Ricardo Salvador Sánchez Peña

Ricardo Salvador Sanchez Pena received Ingeniero en Electrónica, University of Buenos Aires, 1978, and M.S., 1986, and Ph.D., 1988, degrees in electrical engineering, California Institute of Technology. Since 2004, he works at the Advanced Control Systems group, UPC in Barcelona, Spain, first as a Ramón y Cajal Fellow and presently as ICREA (Catalonian Institution for Research and Advanced Studies) Research Professor. His research interests are in the applications of robust identification and control to practical problems. He was (Plennary) Professor of automatic control at the University of Buenos Aires, 1988–2004 and Director of the Identification and Robust Control Group (GICOR). He has been invited as a Researcher and Professor to several EU, USA, and Latin America Universities and Research Institutions. He is the author of Introducción a la Teoría de Control Robusto (AADECA, 1992, 2nd. Ed. 1999), winner of the 1991 Book Contest organized by the argentine IFAC representative, and coauthor (with Dr. Mario Sznaier) of Robust Systems Theory and Applications (Wiley & Sons, 1998) and the Robust Systems chapter in the CRC Electrical Engineering Handbook, 1999. He has authored around 100 journal and conference papers. He is Full Member of the International Academy of Astronautics, Senior Member of IEEE and AIAA, Member of the Policy Committee of IFAC (2005–2008) and of the Independent Review Team of the NASA/CONAE satellite Aquarius/SAC-D. He was Argentine Representative at the Technical Expert Meetings for the MTCR from 2000 to 2004.

Biography Updated on 31 July 2007