Speakers

Romeo Ortega

Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México 

Romeo Ortega was born in Mexico. He obtained his BSc in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering from the National University of Mexico, Master of Engineering from Polytechnical Institute of Leningrad, USSR, and the Docteur D‘Etat from the Polytechnical Institute of Grenoble, France in 1974, 1978 and 1984 respectively. He then joined the National University of Mexico, where he worked until 1989. He was a Visiting Professor at the University of Illinois in 1987-88 and at McGill University in 1991-1992, and a Fellow of the Japan Society for Promotion of Science in 1990-1991. He was a member of the French National Research Council (CNRS) from June 1992 to July 2020, where he was a “Directeur de Recherche” in the Laboratoire de Signaux et Systèmes (Centrale-Supelec) in Gif-sur-Yvette, France. Currently, he is a full time Professor at ITAM in Mexico and a Distinguished Professor of ITMO University in Russia. His research interests are in the fields of non-linear and adaptive control, with special emphasis on applications. Dr Ortega has published five books and more than 395 scientific papers in international journals, with an h-index of 100. He has supervised 35 PhD thesis. He is the recipient of the “Automatica Best Paper Award (2014-2016)” and “IFAC High Impact Paper Award 2026”. He is a Fellow Member of the IEEE since 1999 (Life Fellow since 2020) and an IFAC Fellow since 2016. He has served as chairman in several IFAC and IEEE committees and participated in various editorial boards of international journals. He is currently Editor in Chief of Int. J. on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing and Senior Editor of Asian J. of Control.

Gustavo Artur de Andrade

Federal University of Santa Catarina

Gustavo Artur de Andrade was born in Xanxerê, Santa Catarina, Brazil. He received his B.S. degree in Control and Automation Engineering from the University of Contestado, Santa Catarina, in 2010, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Automation and Systems Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, in 2013 and 2017, respectively. From 2017 to 2018, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Automation and Systems Engineering at UFSC, where he also served as an assistant professor. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Seville for three months in 2018 and one month in 2021, and in 2022 he was a Visiting Scholar at GIPSA-Lab, University of Grenoble Alpes, France. Since 2019, he has been a professor in the Department of Automation and Systems at UFSC. He has served as a reviewer for leading conferences and journals, including Automatica, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, and IEEE Control Systems Letters. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Distributed Parameter Systems and of the IFAC Technical Committee on Adaptive and Learning Systems. He was also elected President of the Brazilian Society of Automatics (SBA) for the 2025–2027 term. His research interests include distributed parameter systems, nonlinear control, partial differential equations, optimal control, optimization, and applications in renewable energy systems.

Florian Dörfler

ETH Zürich

Florian Dörfler is a Professor at the Automatic Control Laboratory at ETH Zürich. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 2013, and a Diplom degree in Engineering Cybernetics from the University of Stuttgart in 2008. From 2013 to 2014 he was an Assistant Professor at the University of California Los Angeles. He has been serving as the Associate Head of the ETH Zürich Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering from 2021 until 2022. His research interests are centered around automatic control, system theory, optimization, and learning. His particular foci are on network systems, data-driven settings, and applications to power systems. He is a recipient of the 2025 Rössler Prize, the highest scientific award at ETH Zürich across all disciplines, as well as the distinguished career awards by IFAC (Manfred Thoma Medal 2020) and EUCA (European Control Award 2020). He and his team received best paper distinctions in the top venues of control, machine learning, power systems, power electronics, circuits and systems. They were recipients of the 2011 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, the 2012-2014 Automatica Best Paper Award, the 2016 IEEE Circuits and Systems Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, the 2022 IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics Prize Paper Award, the 2024 Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, and multiple Best PhD thesis awards at UC Santa Barbara and ETH Zürich. They were further winners or finalists for Best Student Paper awards at the European Control Conference (2013, 2019), the American Control Conference (2010,2016,2024), the Conference on Decision and Control (2020), the PES General Meeting (2020), the PES PowerTech Conference (2017,2025), the International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2021), the IEEE CSS Swiss Chapter Young Author Best Journal Paper Award (2022,2024,2025), the IFAC Conferences on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control (2024) and Cyber-Physical-Human Systems (2024), and NeurIPS Oral (2024). He is currently serving on the council of the European Control Association and as a senior editor of Automatica.

