People

PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR

Dr. Andreas Malikopoulos is the Terri Connor Kelly and John Kelly Career Development Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Director of the Sociotechnical Systems Center (SSC) at the University of Delaware (UD).  Before joining UD, he was the Deputy Director and the Lead of the Sustainable Mobility Theme of the Urban Dynamics Institute at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and a Senior Researcher with General Motors Global Research & Development. He received a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 2000, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2004 and 2008, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. His research interests span several fields, including analysis, optimization, and control of cyber-physical systems; decentralized stochastic systems; stochastic scheduling and resource allocation; and learning in complex systems. 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 ITS Young Researcher Award, and the 2020 College of Engineering Outstanding Junior Faculty Award. He has been selected by the National Academy of Engineering to participate at the 2010 German-American Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium and organize a session in 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 has been an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles and IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems from 2017 through 2020. He is currently an Associate Editor of Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, and the Editor-in-Chief of Frontiers in Sustainable Cities — Urban Transportation Systems and Mobility. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ASME.

andreas [at] udel.edu | Room: 222 Spencer Lab | Phone: 302-831-2889 | curriculum vitae | bio

PHD STUDENTS

Heeseung Bang

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
heeseung [at] udel.edu
website

Ioannis Chremos

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-6576
ichremos[at] udel.edu

Aditya Dave

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
adidave [at] udel.edu
website

Yiannis Faros

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302-831-6576
ifaros [at] udel.edu

Viet-Anh Le

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-6576
vietale [at] udel.edu
website

Filippos Tzortzoglou

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302-831-6576
ftzortzo [at] udel.edu

Alejandra Valencia

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302-831-6576
aleval [at] udel.edu

Nishanth Venkatesh S

PhD Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
nish [at] udel.edu

MS STUDENTS

Amanda Kelly

MS Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
dicester [at] udel.edu

Sai Krishna Sumanth Nakka

MSR Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-6576
ichremos[at] udel.edu

Raymond Zayas

MS Student

328 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
adidave [at] udel.edu
website

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Juan Manuel Nunez Bastidas

Visitor Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

Matt Benvenuto

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
mattbenv [at] udel.edu

Nick Benzi

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
nbenzi [at] udel.edu

Aiden Crilley

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
aidencri [at] udel.edu

 

Joel Diaz Goenaga

Visitor Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

Thomas Hearn

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
hearn [at] udel.edu

Brianna Hunt

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
bhunt [at] udel.edu

Rouxi Jin

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
malddeb [at] udel.edu

Ethan Jo

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
ejo [at] udel.edu

Kyle Kontura

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
kkontura [at] udel.edu

Jack Kuchma

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
jkuchma [at] udel.edu

Daniel Li

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
djli [at] udel.edu

Ethan Jo

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
ejo [at] udel.edu

Kyle Kontura

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
kkontura [at] udel.edu

Jack Kuchma

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
jkuchma [at] udel.edu

Daniel Li

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
djli [at] udel.edu

Weitong Sun

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
edwina [at] udel.edu

Haoyu Wang

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
wxwhyclp [at] udel.edu

Kenneth Wheeler

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
kenw [at] udel.edu

Quinqi Zhang

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
qinqi [at] udel.edu

Lida Zhao

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
lidazhao [at] colorado.edu

Jonathan Zhang

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
zhangjon [at] udel.edu

Yunfan Zhou

Undergraduate Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
zachzou [at] udel.edu

HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Anish Dudeja

High School Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

Clare O'Dwyer

High School Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

Georgina Malikopoulou

High School Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

Ojas Purandare

High School Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

 

Meera Ratnagiri

High School Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

Ethan Stoecker

High School Student

209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577

FORMER MEMBERS

FORMER PH.D. STUDENTS

Logan Beaver

Ph.D. Student, Septmeber 2017- June 2022 [Now a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Boston University]

Behdad Chalaki

Ph.D. Student, Septmeber 2017- June 2022 [Now at Honda Research Institute]

Ishtiaque (Ishti) Mahbub

Ph.D. Student, Septmeber 2017- June 2022 [Now at Aptiv]

FORMER POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATES

Dimitris Assanis

Postdoctoral Researcher, October 2017- October 2018 [Now an Assistant Professor at Stony Brook University]

Liuhui Zhao

Postdoctoral Researcher, June 2017- May 2019 [Now a Senior Transportation Scientist at New Jersey Institute of Technology]

FORMER MS STUDENTS

Harshavardhan Desai

MSME Student, August 2017 – May 2019, [Now a Process Validation Engineer at TE Connectivity]

Yue Feng

Undergraduate Student [Now a PhD student at the University of Singapore]

Songzhen (Jason) Gui

MSR Student, August 2019 – May 2020 [Now a Control Engineer at Porsche, China]

Sumeet Gupta

MSME Student, August 2017 – May 2019 [Now at ZL Technologies in Milpitas, California]

Lavanya Jakka

MSME Student, August 2017 – May 2019 [Now at AirGreen Inc]

Apoorva Patil

MS Student, August 2017 – May 2019 [Now a software engineer at TCS]

Benjamin Remer

MS Student, August 2017 – May 2019 [Now a software engineer at Data Intelligence]

Yiming Wan

MS (4+1) Student, [Now a Control Engineer at Sinopec, China]

FORMER UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Melody Cerro

Undergraduate Student [Now an Engineer at OPEX Corp]

Kristina Kowal

Undergraduate Student [Now a Project Engineer at Whiting-Turner Contracting Company]

Michael Lashner

Undergraduate Student [Now Design Engineer at RW Hartnett]

Kunzheng Li

Undergraduate Student [Now graduate student at the University of Delaware]

Sophia Loewenguth

Undergraduate Student [Now Associate Member Engineer at Lockheed Martin]

Thomas Patterson

Undergraduate Student [Now at Bastian Solutions]

Rachel Silverman

Undergraduate Student

Rebecca (Becky) Williams

Undergraduate Student [Now Design & Test Engineer at Linc Research, Inc.]

FORMER K12 STUDENTS

Luke Bhan

High-school intern, June 2017 – May 2018 [Now undergraduate student at Vanderbitt University]

 

Nikhil Kanamarla

High School Student Intern, June 2018 – December 2018 [Now undergraduate student at the University of Michigan]

 

Christophoros Kontomaris

High School Student Intern [Now undergraduate student at the Georgia Institute of Technology]

 

Lucas Ramsey

High School Student Intern, June 2018 – August 2018 [Now undergraduate student at the University of Pittsburg]

 

FORMER VISITOR SCHOLARS

Sharmila Devi Kumaravel

Visiting Scholar [Now Postdoctoral Research Associate at Indian Institue of Technology]

 

Dr. Bassam Alrifaee

Visiting Scholar [Now Senior Researcher and Lecturer at RWTH Aachen University, Head and Founder of the Cyber-Physical Mobility Group, Founder of the Cyber-Physical Mobility Lab. Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent]