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
July 2025
Keynote speaker at
11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Split, Croacia
March 2025
Our paper on anytime safe reinforcement learning is a finalist for the L4DC25 Best Paper Award!
September 2024
Guest
Editor of Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems for Special
Issue on "Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Control and Optimization"
September 2024
Elected to 2025 IEEE Control Systems Society Nominating Committee
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Talks/Conferences
April 18, 2025
Southern California Control Workshop,
Cymer Conference Center, UC San Diego
June 4-6, 2025
7th Annual Learning for Dynamics and Control Conference,
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
July 8-10, 2025
American Control Conference, Denver, Colorado
July 15-18, 2025
11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Split, Croacia
September 10-12, 2025
Koopman Operator Theory: Fundamentals, Approximations and Applications 2, Cres, Croacia
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