Carlos Ocampo-Martinez

Biography

Carlos Ocampo-Martínez (Senior Member, IEEE) received his Ph.D. in Control Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, in 2007.

From 2007 to 2008, he held a postdoctoral position at the ARC Centre of Complex Dynamic Systems and Control, University of Newcastle, Australia. He then joined the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) as a Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow at the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Barcelona, from 2008 to 2011.

Since 2011, he has been with the Department of Automatic Control (ESAII) at UPC, where he is currently a Professor specializing in automatic control and model predictive control. From 2014 to 2018, he also served as Deputy Director of the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), a joint research center of UPC and CSIC.

His research interests include constrained model predictive control, large-scale systems management (partitioning and decentralized control), process control, and industrial applications—particularly in the key areas of water and energy systems, and smart manufacturing within the IoT framework.