Ioannis Paschalidis

Ioannis PaschilidisProfessor
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996
Co-Director, Center for Information and Systems Engineering

Information Sciences and Systems

Center for Information and Systems Engineering
Division of Systems Engineering


(617) 353-0434
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office: PHO 429
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Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Senior Member, IEEE
  • Guest Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Special Issue on Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks, forthcoming
  • Associate Editor, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization
  • Past Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
  • Past Associate Editor, Operations Research Letters
  • Past Associate Editor, Automatica
  • Boston University College of Engineering Distinguished Faculty Fellow (2011)
  • Dean’s Catalyst Award, College of Engineering, Boston University (2011)
  • Joint paper with student, Reza Moazzez-Estanjini, won the best student paper award at the 9th International Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt ’11)
  • Best performance in modeling protein-protein complexes (with D. Kozakov, P. Vakili, S. Vajda, et al.), CAPRI (Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions) Evaluation meeting, Barcelona, Spain (December 9-11, 2009)
  • Invited Participant, Workshop on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Protein Folding, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications (IMA) (January 14-18, 2008)
  • First prize in the 3rd Critical Assessment Predicted (Protein) Interaction (CAPRI) Evaluation Meeting, Toronto, Canada, for poster presentation (with Y. Shen, P. Vakili, and S. Vajda). (April 20-21, 2007)
  • Invited Participant, U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, National Academy of Engineering (2002)
  • National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2000)
  • Plenary Speaker, LIDS Student Conference, Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, MIT (1998 and 2002)
  • Second Prize, George E. Nicholson paper competition (1997)
  • Elected Full Member of Sigma Xi, 1996

Classes Taught

  • EC 381 Probability Theory in Electrical and Computer Engineering
  • EC/SE 524 Optimization Theory and Methods
  • EC/SE 724 Advanced Optimization Theory and Methods
  • EC/SE 755 Communication Networks Control

Research Interests

  • systems and control
  • networking
  • applied probability
  • optimization
  • operations research
  • computational biology
  • communication and sensor networks
  • protein docking
  • logistics
  • cyber-security
  • robotics
  • smart-grid
  • finance

Additional Affiliations

Selected Publications

  • D. Beglov, R. Brenke, S. R. Comeau, D. R. Hall, D. Kozakov, K. Li, I. Ch. Paschalidis, Y. Shen, S. Vajda P. Vakiliand, and J. Zheng, “Achieving Reliability and High Accuracy in Automated Protein Docking: ClusPro, PIPER, SDU, and Stability Analysis in CAPRI Rounds 13-19,” Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, Special Issue: Fourth Meeting on the Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions, vol. 78, no. 15, pp. 3124-3130, November 15, 2010.
  • I. Ch. Paschalidis, W. Lai, and X. Song, “Optimized Scheduled Multiple Access Control for Wireless Sensor Networks,” IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, vol. 54, no. 11, pp. 2573-2585, November 2009.
  • I. Ch. Paschalidis and G. Smaragdakis, “Spatio-Temporal Network Anomaly Detection by Assessing Deviations of Empirical Measures”, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 17, no. 3, pages 685-697, June 2009.
  • S. Ray, W. Lai, D. Guo, and I. Ch. Paschalidis,  ”Statistical Location Detection,” in Localization Algorithms and Strategies for Wireless Sensor Networks: Monitoring and Surveillance Techniques for Target Tracking, Guoqiang Mao and Baris Fidan (editors), Information Science Reference, May 15, 2009.
  • Y. Shen, I. Ch. Paschalidis, P. Vakili, and S. Vajda, “Protein Docking by the Underestimation of Free Energy Funnels in the Space of Encounter Complexes,” PLoS Computational Biology, vol. 4, no. 10, October 10, 2008.
  • I. Ch. Paschalidis and Y. Liu, “Pricing in Multiservice Loss Networks: Static Pricing, Asymptotic Optimality, and Demand Substitution Effects,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 425-438, June 2002.
  • I. Ch. Paschalidis and J. N. Tsitsiklis, “Congestion–Dependent Pricing of Network Services,” IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. 8, no. 2, pages 171–184, April 2000.
  • D. Bertsimas, I. Ch. Paschalidis, and J.N. Tsitsiklis, “Optimization of Multiclass Queueing Networks: Polyhedral and Nonlinear Characterizations of Achievable Performance,” The Annals of Applied Probability, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 43–75, 1994.