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
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences 100 List 2023 for conducting influential research with a significant utilization impact in the industry sector, 2023
European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLiS) Research Scholar, 2023
Guest Editor of the Invited Section on ``Neurotechnologies and closed-loop control of neurodynamics" in Annual Reviews in Control, 2021
Guest Editor in Frontiers in Physiology Fractal and Network Physiology, Special issue on Inference, Causality and Control in Networks of Dynamical Systems: Data Science and Modeling Perspectives to Network Physiology with Implications for Artificial Intelligence, 2020
Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019
Trustees Faculty Achievement, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2018, 2019
PLoS One Academic Editor, 2018 - present
American Automatic Control Council, O. Hugo Schuck Award (Theory Category), 2016
European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems (finalist), 2016
Phi Kappa Phi, Love of Learning Award, 2012
Electrical \& Computer Engineering Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Carnegie Mellon University, 2012
Carnegie Mellon University Graduate Teaching Award (university-wide) [Honorable Mention], 2012
Phi Kappa Phi member (Carnegie Mellon Chapter), 2012
Best student paper award finalist at 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, 2009
Second prize for the best students of the Technical University of Lisbon, 2009: Distinguishes 20 students of the Technical University of Lisbon (now, University of Lisbon), from which only 8 are from the School of Engineering (Instituto Superior Tecnico), who have excelled in the context of their overall training: it stressed the strands scientific, academic, cultural and civic life
CLUSTER prize, 2009: Three prizes are awarded annually during the Consortium Linking Universities of Science and Technology for Education and Research (CLUSTER) general assembly to reward a mobility from a CLUSTER institution to another CLUSTER institution that must have occurred during the previous or the current academic year for at least one year. Criteria comprises the following: Academic excellence and contribution to student community for internationalization within CLUSTER