September 25, 2024
Efstathios Bakolas, an associate professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) at The University of Texas at Austin, has been elected to the grade of associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for the Class of 2025.
AIAA, the world’s largest aerospace technical society, confers the grade of associate fellow to senior members “who have accomplished or been in charge of important engineering or scientific work, or who have done original work of outstanding merit, or who have otherwise made outstanding contributions to the arts, sciences, or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.” Bakolas was cited "for contributions to control and autonomy of aerospace systems including uncertainty and data-driven modeling."
Bakolas joined ASE/EM as an assistant professor in fall of 2012. His main research interests include optimal control theory, stochastic control, optimization-based control, differential games and game theory, computational and algorithmic geometry, dynamic programming, nonlinear control, path planning and motion planning for robotic systems and autonomous vehicles, and distributed control and estimation for multi-agent networks.
Current research that Bakolas and his group are working on includes multi-agent decision making and control problems (with an emphasis on task allocation /assignment problems, multi-robot coverage control and differential games), optimization and learning-based control of uncertain aerospace systems, and reduced order modeling and control of fluid systems.
Bakolas holds the Eli H. and Ramona Thornton Centennial Fellowship in Engineering. He will be formally honored and inducted into the newly elected class of associate fellows on Jan. 8 in Orlando, Fla. During the 2025 AIAA SciTech Forum.
