He also holds secondary appointments in the Departments of Computer and Information Sciences, and Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics. He has published over one hundred articles in the areas of hybrid systems, hierarchical control systems, distributed control systems, nonlinear control systems, and geometric control theory, with applications to robotics, unmanned aerial vehicles, and biomolecular networks. He co-edited Hybrid Systems:Computation and Control (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2004, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science) and is currently serving as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. Dr. Pappas is the recipient of a National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Award in 2002, as well as the 2002 NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).