Jorge Cortés
Professor
Jorge Cortés is a Professor with
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 a 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
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Outstanding
Paper Award. At the IEEE Control Systems Society, he has been
a Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2014) and an elected member
(2018-2020) of its Board of Governors, and is currently its
Director of Operations. He served in the editorial boards of
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010-2012), IEEE
Control Systems magazine (2012-2016), IEEE Access (2015-2017),
Systems and Control Letters (2009-2012), and European Journal
of Control (2006-2009) and in the Conference Editorial Board
of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2005-2009). He currently
serves in the editorial board of Journal of Nonlinear Science
and Journal of Geometric Mechanics. He is a Fellow of IEEE
and SIAM.
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
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.
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"!
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
e-Talks/Conferences
Mar 7-11, 2022
VII Iberoamerican Meeting on Geometry, Mechanics and Control, virtual
Jun 8-10, 2022
American Control Conference 2022, Atlanta, Georgia
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