• Distributed Decision Theory Group Dynamics of Learning In Large Populations We are pioneering new system-theoretic methods to studying the strategic dynamics of large populations of learning agents engaged in non-cooperative interactions. Our approach merges new nonlinear system theoretic ideas with game theory and evolutionary dynamics. We are also exploring methods to design incentive mechanisms with applications to large scale systems of societal importance.
  • Distributed Decision Theory Group Research at the Intersection of Decentralized Control and Estimation, Team Decision, and Networked Control We focus on the theory and methods for the design, optimization and performance certification of distributed decision systems, subject to constraints on the information structure, power and dynamic behavior.
  • Distributed Decision Theory Group Transition To Applications We collaborate with other universities and institutions and seek to transition our theory into applications.
  • CPS and Cooperative Autonomy Lab Graduate and Undergraduate Research

    We validate our research on a range of platforms, including indoor quadrotors, small ground robots and tracking devices.

    The lab hosts graduate and undergraduate research, educational activities and summer interns.

Nuno Miguel Lara Cintra Martins

Professor


Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Institute for Systems Research

Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation (AMSC)



About

Nuno Miguel Lara Cintra Martins (aka in papers as Nuno C. Martins and otherwise Nuno M. Martins) graduated with a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from I.S.T., Portugal, in 1997, and a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 2004. He has also concluded a Financial Technology Option program at Sloan School of Management (MIT) in 2004.

He is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Maryland at College Park, where he also holds joint appointments with the Institute for Systems Research and the Applied Mathematics & Statistics, and Scientific Computation graduate program. He was Director of the Maryland Robotics Center from 2012 until 2014.

Prof. Martins received the 2006 American Automatic Control Council O. Hugo Schuck Award, a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2007, the 2008 IEEE CSS Axelby Award for the best paper in the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, the 2010 Outstanding ISR Faculty Award, the 2010 George Corcoran Award from the ECE Department / UMD and he was an UMD/ADVANCE Leadership Fellow in 2013.

He is currently Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems. He served as Associate Editor for Systems and Control Letters (Elsevier), Automatica and the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference Editorial Board. He was also a program Vice-Chair for the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2013 and 2014.

His research interests are in learning in large populations, evolutionary dynamics, population games, distributed control, team decision, optimization and networked control.

 

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