Academic Appointment

Professor of Estimation and Control
Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, Maryland 21402

Degrees

Ph.D., Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, 1996
M.S., Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, 1993
Diploma, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1990

Research Interests

• Adaptable Algorithms for Resilient Cyber-Physical Systems (journal #1 and #2; conference #1 and #4).
• Anomaly Detection and Recovery in Cyber-Physical Systems (journal #3 and conference #5 and #6).
• Data-Driven Sensor and Effector Reconfiguration (conference #3 and #7).
• Aggregate Black Box Models with Verifiable Behavior (journal #5).
• Path Planning and Supervisory Control for Robotic Systems (journal #4 and #7 and conference #2).
• Sensor Selection and Array Sensing (journal #6 and conference #8 and #9).

Publications

Selected journal articles:

1. B. Croteau, K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson, R. Robucci, R. Islam, and S. Rahman, "State Estimation Adaptable to Cyber-Attack Using a Hardware Programmable Bank of Kalman Filters," IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2023. (In Print)
2. T. Severson, B. Croteau, E. Rodriguez-Seda, K. Kiriakidis, R. Robucci, and C. Patel, "A resilient framework for sensor-based attacks on cyber-physical systems using trust-based consensus and self-triggered control," Control Engineering Practice, vol. 101, 2020. Available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2020.104509
3. B. Croteau, D. Krishnankutty, K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson, C. Patel, R. Robucci, E. Rodriguez-Seda, and N. Banerjee, "Cross-level detection framework for attacks on cyber-physical systems,'' Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 356–369, 2017. Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s41635-017-0027-9
4. M. A. Hurni and K. Kiriakidis, "Planning the Minimum Time and Optimal Survey Trajectory for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles in Uncertain Current,'' Robotics, vol. 4, pp. 516--528, 2015. Available at https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics4040516
5. K. Kiriakidis, "Nonlinear Modeling by Interpolation Between Linear Dynamics and its Application in Control," Transactions of the ASME, Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control, vol. 129, pp. 813--824, 2007. Available at https://doi.org/10.1115/1.2789473
6. R.T. O'Brien, Jr. and K. Kiriakidis, "Single-Snapshot Robust Direction Finding,'' IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1964--1978, 2005. DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2005.847828
7. D. Gordon and K. Kiriakidis, "Reconfigurable Robot Teams: Modeling and Supervisory Control,'' IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, vol. 12, no. 5, pp. 763--769, 2004. DOI: 10.1109/TCST.2004.825048

Selected conference articles:

1. K. Kiriakidis, B. Croteau, T. Severson, E. Rodriguez-Seda, R. Robucci, R. Islam, and S. Rahman, "Degradable Tracking System based on Hardware Multi-Model Estimators," Resilience Week (RWS), National Harbor, MD, USA, 2022, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/RWS55399.2022.9984042
2. D. Butchko, B. Croteau, and K. Kiriakidis,"Cyber-Physical System Security of Surface Ships using Intelligent Constraints," IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2021, pp. 1-6. DOI: 10.1109/ICCWorkshops50388.2021.9473541
3. B. Croteau, R. Robucci, C. Patel, N. Banerjee, K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson, and E. Rodriguez-Seda, "Alternative Actuation Paths for Ship Applications in the Presence of Cyber-Attacks," Resilience Week (RWS), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2019, pp. 91-97. DOI: 10.1109/RWS47064.2019.8972006
4. T. Severson, E. Rodriguez-Seda, K. Kiriakidis, B. Crotea, D. Krishnankutty, R. Robucci, and C. Patel, "Trust-Based Framework for Resilience to Sensor-Targeted Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems," Annual American Control Conference (ACC), Milwaukee, WI, 2018, pp. 6499-6505. DOI: 10.23919/ACC.2018.8431909
5. B. Croteau, D. Krishnankutty, K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson, and E. Rodriguez-Seda, "Cross-level Detection of Sensor-based Deception Attacks on Cyber-Physical Systems," IEEE 7th Annual International Conference on CYBER Technology in Automation, Control, and Intelligent Systems (CYBER), Honolulu, HI, 2017, pp. 1037-1042. DOI: 10.1109/CYBER.2017.8446537
6. E. J. Rodriguez-Seda, T. Severson, and K. Kiriakidis, "Recovery after attacks of deception on Networked Control Systems," Resilience Week (RWS), Chicago, IL, 2016, pp. 109-114. DOI: 10.1109/RWEEK.2016.7573316
7. K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson and B. Connett, "Detecting and Isolating Attacks of Deception in Networked Control Systems," IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Wuerzburg, Germany, 2016, pp. 269-274. DOI: 10.1109/ICAC.2016.14
8. T. Severson and K. Kiriakidis, "Entropy-based Optimization for Sensor Selection and Placement," 10th IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2014.
9. K. Kiriakidis, J.W. Nicholson, M. Hock, and K. Lee, "Particle Filtering with Optimal Measurement Selection," 8th IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cirencester, United Kingdom, 2008.

Courses

• EW202: Principles of Mechatronics
• EW306: Advanced Control Engineering
• EW418: Optimal Control and Estimation
• EW413: Digital Control Engineering
• EW461: Quantitative Methods for Management

Excerpts and Quotes

Protagoras: "Man is the measure of all things."

From the essay Near the Shrine of Akademos: "If the default posture of today’s student is a form of de omnibus disputandum, the professor should be first to question the significance of engineering concepts or scientific truths. Next, the teacher must convince the student that the approach leading to knowledge is itself rewarding and, thus, worth the effort. Perhaps, having grown in such learning environment, the future naval officer will continue to value highly education and knowledge throughout his or her career and beyond."

Profile

Kiriakos Kiriakidis was born in Greece.  He received the Diploma in mechanical engineering (1990) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and the M.S. (1993) and Ph.D. (1996) degrees, also in mechanical engineering, from Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, New York.  Since 1996, he has been on the faculty of the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, where he is Professor of Estimation and Control.  He served as Department Chair from 2010 to 2015.  Dr. Kiriakidis is a member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and Technical Chamber of Greece.