Marcio J. Lacerda

Marcio J. Lacerda

Reader in Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems, PhD in Electrical Engineering. Main interests: Robust control, LPV systems, hybrid systems, and cyber-physical systems under attacks.

Service

Editorial Board

  • Senior Editor - IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 2026 - Present.

  • Member of the IEEE CSS Conferences Editorial Board (CEB), 2023 - Present

  • Member of the IEEE CSS Technology Conferences Editorial Board (TCEB), 2023 - Present

  • Associate Editor - Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, 2022 - 2026.

  • Associate Editor - IEEE Latin America Transactions, 2020 - 2024.

  • Associate Editor - Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2020 - 2024.

  • Journal of the Franklin Institute, Special Issue on High Fidelity LPV systems under constraints. Editors: Márcio J. Lacerda (UFSJ), Fergani Soheib (LAAS), Masayuki Sato (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), Valter J. S. Leite (Federal Center for Technological Education of Minas Gerais), Fen Wu (North Carolina State University).

Technical Program Committee Membership

  • 2026 American Control Conference (ACC 2026) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • The 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2025) - Associate Editor (Contributed and Invited Papers).

  • 17th Brazilian Symposium on Intelligent Automation (SBAI 2025) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • 2025 9th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2025) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • 2025 American Control Conference (ACC 2025) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • XXV Brazilian Conference on Automatic (CBA 2024) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • The 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2024) - Associate Editor (Contributed and Invited Papers).

  • 2024 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2024) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • 2024 American Control Conference (ACC 2024) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • 2023 7th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA 2023) - Associate Editor (Contributed Papers).

  • IEEE International Conference on Automation/ Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control 2022 - International Program Committee.

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the EDI group of the Automatic Control Engineering Network.

  • IEEE Senior Member
    • Member of the Control Systems Society CSS.
    • Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Hybrid Systems.
  • Member of the Brazilian Society of Automatics (SBA).
    • Vice coordinator elected for the term (2023-2024) of the institutional committee SBA Young, of the Brazilian Society of Automatics.

PhD Examination Committees

  1. Pablo Henrique Gonçalves – State Estimation of Nonlinear Systems: A Robust Approach Using Convex Optimization Methods. PhD in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (2025). Committee members: B. O. S. Teixeira, V. C. S. Campos, L. A. Mozelli, L. A. F. Santos, M. J. Lacerda, R. C. L. F. Oliveira.

  2. Lucas Giovani Nardo – Exploiting Chaotic Dynamics: Novel Approaches for Cryptosystems, Digital Systems, and Lyapunov Exponent Estimation. PhD in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (2024). Committee members: J. Arias-Garcia, E. G. Nepomuceno, E. M. A. M. Mendes, F. O. Souza, M. J. Lacerda, G. T. Bastos.

  3. Priscila Fernanda da Silva Guedes – Efficient Discretization Scheme for Nonlinear Systems in Floating-Point and Posit Arithmetic. PhD in Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais (2023). Committee members: E. M. A. M. Mendes, E. G. Nepomuceno, D. D. Ferreira, M. J. Lacerda, J. Arias-Garcia, L. A. B. Torres.

  4. Henrique William Resende Pereira – Optimal Filtering Applied to Sampled-Data Systems. PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering, Aeronautics Institute of Technology (2023). Committee members: G. W. Gabriel, A. M. Oliveira, L. Frezzatto, M. J. Lacerda, J. R. Colombo Junior, R. L. Pereira.

  5. Eduardo Ribeiro Pinto – Agent-Based Model with Complex Networks for Infectious Diseases. PhD in Biometry, São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (2022). Committee members: A. S. L. O. Campanharo, M. J. Lacerda, M. X. Silva, F. M. Ramos, F. L. P. Santos.