QUALIFICATIONS

• ▪ Title: Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Control, Vision and Robotics. Year: 2007. Institution: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. Topic: Model predictive control, hybrid systems and fault-tolerant control.
• ▪ Title: Degree in Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Engineering. Year: 2006. Institution: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. 
• ▪ Title: Diploma in Advanced Studies on Control. Year: 2005. Institution: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain. Topic: Optimal control of sewer networks.
• ▪ Title: Master of Science in Industrial Automation. Year: 2003. Institution: Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales). Topic: Nonlinear phenomena in switched systems and sliding mode control. 
• ▪ Title: Degree in Electronic Engineering. Year: 2001. Institution: Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales). Field: Control and Industrial Automation.
• ▪ Title: Postgraduate degree in University Education of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Year: 2021. Institution: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Institut de Ciències de l’Educació (ICE).

WORK EXPERIENCE

• ▪ 2016 - nowadays: Associate Professor. Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Automatic Control Department (ESAII).
• ▪ 2014 - 2018: Deputy Director. Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Barcelona, Spain.
• ▪ 2011 - 2015: Assistant Professor. Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Automatic Control Department (ESAII).
• ▪ 2008-2011: Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow. Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). Researcher on topics such as Model Predictive Control of large-scale systems, hybrid dynamical systems, optimal control, water networks.
• ▪ 2007-2008: Research Academic. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,  The University of Newcastle, Newcastle (Australia). Post-doctoral position in the Centre of Excellence for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control working on fault-tolerant control systems.
• ▪ 2003–2007: Researcher in Formation. Spanish Ministry of Science - UPC, Terrassa (Spain). Direct participation in the project DPI2002-03500 from Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Science and Technology) and the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), ESAII Department. Topic: Fault-Tolerant Control of complex systems. 
• ▪ 2001–2002: Electronic System Co-designer. Government of Manizales, Manizales (Colombia). Design of circuits using programable automata for the project “Observatorios Medioambientales” (Environmental Observers) from the Manizales Government and National University of Colombia.
• ▪ 2001: Research Assistant. National University of Colombia, Manizales (Colombia). Scientific activities within the Academic Workgroup in Perception and Intelligent Control (PCI), working on Expert systems, Intelligent Control, Nonlinear dynamical systems, among other topics.

AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS

Certifications

• 1. Certificate of positive assessment corresponding to six years of excellence in research activities (Avaluació de l'Activitat Investigadora - Sexeni 2010-2015). ID NJ2B8V4NF, Catalonian Agency for the University Quality “AQU Catalunya” (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), June 2016.
• 2. Certificate of ability for Associate Professor position (acreditación de profesor titular universitario) by the Spanish Quality Assessment and Certification Agency (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación - ANECA), Ref. 2013-001331, June 2013.
• 3. Certificate of positive assessment corresponding to six years of excellence in research activities (Avaluació de l'Activitat Investigadora - Sexeni 2003-2009). Ref: U1448/14055678-136, Catalonian Agency for the University Quality “AQU Catalunya” (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), July 2012. 
• 4. Certificate of scientific ability for the tenured-track lecturer position (acreditació de recerca) by the Commission for Scientific Merits of the Catalonian Agency for the University Quality “AQU Catalunya” (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), March 2011.
• 5. Certificate of scientific ability for the Lecturer position by the Commission for Scientific Merits of the Catalonian Agency for the University Quality “AQU Catalunya” (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), May 2009.

Awards and Mentions

• 1. Ing. Luis A. Huergo Prize 2021 from the National Academy of Engineering, Argentina “attending to the relevant value of the work Model-based control design for H2 purity regulation in high-pressure alkaline electrolyzers, by M. David, F.Bianchi, C. Ocampo-Martinez and R. Sánchez-Peña.”
• 2. ISA Transactions Best Paper Award 2017. Paper: Dynamical tuning for MPC using population games: A water supply network application, by J. Barreiro-Gomez, C. Ocampo-Martinez and N. Quijano, ISA Transactions, Vol. 69, pages 175-186, July 2017.
• 3. European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems, 2017. Thesis The Role of Population Games in the Design of Optimization-based Controllers: A Large-scale Insight by J. Barreiro-Gomez. Advisors: C. Ocampo-Martinez and N. Quijano.
• 4. Best PhD Thesis in Control Technology CEA-Springer Award. Spanish Committee on Automatic Control, 2017. Thesis The Role of Population Games in the Design of Optimization-based Controllers: A Large-scale Insight by J. Barreiro-Gomez. Advisors: C. Ocampo-Martinez and N. Quijano.
• 5. Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (since September 2013).
• 6. Best PhD Thesis of Research on 2007. Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Barcelona, Spain, March 2008.
• 7. Ph.D. thesis with Doctor Europeus mention and mark excellent cum laude. Barcelona, 27 April, 2007.
• 8. Best PhD Student Presentation Award. Joint CTS-HYCONWorkshop. Paris, 10-12 July, 2006. Talk Hybrid MPC applied on sewer network: Barcelona case study.

