{"614281":{"#nid":"614281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Coogan Named as Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professor","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018. A professorship for untenured faculty members in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), this position was previously held by Hua Wang.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan joined the ECE faculty in July 2017 after two years on the faculty at UCLA. He\u0026nbsp;is a member of the systems and controls technical interest group and holds a joint appointment in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan\u0026rsquo;s research is in dynamical systems and autonomy and focuses on developing scalable tools for verification and control of networked, cyber-physical systems. He and his team of nine\u0026nbsp;graduate\u0026nbsp;students are interested in applying these tools to create efficient, intelligent, and autonomous transportation systems. He is a member of the Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines and the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Before joining Tech as a faculty member, he was an assistant professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA from 2015-2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoogan has published almost 40 refereed journal and conference papers. Since arriving at Tech last year, he has won a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an\u0026nbsp;Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Award. Coogan also received\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;Outstanding Paper Award in 2017.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Sam Coogan has been appointed to the Demetrius T. Paris Junior Professorship, effective December 1, 2018. 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