Research Interests
Welcome to my page! I am a control theorist with a keen interest in several topics, currently including:
Hybrid and nonlinear dynamics
Formal methods for the control and analysis of switched systems
Dissipativity theory and its relations to the stabilizability of dynamical systems, including optimal control aspects
Numerical methods for solving control problems, including Linear Matrix Inequalities.
Short Bio
Since September 2023 I have been an associate professor at CentraleSupélec, France. I obtained my Ph.D. in 2021 studying topics related to Lyapunov methods to the control of nonlinear time-delay systems.
During my Ph.D., I visited the Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems (LAAS) in Toulouse, France, where I worked in the Methods and Algorithms for Control (MAC) team from September 2019 to November 2020. After completing my Ph.D., I worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium), participating in the European Research Council (ERC) project Learning to Control (L2C). I also was a post-doctoral researcher at the CRAN, CNRS (Nancy, France, Université de Lorraine), from October 2022 to August 2023.
Contact
Email address: thiago.alveslima@centralesupelec.fr
LinkedIn profile: linkedin.com/in/thiago-a-lima
Researchgate profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Thiago-Alves-Lima
Publons profile: https://publons.com/researcher/3804095/thiago-alves-lima
News
September 1, 2023: I am glad to announce that I just got a position as an associate professor at L2S, CentraleSupélec, in France, where I will continue my research and teach engineering courses related to control theory and optimisation.
Mars 10, 2023: Great news, I just had 3 accepted papers. Two on ECC'23 in the field of dissipativity theory, and one at Control Engineering Practice journal from IFAC.
October 27, 2022: I gave a seminar entitled "Dissipativity-based stabilization of dynamical systems: recent contributions and future directions". You can find the slides here.
October 1, 2022: Very excited to be starting a new postdoctoral position at CRAN, Université de Lorraine, France, with Marc Jungers. We are going to study the dissipativity of nonlinear hybrid systems.
I just participated in the 2022 American Control Conference (ACC 2022) in Atlanta. I presented three papers and served as chair and co-chair in two sessions.
I am participating as an associate editor in the 2022 Brazil control conference (CBA 2022).
Great news: I started a postdoc on 17/11/2021 at ICTEAM, UCLouvain, Belgique, within the ERC-funded project L2C.
I successfully defended my thesis on 31/05/2021. Here are the pdf files of my thesis and presentation.
In November 2020 finished my stay in Toulouse after publishing new papers in IEEE Control Systems Letters, IET Control Theory & Applications, and IFAC Papers Online. I am very grateful to the MAC group and especially Dr. Tarbouriech for the spectacular experience.
In August 2020, I was offered a contract extension as a CNRS Research Engineer to stay 3 more months at LAAS.
I went hiking in the Pyrenees with people from the MAC-LAAS team. See some of the pictures here.
I arrived at LAAS-CNRS for my 1-year doctoral research stay in the MAC group on 16/09/2021.
My first journal paper as the main author was accepted by the European Journal of Control (27/06/2019).
As of July 2019, I am in Italy to present my paper at the 18th European Control Conference.
I was selected by the Brazilian agency CAPES to be a grantee of a 1-year fully financed stay at LAAS-CRNS, Toulouse, France. I will be working in the MAC group under the supervision of Dr. Sophie Tarbouriech (May 2019).
Great news (04/03/2019): I was selected as a recipient of the EUCA Student Travel Support to attend ECC 19 in Naples, Italy.
I started my Ph.D. program at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, Brazil (February 2018).