Scholarships

• 1. Grant for Research Stay abroad into the José Castillejo Programme (type B), Resolution 13706 of December 15, 2014 (BOE no. 316 of 31-12-2014). Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, 2015.
• 2. Grant for Research stay abroad within IJP13 Programme from Santander Universidades, Banco Santander (Spain), 2012.
• 3. Grant for Research Stay abroad (BE-DGR 2011), Resolution ECO/1698/2011, of 28 of June (DOGC no. 5918 of 12.7.2011). Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitarisi de Recerca (AGAUR), 2011.
• 4. Predoctoral grant for young researchers (FPI) given by “Dirección General de Investigación” from Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Resolution from 14 May, 2003). Objective: PhD degree in Control, Vision and Robotics from the Technical University of Catalonia. 
• 5. Post-degree grant (master degree) given by the Engineering Faculty of the National University of Colombia, Campus Manizales (Resolution VR No. 287 on 14 March, 2002). Objective: Master degree in Industrial Automatization.

ACADEMIC STAYS

• 1. Visiting Scientist at the Department of Chemical Engineering - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge (MA), USA. Host researcher:  Prof. Richard Braatz. Research performed in Fast MPC approaches for energy systems.
• 2. Visiting Researcher at Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Host researcher: Prof. Ricardo Sánchez Peña. 2013. Research performed in Control Perspectives in Energy Systems: robust, unfalsified control strategies.
• 3. Visiting Researcher at Delft Center for Systems and Control (DCSC), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. Host researcher: Prof. Bart De Schutter. 2012. The research topic was Decentralised MPC of large-scale network systems.
• 4. Visiting Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, National University of Colombia, Campus Manizales, October-November, 2009.
• 5. Academic stay with Prof. Alberto Bemporad (University of Siena, Italy) from May to October, 2006. The work topics were hybrid systems with bounded disturbances and its formalization in the MLD (Mixed Logical Dynamics) framework for complex and large-scale systems.
• 6. Academic stay (from May to September, 2005) in the Engineering Department of the University of Cambridge (UK), under the supervision of Prof. Jan Maciejowski and Eric Kerrigan, PhD. The research line was Predictive Control (MPC) and its application on sewer systems.
• 7. Academic stay (from November 2002 to July, 2003) at the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI), under the supervision of Professor Jordi Riera. The research developed was focused on Control Strategies for Electric Energy Generation in Isolated Environments and their Applications in Hybrid Vehicles.

SERVICES TO THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY

Participation in Editorial Tasks and Boards

• 1. Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2021.
• 2. IPC Area Chair (in MHE and output feedback MPC) of the 7th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, NMPC, 2021 
• 3. Associate Editor of Journal of Process Control, 2019.
• 4. Member of the Conference Editorial Board, IEEE CSS, 2016.
• 5. Technical Associate Editor (TC 8.3) of the IFACWorld Congress, Toulouse (France), 2017.
• 6. Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Game-theoretical methods in control systems”. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 2016.
• 7. Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Modeling, diagnosis and control of fuel cell based technologies and their integration in smart grids and automotive systems”. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics - IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2014.
• 8. Technical Associate Editor (TCs 8.3 and 5.4) of the IFACWorld Congress, Cape Town (South Africa), 2014

Participation in Technical Committees

• 1. Member of the Board of Governors of the Comité Español de Automática (CEA-IFAC, main Spanish Association in Automatic Control) since 2020.
• 2. Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.4 on Optimal Control since 2020.
• 3. Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 5.4 on Large Scale Complex Systems since 2012. 
• 4. Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 6.1 on Chemical Process Control since 2015.
• 5. Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 8.3 on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems since 2012.
• 6. Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Process Control (Control Systems Society) since 2015.
• 7. Vice-chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 8.3 on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems (2014 - 2017). 
• 8. IFAC TC 8.3 liaison with the IFAC Education Committee (2013 - 2017).

