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
Visiting Researchers
Bassam Alrifaee, Ph.D.
Visiting Researcher
228 Spencer Lab
bassam [at] udel.edu
PhD Students
Ioannis Chremos
PhD Student
328 Spencer Lab
302–831-6576
ichremos[at] udel.edu
Yiannis Faros
PhD Student
328 Spencer Lab
302-831-6576
ifaros [at] udel.edu
Filippos Tzortzoglou
PhD Student
328 Spencer Lab
302-831-6576
ftzortzo [at] udel.edu
Alejandra Valencia
PhD Student
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
302–831-1577
dicester [at] udel.edu
Sai Krishna Sumanth Nakka
MSR Student
302–831-1577
nakkash [at] udel.edu
Raymond Zayas
MS Student
302–831-1577
rayzayas [at] udel.edu
Undergraduate Students
Juan Manuel Nunez Bastidas
Visitor Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
Joel Diaz Goenaga
Visitor Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
Matt Benvenuto
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
mattbenv [at] udel.edu
Thomas Hearn
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
hearn [at] udel.edu
Nick Benzi
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
nbenzi [at] udel.edu
Brianna Hunt
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
bhunt [at] udel.edu
Aiden Crilley
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
aidencri [at] udel.edu
Rouxi Jin
Undergraduate Student
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
302–831-1577
jkuchma [at] udel.edu
Daniel Li
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
djli [at] udel.edu
Kelsey McKiernan
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
kelsmck [at] udel.edu
Weitong Sun
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
edwina [at] udel.edu
Robin Moore
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
aaronmoo [at] udel.edu
Haoyu Wang
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
wxwhyclp [at] udel.edu
Maisha Nawar
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
mnawar [at] udel.edu
Kenneth Wheeler
Undergraduate Student
209 Spencer Lab
302–831-1577
kenw [at] udel.edu
Cheickna Sacko
Undergraduate Student
Quinqi Zhang
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
qinqi [at] udel.edu
Lida Zhao
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
lidazhao [at] colorado.edu
Jonathan Zhang
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
zhangjon [at] udel.edu
Yunfan Zhou
Undergraduate Student
302–831-1577
zachzou [at] udel.edu
High School Students
Anish Dudeja
High School Student
302–831-1577
Clare O'Dwyer
High School Student
302–831-1577
Georgina Malikopoulou
High School Student
302–831-1577
Ojas Purandare
High School Student
302–831-1577
Meera Ratnagiri
High School Student
302–831-1577
Ethan Stoecker
High School Student
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]
Ryan Montgomery
MSME Student, August 2017 - May 2019 [Now a Software Engineer at Capital One]
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]
Haley Lloyd
Undergraduate Student [Now a Flight Performance Engineer at Kratos Defense and Security Solutions]
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 Visiting Scholars
Sharmila Devi Kumaravel
Visiting Scholar [Now Postdoctoral Research Associate at Indian Institue of Technology]