Daniel E. Ochoa

I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Hybrid Systems Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz.

My research focuses on control theory, hybrid dynamical systems, and nonlinear optimization.

Education:

PhD. in Electrical Engineering (Intelligent Systems, Robotics, & Control), University of California San Diego, 2024
M.Sc. Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder, 2022.
M.Sc. Electronics Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2019.
B.Sc. Physics, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2017.
B.Sc. Electronics Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, 2017.

For a complete list of my work, please visit my Publications page.

News and Highlights

10/2025: I have received the 2025 Robert Skelton Systems and Control Best Ph.D. Dissertation Award given by the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD.
10/2025: Our paper "On the Instability of Nesterov's ODE under Non-Conservative Vector Fields" has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Control Systems Letters.
6/2025: Our paper "Geometric Hybrid Dynamical Systems on Intrinsic Manifolds: Part II–Hybrid Invariance Principle" has been accepted for publication at the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. Kudos to Piyush P. Jirwankar for the great work.
6/2025: Our paper "On Non-Euclidean Contraction for Constrained Differential Inclusions" has been accepted for publication at the 64th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
3/2025: Our paper "Deep Source-Seekers with Obstacle Avoidance: Adaptive Hybrid Control with Transformers In-The-Loop" has been accepted for publication at the 7th Annual Learning for Dynamics & Control Conference. Congrats to Carolyn Zhang for her first paper.
10/2024: New Postdoctoral Position at UC Santa Cruz.
09/2024: Successfully defended my PhD Dissertation.
08/2024: Our paper "Decentralized Concurrent Learning with Momentum and Restart" has been accepted for publication in System and Control Letters.
08/2024: Our paper "Prescribed-Time Control in Switched Systems with Resets: A Hybrid Dynamical Systems Approach" has been accepted for publication in System and Control Letters.
07/2024: Our paper "Robust Global Optimization on Smooth Compact Manifolds via Hybrid Gradient-Free Dynamics" has been accepted for publication in Automatica.
07/2024: I received the IFAC Young Author Award at the 8th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems for our paper "On Prescribed-Time Concurrent Learning with Switching Datasets"
06/2024: Our paper on "Dynamic Gains for Transient-Behavior Shaping in Hybrid Dynamic Inclusions" has been accepted for publication at the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control.
03/2024: Our paper "On Prescribed-Time Concurrent Learning with Switching Datasets" has been accepted for publication in the 8th IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems.
11/2023: Our paper "Multi-Time Scale Control and Optimization via Singular Perturbations and Averaging Theory: From ODEs to Hybrid Dynamical Systems" has been accepted for publication in Annual Reviews in Control.

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