Marios Polycarpou#
| Membership Number: | 6201 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Affiliated section(s): | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CYPRUS |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kios.ucy.ac.cy/polycarpou |
| ORCID: | 0000-0001-6495-9171 |
| Linkedin: | https://www.linkedin.com/in/marios-polycarpou-388b505/?originalSubdomain=cy |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2001 - present Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
- 2008 - present Director, KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence, University of Cyprus
- 2019 - present Visiting Professor, Imperial College London, U.K.
- 2019 - present Founding Member, Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts, Cyprus
- 2001 - 2008 Founding Department Chair, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Cyprus
- 2003 - 2005 Professor, Dept. Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, University of Cincinnati, USA
- 1998 - 2003 Associate Professor, Dept. ECE/CS, University of Cincinnati, USA
- 1992 - 1998 Assistant Professor, Dept. ECE/CS, University of Cincinnati, USA
Fields of Scholarship
- Neural networks
- Cyber-physical security
- Fault diagnosis
- Intelligent systems and control
- Machine learning
- Computational intelligence
- Intelligent critical infrastructure systems
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grant (2021-2027)
- 2020 Appointed Associate Editor of the Proceedings of the IEEE (PIEEE)
- 2019 Elected Founding Member of the Cyprus Academy of Sciences, Letters, and Arts
- 2019 Appointed Visiting Professor of Imperial College London
- 2017 Elected President of the European Control Association (EUCA) (served for 2018 and 2019)
- 2016 Recipient of the IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
- 2016 Elected IFAC Fellow - for contributions to the theory and application of intelligent control and learning systems
- 2015 Recipient of the Cyprus Distinguished Researcher Award (presented by the President of Cyprus in November 2015)
- 2015 Recipient of the Research Excellence Award from the University of Cyprus (the first recipient of the award)
- 2011 Awarded the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant (2012-2018)
- 2011 Elected President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (for 2012 and 2013)
- 2009 Elected IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in the area of computational intelligence (for 01/2010 – 12/2012)
- 2009 Elected Administrative Committee Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society ( for 01/2008–12/2010)
- 2007 Elected Member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (for 01/2008–12/2010)
- 2006 Elected IEEE Fellow -- for contributions to the theory and application of intelligent systems and control
- 2003 Elected Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (served for 2004-2010)
- 1997 Recipient of the William H. Middendorf Research Excellence Award, University of Cincinnati, USA
- 1996 Nominated by students for the Professor of the Year award for the academic year 1995-96, University of Cincinnati, USA
