- Distinctions and Awards
- IEEE Fellow since Winter 2015
- 1984-1985 Fellow of the Natl. Scholarship Institute of Greece (ranking 2nd in an entry competition for the the Dept. of Electrical Eng. at Natl. Techn. University of Athens, Greece)
- 1989 EEC ERASMUS Fellow (Exchange student at UMIST, UK)
- “1998 Outstanding ISyE Professor”, ISyE, Georgia Tech
- 1998 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Robotics & Automation Kayamori Best Paper award: “Accommodating FMS Operational Contingencies through Routing Flexibility”
- Advisor and co-author of the paper that won the best student paper award at the 2010 IEEE Conference on Automation Science & Engineering: A. Nazeem and S. Reveliotis, “A Practical Approach to the Design of Maximally Permissive Liveness-Enforcing Supervisors for Complex Resource Allocation Systems”
- Advisor and co-author of the paper that won the 2014 IEEE T-ASE Best Paper award: “Efficient enumeration of minimal unsafe states in complex resource allocation systems”
- Plenary Speaker at the 5th International Workshop on Dependable Control of Discrete Systems (DCDS 2015), Cancun, Mexico, May 27-29, 2015: “Real-Time Management of Complex Resource Allocation Systems: Necessity, Achievements and Further Challenges”
- Plenary Speaker at the14th Workshop on Discrete Event Systems (WODES 2018), Sorrento, Italy, May 30-June 1, 2018: “Logical Control of Complex Resource Allocation Systems”
- Plenary Speaker at the 2019 IEEE Intl. Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics (IEEE SMC 2019), Bari, Italy, October 7-9, 2019: “Formal Methods for Complex Workflow Management in Industry 4.0”
- Professional Service
- Program Chair for the 2009 IEEE Conference on Automation Science & Engineering
- General Co-Chair for the 2015 IEEE Conference on Automation Science & Engineering
- Editor in Chief for the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (IEEE CASE) for the conference editions 2017, 2018 and 2019
- Senior Editor for IEEE Trans. on Automation Science & Engineering from 2014 to 2019
- Department Editor for IIE Trans. from 2009 to 2018
- (Senior) Editor for the Automation Area in the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Robotics & Automation Society, from 2009 to 2011
- Associate Editor for the Journal of Discrete Event Systems since 2015
- Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Automatic Control from 2009 to 2012
- Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Automation Science & Engineering from 2005 to 2009
- Associate Editor for IEEE Trans. on Robotics & Automation from 2000 to 2004
- Guest Editor for the Special Issue in the IEEE Trans. on Automation Science & Engineering with the theme “Advances in Discrete Event Systems for Automation”
- Member of the Board of Directors for the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) representing the INFORMS Applied Probability Society (APS), from January 2016 to December 2018
- Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the calendar year 2017
- Founding Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Technical Committee on Automation in Logistics, 2012
- Member of the College-Industry Council on Material Handling Education since Fall 2003
- Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Event Systems since Fall 2005
- Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Semiconducror Manufacturing since 2001