Hi!, I am Rompokos (Athanasios) Thanos
PhD Student in Computer Engineering
Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Southern California
3740 McClintok Ave, Los Angeles, USA 90089, EEB-303
I am 6th year PhD student at the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. I am part of Prof. Edmond Jonckheere's Research Group and my research focus is on optimization using curvature methods.
Prior to that, I was with the Data Science Lab led by Prof. Viktor Prasanna, where I was part of DeepSolar, funded by the Department of Energy. I worked on improving the sustainability of micro-grids by optimally scheduling renewable energy resources in the smart grid.
I received my Barchelor's and Master's 5-year joint degree from the Electrical Engineering department, University of Patras, Greece in 2016. My thesis, supervised by Prof. Antonio Alexandridis is titled "Non-linear Control in E-L convey-crane system".
Finally, I have worked as an engineering intern in Intracom Telecom , where I was part of the quality of service department of the company's wireless devices.
My research interests lie in the intersection of applied optimization and quantum systems. Currently, my research focus is on optimal information transfer in quantum devices. I have also worked in optimization algorithms using curvature methods and in (discrete) optimization algorithms in Smart Grid applications such as frequency regulation and peak load shaving.
A. A. Rompokos, F. C. Langbein and E. Jonckheere, "Information Transfer in Spintronics Networks under Worst Case Uncertain Parameter Errors", 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancún, Mexico, 2022.
E. Jonckheere, H. Krovi, and A. A. Rompokos, "Nonconvex optimization on data manifold by accelerated curvature transport", 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Jeju Island, Korea, 2020.
A. A. Rompokos, S. R. Kuppannagari, R. Kannan, and V. K. Prasanna, "Minimizing cost of load matching in multiple micro-grids using MESS," IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability, Sustech, 2018. -under review
A. D. Papadopoulos, A. A. Rompokos and A. T. Alexandridis, "Nonlinear and observer-based PD position and sway control of convey-crane systems," 2016 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED), Athens, 2016.
I have developed machine learning workflows for projects in fraud detection using real world datasets. You can find a list of my projects is in my Github page.
My main hobbies are:
Photography (digital & analog / darkroom printing)
Football (naively referred to as soccer in the US )
Tennis
Swimming
Cinema