Dimitra Panagou

Dimitra Panagou (Diploma (2006) and PhD (2012) in Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece) joined the Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan in September 2014 as an Assistant Professor. Since July 2022 she is an Associate Professor with the newly established Department of Robotics at UM, with a courtesy appointment with the Department of Aerospace Engineering. She is an expert in multi-agent planning, control, estimation and learning, with applications in the safety and resilience for autonomous multi-vehicle systems (ground, marine, aerial, space) and robotic networks. She is the recipient of a NASA Early Career Faculty Award in 2016, an AFOSR Young Investigator Award in 2017, and an NSF CAREER Award in 2020. In addition, she has been the sole PI on research grants funded by the DoD (ARO, AFOSR, ONR), including two ARC projects between 2016-2018 and 2018-2021, and by Ford, Toyota Motor North America, Amazon. She has also been co-PI on research projects funded by NSF, NASA and the Toyota Research Institute. She was a Plenary Speaker at IEEE Conference Decision and Control (CDC) in December 2024, and a Keynote Speaker at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) in May 2025.