Rate My Professor Antonios Tzes

Antonios Tzes is the Alan Howard Distinguished Professor in Artificial Intelligence, Program Head of Electrical Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi. He also holds the position of Global Network Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Tzes received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1985, an M.Sc. in 1987, and a Ph.D. in 1990 from The Ohio State University. His research specializations encompass unmanned aerial vehicles, cooperative control of networked systems, surgical robots, mechatronics, and control engineering applications, including autonomous mobile systems, surgical robotics, networked systems, and cyber-physical systems. As director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at NYU Abu Dhabi, he has obtained funding from NASA, the National Science Foundation, the European Union under Horizon 2020, and the European Space Agency.

Tzes's distinguished career includes his appointment as Professor in the Division of Engineering at New York University Abu Dhabi in 2017 and Program Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2018. Prior roles encompass Professor at the University of Patras from 1999, where he served as Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2009 to 2013, and tenured Associate Professor at Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering) from 1990 to 1999. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Loughborough from 2009 to 2013. Among his honors are the Best Paper Award in 2014 from IET Control Theory & Applications for “Model Predictive Quadrotor Control: Attitude, Altitude, and Position Experimental Studies” and the ECC 2003 IST Prize Award for “Development and Experimental Verification of a Mobile Client-Centric Networked Controlled System.” Tzes has authored more than 240 papers in international journals and conferences. Notable publications include “Distributed Collaborative Coverage-Control Schemes for Non-Convex Domains” (IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 2015), “Development and Control of a Multifunctional Prosthetic Hand with Shape Memory Alloy Actuators” (International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, 2015), and “Model Predictive Quadrotor Control: Attitude, Altitude, and Position Experimental Studies” (IET Control Theory & Applications, 2012). He has contributed to editorial boards of journals such as IEEE Control Systems Magazine and Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, chaired IEEE’s Control Systems Society Greek Chapter, and held organizing roles in international conferences including Program Chairman for MIM 2000 and General Chairman for MED 2011.