Kimon Valavanis

Dr. Kimon P. Valavanis is John Evans Professor, Director, Research and Innovation, Ritchie School of Engineering and Computer Science, U of Denver. He is Founding Director of the Unmanned Systems Research Institute. He has been Guest Professor in FER, Department of Telecommunications, U of Zagreb, Croatia, and Visiting Faculty at the Politecnico di Torino under the European Research Council, European Commission, Horizon 2020 Scientific Programme, Part 1–Excellent Science. He has graduated 38 PhD students and more than 100 M.Sc. students, attracted and helped attracting close to $50M in research funds from Federal and State agencies, industry and the private sector. His research interests focus on the areas of Unmanned Systems, Distributed Intelligence Systems, Robotics and Automation. He has published more than 400 book chapters, technical journal, referred conference papers, invited papers, including 19 books. He was Editor-in-chief of the Robotics and Automation Magazine, 1996-2005 and since 2006 Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems. He served as a member of the Robotics and Automation Society Awards Committee and serves as co-chair/chair of the Aerial Robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technical Committee. He has served as General, Program, Registration, Local Arrangements Chair in conferences. He was a Distinguished Speaker in the Robotics and Automation Society, IEEE Senior Member, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the U.K. Institute of Measurement and Control, and Technical Expert of the NATO Science and Technology Organization. He is a Fulbright Scholar. In 2019, he was awarded by IEEE and the Robotics and Automation Society for his 10 years of service as Editor-in-Chief.