Prof. Kiriakos Kiriakidis

Professor
Office: Hopper Hall 261
Email: kiriakid@usna.edu
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Research Interests
Self-Adaptive Cyber-Physical Systems
Education & Training
- Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, 1996
- M.S., Mechanical Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, Brooklyn, 1993
- Diploma, Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 1990
Professional Experience
- Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, 2007–present
- Department Chair, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, 2010-2015
- Visiting Researcher (Jun-Aug), Naval Research Laboratory, Tactical Electronic Warfare, 2007–2009
- Associate Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, 2001-2007
- Visiting Researcher (Jun-Aug), Naval Research Laboratory, Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, 1999-2001
- Assistant Professor, Department of Weapons, Robotics, and Control Engineering, 1996–2001
Significant Publications
- 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, 2024, in print.
- D. Butchko, B. Croteau, and K. Kiriakidis, “Cyber-physical system security of surface ships using intelligent constraints,” in IEEE International Conference on Communications Workshops (ICC Workshops), Montreal, QC, Canada, 2021, pp. 1–6.
- 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.
- B. Croteau, R. Robucci, K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson, and E. Rodriguez-Seda, “Alternative actuation paths for ship applications in the presence of cyber-attacks,” in Resilience Week (RWS), San Antonio, TX, USA, 2019, pp. 91–97.
- B. Croteau, D. Krishnankutty, K. Kiriakidis, et al., “Cross-level detection framework for attacks on cyber-physical systems,” Journal of Hardware and Systems Security, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 356–369, 2017.
- K. Kiriakidis, T. Severson, and B. Connett, “Detecting and isolating attacks of deception in networked control systems,” in IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC), Wuerzburg, Germany, 2016, pp. 269–274.
- E. J. Rodriguez-Seda, T. Severson, and K. Kiriakidis, “Recovery after attacks of deception on networked control systems,” in Resilience Week (RWS), Chicago, IL, USA, 2016, pp. 109–114.
- 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.
- T. Severson and K. Kiriakidis, “Entropy-based optimization for sensor selection and placement,” in 10th IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 2014.
- K. Kiriakidis, J. Nicholson, M. Hock, and K. Lee, “Particle filtering with optimal measurement selection,” in 8th IMA International Conference on Mathematics in Signal Processing, Cirencester, United Kingdom, 2008.
- 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.
- R. O’Brien and K. Kiriakidis, “Single-snapshot robust direction finding,” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 53, no. 6, pp. 1964–1978, 2005.
- 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.
- K. Kiriakidis and D. Gordon-Spears, “Formal modeling and supervisory control of reconfigurable robot teams,” in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science): Second International Workshop, Formal Approaches to Agent Based Systems, M. G. H. et al., Ed., vol. 2699, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 92–102.