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QUALIFICATIONS

  • 2019: PhD degree in Automatic Control, Robotics and Vision from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain) and IMT Lille Douai (France).

  • 2015: BS/MS in Industrial Engineering (specialization in automatic control) from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Spain).

WORK EXPERIENCE

  • Sept. 2023–present: Beatriz Galindo distinguished researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  • June 2023–Aug. 2023: postdoctoral researcher at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

  • Sept. 2020–May 2023: postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology.​​

  • Sept. 2019–Aug. 2020: postdoctoral researcher at IMT Lille Douai.

  • Dec. 2015–June 2019: PhD candidate at IMT Lille Douai and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.​

AWARDS & PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITIONS

  • PhD thesis with International doctorate certification and grade Excellent cum laude. Barcelona, 11 June 2019.​

  • Best paper award at the 4th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT'17). Paper: Fault detection and isolation in flat navigation canals, by P. Segovia, J. Blesa, K. Horváth, L. Rajaroarisoa, F. Nejjari, V. Puig and E. Duviella, pp. 427-432, 2017.​

SUPERVISION

I  PhD students

  • Juan Pablo Arango. A fault-tolerant control scheme for a class of nonlinear systems: an open channel case study. Joint PhD from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and IMT Nord Europe (France). Co-advising with Prof. Vicenç Puig (UPC), Dr. Lucien Etienne, Prof. Eric Duviella and Dr. Kokou Langueh (IMT).

  • Javier Pedrosa. Job-shop scheduling with limited-capacity buffers using Artificial Intelligence approaches. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Co-advising with Prof. Vicenç Puig.

II  Master's students

  • Alejandro Moya. Mathematical modelling and control applied to the rocket vertical precision landing problem. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, October 2024. Co-advised with Prof. Vicenç Puig.

  • Usama Hamayun Ghouri. Exploration scheme for multi-robot systems using a centralized predictive controller. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, October 2024. Co-advised with Prof. Carlos Ocampo-Martinez.

  • Raphael Ummels. Scheduling multi-vessel placement in multi-chamber inland waterway locks using switching max-plus algebra. Delft University of Technology, August 2023. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa and Prof. Ton van den Boom.

  • Kangjie Wu. Cyber-physical human systems in inland waterborne transport—a literature review. Delft University of Technology, August 2022. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Wessel de Jonge. Voyage planning for inland vessels—a literature review. Delft University of Technology, April 2022. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Laurens Pierik. Fuel consumption and travel time optimization for autonomous vessels in inland waterways. Delft University of Technology, April 2022. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Gitte Hornung. Characterisation of vessel traffic flow—a literature review. Delft University of Technology, February 2022. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Nicolas Dann. A learning approach for vessel speed-power prediction. Delft University of Technology, February 2022. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Mike Pesselse. Modelling and optimal scheduling of inland waterway transport systems: a switching max-plus-linear systems approach. Delft University of Technology, February 2022. Co-advised with Prof. Ton van den Boom and Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Mathilde Janssens. Decomposition strategies in traffic management—a literature review. Delft University of Technology, March 2021. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Skirmantas Pargalgauskas. Time-critical coordination of transport systems—a literature review. Delft University of Technology, December 2020. Co-advised with Dr. Vasso Reppa.

  • Pythagore Guekam. Hierarchical model predictive control and moving horizon estimation for multiple time-delay open-channel systems with different objective prioritization. IMT Lille Douai, August 2020. Co-advised with Dr. Lucien Etienne and Prof. Eric Duviella.

III  Bachelor students

  • Ronan Deshays. Design of a MATLAB HEC-RAS interface to model hydrographic networks. IMT Lille Douai, August 2020. Co-advised with Prof. Eric Duviella.

PARTICIPATION IN EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • 2025–present: member of the Early Career Advisory Board (ECAB) of Control Engineering Practice.

  • 2023–present: Associate Editor of the European Control Conference.

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