Dr. Vasso Reppa has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands since 2018. She obtained the doctorate (2010) in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Patras, Greece. In 2009 she joined IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Switzerland as a student intern. From 2011 to 2017, she was a Research Associate (now Research Affiliate) with the KIOS Research and Innovation Center of Excellence in Cyprus. In 2013, Dr. Reppa was awarded the Marie Curie Intra European Fellowship and worked as a Research Fellow in CentraleSupélec of the University Paris-Saclay, France from 2014 to 2016. She was a Visiting Researcher at Imperial College, the UK and at University of Newcastle, Australia in 2015 and 2016, respectively. Her current research interests include multi-level fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control, cooperative control, (adaptive) learning, observer-based estimation, and applications of autonomous systems in (waterborne) transport and smart buildings. Dr Reppa is involved in several research and development projects on autonomous and fault tolerant operation of waterborne transport systems and operations: INTERREG ‘AVATAR’, H2020 ‘NOVIMOVE’, NWO ‘READINESS’, Marie Curie ITN ’AUTOBarge’ and 3mE Cohesion Project SCoop.