Jorge Cortés
Professor
Jorge Cortés is a Professor with
the Department of Mechanical
and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California,
San Diego. He received the Licenciatura degree in mathematics
from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in 1997, and the
Ph.D. degree in engineering mathematics from the Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2001. He held postdoctoral
positions at the Systems, Signals and Control Department of
the University of Twente in 2002 and at the Coordinated
Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2004. He was an Assistant
Professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from
2004 to 2007.
Dr. Cortés is the author of "Geometric, Control and
Numerical Aspects of Nonholonomic Systems" (New York:
Springer-Verlag, 2002) and co-author of "Distributed Control
of Robotic Networks" (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2009). He received a NSF CAREER award in 2006 and was the
recipient of the 2006 Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics
Young Researcher Prize. He has co-authored papers that have
won the 2008 and the 2021 IEEE Control Systems Magazine
Outstanding Paper Award, the 2009 SIAM Review SIGEST selection
from the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, the 2012
O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category, and
the 2019 IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems
Outstanding Paper Award. At the IEEE Control Systems Society,
he has been a Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2014), an elected
member (2018-2020) of its Board of Governors, and the Director
of Operations (2019-2022) of its Executive Committee. He
served in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control (2010-2012), IEEE Control Systems magazine
(2012-2016), IEEE Access (2015-2017), Systems and Control
Letters (2009-2012), European Journal of Control (2006-2009),
and Journal of Geometric Mechanics (2011-2022) and in the
Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society
(2005-2009). He currently serves in the editorial board of
Journal of Nonlinear Science. He is a Fellow of IEEE,
SIAM, and IFAC.
Dr. Cortés' research interests are in the area of
systems and control, cooperative control, network
optimization, distributed decision making and autonomy,
systems orchestration, network science and complex systems,
game theory, multi-agent coordination in robotics,
transportation, power systems, and neuroscience, nonsmooth
analysis, and geometric mechanics. His research is
characterized by its interdisciplinary character and the
connections between solid theoretical foundations, development
of computational methods, and applications. His research
program seeks to unveil the science and engineering that
explains and enhances the operation of network systems. The
ultimate aim is to understand the mechanisms that make complex
networks function they way they do, and to use this knowledge
to develop systematic methods to design better networks.
Detailed information is available at
Dr. Cortés' resume.
Check out the citation summaries from Publons and Google Scholar.
Latest news
December 2022
After 4 fun-filled and work-intensive years, I am finishing up my term as Director of Operations of the IEEE Control Systems Society. I will certainly miss the jolly ExCom meetings!
August 2022
Elevated to IFAC Fellow. Check out IFAC's website for the list of Fellows elected for the period 2020-2023. I'm in the company of giants!
August 2022
Masih Haseli has successfully defended his PhD! The
title of his thesis
is Data-Driven System Analysis Using the Koopman Operator: Eigenfunctions, Invariant Subspaces, and Accuracy Bounds. He will be
continuing as a postdoc in my research group for one more year to finish up several exciting ongoing projects
December 2021
Our
paper on "Tutorial on
dynamic average consensus: the problem, its applications,
and the algorithms" is the winner of
the 2021
IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award!
This award is given to a paper published in the society
magazine, IEEE Control Systems, during the past two years
and the basis for judgment is impact on and benefit to
society members.
September 2021
Pio Ong and Priyank Srivastava successfully defended their
PhD! The title of Pio's thesis is
Uniting and Balancing Control Objectives:
Safety, Stability, Smoothness, and Resource Conservation. The title of Priyank's thesis
is Constrained Network Optimization: Algorithms, and Applications in Frequency Regulation They are on to new,
exciting challenges, both as postdocs, Pio at Caltech and Priyank at MIT.
Old news
e-Talks/Conferences
October 28, 2022
Electrical and Systems Engineering Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri
December 6-9, 2022
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2022, Cancún, Mexico
February 3, 2023
Mechanical and Civil Engineering Seminar, Caltech, Pasadena
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr,
La Jolla, California, 92093-0411
Ph: 1-858-822-7930
Fax: 1-858-822-3107
cortes at ucsd.edu
Skype id:
jorgilliyo