Awards and Service

Paper Awards:

American Control Conference (2024): Best Student Paper Award Finalist (as advisor of Michael Tang)
IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems (2024): Best Student Paper Award (as advisor of Daniel Ochoa)
IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems (2023): Best Paper Award (as co-author with Bianchin, Cortes, Dall'Anese)
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2021): Outstanding Student Paper Award (as co-author with X. Chen and Na Li)
IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2017): Best Student Paper Award Finalist (as student, with P. Brown, J. Marden, A. Teel)

Young Investigator Awards:

Early Career Faculty Development Award, Jacobs School of Engineering, UCSD, 2025

Young Investigator Award, SHPE, 2024
Donald P. Eckman Award, AACC, 2023
Early Career Award (CAREER), NSF, 2022
Young Investigator Award, AFOSR, 2022
Research Initiation Award (CRII), NSF, 2020
Young Investigator Award ("Joven Investigador"), Department of Science, Technology, and Innovation (Colombia), 2012

Other Awards and Recognitions:

Keynote Speaker, International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science, and Automatic Control, Mexico, 2024
Plenary Speaker, American Control Conference, Toronto, 2024
Keynote Speaker, 6th IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, Popayan, 2023
Faculty Fellow (campus-wide), Research and Innovation Office of the University of Colorado, Boulder, 2022
Best Ph.D. Thesis Award, Center for Control, Dynamics and Computation, UC Santa Barbara, 2020
Researcher of the Term, Center for Control, Dynamics and Computation, UC Santa Barbara, 2017
Doctoral Student Travel Grant, Academic Senate, UC Santa Barbara, 2017
Outstanding Scholar Fellowship, Center for Control, Dynamics and Computation, UC Santa Barbara, 2013
Best Presentation in the Session Award, American Control Conference, 2013 and 2015
Student Commencement Speaker, University of Los Andes, Colombia, 2013
Top Ranked (>95%) on National Exam for Higher Education (Electronics Engineering), National Inst. for Edu. Evaluation, Colombia, 2011
Top Ranked (>95%) on National Exam for Higher Education (Mechanical Engineering), National Inst. for Edu. Evaluation, Colombia, 2011

Workshop: "Recent Advances on Model-Free Equilibrium-Seeking Control", American Control Conference, San Diego, CA, May 2023.
Special Session, "Learning and Control", ITA @ San Diego, CA, February, 2023.
Workshop: "Deterministic and Stochastic Hybrid Methods for Robust Learning and Optimization in Dynamical Systems", IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Melbourne, Australia, 2017.
Workshop: "Hybrid Dynamical Systems: From Modeling and Stability Theory to Applications in Machine Learning, Engineering, and Societal Systems, IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, Cartagena, Colombia, October 2017.

Current:

Associate Editor, Automatica, Dec. 2024 - present.
Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Letters (LCSS), 2023 - present.
Associate Editor, IFAC Journal Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems (NAHS), 2023 - present.
Member of IEEE Technical Committee on "Hybrid Systems", 2023- present.
Member of IFAC Technical Committee "Adaptive and Learning Systems", 2021- present.

Past:

Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board, IEEE Control Systems Society, 2022 - 2025.
Associate Editor, 26th ACM International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC), 2023.
Associate Editor of Journal of Control, Automation and Electrical Systems, 08/2020 - 01/2022.
Associate Editor for 18th IFAC Workshop on Control Applications of Optimization, 2022.
IPC, Workshop on Computation-Aware Algorithmic Design for Cyber-Physical Systems, 2022.
IPC, 10th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, Online, 2021.
IPC, 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems, Sidney, Australia, 2020.
IPC, IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2019.
IPC, 9th EAI International Conference on Game Theory for Networks, Paris, France, 2019.

National Science Foundation (NSF) Panelist.
Proposal reviewer for the French National Research Agency (ANR).
Reviewer for: Automatica, various IEEE Transactions (Automatic Control; Control of Network Systems; Neural Networks and Learning Systems; Control Systems Technology), Systems and Control Letters, IEEE Control Systems Letters, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, International Journal of Control, IET Control Theory and Applications, International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, and Foundations and Trends in Systems and Control, Annual Reviews in Control, Nonlinear Analysis: Hybrid Systems.
Technical meetings and conferences, e.g. IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, American Control Conference, IFAC World Congress, European Control Conference, IEEE Multi-Conference on Systems and Control (MSC), IEEE International Conference on Control & Automation.