Short Bio (IEEE style)
Anastasios Kouvelas was born in Athens, Greece, in 1981. He received the Diploma, M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Production & Management Engineering (Operations Research), Technical University of Crete, Greece, in 2004, 2006 and 2011 respectively. He is currently a Research Scientist at Urban Transport Systems Laboratory (LUTS), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Prior to this, he had been appointed Postdocroral Researcher with Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH) at University of California, Berkeley (2012-2014), Adjunct Lecturer at Technical University of Crete (2011) and Research Associate at the Information Technologies Institute, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece (2011-2012).
From 2003 to 2011 he had been Research and Teaching Assistant with the Dynamic Systems & Simulation Laboratory (DSSL), Technical University of Crete. In 2009 he was a Short Term Doctoral Scholar at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (CATT) of the Viterbi School of Engineering, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. His main research interests include modeling, simulation, estimation and control of urban and motorway traffic networks, machine learning, neural networks, big data, stochastic approximation, adaptive optimisation and intelligent transportation systems.
Dr. Kouvelas is the co-author of some 30 journal and conference papers and he has participated in various research projects funded by European Union, California Department of Transportation, Swiss National Science Foundation and other governmental and private institutions. He has participated in the development of the control strategy TUC and performed a successful field implementation of the strategy in the urban network of Chania, Greece. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Technical Chamber of Greece. In 2012 he was awarded with the Best IEEE ITS PhD Dissertation Award by the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society.
Education
Ph.D., Control and Optimisation of Transportation Systems (February 2011)
Thesis: Adaptive Fine-tuning for Large-scale Nonlinear Traffic Control Systems.M.Sc., Operations Research (October 2006)
Thesis: A Hybrid Traffic Signal Control Strategy for Urban Road Networks.Diploma, Industrial Engineering (September 2004)
Thesis: Traffic Signal Control in the City of Chania Using Linear-Quadratic-Integral Regulation.