Jorge Cortés
Professor
Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair
Jorge Cortés is a Professor
and holder of the Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in High Performance Dynamic Systems Modeling and Control at
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 the 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 and the 2023 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,
and has also received the Distinguished Member Award. He
served in the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control (2010-2012), IEEE Control Systems magazine
(2012-2016), IEEE Access (2015-2017), Journal of Nonlinear
Science (2018-2023), 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 as Senior Editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control and in the editorial board
of Geometric Mechanics. 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
May 2024
Distinguished lecture at 36th Chinese Control and Decision Conference (CCDC 2024),
Xi'an, China
February 2024
Plenary speaker at Decision and Control Laboratory (DCL) Student Symposium, Georgia Tech, Atlanta
December 2023
I have received the
IEEE
CSS Distinguished Member Award for significant technical
contributions to cooperative control and outstanding long-term service
to the IEEE Control Systems Society. I feel both honored and humbled!
December 2023
Our paper
on "Time-varying optimization of LTI systems
via projected primal-dual gradient flows" is the winner of
the 2023 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.
Old news
e-Talks/Conferences
Oct 9-11, 2024
Symposium of the European Network for Nonsmooth Dynamics, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Oct 28, 2024
CSC@USC Seminar Series, Center for Systems and Control, University of
Southern California
Nov 15, 2024
Semiautonomous Seminar, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
Dec 6, 2024
Control Seminar, Michigan Engineering Controls Group, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
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:
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