Jorge Cortés
Professor
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair
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!
November 2022
Guest Editor for
special issue on event-triggered and self-triggered control on Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems
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
March 2022
Plenary talk at VII Iberoamerican Meeting on Geometry, Mechanics and Control
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.
June 2021
Keynote at 7th International Conference on Event-based Control, Communication, and Signal Processing
May 2021
Prof. Cameron Nowzari has won
the 2021 Young Investigator Award from ONR with his project on "The Cycle of Emergence: Structure, Agency, and the Environment"!
May 2021
Masih Haseli is the winner for
the ACC21
Best Student Paper Award
with "Data-driven
approximation of Koopman-invariant subspaces with tunable
accuracy"!
November 2020
Plenary talk at International Automatic Control Conference (CACS 2020), Hsinchu, Taiwan
October
2020
Co-PI in $39M infrastructure
grant from NSF to build national, remotely-accessible, large-scale testing site at UCSD for validation and transitioning of future technologies for autonomous energy grids
Press releases from NSF,
UCSD, Jacobs School of Engineering
June 2020
Erfan Nozari is the recipient of the "Robert
E. Skelton Systems and Control Dissertation Award'' for the
academic year 2018-2019!
March 2020
Elevated to SIAM Fellow. Check out SIAM Announces Class of 2020 Fellows
March 2020
Aaron Ma has successfully defended his PhD!
The title of Aaron's thesis is Model-Based
Reinforcement Learning for Cooperative Multi-Agent
Planning: Exploiting Hierarchies, Bias, and Temporal
Sampling. He will be soon on to new, exciting
challenges at Shield AI.
December 2019
Our paper
on "Differentially
private distributed convex optimization via functional
perturbation" is the winner of
the 2019 IEEE
Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper
Award! This award is given to a paper published in the
past two years in the IEEE TCNS and the basis for judgment
is originality, potential impact on the foundations of
network systems, importance and practical significance in
applications, and clarity.
October 2019
Plenary talk at Congreso Nacional de Control Automático (CNCA 2019), Puebla, México
September 2019
Our paper on using opportunistic state-triggered control to synthesize convergence-rate-matching discretizations of accelerated optimization flows accepted at NIPS 2019!
July 2019
Yifu Zhang anf Erfan Nozari have successfully defended their
PhD! The title of Yifu's thesis is Transient
Frequency Analysis and Distributed Synthesis for Power
Networks. The title of Erfan's thesis
is Networked Dynamical Systems: Privacy,
Control, and Cognition They will be soon on to new,
exciting challenges, Yifu at MathWorks and Erfan as a
postdoc at UPenn.
April 2019
Bahman Gharesifard is the recipient of
the 2019
CAIMS-PIMS Early Career Award, given by the
Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics
Society each year to one person
to recognize exceptional research in any branch of applied mathematics
February 2019
Ashish Cherukuri to start as an Assistant Professor at the
ENgineering
and TEchnology institute Groningen in the University of
Groningen, The Netherlands
January 2019
Start of tenure as Director of Operations of
the IEEE Control
Systems Society
December 2018
Erfan Nozari is the winner of
the CDC18 Best
Student Paper Award
with "Selective
recruitment in hierarchical complex dynamical networks with
linear-threshold rate dynamics"! He has won the best
student paper awards at the two main control conferences and in
the same year
August 2018
Plenary talk at 7th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems (NecSys18), Groningen, The Netherlands
June 2018
Erfan Nozari is the winner of the ACC18 Best Student
Paper Award with "Stability analysis of complex networks with
linear-threshold rate dynamics"!
January 2018
Erfan Nozari is a finalist for the ACC18 Best Student
Paper Award with "Stability analysis of complex networks with
linear-threshold rate dynamics"!
June 2017
Ashish Cherukuri is the recipient of the "Robert
E. Skelton Systems and Control Dissertation Award'' for the
academic year 2016-2017
June 2017
Ashish Cherukuri has successfully defended his PhD! The
title of his thesis
is Coordination
and Competition in Optimal Dispatch: Distributed Algorithms,
Saddle-Point Dynamics, and Iterative Bidding. He will be
soon on to new, exciting challenges as a postdoc at ETH
June 2017
Google Scholar has released "Classic Papers: Articles That
Have Stood The Test of Time", a collection of highly-cited
papers in their area of research that have stood the test of
time. Our paper on robust rendezvous has made it to the top three in
Automation & Control Theory!
