Petros Ioannou is the A.V. ‘Bal’ Balakrishnan Chair Professor in the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles California. He is the founder and Director of the Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies and the co-founder and Associate Director for Research of the University Transportation Center METRANS and the Director of the Master’s Program on Financial Engineering. He holds courtesy appointments with the Departments of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering and Industrial System Engineering. Dr. Ioannou was the recipient of the Axelby Best Paper Award by the IEEE Control System Society in 1984 and the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award for his research in Adaptive Control. In 2009 he received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Application Award and the 2009 IET Heaviside Medal for Achievement in Control by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (former IEE). In 2012 he received the IEEE ITSS Outstanding ITS Research Award, in 2016 the IEEE Transportation Technologies Award and in 2016 he received the Senior Research Award from the Viterbi School of Engineering and the Transition to Practice Award from the IEEE Control System Society. In 2022 he became member of the National Academy of Engineering, Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors and foreign member of the Academy Europaea. He is currently the Vice President for Membership of the IEEE ITS Society. Prior to that he was the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vice President for Publications. Dr. Ioannou is a Lifetime Fellow of IEEE, Fellow of International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), Fellow of AAAS and the author/co-author of 9 books and over 400 research publications in the areas of controls, vehicle dynamics, neural networks, nonlinear dynamical systems and intelligent transportation systems. He served as a technical consultant to several automotive, aerospace and computer/electronics companies and as expert witness on automotive control and sensor systems and safety.