Welcome!
UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Office: 1801 EBU I
Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
9500 Gilman Drive #0411
San Diego, California 92093-0411, USA
smoura [at] ucsd.edu
Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, at the University of California, San Diego. I am currently performing research under the direction of Professor Miroslav Krstic. My PhD advisors were Professor Jeffrey Stein (Michigan) and Professor Hosam Fathy (Penn State).
My research interests include optimal control, PDE control, adaptive control, dynamic system modeling, energy storage/conversion systems, advanced battery systems, vehicle electrification, smart grid systems. See publications for more information.
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
Office: 1801 EBU I
Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics
9500 Gilman Drive #0411
San Diego, California 92093-0411, USA
smoura [at] ucsd.edu
Welcome! I am a postdoctoral researcher in the Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, at the University of California, San Diego. I am currently performing research under the direction of Professor Miroslav Krstic. My PhD advisors were Professor Jeffrey Stein (Michigan) and Professor Hosam Fathy (Penn State).
My research interests include optimal control, PDE control, adaptive control, dynamic system modeling, energy storage/conversion systems, advanced battery systems, vehicle electrification, smart grid systems. See publications for more information.
News and Events
[Flyer] Seeking a one-year graduate student or post-doc for UCSD campus building energy wireless sensor network deployment and analysis.
May 2013
Won California Energy Commission EISG award to study "Estimation of Thermostatically Controlled Loads for Demand Response" on UCSD campus.
Seminar in Centre Automatique et Systèmes, at MINES ParisTech, France
Seminar in Automation & Control, Dept. of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark
Seminar in Swedish Hybrid Vehicle Centre at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Apr 2013
Accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment in the Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley!
Mar - Jun 2013
Visiting scholar at Le Centre Automatique et Systèmes in Ècole des Mines de Paris.
Hosts: Prof. Florent di Meglio and Prof. Nicolas Petit
Hosts: Prof. Florent di Meglio and Prof. Nicolas Petit
Mar 2013
A trio of papers covering various aspects of modeling, parameter identification, and state estimation of aggregated thermostatically controlled loads have been submited, by Prof. Jan Bendtsen, Victor Ruiz, and myself.
ME Seminar @ Carnegie Mellon University
Feb 2013
Our paper on Lyapunov-based Extremum Seeking for Photovoltaics has been accepted to Control Engineering Practice.
Review Panel @ National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA
ME Seminar @ the University of Michigan - Go Blue!
MAE Seminar @ UC Davis
CEE Seminar @ UC Berkeley - Go Bears!
Jan 2013
New paper on constrained control of batteries for enhanced safety/performance has been accepted to ACC 2013.
ME Seminar @ UC Santa Barbara
Talk at Nest Labs on state-of-the-art modeling and control research for smart grids.
ARPA-e AMPED Kickoff Meeting, San Francisco, CA
Dec 2012
CDC 2012 in Maui, Hawaii to present Philipp Wolf's work on sensor placement in battery packs.
Nov 2012
Our paper "Optimal Boundary Control of Reaction-Diffusion PDEs via Weak Variations," was accepted to ASME JDSMC.
Systems and Control Seminar in MAE @ UCLA
MAE Seminar at Ohio State University
Oct 2012
Our research on Adpative PDE estimation for batteries to be featured in a Semi-Plenary talk at DSCC12
Our ARPA-e award on Advanced Battery Management Systems has been featured in several media outlets:
Jacobs School @ UCSD |
MAE @ UCSD |
This Week @ UCSD |
The Guardian |
Union Tribune San Diego |
North County Times |
Engaget |
Automotive News |
Phys.org |
autobloggreen |
hybridCARS |
Charged EVs Magazine
MAE Seminar @ UCSD
Aug 2012
Our research team has won an ARPA-e award for "Advanced Battery Management Systems" under the AMPED program
Jun 2012
American Control Conference, Montreal, Canada to present articles on battery SOC estimation and SOH identification.