Tabuada, Paulo

Paulo Tabuada, Associate Professor and Vice-Chair, Graduate Affairs

Donald P. Eckman Award, 2009
NSF CAREER Award, 2005

Research Group: Cyber-Physical Systems Laboratory

Office: 66-147F Engr. IV Phone: 310.794.4266, Email

Biography

Paulo Tabuada was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He received his "Licenciatura" degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 from the Institute for Systems and Robotics, a private research institute associated with Instituto Superior Tecnico. Between January 2002 and July 2003 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. After spending 3 years at the University of Notre Dame as an Assistant Professor he joined the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Research Interests

Design of networked embedded control systems. Modeling, analysis and design of discrete-event, timed and hybrid systems. Hierarchical and distributed control design, geometric and algebraic control theory for nonlinear and Hamiltonian control systems, categorical systems theory.

Awards and Recognitions

• 2009 Eckman Award
• 2005 NSF CAREER Award

Books

• P. J. Antsaklis and P. Tabuada, editors, Networked Embedded Sensing and Control, volume 331 of Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, Springer, 2006.