Abstract

Please join us this Friday, October 7th for a talk by CPSRC Director Ricardo Sanfelice at the first ever UCSC Interdisciplinary Research Symposium. Ricardo will be discussing algorithmic system design for safety and resilience of future intelligent transportation systems, which is a focus of the ~$6M NSF Frontier project that was recently awarded to him and fellow Baskin faculty Abhishek Halder and Heiner Litz. 

Bio

Ricardo G. Sanfelice received the B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad de Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 2001, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in 2004 and 2007, respectively. In 2007 and 2008, he held postdoctoral positions at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Centre Automatique et Systèmes at the École des Mines de Paris. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, where he was an Assistant Professor. In 2014, he joined the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, USA, where he is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Prof. Sanfelice is the recipient of the 2013 SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize, the National Science Foundation CAREER award, the Air Force Young Investigator Research Award, the 2010 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, and the 2020 Test-of-Time Award from the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Conference. Prof. Sanfelice is a Fellow of IEEE.