Christoforos Hadjicostis

Christoforos Hadjicostis
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus

Previous Positions:
Department Chair, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus (Feb. 2008-Sept. 2010)
Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Associate Professor, Decision and Control, Coordinated Science Laboratory, Information Trust Institute

Mailing Address: 

75 Kallipoleos Avenue
P.O. Box 20537

1678 Nicosia
Cyprus


How to reach me:
Office: 110 Green Park
Email: chadjic AT ucy.ac.cy

Tel: +357 22892231

Fax: +357 22892260

Administrative Assistant:
Vasiliki Mousikou

4th Floor Reception
Green Park

Tel: +357 22892271
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Education:
• Ph.D., EECS, (DSPG),Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 1999.
• M.Eng., EECS, (DSPG), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1995.
• BSc in Computer Science and Engineering,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1993.
• BSc in Electrical Engineering,Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1993.
• BSc in Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1999.


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Research interests:
• Fault diagnosis and tolerance in combinational/sequential systems
• Error control coding, coding and graph theory
• Discrete event systems; applications to monitoring, diagnosis and control of large-scale systems and networks
• Model classification and anomaly detection; applications to network security, biosequencing and medical diagnosis
• Algebraic system analysis; applications to Boolean networks and genetic regulatory models

Details on some current projects
(and some past projects as well as some potential projects)

Publications


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Teaching
• UCY: ECE 324: Probability and Random Processes (Spring 2012)
• UCY: ECE 690: Fault Tolerant Systems (Spring 2012)
• UCY: ECE 800: Fault Diagnosis and State Classification (Fall 10)
• UCY: ECE 324: Probability and Random Processes (Spring 10, Spring 11)
• UCY: ECE 311: Introduction to Discrete Mathematics (Fall 07, Fall 08, Fall 09, Fall 11)
• UCY: ECE 417: Introduction to Fault Tolerant Systems (Spring 08, Spring 09)
• Illinois: ECE 290: Introduction to Computer Engineering (Spring 07)
• Illinois: ECE 534: Random Processes (Spring 04, Spring 05)
• Illinois: ECE 459: Communications I (Fall 99, Fall 00, Fall 01, Fall 02, Fall 04, Fall 05)
• Illinois: ECE 410: Digital Signal Processing (Spring 01, Spring 03)
• Illinois: ECE 462: Digital Logic (Spring 02)
• Illinois: ECE 586: Coding Approaches to Reliable System Design (Spring 00, Fall 03, Spring 06)
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Service
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (November 2011-onwards)
• Associate Editor of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems: Theory and Applications (January 2010-onwards)
• Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (December 2007-onwards)
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (December 2005-November 2007)
• Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (December 2003-November 2005)
• Associate Editor on the Conference Editorial Board (CEB) of the IEEE Control Systems Society (Spring 2001-Fall 2007)

• Vice-chair of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee 1.4 on Stochastic Systems, 2011-2014, 2008-2011
• Member of IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) Technical Committee 1.3 on Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems, 2011-2014, 2008-2011

• Conference Co-Chair of the 45th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing
• Co-Chair for the Workshop on Control over Communication Channels (ConCom 2007)
• Conference Co-Chair of the 44th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing
• One of three program chairs for the 2005 IEEE Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control, sponsored by IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society

• Associate Editor for IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control) World Congress 2011
• Serves/served on the Program Committee for WODES 2012, ADHS 2011, SmartGrid 2011, CDC 2011, CASE 2011, MED 2011, DCDS 2011, WODES 2010, CASE 2009, DCDS 2009, ConCom 2009, ITW 2009, MED 2009, ROBOCOMM 2009, CDC 2008, DX-08, DX-07, WODES'08, CDC-ECC 2005, CDC 2002