June 2017
Elected to
the Board
of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society for the
three-year term January 2018-December 2020
February 2017
Pavan Tallapragada starts as Assistant Professor at the
Department of Electrical
Engineering of the Indian Institute of Science
October 2016
Keynote talk at
Contextual Robotics Forum:
Shared Autonomy: New Directions in Human-Machine Interaction, University of California, San Diego, CA
August 2016
Semi-plenary lecture at NOLCOS16 on "Asymptotic Stability of Saddle-Point Dynamics and Its Role in Network Coordination"
March
2016
MURO lab's
robots are in the cover of the IEEE Control Systems
magazine April issue and the Jacobs School of Engineering
Spring newsletter
February 2016
Join us at the
upcoming Southern California Robotics Symposium at UC San
Diego. More info here
February 2016
Co-PI in a
UCSD-UIUC team awarded ARPA-e NODES project to work on
distributed control and coordination of energy resources for
optimized provision of synthetic regulating reserves. Press release
October 2015
Our MURO lab
webpage is live here
We are feverishly preparing for our
upcoming demo at the UCSD Contextual Robotics Forum
September 2015
Undergraduate student researchers working in our
Multi-Agent Robotics (MURO) Laboratory are featured in the news of
the UCSD School of Engineering in "Undergraduates find a
future in robotics lab over summer"
August 2015
David Mateos has successfully defended his PhD! The title of
his thesis
is Distributed
Algorithms for Convex Optimization: Noisy Channels,
Online Computation, Nuclear Norm Regularization, and
Separable Constraints. He
will soon start working as a postdoc at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies
August 2015
Dean Richert is the inaugural recipient of the "Robert
E. Skelton Systems and Control Dissertation Award'' for the
academic year 2013-2014
July 2015
Mike Ouimet has started in his new position as Engineer at the Unmanned Maritime Vehicles Laboratory,
SPAWAR Systems Center Pacific, San Diego!
January 2015
Ashish Cherukuri is a finalist for the ACC15 Best Student
Paper Award with "Asymptotic
stability of saddle points under the saddle-point
dynamics"!
December 2014
Appointed Associate Editor for
IEEE Access
July 2014
Interview at the IEEE Control Systems magazine
June 2014
Dean Richert has successfully defended his PhD! The title of
his thesis
is Robust Distributed Control of Networked Systems with Linear Programming Objectives. He
will soon start working for Cymer Corporation
ACC 2015
Deadline for submitting special session and micro session
proposals is October 17, 2014. Details here
March 2014
Appointed Associate Editor for
IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering
January 2014
Elevated to IEEE Fellow
July 12, 2014
RSS
Workshop: Distributed Control and Estimation for Robotic Vehicle
Networks, part of 2014 Robotics: Science and Systems, University
of California, Berkeley, July 12-16, 2014
October 2013
Mike Ouimet has successfully defended his PhD! The title of
his thesis
is Distributed
Cooperation for Robust Estimation
September 2013
Cameron Nowzari has successfully defended his PhD! The title
of his thesis
is Distributed
Triggered Control of Networked Cyber-Physical Systems. He
is now on to new challenges as a postdoc at the University
of Pennsylvania
July 2013
Bahman
Gharesifard starts as Assistant Professor at the
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queen's
University, Kingston, Canada!
April 2013
New NSF-CMMI project on robust distributed online convex optimization
December 2012
Section Editor on 'Control of Networked Systems' for
Encyclopedia of Systems and Control, J. Baillieul and T. Samad eds., Springer, New York
September 14-15, 2012
Program Co-Chair for
3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, California
June 2012
2012 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category
with the paper
Self-triggered coordination of robotic networks for optimal deployment coauthored with Ph.D student Cameron Nowzari, ACC 2012, Montréal, Canada
January 2012
Associate Editor
for IEEE
Control Systems magazine
Distributed Control of
Robotic Networks
F. Bullo, J. Cortés, and
S. Martínez
electronically available
August 2011
Associate Editor
for Journal of Geometric Mechanics
January 2011
"Self-triggered
coordination of robotic networks for optimal deployment"
is a finalist for the 2011 ACC Best Student Paper Award
January 2011
Associate Editor
for SIAM Journal on
Control and Optimization
September 2010
Appointed to the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
Conference Editorial Board (CEB)
June 2010
Short interview on
Ocean Robot Swarms for NAE Engineering Innovation radio series
March 2010
Appointed
IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer for
2010-2012
February 2010
CONNECT Frontiers in Science & Technology Lecture. PDF
of the presentation available here
November 2009
Swarms of ocean robots will drift in formation, monitor oil
spills, thanks to advanced controls systems, press release
July 2009
At last, appointed Associate Professor!
June 2009
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
March 2009
Nonsmooth coordination and geometric optimization via
distributed dynamical systems is SIAM Review SIGEST
selection from SIAM J. Control and Optimization!
February 2009
Associate Editor for Systems and Control Letters
February 2009
Outstanding Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
December 2008
Motion coordination with distributed information wins 2008 IEEE Control Systems Outstanding Paper Award!
December 2008
Chair, IEEE CSS Technical Committee on Manufacturing
Automation and Robotic Control
January 2009
Ph.D. opportunities available. Apply at MAE
Graduate Admissions
June 2008
Program Commitee, 2008
Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland
October 2007
Program Commitee, Robocomm: First
International Conference on Networked Robots, Athens, Greece
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr,
La Jolla, California, 92093-0411
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