EVANGHELOS ZAFIRIOU (zafiriou@isr.umd.edu)
EVANGHELOS ZAFIRIOU (zafiriou@isr.umd.edu)Evanghelos Zafiriou received the Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1983, and the Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1987. He then joined the University of Maryland at College Park, where he holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor with the Chemical Engineering Department and the Institute for Systems Research. He is the Co-Director of the Chemical Process Systems Laboratory at the Institute for Systems Research.
As a senior high-school student he received the 2nd Panhellenic Prize in the annual competition in mathematics administered by the Greek Mathematical Society. During his undergraduate studies, he was awarded a fellowship from the National Scholarship Foundation. In his senior year he received the Thomaidios Award for having the highest GPA for that year in the Chemical Engineering School of NTU, and was given the Technical Chamber of Greece award for having the highest GPA of any NTU student during that year.
Dr. Zafiriou has lectured at several short courses for industry nationally and internationally on topics including model predictive control, robust process control, and neural networks. He has co-authored a graduate level textbook on Robust Process Control (Prentice-Hall, 1989). Dr. Zafiriou is a recipient of the 1990 National Science Foundation's Presidential Young Investigator Award.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Dr. Zafiriou's interests are in robust and nonlinear process control, control-relevant identification, and run-to-run and feedback control in semiconductor manufacturing.
PUBLICATIONS MOST RELEVANT TO PROPOSED RESEARCH
1. G. Gattu and E. Zafiriou, "State Estimation Model Based Algorithm for On-Line Optimization and Control of Batch Processes,'' Proc. Amer. Control Conf., pp. 480-484, Baltimore, MD, June-July 1994.
2. E. Ali, and E. Zafiriou, "Optimization-based Tuning of Nonlinear Model Predictive Control with State Estimation,'' J. of Process Control, 3, pp. 97-107, 1993.
3. Q. Zheng and E. Zafiriou, "A Local Small Gain Theorem and its Use for Robust Stability of Uncertain Volterra Systems,'' Proc. Amer. Control Conf., pp. 3511-3515, Baltimore, MD, June-July 1994.
4. Q. Zheng and E. Zafiriou, "Control Relevant Model Identification of Volterra Series Models,'' Proc. Amer. Control Conf., pp. 2050-2054, Baltimore, MD, June-July 1994.
5. E. Zafiriou, R. A. Adomaitis and G. Gattu, "Approach to Run-to-Run Control for Rapid Thermal Processing,'' accepted for inclusion in the Proceedings of the 1995 Amer. Control Conf., January 1995.
OTHER SIGNIFICANT RESEARCH
1. M. Morari and E. Zafiriou, Robust Process Control, 512 pages, Prentice-Hall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ), 1989.
2. E. Zafiriou and A. L. Marchal, "Stability of SISO Quadratic Dynamic Matrix Control with Hard Output Constraints,''AIChE J., 37, pp. 1550-1560, 1991.
3. G. Gattu and E. Zafiriou, "Nonlinear Quadratic Dynamic Matrix Control with State Estimation,'' Ind. and Eng. Chem. Res., 31, 1992, pp. 1096-1104.
4. E. Zafiriou and H.-W. Chiou, "On the Dynamic Resiliency of Constrained Processes,'' Comput. and Chem. Eng., accepted for publication, January 1995.
5. G. Gattu and E. Zafiriou, "State Estimation Nonlinear QDMC with Input-Output Models,'' Proc.
Amer. Control Conf., pp. 3248-3252, Baltimore, MD, June-July 1994.