th Army Science Conference, Orlando,
December 2010
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Best Presentation Award at the World
Congress of Computational Intelligence, Barcelona, July
2010
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Invited member
of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society, Tau Beta Pi (TBP), Golden Key
International,
and Eta Kappa Nu (HKN)
honor engineering societies
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Registered
Electrical/Computer Engineer (PE), Technical
Chamber of Greece (2007)
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Biography appears in Marquis Who's
Who in the World since 2009, Marquis Who's
Who in Science and Engineering since 2010 and Marquis Who's
Who in America since 2012
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STEM Doctoral Fellowship (2008,
2009, 2010, 2011)
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Fellowship of
the Greek State
Scholarships Foundation (IKY) for the performance at
undergraduate studies
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Honors for every of the six years high
school education from the Greek Ministry of Education
(GPA 3.92/4)