George Pappas

George Pappas is UPS Foundation Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering. He holds a secondary appointment in Penn's Department of Computer and Information Sciences, as well as its Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He currently serves as the Associate Dean for Research and Innovation at Penn's School of Engineering and Applied Science and as director of the Raj and Neera Singh Program in Artificial Intelligence. Pappas’s research focuses on control systems, robotics, autonomous systems, formal methods, and machine learning for safe and secure cyber-physical systems. He has received numerous awards, including the U.S. National Science Foundation's Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Antonio Ruberti Young Researcher Prize, the George S. Axelby Award, the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award and the George H. Heilmeier Faculty Excellence Award. Pappas has mentored more than 50 students and postdocs, now faculty in leading universities worldwide. A fellow at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and the International Federation of Automatic Control, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2024.