Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou
Emeritus Fellow
Professor of Control Engineering
Fellow & Tutor in Engineering (2010-2024)
Education
BA MEng (Cambridge), MA (Oxford), PhD (Caltech)
Antonis joined the University of Oxford in 2006, where he is currently the Professor of Control Engineering and an official fellow at Kellogg College. He was previously a Tutorial Fellow at Worcester College (2010-2024), EPSRC Fellow (2015-2021) and Director of the EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral training in Synthetic Biology (2014-2023). Antonis holds an MA/MEng degree in Electrical and Information Sciences from the University of Cambridge, U.K., as a member of Robinson College (2000) and a PhD in Control and Dynamical Systems at the California Institute of Technology, with a PhD Minor in Aeronautics (2005). In 2015 he was awarded the European Control Award for his contributions to robustness analysis and applications to networked control systems and systems biology and the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award. He is an IEEE Fellow for his contributions to the analysis and design of networked control systems. He was involved in the organisation of many control conferences (such as 2024 L4DC and 2024 ECC) and was previously associate editor for Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.
Antonis is part of the SYSOS (System of Systems) group at the Department of Engineering Science. The SYSOS Group develops tools and algorithms based on modern control theory for the robust analysis and design of biological and technological systems and applies them in a range of areas, from Synthetic Biology to fluid mechanics. In particular, they have been developing theory to understand how nonlinear networked systems operate and how to design control laws for them, using computational tools based on the Sum of Squares decomposition and Semidefinite Programming.
They have been applying this theory to understand and (re)design biological systems (Systems and Synthetic Biology) but also to analyse and design control laws for fluid flows, robust synchronization, multi-agent system consensus, smart power networks and congestion control for the Internet.