Jorge I. Poveda obtained his M.S. (2016) and Ph.D. (2018) degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UC Santa Barbara. He also worked as a Research Intern at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Boston, MA, in 2016 and 2017. Subsequently, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2018) and an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2019-2022). Since 2022, he has been an Assistant Professor in the ECE department at UC San Diego.  He earned double B.Sc. degrees (2012) in Electronics Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from the University of Los Andes, Colombia.

Dr. Poveda is the recipient of the Donald P. Eckman award (2023) from the American Automatic Control Council, the CAREER award (2023) and CRII award (2020) from the National Science Foundation, the Young Investigator award (2022) from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Best Ph.D. Dissertation award (2020) and the Outstanding Scholar Fellowship award (2013), both from the CCDC at UC Santa Barbara. He is also a co-author of papers selected for the Best Paper award (2023) in IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, and also papers selected as finalists for the Best Student Paper award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2017 as student, 2021 as co-author) and the American Control Conference (2024, as advisor) (see service and other awards).