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 rigorous theoretical tools to abstract, interpret, and understand real engineering systems as they evolve over time. From that understanding, I design robust and reliable solutions to control and decision-making problems in autonomous systems.

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 at UC San Diego, where I worked with Professor Jorge I. Poveda, 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

  Cum laude · Minor in Computational Mathematics