Kostas Margellos

Co-Chair of the AI and Data Grand Challenge Research Committee

Kostas Margellos (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece, in 2008, and the Ph.D. degree in control engineering from ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, in 2012. He spent 2013, 2014, and 2015 as a Postdoctoral Researcher with ETH Zurich, UC Berkeley, and Politecnico di Milano, respectively. In 2016, he joined the Control Group, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, where he is currently an Associate Professor. He is also a Fellow in AI and Machine Learning at Reuben College and a Lecturer at Worcester College. 

He is currently an Associate Editor in Automatica and in the IEEE Control Systems Letters, and is part of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society and EUCA. In 2024 he was general co-chair of the Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference (L4DC 2024).

His research interests include data-driven and distributed optimization and control of complex uncertain systems, with applications to energy and transportation problems in smart cities.