- Test-of-Time Award, ACM Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Conference
- SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize
- National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award
- Air Force Young Investigator Research Award (YIP)
- IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award
- Educator of the Year for Higher Education
- Multiple plenary or semi-plenary speaker roles at significant international conferences
Research Experience
- Postdoctoral Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT and Centre Automatique et Systemes at Ecole de Mines de Paris during 2007 and 2008
- Assistant Professor in the Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona from 2009 to 2014
- Currently, Professor and Chair at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, and serves as Director for the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center and the CITRIS Aviation Initiative
Education
- B.S. in Electronics Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001
- M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2004 and 2007 respectively
Background
Research interests include modeling, stability, robust control, observer design, and simulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power systems, robotics, aerospace, and biology.