About

Biography

I am a postdoctoral scholar at the Hybrid Systems Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, where I work with Professor Ricardo Sanfelice. I develop theoretical tools that bridge mathematical rigor with the demands of real engineering systems. With dynamical systems and control theory I build methods whose guarantees hold up under model error and disturbances.

I work on hybrid dynamical systems, which combine continuous evolution with discrete transitions and overcome topological constraints that no purely continuous or purely discontinuous controller can. In my PhD I developed methods for momentum-based optimization, prescribed-time stability, and high-performance control.

As a postdoctoral scholar I work on contraction and incremental stability for constrained differential inclusions, on geometric and time-varying hybrid systems, and on approximation guarantees for neural hybrid equations. I help mentor two PhD candidates on geometric and stochastic hybrid systems.

Education

• 2024

  PhD Electrical Engineering: Intelligent Systems, Robotics & Control

  University of California San Diego

• 2022

  M.Sc. Electrical Engineering

  University of Colorado Boulder

• 2019

  M.Sc. Electronics Engineering

  Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

• 2017

  B.Sc. Physics

  Universidad de los Andes, Colombia

• 2017

  B.Sc. Electronics Engineering

  Universidad de los Andes, Colombia