Dr. Yannis Paschalidis is a distinguished scholar and leader in computational systems science with profound impact across multiple engineering disciplines. He serves as a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Boston University, with appointed roles in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering (as of 2022), where he also is a Professor of Biostatistics and as a Founding Professor of Computing & Data Sciences. As Director of the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and Computational Science & Engineering, he acts as a convergence accelerator for interdisciplinary research initiatives across the university. His academic journey began with a Diploma from the National Technical University of Athens in 1991, followed by M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1993 and 1996, after which he joined Boston University where he has remained ever since.
Dr. Paschalidis has pioneered significant advances in optimization theory, control of networked systems, and robust learning with profound applications spanning communication networks, healthcare systems, and computational biology. His seminal work in developing mathematical frameworks for analyzing stochastic systems has provided foundational tools now widely adopted across multiple engineering domains including transportation networks, cyber-security, and robotics. Notably, his research on health informatics has delivered transformative solutions for medical decision-making, earning an IEEE Computer Society Crowd Sourcing Prize for his work on health informatics and a best paper award from the International Medical Informatics Association. With over 270 refereed publications and a monograph to his credit, his scholarly contributions have fundamentally reshaped approaches to complex system analysis and control in uncertain environments.
Beyond his individual research achievements, Dr. Paschalidis has cultivated an extraordinary ecosystem of interdisciplinary collaboration through his leadership of the Hariri Institute, which federates Boston University's diverse computing-related research centers and initiatives. He has mentored 35 Ph.D. students to completion and supervised numerous postdoctoral researchers, many of whom now hold prominent academic positions worldwide. As founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems from 2013 to 2019 and current General Co-Chair of the 2025 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, he continues to shape the intellectual direction of his field globally. Dr. Paschalidis currently focuses on advancing robust learning methodologies and computational approaches to medicine and biology, with research poised to deliver further breakthroughs bridging theoretical foundations with real-world impact in healthcare and complex systems.
