John Lygeros

John Lygeros has been an Associate Professor of Computation and Control at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland, since July 1, 2006. He was born on October 21, 1968 at Wilmington, Delaware, USA. He grew up in Athens, Greece where he graduated from Athens College in 1987. He completed a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering in 1990 and an M.Sc. degree in Systems Control in 1991, both at Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, London, U.K.. In 1996 he obtained a Ph.D. degree from the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, University of California, Berkeley. In the period 1996-2000 he held a series of research appointments at the National Automated Highway Systems Consortium, M.I.T., and U.C. Berkeley. In parallel, he also worked as a part-time research engineer at SRI International, Menlo Park, California, and as a Visiting Professor at the Department Mathematics of the Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France. Between July 2000 and March 2003 he was a University Lecturer at the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, U.K., and a Fellow of Churchill College. Between March 2003 and July 2006 he was an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece. In July 2006 he joined the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zurich an Associate Professor. His research interests include modeling, analysis, and control of hierarchical hybrid systems, with applications to biochemical networks, large-scale systems such as automated highways and air traffic management and control over wireless networks.