Vasileios Tzoumas

Vasileios Tzoumas received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania (2018). He holds a Master of Arts in Statistics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania (2016); a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania (2016); and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (2012).

Vasileios is an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Previously, he was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and in the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), as a research scientist (2019-2020) and post-doctoral associate (2018-2019).

Vasileios cares for scalable and reliable cyber-physical systems in resource-constrained, unstructured, and contested environments, such as the systems found in defense, disaster response, and smart cities. He works at the intersection of control, robotics, and online learning, contributing, on the cyber side, resource-aware optimization algorithms for perception, control, and multi-agent coordination, and, on the physical side, morphable aerial vehicles for superior control authority.

Vasileios is a recipient of an NSF CAREER Award, an Army Research Office Early Career Program Award (ARO ECP), the Best Paper Award in Robot Vision at the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), an Honorable Mention from the 2020 IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), and was a Best Student Paper Award finalist at the 2017 IEEE Conference in Decision and Control (CDC).

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Selected Honors

  • Army Research Office Early Career Program Award (ARO ECP), Multi-Agent Control topic, 2025
  • NSF CAREER Award, Energy Power Control and Learning program, 2024
  • Honorable Mention, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RA-L), 2020
  • Best Paper Award in Robot Vision, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (IEEE ICRA), 2020
  • Best Student Paper Award Finalist, IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (IEEE CDC), 2017
  • MathWorks news article on algorithm proposed in the paper “Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection,” co-authored with the amazing H. Yang, P. Antonante, and L. Carlone, published at the IEEE RA-L 2020.
  • MIT LIDS|ALL Magazine interview article “Algorithms that protect,” Vol. 5, 2019

Teaching Awards

  • Sigma Gamma Tau Silver Shaft Award for “exceptional student instruction, clarity, sincerity, and enthusiasm for aerospace,” University of Michigan, 2023.