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A/Prof. Daniel Quevedo

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Position Associate Professor
School of Elect Engineering and Computer Science
The University of Newcastle, Australia
Office EF08, Engineering F

Biography

I was born in Lima, Perú, and brought up in Germany and Chile, where I studied electronics engineering at the Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María. In 1998, I received the B. Eng. degree, worked then as a part-time lecturer, and in 2000 graduated with Ingeniero Civil Electrónico and M.Sc. degrees. I then moved to Australia to pursue postgraduate studies under supervision of Professor Graham Goodwin. In 2005, I was conferred the Ph.D. degree from The University of Newcastle for my work on quantized moving horizon optimization.

After employment as a research associate from 2006 to 2008, in 2009 I was awarded a five-year Australian Research Fellowship, which has allowed me to investigate networked control systems. Since 2011, I also lead an Australian Research Council Discovery Project on controller design for power converters.

Here's a link to my google scholar page

http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?hl=en&user=s0MIz4sAAAAJ

Qualifications

  • PhD, University of Newcastle, 2005
  • Master of Engineering (Electronic), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria - Chile, 2000
  • Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical), Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria - Chile, 2000

Research

Research keywords

  • Control Systems
  • Cyber-physical Systems
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Networked Control Systems
  • Power Electronics

Research expertise

My research has focused on several issues which arise in networked control systems, quantisation schemes having explicit or implicit feedback, and predictive control formulations. To develop original and high-performance designs, I am interested in combining elements of systems control, signal processing, and telecommunications.

Collaboration

I have had the pleasure of collaborating with various distinguished researchers, each with their own style. My current coauthors are with institutions, such as: Uppsala University and KTH Stockholm (Sweden), Kyoto University (Japan), The University of Notre Dame (USA), Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María (Chile), INRIA Grenoble (France), Aalborg University (Denmark), University of Stuttgart (Germany), ABB Corporate Research (Switzerland), Universidad de Sevilla (Spain), Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and The University of Melbourne (Australia).

Languages

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
010299 Applied Mathematics Not Elsewhere Classified 70
090699 Electrical And Electronic Engineering Not Elsewhere Classified 30

Centres and Groups

Centre

Appointments

Fellowship
Australian Research Council (Australia)
01/01/2009

Awards

Distinction.

2000 Alumni Association Award
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile)
This award is presented annually to the best overall graduate at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria
2000 Best Electronics Engineering Student Award
Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (Chile)
This award is given annually to the best graduate of the Department of Electronics Engineering at the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria.

Research Award.

2012 University of Newcastle Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Excellence
The University of Newcastle (Australia)
This award is based on the excellence of the applicant’s best research output in the previous calendar year
2009 Pro Vice-Chancellors Award for Research Excellence
The University of Newcastle (Australia)
This award is presented by the Research Committee of the Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment at the University of Newcastle.
2006 Guan Zhao-Zhi Best Paper Prize (corecipient)
Chinese Technical Committee on Control Theory (China)
This award is presented at the Chinese Control Conference to the best paper whose first author is under 40 years old.
2003 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Best Student-Paper Award
IEEE Control Systems Society (United States)
This award is presented by the IEEE Control Systems Society to the best paper at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control whose first author is a student. This conference is the most important in the area of control systems.
2003 Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment Prize for the Best Research Paper
The University of Newcastle (Australia)
Awarded annually to a Research Postgraduate student for the best peer-reviewed paper presented at an international conference
2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control Best Student-Paper Award Finalist
IEEE Control Systems Society (United States)

Invitations

Seminar at the Department of Electronic & Computer Engineering
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong (Invited Presenter)
2012
Seminar at the Department of Electrical Engineering
University of Notre Dame, United States (Invited Presenter)
2012
Seminar at the Departement d’Automatique de Grenoble
GIPSA-Lab, France (Invited Presenter)
2011
Seminar at the School of Electrical Engineering
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Stockholm, Sweden (Invited Presenter)
2010
Seminar at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Physics
Kyoto University, Japan (Invited Presenter)
2010
Lecture at the Workshop on Predictive Control
IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT 2010), Chile (Invited Presenter)
2010
Seminar at the Department of Electronics and Informatics
University of Padova, Italy (Invited Presenter)
2008
Seminar at the Institute of Automatic Control Engineering (LSR)
Technische Universität München, Germany (Invited Presenter)
2006
Seminar at the Department of Electronics Engineering
Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile (Invited Presenter)
2005
Seminar at the Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland (Invited Presenter)
2004