Yannis Paschalidis
Professor of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computing & Data Sciences + Director of Hariri Institute
Ioannis (Yannis) Paschalidis is a Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, Founding Professor of Computing & Data Sciences, and Professor of Biostatistics at Boston University. He is the Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering -- BU's federation and convergence accelerator of all University centers and initiatives in this area of research. He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His current research interests lie in the fields of optimization, control, stochastic systems, robust learning, computational medicine, and computational biology. He has published a monograph and more than 270 refereed papers in these topics, and he has been the primary advisor to 35 Ph.D. theses.
Paschalidis' work has been recognized with a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation, several best paper awards, and an IBM/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge Award. His work on health informatics won an IEEE Computer Society Crowd Sourcing Prize and a best paper award by the International Medical Informatics Associations (IMIA). He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, and at the 2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAFKI) Conference. He is a Fellow of IEEE, IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control), and the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association. From 2013 to 2019 he was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems and he is the General Co-Chair of the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.