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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) University of California at San Diego
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Short biography:
Sonia Martínez received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering
Mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in May
2002. Following a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied
Mathematics at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, she
obtained a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship and held appointments at
the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign during 2004, and at the Center for Control, Dynamical
systems and Computation (CCDC) of the University of California, Santa
Barbara during 2005. From January 2006 to July 2010, she was an
Assistant Professor with the department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.
In a broad sense, Dr Martínez' main reseach interests include
networked control systems, multi-agent systems, nonlinear control
theory and robotics. In particular, she has focused on the modeling
and control of robotic sensor networks, the development of distributed
coordination algorithms for groups of autonomous vehicles, and the
geometric control of mechanical systems. For her work on the control
of underactuated mechanical systems she received the Best Student
Paper award at the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. She
was the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award in 2007. For the paper "Motion
coordination with Distributed Information," co-authored with Jorge
Cortés and Francesco Bullo, she received the 2008 Control Systems
Magazine Outstanding Paper Award. For more biographical information
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