Brief Biography: Dr. Poveda obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2016 and 2018, respectively. He also worked as Research Intern at the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in 2016 and 2017. Subsequently, he was Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (2018) and Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2019-2022). Since 2022, he has been Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of California, San Diego, where he also holds an affiliate appointment in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department. 

Dr. Poveda is the recipient of the CRII (2020) and CAREER awards (2022) from NSF, the Young Investigator awards from AFOSR (2022) and SHPE (2024), the Donald P. Eckman Award (2023) from AACC, the Best Paper Award from the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2023), and the CCDC Outstanding Scholar Fellowship award (2013) and Best Ph.D. Dissertation award (2020) from UCSB.  Furthermore, he is an advisor for students selected as finalists for the Best Student Paper award at the American Control Conference (2024), and as winners of the Young Author Award at the IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (2024). He was also a finalist for the Best Student Paper Award at the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control in 2017 (as student) and 2021 (as co-author) (see service and other awards)