Solmaz S. Kia, Bryan Van Scoy, Jorge Cortés, Randy Freeman, Kevin M. Lynch, Sonia Martínez - 2021 recipient of IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award

Solmaz Kia

University of California, Irvine

United States

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Solmaz Kia

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Solmaz S. Kia received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in aerospace engineering from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2001 and 2004, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mechanical and aerospace engineering from the University of California (UC Irvine), Irvine, CA, USA, in 2009, respectively.

She is currently an Associate Professor in mechanical and aerospace engineering with UC Irvine. She was a Senior Research Engineer with SySense, Inc., El Segundo, CA, USA, from 2009 to 2010. She held postdoctoral positions with the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California (UC), San Diego, CA, USA, and UC Irvine. Her main research interests, in a broad sense, include distributed optimization/coordination/estimation, nonlinear control theory, and probabilistic robotics.

Dr. Kia was a recipient of the UC president's postdoctoral fellowship in 2012–2014 and a NSF CAREER award in 2017.

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University of California, Irvine

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Bryan Van Scoy

Jorge Cortés

University of California, San Diego

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Randy Freeman

Northwestern University

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Kevin M. Lynch

Sonia Martínez

University of California, San Diego

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Sonia Martínez

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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.

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University of California, San Diego

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Solmaz S. Kia, Bryan Van Scoy, Jorge Cortés, Randy Freeman, Kevin M. Lynch, Sonia Martínez - 2021 recipient of IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award

Solmaz Kia

Bryan Van Scoy

Jorge Cortés

Randy Freeman

Kevin M. Lynch

Sonia Martínez

"Tutorial on Dynamic Average Consensus: The Problem, Its Applications, and the Algorithms"