I am a Reader in Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical systems at London Metropolitan University. Before joining London Metropolitan, I was with the Electrical Engineering Department at the Federal University of São João del-Rei - UFSJ, Brazil (2016-2023). I held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Campinas, and the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. I was awarded my Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC) at UNICAMP in 2014.

My main research interests include constrained control, LPV systems, and cyber-physical systems. The main focus of my research is the development of conditions for analysis and robust control design for systems under constraints. Nowadays, I am particularly interested in the study of cyber-physical systems (CPS) in the presence of attacks in communication channels. It is important to highlight that CPS encloses several areas of interest, such as human-in-the-loop, real-time control, the Internet of Things, and machine-to-machine communication, among others. In 2021, I received the Fellowship of Research Productivity from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. I am an Associate Editor for the Journal of Control Automation and Electrical Systems and a member of the IEEE Conference Editorial Board (CEB) and IEEE Technology Conference Editorial Board (TCEB).

Recent News

• December 2024 - I have obtained a new certification: Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) from Advance HE!

• November 2024 - I was invited and accepted to be part of the EPSRC Peer Review College.

• November 2024 - From November 12 to November 14 I visited the Hamilton Institute, at Maynooth University, Ireland, to collaborate with Prof. Erivelton Nepomuceno. I also delivered the seminar “How control theory can contribute to safety in cyber-physical systems?”.

• October 2024 - From October 01 to October 04, I received the visit of Roberto Fuentes, the Ph.D. student I co-supervise with Prof. Jonathan Palma from the University of Talca, Chile.

• September 2024 - Our paper “Preliminary Design for Reference tracking feedback for Medical Cyber-Physical Pharmacokinetic Systems” was accepted for publication in the IEEE International Conference on Automation (ICA) - XXVI Congreso de la Asociación Chilena de Control Automático (ACCA), which will be held in Santiago, Chile.

• August 2024 - I visited the University of Talca, and also the University of Concepcion to collaborate with Prof. Jonathan Palma and Prof. Hugo Garcés. I gave a lecture on Control and filter design for cyber-physical systems under DoS attacks and transmission failures: A Markovian approach.

• June 2024 - Paper accepted in IET Control Theory & Applications, “Filter design for cyber‐physical systems against DoS attacks and unreliable networks: A Markovian approach”.

• June 2024 - From June 10 to June 21 I am visiting L’université polytechnique Hauts-de-France (UPHF) in Valenciennes, France, to collaborate with Prof. Márcia Peixoto from the Laboratory LAMIH.

• June 2024 - Paper accepted in IEEE Access “Engineering and Technology Applications of Control Co-Design: A Survey”.

• May 2024 - 20/05: I presented the seminar “Cyber-physical systems under DoS attacks: a control systems perspective” in the Oxford Control group. Thank you Prof. Antonis Papachristodoulou for the invitation and Jack Umenberger for organizing it.

• April 2024 - 22/04: I was a member of the Ph.D. committee as an external evaluator of the Thesis: EXPLOITING THE CHAOTIC DYNAMICS: NOVEL APPROACHES FOR CRYPTOSYSTEMS, DIGITAL SYSTEMS, AND LYAPUNOV EXPONENT ESTIMATION. Ph.D. candidate: Lucas Giovani Nardo, from the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.

• April 2024 - From 10-12 April, I attended the 14th International Conference on Control organised by the United Kingdom Automatic Control Council and by the University of Southampton. I was the chair of the Linear Control session where we presented two papers.

• March 2024 - One paper accepted on ACNDC 2024 - 7th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos.

  1) State-Feedback Control Design for Discrete-Time Systems via Second-Order Runge-Kutta Discretization.

• February 2024 - Paper accepted in the Journal of the Franklin Institute! “H-infinity gain-scheduled dynamic output feedback control with transient performance applied to electrical microgrid.”

• January 2024 - Congratulations to Roberto for his approval in the M.Sc defense. Methodology for controller synthesis based on robust control for classic energy converter system: Validation for DC boost converter and 3-ph grid-supporting. I am glad to have co-supervised Roberto with Prof. Jonathan Palma from the University of Talca.

• January 2024 - One paper accepted on ISCAS 2024 - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems.

  1) LQR and Genetic Algorithms: an Effective Duo for Assessing Control Expenditure and Performance in Dynamic Systems.

• January 2024 - Two papers accepted in the 14th United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC) International Conference on Control

  1) Event-based control for discrete-time linear parameter-varying systems: an emulation-based design.

  2) State-feedback control for discrete-time uncertain positive linear systems under denial of service attacks.

• December 2023 - Congratulations to Felipe Augusto Silva for finishing his degree in Electrical Engineering. Felipe will start his M.Sc. course at UFSJ under my supervision!

• December 2023 - Participating as an internal evaluator of the M.Sc. defense of the student Marcelo Ferreira Goudinho, entitled: “Controller and event transmission mechanism design in Networked Control Systems”. Postgraduate Program in Electrical Engineering, UFSJ-CEFET-MG.

• November 2023 - Josefredo Gadelha da Silva, a Ph.D. student whom I co-supervise, from Maynooth University, Centre for Ocean Energy Research (COER) will be visiting UFSJ on the week of November 27. He will give a lecture on the topic: A Brief Introduction to Hybrid Wind/Wave Energy Floating Offshore Platforms, 27th November 2023, 16h30, Office 3.16 EL, DEPEL Building.

• November 2023 - Our paper Distributed Event-Triggered Fuzzy Control for Nonlinear Interconnected Systems was accepted for publication in the Journal Chaos, Solitons and Fractals. Congratulations to the Ph.D. student Paulo Pessim. I am very proud to co-supervise Paulo.

• November 2023 - Our paper Finite-Time State Feedback Control for Discrete-Time Cyber-Physical Systems under DoS Attacks was accepted for publication in IEEE Chilecon 2023, the Chilean Conference on Electrical Electronic Engineering, Informatics and Communications Technology. Congratulations to Felipe Augusto Silva, an undergraduate student from UFSJ who worked on this exciting topic.