Antonio Estrada

Center for Engineering and Industrial Development

Dr. Antonio Estrada was born in Mexico City, in 1978. He obtained the B.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2007 and, the M.S. and Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering - Control in 2008 and 2011 respectively; the three of them from National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).  After obtaining his Ph.D. he did postdoctoral research at different institutions:  l'Ecole Central de Nantes and Inria - Lille in France, and another one at UC San Diego, USA.  Since October 2015 he is a Research Fellow for the Mexican Secretary of Science, Humanities, Technology and Innovation (Secihti) working at Center for Engineering and Industrial Development (CIDESI), Queretaro, Mexico.   His research interest include real-time control systems, nonlinear robust control,  sliding modes,  uncertain and perturbed systems among other related control theory and systems modelling topics; as well as applications on robotics, autonomous vehicles, additive manufacturing, fuel cells, refrigerations systems and others.

Tamer Başar

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tamer Başar has received B.S.E.E. from Robert College, Istanbul, and M.S., M.Phil, and Ph.D. degrees in engineering and applied science from Yale University. After stints at Harvard University, Marmara Research Institute (Gebze, Turkey), and Boğaziçi University (Istanbul), he joined the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1981, where he is currently Swanlund Endowed Chair Emeritus; CAS Professor Emeritus of ECE; and Research Professor, CSL and ITI. At Illinois, he has served as Director of the Center for Advanced Study (2014-2020), Interim Dean of Engineering (2018), and Interim Director of the Beckman Institute (2008-2010). He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of Academia Europaea; and Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, SIAM, AIIA, AAIA, and ACA. He has served as President of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), Founding President of the International Society of Dynamic Games (ISDG), and President of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC). He has received several awards and recognitions over the years, including the IEEE CSS Bode Lecture Prize (2004), IFAC’s Quazza Medal (2005), AACC’s Bellman Control Heritage Award (2006), ISDG’s Isaacs Award (2010), the IEEE Control Systems Technical Field Award (2014), Medal of Science of Turkey (1993), IEEE Millennium Medal (2000), and Wilbur Cross Medal from his alma mater Yale University (2021). He has also received honorary doctorates and professorships from a number of international institutions, including KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm); Tsinghua, Shandong, and Northeastern Universities (China); Boğaziçi and Doğuş Universities (Istanbul); and NAS of Azerbaijan. He was Editor-in-Chief of the IFAC Journal Automatica between 2004 and 2014, and is currently editor of several book series. He has contributed profusely to the fields of systems, control, communications, optimization, networks, and dynamic games, and has current research interests in stochastic teams, games, and networks (with finite- and infinite-population models); multi-agent systems and learning; data-driven distributed optimization; epidemics modeling and control over networks; design of incentive mechanisms; strategic information transmission, spread of disinformation, and deception; security and trust; energy systems; and cyber-physical systems.