Participation in Conferences/Congresses Program Boards

• 1. Program Committee member of the 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2022, Cancún (Mexico), 6-9 December, 2022.
• 2. International Program Committee member of the 13th Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems Symposium, DYCOPS-CAB, Busan (South Korea), 6-9 June, 2022.
• 3. International Program Committee member of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, Venice (Italy), 13-16 June, 2021.
• 4. International Program Committee member of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems, Florianópolis (Brazil), 23-26 April, 2019.
• 5. International Program Committee Chair of the 4rd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, Medellín (Colombia), 15-18 October, 2019.
• 6. International Program Committee member of the 15th IFAC Symposium on Large Scale Complex Systems (IFAC LSS 2019), Delft (The Netherlands), 26-28 May, 2019.International Program Committee member of the 22nd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia (Romania), 10-12 October, 2018.
• 7. General Co-Chair of the 3rd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), 18-20 October, 2017.
• 8. International Program Committee member of the International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL), 8th edition, Southampton (United Kingdom), 18-20 October, 2017; 7th edition, Lisbon (Portugal), 7-9 September, 2016; 6th edition, Delft (The Netherlands), 23-25 September, 2015.
• 9. Program Committee Member of the 2nd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Manizales (Colombia), 14-16 October, 2015. International Program Committee member of the XVI Latinoamerican Congress of Automatic Control (CLCA 2014), Cancún, Quintana Roo (Mexico), 14-17 October, 2014.
• 10. International Program Committee member of the International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES): 16th edition, San Sebastián (Spain), 10-12 September 2012; 18th edition, Gdynia (Poland), 15-17 September 2014.
• 11. International Program Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC): 8th edition, Delft (The Netherlands), April 2011; 9th edition, Beijing (China), April 2012; 10th edition, Paris-Evry (France), April 2013; 11th edition, Miami (USA), April 2014; 12th edition, Taipei (Taiwan), April 2015; 13th edition, Calabria (Italy), May 2017.
• 12. International Program Committee member of the 13-th IFAC Symposium on Large-Scale Complex Systems: Theory and Applications (IFAC LSS 2013), Shanghai (China), 7-10 July, 2013.
• 13. Special Sessions General Co-Chair of the 20th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED’12), Barcelona (Spain), 3-6 July, 2012.
• 14. Organising Committee member of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS), Barcelona (Spain), summer 2009.

Participation in PhD. Dissertation Committees

• ✓ Liu Renke (Nanyang University in Singapore, 2021)
• ✓ Carlos Trapiello Fernández (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2021)
• ✓ Jiuling Li (University of Queensland, 2021)
• ✓ Jan Lorenz Svensen (Technical University of Denmark, 2021)
• ✓ Jesús Lago (Delft University of Technology, 2020)
• ✓ Tomás Pipia (Delft University of Technology, 2020)
• ✓ César Díaz Londoño (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2020)
• ✓ Thibault Péan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2020)
• ✓ Farid Alavi (Delft University of Technology, 2019)
• ✓ Hamed Layeghi (McGill University, 2018)
• ✓ Zhou Su (Delft University of Technology, 2018)
• ✓ Luis Alejandro Fletscher B. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2018)
• ✓ Nicoleta Stroe (Université d’Orléans, 2017)
• ✓ Fancisco Javier Muros Ponce (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
• ✓ Pablo Velarde Rueda (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
• ✓ Javier Ramírez de la Pinta (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
• ✓ Filiberto Felle (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
• ✓ Huarong Zheng (Delft University of Technology, 2016)
• ✓ Francesco Acquaviva (Politecnico di Bari, 2016)
• ✓ Rodrigo López Farías (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, 2016)
• ✓ Eduard Galvis Restrepo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2016)
• ✓ Angélica María Alzate I. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales, 2015)
• ✓ Germán Obando Bravo (Universidad de los Andes - École des Mines de Nantes, 2015)
• ✓ Alejandro Márquez Ruiz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2015)
• ✓ John Anderson Sandoval Moreno (Université de Grenoble, 2014)
• ✓ Stephan Strahl (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), 2014)
• ✓ Jaime Enrique Arango Castro (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales, 2014)
• ✓ Juan C. Calderón Osorio (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2013)
• ✓ Nikola Stankovic (Supelec, 2013)
• ✓ José Fernando García T. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2013)
• ✓ Xu Min (Delft University of Technology, 2013)
• ✓ Nicolás Toro (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales, 2012)