- Graduate Field Affiliations
- Applied Mathematics
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- Electrical and Computer Engineering
- Mechanical Engineering
- Systems Engineering
Biography
Andreas Malikopoulos is a professor in the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Information and Decision Science Lab at Cornell University. Prior to these appointments, he was the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering (2017-2023) and the founding director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (2019-2023) at the University of Delaware. Before he joined University of Delaware, he was the Alvin M. Weinberg Fellow (2010-2017) in the Energy & Transportation Science Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the Deputy Director of the Urban Dynamics Institute (2014-2017) at ORNL, and a senior researcher in General Motors Global Research & Development (2008-2010). He received a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in mechanical engineering.
Dr. Malikopoulos is the recipient of several prizes and awards, including the 2007 Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, the 2007 University of Michigan Teaching Fellow, the 2010 Alvin M. Weinberg Fellowship, the 2019 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 University of Delaware’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate in the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session on transportation at the 2016 European-American FOE Symposium. He has also been selected as a 2012 Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar by the National Academy of Sciences. Dr. Malikopoulos is an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and a Senior Editor of IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Fellow of the ASME, and a member of the Board of Governors and Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.
Research Interests
Dr. Malikopoulos’ research interests are grounded at the intersection of learning and control to enable systems—whether vehicles, robots, or large-scale infrastructures—to operate autonomously and achieve near-optimal performance while safely adapting to and interacting with dynamic environments. His work integrates decision-theoretic foundations with learning-based methods to endow engineered systems with the capability to reason, learn, and act in real time. While these methodologies are broadly applicable, his principal domain of application has been emerging mobility systems, including connected and automated vehicles, shared autonomous mobility, and smart-city infrastructures.
Teaching Interests
Many of Dr. Malikopoulos’ activities as a teacher and mentor are governed by his conviction that the key to effective teaching is enthusiasm, both for your subject and for conveying knowledge to your students. In his professional career in industry, National Labs, and academia, he has realized that the only way to learn a subject is through hard work and application of theoretical knowledge to real projects. Students work hard when they are motivated, encouraged when they face adversity, and rewarded for their accomplishments.
Dr. Malikopoulos has taught fundamental control courses as well as advanced courses in the areas of stochastic optimal control, game theory, mechanism design, convex optimization, and nonlinear programming. He teaches courses on optimal decision-making, team theory, game theory, and mechanism design.
Select Publications
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Dave, A., Bang, H., and Malikopoulos, A.A., “A Framework for Effective AI Recommendations in Cyber-Physical-Human Systems,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, Vol. 8, pp. 1379 –1384, 2024.
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Chremos, I.V. and Malikopoulos, A.A., “Mechanism Design Theory in Control Engineering: A Tutorial and Overview of Applications in Communication, Power Grid, Transportation, and Security Systems”, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 44, 1, pp. 20–45, 2024.
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Chremos, I.V. and Malikopoulos, A.A., “A Traveler-centric Mobility Game: Efficiency and Stability Under Rationality and Prospect Theory,” PLoS ONE, 18 (5), 2023.
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Malikopoulos, A.A., “Separation of Learning and Control for Cyber-Physical Systems, ”Automatica, 151, 110912, 2023.
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Malikopoulos, A.A., “On Team Decision Problems with Nonclassical Information Structures,” IEEE Trans. Autom. Control, Vol. 68, 7, pp. 3915–3930, 2022.
Select Awards and Honors
- Full Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society 2025
- Best Paper Award finalist (as advisor), American Control Conference, ASME Automotive and Transportation Systems Technical Committee 2025
- Outstanding Student Paper Prize (as advisor), IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Smart Cities 2025
- Distinguished Lecturer at the 37th Chinese Control and Decision Conference 2025
- Keynote Speaker, BrainLink X-Lab Day, Korean Federation of Science & Technology Societies 2024
- Keynote Speaker, 17th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems 2024
- IFAC Young Author Award - finalist (as advisor) 17th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems 2024
- Keynote Speaker, International Symposium on Transportation Data & Modeling 2023
- Best Paper Award, IEEE 2nd Annual International Conference on Digital Twins and Parallel Intelligence 2022
- Outstanding Student Paper Prize (as advisor), IEEE Control Systems Society Technical Committee on Smart Cities 2022
- Elected to Board of Governors for 2022-2025, IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society 2021
- Best Student Paper Award – finalist (as advisor), 16th IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation 2020
- University of Delaware’s College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award 2020
- IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Young Researcher Award 2019
- Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Endowed Chair 2018
- American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Fellow 2017
- 1st most cited author in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems 2017
- NAE EU-US Frontiers of Engineering session organizer 2016
- NAS Kavli Frontiers of Science Scholar 2012
- NAE GE-US Frontiers of Engineering participant 2010
- Michigan Teaching Fellow, University of Michigan 2007
- Dare to Dream Opportunity Grant from the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute, University of Michigan Ross School of Business 2007
Education
- Ph.D. (Mechanical Engineering) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2008
- M.S. (Mechanical Engineering) University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2004
- Diploma (Mechanical Engineering) National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece 2000
