Bio sketch

CPA is an Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Structural Design & Mechanics at TU Delft, in the Dept. of Architectural Engineering & Technology, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment. Before joining TU Delft, CPA was a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering at Penn State University, where he also received his Ph.D. in 2019. He holds an M.S. in Structural & Earthquake Engineering (2015) and a 5-year Diploma in Civil Engineering (2013), with specialization in Structural Engineering, from the National Technical University of Athens.

CPA is co-directing AiDAPT, TU Delft's AI-Lab for Design, Analysis, and Optimization in Architecture & the Built Environment. His research is on decision-making under uncertainty for engineering systems and infrastructure, a line of research at the intersection of structural mechanics, systems risk & reliability, optimization, control, and machine learning. In the above topics, CPA has published numerous papers and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has presented his research findings on multiple occasions within the engineering community, including invited talks, seminars, and conference presentations. He has been a primary author and contributor in research projects funded by the NSF and US DoT. 

In recognition of his research contributions as a PhD researcher, he has received awards from the Civil Engineering Risk and Reliability Association (CERRA); the ASCE-EMI Probabilistic Methods Committee (PMC); the ASCE-EMI Structural Health Monitoring and Control (SHMC) Committee; whereas his work has been featured as the Editor’s Choice in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, ASCE (2018). He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and the ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute (EMI). 

Appointments

2021-pres.   Assistant Professor, Structural Design & Mechanics, Faculty of Architecture & the Built Environment, TU Delft

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2019-21      Postdoctoral Scholar, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State University

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2015-19        Research & Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Civil & Environmental Engineering, Penn State University

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Education

2019       Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Penn State University

                    -- Areas of focus: Systems Engineering; Risk & Reliability; Stochastic Optimal Control; Machine Learning

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2015       M.S. in Structural & Earthquake Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

                    -- Program: Analysis and Design of Earthquake Resistant Structures (ADERS)

                      -- Areas of focus: Mechanics; Finite Elements; Optimization; Structural Reliability

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​2013      5-year Diploma in Civil Engineering, National Technical University of Athens

                   -- Major: Structural Engineering

                   -- Areas of focus: Mechanics; Finite Elements; Structural Dynamics; Materials