Teaching and Service

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My duty as a teacher, advisor, mentor, person is to support and cultivate environments that empower all students in their goals for self-actualization, both as scientists and human beings.

Please reach out to me at vtzoumas @ umich.edu (he/him/his).

Are you a U-M student? U-M and Ann Arbor communities are here for you:

Rackham Graduate School’s resources: pertinent to both undergraduate and graduate students (as well as faculty), with resources such as:
- Fun and Cheap Things to Do in Ann Arbor (see also here, and here);
- CAPS;
- SilverCloud.
Michigan Engineering C.A.R.E. Center.
Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness Center (SAPAC).
Office for Institutional Equity.
U-M College of Engineering’s Statement of Values and Honor Code.
Please see also the resources posted here.

Teaching

Lecturer, AEROSP 584 – Navigation and Guidance of Aerospace Vehicles, U-M, Fall 2021
Lecturer, AEROSP 740 – Visual Navigation for Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, U-M, Winter 2021
Guest lecturer, 16.485 – Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles, MIT, Fall 2020
Guest lecturer, 16.485 – Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles, MIT, Fall 2019

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STEM Education Publications

(ISEC) L. Carlone, K. Khosoussi, V. Tzoumas, G. Habibi, M. Ryll, R. Talak, J. Shi, and P. Antonante, Visual Navigation for Autonomous Vehicles: An Open-source Hands-on Robotics Course at MIT. IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), under review, 2022.

Community Service

Fireside Chat, U-M, Winter 2022.

Discussed over zoom with 7 undergraduate and graduate students about aerospace autonomy research, Ph.D. life, and path to becoming a professor.

Student-Professor Dinners, U-M, Fall 2021 and Winter 2022.

Discussed over dinners with 20 undergraduate and graduate students about aerospace autonomy research, and about best practices in academia.

AIAA Lunches, U-M, Winter and Fall 2021.

Discussed over lunch with 10 undergraduate and graduate students about aerospace autonomy research, and about best practices in academia.

Sigma Gamma Tau Seminar, U-M, Winter 2021.

LIDS Mentoring Committee, MIT, 2018-2020.

Led the organization of monthly meetings between Ph.D. students and post-docs to discuss questions of the Ph.D. students about their research and career progress.
Organized 1 hour-long events on academic faculty applications, which attracted majority of the LIDS Ph.D. student and post-doc community.

LIDS Post-Doctoral Committee, MIT, 2018-2019.

Co-founded with César Uribe and Francisco Jaimes the committee to foster a post-doc community where post-docs share their career growth experience and best practices.
Organized 1 hour-long events on academic faculty applications, where LIDS post-docs with faculty position offers discussed their interview experience with the rest of the LIDS post-docs.
Organized 1 hour-long events for the LIDS post-docs in the academic market to practice their interview presentations

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Professional Service

Associate Editor

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021-present.

Session Organizer

IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC), 2016 [with Tyler H. Summers]

Session Chair

American Control Conference (ACC), 2018.
IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC), 2016.

Program Committee (PC) Member

Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2020-present.

Reviewer for Journal Submissions

IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (TAC), 2014-present.
Automatica, 2014-present.
IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), 2018-present.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2019-present.
International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 2018-present.
Autonomous Robots (AURO), 2018-present.
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (TCNS), 2014-present.
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP), 2017-present.
Sensors, 2018-present.
IEEE Signal Processing Letters (SPL), 2017.
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering (TNSE), 2016.
Physics Letters, 2017.
Scientific Reports, 2017.

Reviewer for Conference Submissions

IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), 2014-present.
American Control Conference (ACC), 2014-present.
IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2018-present.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020-present.
IEEE Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems (ICCPS), 2017.
IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA), 2019.
European Control Conference (ECC), 2015.
Conference on Web and Network Economics (WINE), 2013-2014.
Conference on Economics and Computation (EC), 2013.

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