Nuno
C Martins
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University
of Maryland College Park Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering Institute
for Systems Research Assistant
Professor Room 2259, AV
Williams Bldg nmartinsATisrDOTumdDOTedu Phone: +1 (301) 405 9198 |
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Research Interests: My research
interests are in Dynamic Systems, Information Theory, Control Theory,
Estimation and Optimization. Mostly, I have been working on the fusion of the
disciplines of Control Theory and Information Theory. |
Education
Ph.D in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science. (minor: Mathematics), MIT, 2004
Financial Technology
Certificate, Sloan School of Management,
2004
MS. Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Technical
University of Lisbon, 1997
Postdoctoral
Associate, Laboratory for Information and
Decision Systems, MIT (2004)
Awards
• (2007) National Science Foundation, NSF CAREER Award
• (2006) O. Hugo Schuck
Award by the American Control Council
• (2004) Post Doctoral Fellowship Award by the European Social Fund
• (1999) Ph. D. Fellowship Award from the European Social Fund (EUR
100K)
• (1999) Ph. D. Fellowship Award from the Gulbenkian Foundation.
• (1999) Ph. D. Fellowship Award from the Luso-American Foundation
• (1996) M.S. Fellowship Award
from the European Social Fund-
Plenary
Talks
“Stochasticity and Fundamental Limitations of
Performance in the Presence of Finite Capacity Feedback - Communication/Computational
Constraints”, 1st International Conference on Informatics in Control, Robotics
and Automation,
http://www.icinco.org/icinco2004/Keynote%20Lectures.htm
Selected Publications
Feedback stabilization
of uncertain systems in the presence of a direct link
Nuno C Martins, Munther A. Dahleh and
Nicola Elia
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume 51, Issue 3, March 2006 Page(s): 438
– 447
Finite Gain lp
Stabilization Requires Analog Control
Nuno C. Martins
Systems & Control Letters
Vol 55/1, November 2006, Pages(s): 949-954
Fundamental
Limitations of Disturbance Attenuation in the Presence of Side Information
Nuno C. Martins, Munther A. Dahleh and John
C. Doyle
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume 52, Issue 1, January 2007, Pages:
56-66
Feedback Control in
the Presence of Noisy Channels: “Bode-Like” Fundamental Limitations of
Performance.
Nuno C Martins and Munther A Dahleh
To appear in the Aug. issue of IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control
Coding for Additive White Noise Channels with Feedback Corrupted by
Uniform Quantization or Bounded Noise
Nuno C Martins and Tsachy
Weissman
(Accepted for publication in
the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory)
Optimal Output Feedback Control Using Two Remote Sensors over Erasure
Channels
Vijay Gupta, Nuno C. Martins and
John S. Baras
(Provisionally accepted for
publication in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control)
Optimal tracking control across erasure communication links, in the
presence of preview
Vijay Gupta and Nuno C.
Martins
(Provisionally accepted for
publication in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control)
Professional Activities:
Member of the Editorial Board of Systems
and Control Letters
Member of the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems
Society
Member of the TPC of ACC 2008
Co-organizer (jointly
with Ali Jadbabaie UPENN) of the 2008
Northeastern Nonlinear Control Workshop.
Member of the
organization of the 2008 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
Member of the TPC of ConCom 07 (www.concom.org)
Courses:
Advanced Control Seminar (Fall 2005)
ENEE661 Nonlinear Control Systems (Spring 2006)
Analysis and Design of Remote Feedback Systems: (Fall 2006)
A Convex Approach using Control of Markovian Jump Linear Systems
ENEE460 Control Systems (Spring 2007)
ENEE621 Detection and Estimation (Fall 2008)
Reviewing Activities
IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control
Mathematics of
Control, Signals, and Systems
IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory
National Science
Foundation