Jorge Cortés, a professor in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, was honored with two prestigious awards at the 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) in Singapore.
The first award was the CSS (Control Systems Society) Distinguished Member Award (2023), granted to recognize outstanding technical accomplishments or exceptional dedication to the IEEE Control Systems Society, resulting in broader positive impacts on society. Additionally, the recipient's contributions are expected to foster diversity and inclusivity of CSS across various regions, genders, and professional domains.
Also of note, Cortés, together with co-authors Gianluca Bianchin, Emiliano Dall'Anese, and UC San Diego electrical and computer engineering Professor Jorge Poveda, received the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems Best Paper Award. This accolade celebrates outstanding papers published in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems within the two years prior, selected for their uniqueness, ability to impact the core principles of network systems, importance in real-world applications, and clarity of presentation.
Cortés specializes in distributed coordination algorithms, autonomous robotic networks, adversarial networked systems, mathematical control theory, geometric mechanics, and geometric integration. His research program focuses on developing systematic methodologies for controlling autonomous, reliable, and adaptive mobile networks capable of operating in unknown and dynamic environments