George Zogopoulos
Controls Engineer at Controlled Ascent
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Top SchoolGeorge Zogopoulos is a controls engineer with 12 years of experience specializing in fault-tolerant control systems for autonomous aerial vehicles. He holds a Ph.D. from the National Technical University of Athens focused on fault-tolerance in fixed-wing UAVs and combines deep academic knowledge with hands-on engineering across startups and consultancy. George has applied his expertise at Avy and now at Controlled Ascent while contributing to the ArduPilot developer community, bridging industry-grade product development and open-source flight control. His background spans electrical engineering, systems integration, and resilient control algorithms—skills he honed while freelancing early in his career. Based in Utrecht, he brings a pragmatic researcher’s mindset to building reliable autonomy under real-world constraints. Notably, he pairs academic rigor with practical flight-control deployments, making complex fault scenarios manageable in production systems.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fault-Tolerance in Fixed-Wing Autonomous Aerial Vehicles, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Fault-Tolerance in Fixed-Wing Autonomous Aerial Vehicles at National Technical University of Athens
Greek, English, French, Dutch
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Github Skills (153)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Georacer/uav-modeling
Feb 2015 - Jan 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 3 PRs, 15 pushes in 4 years 11 months
equationsphysicssimulationmathematicaluav
Georacer/fault-diagnosis
Dec 2015 - Apr 2019
Contributions:338 commits, 21 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 4 months
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