Yiannis is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis.

Yiannis Kantaros received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2012 from the University of Patras, Patras, Greece. He also received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 2017 and 2018, respectively. His current research interests include distributed control, formal methods and control synthesis with applications in robot motion planning and wireless networking. He received the Best Student Paper Award at the 2nd IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing in 2014 and the 2017-18 Outstanding Dissertation Research Award from the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC.