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Division Baskin School of Engineering

Department/College/Unit Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title Department Chair
Professor

Affiliation Faculty

Faculty Type Regular Faculty

Areas of Expertise Robotics
Mathematics
Mathematical Modeling
Dynamical Systems

Web Site

Primary Office Location Engineering Building 2
517

Office Hours By appointment

Mail Stop SOE2

Biography, Education and Training

Ricardo Sanfelice is Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz.  After academic stops at UC Santa Barbara, MIT, École de Mines de Paris, and University of Arizona, he joined the Baskin School of Engineering in 2014 where he leads the Hybrid Systems Lab at UCSC.  His research focus is on automation and control for systems with nonlinear hybrid dynamics, cyber-physical systems, and feedback systems emerging in robotics, aerospace, power systems, and biology.  He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed articles in journals, conferences, and book collections, in addition to the book Hybrid Dynamical Systems published by Princeton University Press, and a U.S. Patent on robust power conversion.  He 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, the 2012 STAR Higher Education Award for his contributions to STEM education, and the 2020 ACM Test-of-Time Award from the Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Conference.  Currently he is Director of the Cyber-Physical Systems Research Center and Associate Editor for Automatica, Elsevier, and has served as Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems.  He is a Fellow of the IEEE. 

Research Interests

Modeling, stability, robust control, observer design, and simulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power systems, robotics, aerospace, and biology. 

Teaching Interests

Control systems, control theory, robotics, automation, cyber-physical systems.

Awards, Honors and Grants

• Fellow of IEEE
• Test-of-Time Award, ACM Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control Conference
• Plenary Speaker,  Congreso Argentino de Control Automatico
• Plenary Speaker, XVIII Spanish Control Engineering Symposium
• Best Paper Award Finalist, International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering
• Blavatnik National Award for Young Scientists Campus Nominee
• Best Student Paper Award Finalist (as advisor), American Control Conference
• SIAM Control and Systems Theory Prize
• National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award
• Air Force Young Investigator Research Award (YIP)
• IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award
• Educator of the Year for Higher Education
• Plenary Speaker, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers National Conference
• Plenay Spearker, DYSCO Network Study Days
• ASEE Air Force Summer Faculty Fellow
• Senior Member of IEEE

Selected Publications

R. G. Sanfelice Hybrid Feedback Control , New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2021.

R. Goebel, R. G. Sanfelice, and A. R. Teel Hybrid Dynamical Systems: Modeling, Stability, and Robustness , New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 2012.

R. G. Sanfelice "Hybrid Model Predictive Control", Handbook of Model Predictive Control, Edition 1, Basel, Birkhäuser , pp. 199-220, 09/2018

R. G. Sanfelice "Analysis and Design of Cyber-Physical Systems: A Hybrid Control Systems Approach", Cyber Physical Systems: From Theory to Practice: CRC Press, pp. 3-31, 2015.

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Courses ECE149/249
ECE141/241
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