João Hespanha
Distinguished Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering
Contact
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Fellow of:
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Control Systems Society Board of Governors; IEEE Distinguished Lecturer; Ruberti Young Researcher Prize
Research
Hespanha's research areas include: hybrid and switched systems; the modeling and control of communication networks; distributed control over communication networks (also known as networked control systems); the use of vision in feedback control; game theory; and stochastic modeling in biology.
Center for Control, Dynamical-Systems and Computation; Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies
PhD Electrical Engineering, Yale University
MS Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico
Licenciatura Electrical and Computer Engineering, Instituto Superior Tecnico