About Dr. Peter Groumpos
Dr. Groumpos is a full Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1989. He is also the Director of the Laboratory for Automation and Robotics, which he created and developed since 1992. He served as a chairman of the Department of ECE in the period 1993 – 2003 and Division Director of Systems and Controls. (2000-2004).
Dr. Groumpos was born in 1950, in Xilokastro, Korinthias Greece, where he stayed till the end of his
high school years and then he went to USA for his undergraduate and graduate studies. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree of Electrical Engineering in 1974 and a Master of Science Degree in 1976 from the state university of N.Y. at Buffalo (SUNYAB). He also received his PhD in 1978, from the same University with his Thesis title “A Structural Approach to Dynamical Hierarchical Systems”. While studying at the undergraduate and Master level he had to work at the same time to earn his living. He joined Cleveland State University in 1979 and stayed till 1989 on it, till be returned permantly to his homeland in 1990. He joined the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, of the University of Patras. While in Cleveland State University he created and directed a new Energy Research Centre and a Communications Research Laboratory at Cleveland State University. While in CSU, he was awarded a 1-year Fulbright scholarship and visited the University of Patras in which he taught and perform research in the area of Systems and Control. While in Cleveland State University he lectured at Case Western Reserve University and served as an Assistant Director of the newly founded Cleveland Advanced Manufacturing Center (1985 – 1988). In this position he had the responsibility of generating new proposals in applied research on manufacturing and he had visited a good number of industries. He came to realize for first time the existing gap between theory and practice and at the same time he appreciated the power and possible long impact of
basic research.
Dr. Groumpos has taught for more than 30 years (10 years in the USA and 22 in Greece).
He has teaching experience in broad scientific areas such as: Systems Control, Signals and Systems,
Automatic Control, Probability Theory, Communications, Information Technologies, Hierarchical
Systems, Intelligent Systems, Fuzzy Logic, Large Complex Systems, Photovoltaic Systems,
Energy and Power Systems and Software Computing.
Dr. Groumpos has a vast experience as a Principal investigator in a number of EU and Greek PRD projects. His main research interests are: Modelling and Controlling Complex Systems, Intelligent Control, Soft-computing techniques for Complex Systems, Robotics, Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM), Innovation Management, Simulation and Application of Informatics in the areas: Health, Agriculture, Industry, Transport, Energy and Environment. He has participated in more over 75 educational and PRD project funded by public as well as private funds. He has participated in many PRD projects funded by the EC. He has been the Principal investigator on more than 20 PRD projects. The total funding for the PRD projects that prof. Groumpos has participated either as a PI and/or as a partner has exceeded the amount of 10 million Euros. Prof. Groumpos also was the PI in more than 10 PRD projects in USA, when he was a Faculty member at the Cleveland State University USA with a total funding exceeding the amount of 1.5. Million dollars (period 1980-1989)
Dr. Groumpos has also served and/or still serving on a number of distinguished positions.
He has been the Greek representative to the EC committees ESPRIT 1990-94 IMS 1991-94,
ICT 2004-9 and to EUREKA Program High Level Group 1990-94 and 2004-10. He was one of the
founders of the Mediterranean Control Association 20 years ago and he is serving on it as a
Vice-President today.
He has also been a project evaluator in many EC programs. COPERNICUS, ICT and others.
