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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 Full Professor at the Department of
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California,
San Diego and a Jacobs Faculty Scholar. 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 Automatica and an IEEE
Fellow. Recently, she was named the inaugural Editor in Chief of a new
Control System Society publication, the IEEE Open Access Control
Systems (IEEE OACS) journal. For more biographical information please
look here (updated on Feb 11th, 2021)
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