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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE) University of California at San Diego
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Short biography:
Sonia Martínez is a Professor at the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California,
San Diego. Prof. 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 June 2010, she was an
Assistant Professor with the department of Mechanical and Aerospace
Engineering at the University of California, San Diego. From July
2010 to June 2014, she was an Associate Professor with the department
of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of
California, San Diego.
Dr Martínez' research interests include networked control systems,
multi-agent systems, and nonlinear control theory with applications to
robotics and cyber-physical systems. 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. She is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Control of
Networked Systems and an IEEE Fellow. For more biographical
information please look here (updated on Feb
6th, 2019)
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