Dr. Jorge Cortes

Biography

Jorge Cortés holds the Cymer Corporation Endowed Chair in High Performance Dynamic Systems Modeling Control at the University of California, San Diego, in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. His research interests encompass systems control, cooperative control, network optimization, distributed decision making, autonomy, systems orchestration, network science, complex systems, game theory, multi-agent coordination, robotics, transportation, power systems, neuroscience, nonsmooth analysis, and geometric mechanics. Cortés has a Licenciatura degree in mathematics from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain (1997), and a Ph.D. in engineering mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain (2001). He has held postdoctoral positions at the Systems, Signals and Control Department of the University of Twente (2002) and the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2002-2004). Prior to his appointment at UC San Diego, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (2004-2007). He has received numerous awards including the NSF CAREER award (2006) and the Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics Young Researcher Prize (2006). Cortés has published extensively in the field, with notable works including 'Geometric, Control Numerical Aspects Nonholonomic Systems' and 'Distributed Control of Robotic Networks.' He is an elected Fellow of IEEE, SIAM, and IFAC and has served on various editorial boards.

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