• Publications Chair for the 7th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, (CASE 2011)
• Publications Co-Chair for the 4th International Symposium on Communication, Control and Signal Processing, (ISCCS 2010)
• Member of National Organizing Committee for the 19th International Conference of Articial Intelligence Networks (ICANN 2009)
• Member of Program Subcommittee for Discrete Event and Hybrid Systems for the 2005 IFAC World Congress (IFAC 2005)
• Member of Organizing Committee for the 2005 IEEE Mediterranean Control Conference (MED 2005)
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Current Graduate Students
• Apostolos Rikos (ECE, MS)
• Christoforos Keroglou (ECE, PhD)
• Nicolas Manitara (ECE, PhD)
• Anna Sidera (ECE, PhD)
• Marios Thoma (ECE, PhD)

Current Undergraduate Students
• Dimitris Galaktiou
• George Georgiou
• Valentinos Pilavakis
• Marina Tsagaridou
• Anastasia Tsiolaki

Past Graduate Students
• Boon-Pang Lim (MS, August 2000)
• Eleftheria Athanasopoulou (MS, December 2002; PhD, July 2007, now at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• Min Cao
• Brian Kominiarek (MS, May 2003)
• Ashley Llorens (MS, May 2003, now at John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL))
• George Takos (MS, May 2004; PhD, July 2007, now at Teranetics Inc.)
• Tim Ernst (MS, August 2004)
• Jason Bryant (MS, August 2004, now at Matlab)
• Yingquan Wu (PhD, September 2004, now at Link-A-Media Devices Corp.)
• Shreyas Sundaram (MS, September 2005; PhD, June 2009, now at University of Waterloo)
• Tung Le (MS, November 2006)
• Haitao Mo (MS, May 2007)
• Rouzbeh Touri (PhD, June 2007, now at Airvana)
• Lingxi Li (PhD, July 2008, now at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI))
• Yu Ru (PhD, August 2010, now at University of California at San Diego)
• George Kourtis (MS, September 2010, now at Electricity Authority Cyprus)
• Anooshiravan Saboori (PhD, October 2010, now at Microsoft)
• Tung Le (PhD, December 2010, now at Singapore Institute of Manufacturing Technology)

Past Undergraduate Students
• Akshay Naheta (ECE)
• Karim Benjelloun (ECE)
• Anthony Fai (ECE)
• Sumanth Kidambi (ECE)
• Samir Majumdar (ECE)
• James Ni (ECE)
• Roshan Raman (ECE)
• Sander Parawira (ECE)
• Melinos Averkiou (CS)
• Stravros Aresti (ECE)
• Apostolos Rikos (ECE)
• Evgenios Christodoulou
• Savvas Miltiadous
• Giwrgos Katsioloudes
• Panayiotis Hadjicosta
• Xenia Tapaki

Brief Biography:

Christoforos Hadjicostis received S.B. degrees in Electrical Engineering, in Computer Science and Engineering, and in Mathematics, the M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1995, and the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1999, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA. In August 1999 he joined the Faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) where he reached the rank of Associate Professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Research Associate Professor with the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and Research Associate Professor with the Information Trust Institute. In 2007, Dr. Hadjicostis joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Cyprus, where he served as the Department Chair from 2008 to 2010. Dr. Hadjicostis teaches and conducts research in the areas of systems and control, communication, and digital signal processing. His current research focuses on fault diagnosis and tolerance in distributed dynamic systems; error control coding; monitoring, diagnosis and control of large-scale discrete event systems; and applications to network security, anomaly detection, medical diagnosis, and biosequencing. Dr. Hadjicostis serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, for the Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology; he has also served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (Regular Papers) and as an Editor on the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society. At the University of Illinois, Dr. Hadjicostis received the Faculty Early Development (CAREER) award from the National Science Foundation in February 2001, the ECE Faculty Outstanding Teaching Award in 2003, and the Willett Faculty Scholar recognition from the College of Engineering in 2005; at the University of Cyprus, he received a 2008 Marie Curie International Reintegration Fellowship from the European Commission. As a graduate student at MIT, he served as president of the MIT Chapter of HKN, received the Harold L. Hazen Teaching Award and the Ernst A. Guillemin Thesis Prize, and received fellowships from the National Semiconductor Corporation and the Grass Instrument Company. Dr. Hadjicostis is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Sigma Xi, and a senior member of the IEEE.

Full Curriculum Vitae (2011)

Email me at:
chadjic AT ucy.ac.cy