Nuno C
Martins
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University
of Maryland College Park Joint appointment with the Department
of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Institute
for Systems Research Member of the Center
for Applied Electromagnetics, U. Maryland 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
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Volume 52, No. 7, August 2008, Pages:
1604-1615
Coding for Additive White Noise Channels with Feedback Corrupted by
Uniform Quantization or Bounded Noise
Nuno
C Martins and Tsachy Weissman
IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory
Volume 54, No. 9, September
2008, Pages: 4274-4282
Optimal tracking control across erasure communication links, in the
presence of preview
Vijay Gupta and Nuno C. Martins
To appear in
the (Wiley) International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. The
online version is available since November 4, 2008.
(The online version can be found
online via the DOI 10.1002/rnc.1394 )
Optimal Output Feedback Control Using Two Remote Sensors over Erasure
Channels
Vijay Gupta, Nuno C. Martins and John S. Baras
To appear in the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control
Optimal Preview Control of Markovian Jump
Linear Systems,
Kenneth Running and Nuno C. Martins
Accepted for publication in
the IEEE Transactions on Automatic 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
General chair (jointly with Serdar Yuksel) of ConCom 09,
as part of WiOpt 2009
Co-organizer (jointly with Bruno Sinopoli) of the 2009 Northeastern Nonlinear Control
Workshop.
Faculty adviser
(jointly with Dave Akin) for the Robotics at
Maryland club
Current
Students:
Gabriel Lipsa,
Ph.D. Student
Serban Sabau, Ph.D.
Student
Eduardo Arvelo,
Ph.D. Student
Waseem Malik, Ph.D. Student
Jansen Sheng, undegraduate
Kevin Kahn, undergraduate
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 (Spring 2008)
ENEE322 Signals and Systems (Fall 2008)
ENE324H Engineering Probability (Spring 2009)
Reviewing Activities (Partial List)
IEEE Transactions on
Automatic Control
Automatica
Mathematics of
Control, Signals, and Systems
IEEE Transactions on
Information Theory
National Science
Foundation