A structured model of vector-borne disease with within-host viral load and antibody dynamics, 2026. Joint work with P. Amorim and D. Medeiros.
Modeling and Control of Host–Parasitoid Dynamics in Sugarcane Borer Biological Management, 2026. Joint work with F. Aguiar, R. Guglielmi, B. Laiate, A. Molter.
A Novel Aggregated SIR Model for Spatial Epidemic Propagation, 2026. Joint work with M. Bergonzi and E. Kofman. [arXiv]
The shooting algorithm for partially control-affine problems with application to an SIRS epidemiological model, 2021. Joint work with J.M. Machado. [arXiv]
On second order conditions for singular optimal control of port-Hamiltonian systems, accepted for publication in Automatica, 2026. Joint work with V. Mehrmann. [arXiv]
Dynamic Programming Principle and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman Equation for Optimal Control Problems with Uncertainty, ESAIM: COCV, 2026. Joint work with M. Palladino and O. Sierra. [Research Gate] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Average Optimal Control of Uncertain Control-Affine Systems, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, 2025. Joint work with G. de Lima Monteiro and O. Sierra. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Singular Arcs on Average Optimal Control-Affine Problems, Proceedings of the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2025. Joint work with G. de Lima Monteiro and O. Sierra. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Bang-Bang Optimal Control of Vaccination in Metapopulation Epidemics with Linear Cost Structures, IEEE Control Systems Letters, 2025. Joint work with L. Moschen. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Optimal vaccination strategies on networks and in metropolitan areas, Infectious Disease Modelling, 2024. Joint work with L. Moschen. [Research Gate] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Well-posedness of the shooting algorithm for control-affine problems with a scalar state constraint, Computational and Applied Mathematics, 2023. Joint work with J.F. Bonnans and B.S. Goh. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Modeling and control of malaria dynamics in fish farming regions, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 22 (3), 2023. Joint work with F.J.P. Antunes and C.T. Codeço. [arXiv][link]
Estimate of the rate of unreported COVID-19 cases during the first outbreak in Rio de Janeiro, Infectious Disease Modelling 7(3), 2022. Joint work with R. Guglielmi and L. Moschen. [MedRXiv] [Link]
First and Second Order Optimality Conditions for the Control of Fokker-Planck Equations, ESAIM Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, 27(15), 2021. Joint work with F. Tröltzsch. [arXiv] [🗞️ link] [💬 slides]
A model for COVID-19 with isolation, quarantine and testing as control measures, Epidemics, 34, 2021. Joint work with R. Guglielmi and L. Moschen. [Research Gate] [Link]
State constrained control-affine parabolic problems II: Second order sufficient optimality conditions, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 59(2), 1628–1655, 2021. Joint work with F. Bonnans and A. Kröner. [arXiv] [Link]
State-constrained control-affine parabolic problems I: first and second order necessary optimality conditions, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, 29(2), 383-408, 2021. Joint work with F. Bonnans and A. Kröner. [arXiv] [Link]
On nonlinear pest/vector control via the Sterile Insect Technique: impact of residual fertility, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, 82:110, 2020. Joint work with Y. Dumont. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
A higher-order Maximum Principle for impulsive optimal control problems, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 58(2) 814-844, 2020. Joint work with M. Motta and F. Rampazzo. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link] [💬 slides]
Necessary conditions involving Lie brackets for impulsive optimal control problems, Proceedings of the 58th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2019. Joint work with M. Motta and F. Rampazzo. [arXiv] [🗞️ journal link]
Optimal control of PDEs in a complex space setting; application to the Schrödinger equation, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, 57(2), 1390–1412, 2019. Joint work with F. Bonnans and A. Kröner. [arXiv] [Link]
Internal observer for uncertain time-varying SIR-SI model of vector-borne disease, In Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC), 2018. Joint work with P.-A. Bliman. [arXiv] [Link]
Ensuring successful introduction of Wolbachia in natural populations of Aedes aegypti by means of feedback control, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 76(5):1269-1300, 2018. Joint work with P.-A. Bliman, F.C. Coelho, and M.A. da Silva. [arXiv] [Link]
Optimal Control of Infinite Dimensional Bilinear Systems: Application to the Heat and Wave Equations, Mathematical Programming, 168(1-2):717-757, 2018. Joint work with F. Bonnans and A. Kröner. [arXiv] [Link]
Second order necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for singular solutions of partially-affine control problems, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series S, 11(6):1179-1199, 2018. [arXiv] [Link]
Optimal control of bilinear systems in a complex space setting , Proceedings of the 20th IFAC World Congress, 2017. Joint work with F. Bonnans and A. Kröner. [Link]
Second order analysis of control-affine problems with scalar state constraint, Mathematical Programming, 160(1):115-147, 2016. Joint work with J.F. Bonnans and B.-S. Goh. [arXiv] [Link]
A note on systems with ordinary and impulsive controls, IMA Journal on Mathematical Control and Information, 33(2):147-162, 2016. Joint work with F. Rampazzo. [Link] [arXiv]
Global stabilizing feedback law for a problem of biological control of mosquito-borne diseases, Proceedings of the 54th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3206-3211, 2015. Joint work with P.-A. Bliman, F. C. Coelho, and M. A. da Silva. [Link] [Preprint]
L1 limit solutions for control systems, Journal of Differential Equations, 258(3): 954-979, 2015. Joint work with F. Rampazzo. [Link]
Infimum gaps for limit solutions, Set-Valued and Variational Analysis, 23: 3-22, 2015. Joint work with M. Motta and F. Rampazzo. [Article]
On optimal control problems with impulsive commutative dynamics, In Proceedings of the 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1822-1827, 2013. Joint work with F. Rampazzo. [Link] [arXiv]
A shooting algorithm for optimal control problems with singular arcs, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 158(2):419-459, 2013. Joint work with J.F. Bonnans and P. Martinon. [Link]
Convergence of the shooting algorithm for singular optimal control problems, In Proceedings of the European Control Conference (ECC), pp. 215-220, 2013. [Link] [arXiv]
Quadratic order conditions for bang-singular extremals, Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization, AIMS Journal, special issue dedicated to Professor Helmut Maurer on the occasion of his 65th birthday, 2(3):511-546, 2012. Joint work with J.F. Bonnans, A.V. Dmitruk and P.A. Lotito. [Article]
On the shooting algorithm for partially-affine optimal control problems with control constraints, Proceeding Series of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics (extended abstract), 2019. Joint work with J.M. Machado. [Link]
Influência do comportamento humano na transmissão da malária: modelagem e análise, Proceeding Series of the Brazilian Society of Computational and Applied Mathematics (extended abstract), 2018. Joint work with F. Antunes and C. Codeço. [Link]
AS BOOK EDITOR: Optimal Control: Novel Directions and Applications, Lectures Notes in Mathematics Series, 2017, editors: D. Tonon, M.S. Aronna and D. Kalise. [Link]
BOOK CHAPTER: Optimality conditions (in Pontryagin form), in Optimal Control: Novel Directions and Applications, Lectures Notes in Mathematics Series, 2017, authors: M.S. Aronna, D. Tonon, A. Boccia, C.M. Campos, M. Mazzola, L.V. Nguyen, M. Palladino, T. Scarinci, F. Silva.
Second order analysis of optimal control problems with singular arcs. Optimality conditions and shooting algorithm. December 2011, at CMAP, Ecole Polytechnique, France. Advisor: J.F. Bonnans. Co-advisor: P.A. Lotito. [Link]