People
Postdoctoral Supervision
Priscila Fernanda da Silva Guedes
- Start date: 10/2023
- Control and filter design for systems under cyber attacks, including denial of service attacks and replay attacks.
- Institution: Federal University of São João del-Rei
Current Ph.D. students
- Fatma Yasmine Loumachi
- Start date: 01/2025
- Topic: AI-Powered Framework for PCI DSS Cybersecurity Compliance and Auditing
- Institution: London Metropolitan University
- Samuel Roy Truss
- Start date: 09/2024
- Topic: AI-led Vulnerability Assessment and Penetration Testing Framework for Industrial IoT (IIoT) Networks and Edge Networks
- Institution: London Metropolitan University
- Co-supervisor with Prof. Mohamed Ghanem
- José Fabiano Vellozo D’alterio Moreira
- Start date: 03/2024
- Topic: Power System Considering Uncertainties and Renewable Energy Penetration in the Presence of Cyber Attacks
- Institution: Federal University of São João del-Rei, Brazil
- Co-supervisor with Prof. Wesley Peres
- Josefredo Gadelha da Silva
- Start date: 03/2023
- Topic: Control Strategy for Simultaneous Stabilization and Wave Energy Harvesting for a Floating Offshore Wind/Wave Platform
- Institution: Maynooth University, Ireland
- Co-supervisor with Prof. Erivelton G. Nepomuceno
- Roberto M. Fuentes
- Start date: 07/2023
- Topic: Control and Filter Design for Cyber-Physical Systems Under Attacks
- Institution: Universidad de Talca, Chile
- Co-supervisor with Prof. Jonathan M. Palma
Current M.Sc. students
- Felipe A. Silva
- Start date: 03/2024
- Topic: Safety in cyber-physical systems.
- Institution: Federal University of Sao Joao del-Rei, Brazil.
Completed Ph.D. supervisions
- Paulo Sérgio Pereira Pessim
- Completed: 09/07/2025
- Thesis: APPROACHES TO DISTRIBUTED CONTROL DESIGN: addressing multiple challenges in interconnected and multi-agent systems
- Institution: Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil.
- Co-supervisor with Prof. Reinaldo M. Palhares and Pedro Coutinho.
Master’s students - Alumni
Roberto Fuentes Albornoz (2024) - Methodology for controller synthesis based on robust control for classic energy converter system: validation for dc boost converter and 3-ph grid-supporting. Co-supervisor with Prof. Jonathan Palma.
José Fabiano Vellozo D’alterio Moreira (2023) - Event-based control for discrete-time linear systems: design by emulation.
Pedro Moreira de Oliveira (2023) - State-feedback control and Filter Design for Cyber-Physical uncertain Systems under DoS attacks and unreliable Markovian network
Paulo Sérgio Pereira Pessim (2021) - Control design for cyber-physical LPV systems under DoS attacks: a packet-based approach.
Pedro Augusto da Silva Braga (2021) - System Identification with PWARX model based on dynamic prediction error. Co-supervisor with Prof. Samir M. A. Martins.
Gabriel Oliveira Ferreira (2020) - State-feedback control for linear and state polynomial continuous-time LPV systems under constraints. Co-supervisor with Prof. Valter Leite.
Larissa Soares Figueiredo (2020) - Control of discrete-time LPV systems under saturated actuators. Co-supervisor with Prof. Valter Leite.
Natalia Augusto Keles (2019) - Robust analysis and observer based control for uncertain periodic discrete-time systems.
Thales da Silveira Gomide (2019) - Stability analysis and control of discrete-time switched systems by means of structured Lyapunov functions.
Denise Fonseca Resende (2018) - Sensitivity analysis of the integration step in compartmental and individual based models. Co-supervisor with Prof. Erivelton Nepomuceno