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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
B.S. degree from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain in 1997, and 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, cyber-physical systems, and natural/social networks. 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 co-authored papers
"Motion coordination with Distributed Information," and "Tutorial on
dynamic average consensus: The problem, its applications, and the
algorithms", she received respectively the 2008 and 2021 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 Journal of Control Systems (IEEE OJCS). For more biographical
information please look here (updated on Feb
11th, 2021)
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