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, the 2019 and the 2023 IEEE
Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding Paper
Award, and the 2025 IEEE Control Systems Letters 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
December 2025
Our paper on "Temporal
forward-backward consistency, not residual error, measures the
prediction accuracy of extended dynamic mode decomposition" is the
winner of the 2025 IEEE Control Systems Letters Outstanding Paper
Award! This award is given to a paper published in the past two years
in the IEEE CSL and the basis for judgment is originality, potential
impact on the foundations of network systems, importance and practical
significance in applications, and clarity.
September 2025
Our paper on certifying stability of reinforcement learning policies using generalized Lyapunov functions accepted as a poster at NeurIPS 2025!
July 2025
Keynote speaker at
11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Split, Croacia
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Talks/Conferences
July 15-18, 2025
11th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies, Split, Croacia
December 10-12, 2025
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
June 17-19, 2026
8th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference,
University of Southern California
December 15-18, 2026
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Honolulu, Hawaii
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