Cris Koutsougeras


	Cris Koutsougeras, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Office: CSTB-3028 Phone: (985) 549-2189 Email:



	Class materials: All class materials are placed on Moodle Submissions of class assignments are also to be made on Moodle. Advising: Academic advising is required before registration in each semester. For registration advising please refer to the instructions emailed to all my advisees at the beginning of each registration advising period.



	COMSOLsimulators for a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine COMSOL Simulators for an Evacuated Tube

Video Presentations/Lectures
Boolean algebra and Logic Design	Simple PHP code Debugging
Basic I/O methods in simple computer architecture	Intro Javascript Lecture 1
Intro to MySQL: PHPmyAdmin and programmatic access (via PHP)	Javascript: OnKeyPress
Tinkercad Arduino polling	Lecture on HTML Forms
XML and XHTML	Intro PHP programming
Computer Organization Made Simple	Using Wordpress: The very basics
RISC vs Microprogramming	Sequential System Design with Flip-Flops
My channel on Youtube Online lectures specific to my courses can only be accessed via Moodle. Please sign on to Moodle with your university ID.

The Fun Stuff...

DARPA Grand Challenge project

The Go Blox project: Startup Weekend, New Orleans 2015

Powering the development of the Gray Team, we have been proud to be part of the Grand Challenge in 2005. Kat-5 finishes 4th out of a total 5 vehicles that made it to the finish line after 132 miles of autonomous navigation. More...

The Go Blox project: New Orleans Startup Week 2015, 2nd place ranked project. More...

Select publications

Cris Koutsougeras, Mohammad Saadeh and Ahmad Fayed, "A Framework and Method for Analysis of Feed-Forward Industrial and Manufacturing Lines", Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing and Special Equipment
Ma J, and C. Koutsougeras, "Effects of Design Parameters on the Fluid Flow and the Efficiency of Single Ended Evacuated Tubular Solar Thermal Collectors via FEM Modelling and Experimentation" Engineering Journal, DOI:10.4186/ej.2015.19.5.69, October 2015,
C. Koutsougeras, Y. Liu, R. Zheng, "Event-driven Sensor Deployment Using Self Organizing Maps", to appear at the Intl. Journal of Sensor Networks (IJSNet) - Special Issue on: "Coverage Problems in Sensor Networks"
P. Trepagnier, J. Nagel, P. Kinney, C. Koutsougeras, M. Dooner, “KAT-5: Robust systems for autonomous vehicle navigation in challenging and unknown terrain", accepted for publication at the Journal of Field Robotics, March 2006.
Cris Koutsougeras And George Papadourakis, "Coupling Supervised and Unsupervised Techniques in Training Feed-Forward Nets", International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific Publishing Company, Vol. 1, no. 1, March 1992.
Arturo Hernandez-Aguirre, C. Koutsougeras, and B. Buckles, "Sample complexity for function learning tasks through linear neural networks", Intl. Journal n Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol 11, No 4, pp 499-512, Dec. 2002
J. F. Vassilopoulos, C. Koutsougeras, and A. Hernandez-Acquire, "On the problem of training the Coulomb Energy Network", Intl. Journal n Artificial Intelligence Tools, Vol 11, No 4, pp 475-498, Dec. 2002
Georgiou, G., and C. Koutsougeras, "Two Phase Backpropagation", in IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems Part II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 39, no. 5, May 1992.
C. Koutsougeras, N. G. Bourbakis, and V. Gallardo, "Reverse engineering of real PCB level design using VERILOG HDL", Intl. Journal of Engineering Intelligent Systems, V10, No 2, pp 63-68, June 2002