Curriculum Vitae

Short Bio

Sérgio Pequito is an associate professor in automatic control, with the title of docent, within the Department of Information Technology at Uppsala University. Pequito's research consists of understanding the global qualitative behavior of large-scale systems from their structural or parametric descriptions and provides a rigorous framework for the design, analysis, optimization, and control of large-scale systems. His interests span neuroscience and biomedicine, where dynamical systems, control theory, and artificial intelligence can be leveraged to develop new analysis tools for brain dynamics toward effective personalized medicine and improve bidirectional interfaces. Pequito is an IEEE senior member and was awarded the best student paper finalist in the 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2009) and the 2016 O. Hugo Schuck Award in the Theory Category by the American Automatic Control Council.

Academic Background

  


2014

Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (Dual Degree)

Carnegie Mellon University &

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Dissertation title: A Structural Approach to Design, Analysis and Optimization of Large-Scale Dynamical Systems

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2009

M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Differential Equations and Dynamical Systems)

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Master Thesis title: The Entropy Penalized Minimum Energy Estimator

  


2007

B.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and Computation

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Final project title:

The perceptron: from neural models to their computability

Professional Experience

June

2023

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present

Associate Professor of Automatic Control, with docent

Section of Systems and Control

Department of Information Technology

Uppsala University

Uppsala, SE

July

2022

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May

2023

Associate Professor of Automatic Control

Section of Systems and Control

Department of Information Technology

Uppsala University

Uppsala, SE

July

2020

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June 2022

Assistant Professor

Delft Center for Systems and Control

Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering faculty

Delft University of Technology

Delft, NL

Aug

2017

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June

2020

Assistant Professor

Industrial and Systems Engineering Department

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Troy, NY, USA

Aug

2014

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July

2017

Postdoctoral Researcher

University of Pennsylvania

General Robotics, Automation, Sensing & Perception Laboratory

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Fev

2009

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Sept

2009

Trainee 

European Space Agency

Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) systems group

European Space Research and Technology Center (ESTEC)

Noordwijk, The Netherlands

 Fev

2008

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Jan

2009

Young Researcher

Institute for System and Robotics

Dynamical System and Ocean Robotics LAB

Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

 Academic Awards and Honors