Miroslav Krstic

University of California San Diego

Miroslav Krstic is Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, holds the Alspach endowed chair, and is the founding director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UC San Diego. He also serves as Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Research at UCSD. As a graduate student, Krstic won the UC Santa Barbara best dissertation award and student best paper awards at CDC and ACC. Krstic has been elected Fellow of IEEE, IFAC, ASME, SIAM, AAAS, IET (UK), and AIAA (Assoc. Fellow) - and as a foreign member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and of the Academy of Engineering of Serbia. He has received the IEEE Roger W. Brockett Control Systems Award, Richard E. Bellman Control Heritage Award, Bode Lecture Prize, SIAM Reid Prize, ASME Oldenburger Medal, Nyquist Lecture Prize, Paynter Outstanding Investigator Award, Ragazzini Education Award, IFAC Nonlinear Control Systems Award, IFAC Ruth Curtain Distributed Parameter Systems Award, IFAC Adaptive and Learning Systems Award, IFAC Time-Delay Systems Lifetime Achievement Award, Chestnut textbook prize, AV Balakrishnan Award for the Mathematics of Systems, Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award, the PECASE, NSF Career, and ONR Young Investigator awards, the Schuck (’96 and ’19) and Axelby paper prizes, and the first UCSD Research Award given to an engineer. Krstic is a Fellow-Ambassador of the French CNRS and has also been awarded the Springer Visiting Professorship at UC Berkeley, the Distinguished Visiting Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Invitation Fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and four honorary professorships outside of the United States. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Systems & Control Letters and has been serving as Senior Editor in Automatica and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, as editor of two Springer book series, and has served as Vice President for Technical Activities of the IEEE Control Systems Society and as chair of the IEEE CSS Fellow Committee. Krstic has coauthored nineteen books on adaptive, nonlinear, and stochastic control, extremum seeking, control of PDE systems including turbulent flows, and control of delay systems.

Coffee-Break: 16:00 - 16:30

Mario A. Rotea

The University of Texas at Dallas

Mario A. Rotea is the director of UTD Wind: https://wind.utdallas.edu/, a Center created at UT Dallas for the advancement of wind energy science and engineering. He is cofounder and site director of WindSTAR, an NSF Industry University Cooperative Research Center aimed at bringing together academia and industry to advance wind energy through industry-relevant research. Rotea is a professor of mechanical engineering at UT Dallas and affiliate professor of electrical and computer engineering. His current research interests are in condition monitoring, optimization and control of wind energy systems. His group’s research has been funded by NSF, ARPA-E, DOE, DOI and private industry. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE for contributions to robust and optimal control of multivariable systems. Rotea joined UT Dallas in 2009 to serve as professor and inaugural head of the newly created mechanical engineering department. Rotea spent 17 years at Purdue University as professor of aeronautics and astronautics, developing and teaching methods for the analysis and design of control systems. He also worked for the United Technologies Research Center as senior research engineer on advanced control systems for helicopters, gas turbines, and machine tools. Rotea was the head of the mechanical and industrial engineering department at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he expanded the department in wind energy. His career includes terms as director of the Control Systems Program and division director of Engineering Education and Centers at the NSF.

Martin Guay

Queen’s University

Martin Guay is a professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Queen’s University. Dr. Guay’s research interests are in the area of process control, control theory and applied statistics.  Dr. Guay received the Queen’s University Chancellor Research Award and the Premier Research Excellence Award. He also received the Syncrude Innovation Award and the D.G. Fisher Award from the Canadian Society of Chemical Engineers. In 2011, he received, with Dr. Veronica Adetola, the Best Paper Award (Theory), Journal of Process Control (2008-1011). He is a Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Process Control and Senior Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society Letters.  He is an Associate Editor for Automatica and the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. He is also a review editor for the Canadian Chemical Engineering Journal. 

Emilia Fridman

Tel Aviv University

Emilia Fridman received the M.Sc and Ph.D in mathematics in Russia. Since 1993 she has been at Tel Aviv University, where she is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering - Systems. She has held numerous visiting positions in Europe, China and Australia. Her research interests include time-delay systems, networked control systems, distributed parameter systems, robust control and extremum seeking. She has published more than 200 journal articles and 3 monographs. In 2021 she was recipient of IFAC Delay Systems Life Time Achievement Award and of Kadar Award for outstanding research in Tel Aviv University. In 2023 her monograph "Introduction to Time-Delay Systems: Analysis and Control" (Birkhauser, 2014) was the winner of IFAC Harold Chestnut Control Engineering Textbook Prize.  She is IEEE and IFAC Fellow.