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Marios M. Polycarpou

Marios M. Polycarpou

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Electronics and Electrical Engineering
Cyprus
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
73
Citations
25843
World Ranking
742
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Cyprus Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Cyprus Leader Award
  • 2016 - Neural Networks Pioneer Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • 2015 - Meritorious Service Award, IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
  • 2014 - Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC)
  • 2006 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to the theory and application of intelligent systems and control.

Overview

Marios M. Polycarpou is affiliated with the University of Cyprus in Cyprus, specializing primarily in the fields of Engineering and Computer Science. Their research spans multiple subfields, including Control and Systems Engineering, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their work addresses a wide range of topics such as Smart Grid Security and Resilience, Water Systems and Optimization, Fault Detection and Control Systems, Advanced Control Systems Optimization, Adaptive Control of Nonlinear Systems, Distributed Control Multi-Agent Systems, and Data Stream Mining Techniques.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Polycarpou include:

  • "Battle of the Leakage Detection and Isolation Methods," 2022, Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
  • "Data-Driven Iterative Learning Control for Nonlinear Discrete-Time MIMO Systems," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • "Distributed Data-Driven Iterative Learning Consensus Tracking for Nonlinear Discrete-Time Multiagent Systems," 2021, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Multiplayer Pursuit-Evasion Differential Games With Malicious Pursuers," 2022, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • "Optimal Elevator Group Control via Deep Asynchronous Actor-Critic Learning," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Frequent coauthors in Polycarpou's work include:

  • Christos G. Panayiotou
  • Thomas Parisini
  • Stelios G. Vrachimis
  • D.J. Allstot
  • John Baillieul

Their publications appear prominently in venues such as:

  • Proceedings of the IEEE
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • IFAC-PapersOnLine
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Polycarpou has contributed to several books published by Springer International Publishing. Titles include "Information Systems and Technologies" (2022), "Human Interaction, Emerging Technologies and Future Systems V" (2021), "Artificial Intelligence and Heuristics for Smart Energy Efficiency in Smart Cities" (2021), "Cyber Security, Privacy and Networking" (2022), "Technology, Innovation and Creativity in Digital Society" (2021), among others.

Over the course of their career, Polycarpou has received multiple awards, including the Neural Networks Pioneer Award from the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society in 2016, the Meritorious Service Award by the same society in 2015, fellowship of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) in 2014, and recognition as an IEEE Fellow in 2006 for contributions to theory and application of intelligent systems and control.

Best Publications

  • A robust adaptive nonlinear control design

    M. M. Polycarpou;P. A. Ioannou

  • Stable adaptive neural control scheme for nonlinear systems

    M.M. Polycarpou

  • Command Filtered Backstepping

    J.A. Farrell;M. Polycarpou;M. Sharma;Wenjie Dong

  • High-order neural network structures for identification of dynamical systems

    E.B. Kosmatopoulos;M.M. Polycarpou;M.A. Christodoulou;P.A. Ioannou

  • Command Filtered Adaptive Backstepping

    Wenjie Dong;J. A. Farrell;M. M. Polycarpou;V. Djapic

  • Adaptive approximation based control : unifying neural, fuzzy and traditional adaptive approximation approaches

    Jay A. Farrell;Marios M. Polycarpou

  • The battle of the water sensor networks (BWSN): A design challenge for engineers and algorithms

    Avi Ostfeld;James G. Uber;Elad Salomons;Jonathan W. Berry

  • A robust detection and isolation scheme for abrupt and incipient faults in nonlinear systems

    Xiaodong Zhang;M.M. Polycarpou;T. Parisini

  • Adaptive fault-tolerant control of nonlinear uncertain systems: an information-based diagnostic approach

    Xiaodong Zhang;T. Parisini;M.M. Polycarpou

  • Stable adaptive tracking of uncertain systems using nonlinearly parametrized on-line approximators

    Marios M. Polycarpou;Mark J. Mears

  • Backstepping-Based Flight Control with Adaptive Function Approximation

    Jay Farrell;Manu Sharma;Marios Polycarpou

  • Fault diagnosis of a class of nonlinear uncertain systems with Lipschitz nonlinearities using adaptive estimation

    Xiaodong Zhang;Marios M. Polycarpou;Thomas Parisini

  • Automated fault detection and accommodation: a learning systems approach

    M.M. Polycarpou;A.J. Helmicki

  • A Low-Cost Sensor Network for Real-Time Monitoring and Contamination Detection in Drinking Water Distribution Systems

    Theofanis P. Lambrou;Christos C. Anastasiou;Christos G. Panayiotou;Marios M. Polycarpou

  • Stability analysis of M-dimensional asynchronous swarms with a fixed communication topology

    Yang Liu;K.M. Passino;M.M. Polycarpou

  • Optimal Scheduling of Booster Disinfection in Water Distribution Systems

    Dominic L. Boccelli;Michael E. Tryby;James G. Uber;Lewis A. Rossman

  • Incipient fault diagnosis of dynamical systems using online approximators

    M.A. Demetriou;M.M. Polycarpou

  • Fault accommodation of a class of multivariable nonlinear dynamical systems using a learning approach

    M.M. Polycarpou

  • Distributed Fault Detection and Isolation of Large-Scale Discrete-Time Nonlinear Systems: An Adaptive Approximation Approach

    R. M. G. Ferrari;T. Parisini;M. M. Polycarpou

  • A cooperative search framework for distributed agents

    M.M. Polycarpou;Yanli Yang;K.M. Passino

  • Command filtered adaptive backstepping

    W. Dong;J. A. Farrell;M. M. Polycarpou;M. Sharma

  • Adaptive and Learning Systems for Signal Processing, Communications, and Control

    Jay A. Farrell;Marios M. Polycarpou

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Parisini
Thomas Parisini University of Trieste
Jay A. Farrell
Jay A. Farrell University of California, Riverside
Georgios Ellinas
Georgios Ellinas University of Cyprus
Kevin M. Passino
Kevin M. Passino The Ohio State University
Elias Kyriakides
Elias Kyriakides University of Cyprus
Michael A. Demetriou
Michael A. Demetriou Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Andreas Pitsillides
Andreas Pitsillides University of Cyprus
Haibo He
Haibo He University of Rhode Island
Huaguang Zhang
Huaguang Zhang Northeastern University
Tor Arne Johansen
Tor Arne Johansen Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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