Loucas S. Louca received his Diploma in Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 1992. He then moved to the University of Michigan where he received his M.S.E. in 1994 and Ph.D. in 1998, both in Mechanical Engineering. During his graduate studies at the University of Michigan he received a Fulbright scholarship (Cyprus-America Scholarship Program) for his Masters degree. He was also a Graduate Student Research Assistant (working for the Automotive Research Center) and a Teaching Assistant for undergraduate and graduate courses in the department of Mechanical Engineering.

Before moving to his current position he worked at the Automotive Research Center (http://arc.engin.umich.edu) as a Research Fellow (1998-2000) and Assistant Research Scientist (2000-2003). He is an active member of the bond graph research community and organizes focused sessions at modeling related conferences. He is also a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the chairman of the Modeling and Identification technical panel of the Dynamic Systems and Control Division.

His research interests lie in the areas of system dynamics and control, bond graph theory, automated modeling, physical system modeling and model reduction of large scale systems, modeling of automotive systems, multi-body dynamics, computer aided modeling and simulation. He is particularly interested in automating the process of generating efficient dynamic models to be used in the system and control design process. He is the author of CAMBAS (Computer Aided Model Building Automation System) an automated modeling software that enables the rapid development of efficient models for linear systems.

System dynamics, vibrations, multi-body dynamics, numerical methods, computer aided modeling and simulation, vehicle dynamics and control, analytical and computational dynamics.