ECE FACULTY

Nuno Martins

Title: Assistant Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE, ISR
E-mail: nmartins@isr.umd.edu
Phone: (301) 405-9198
Office: 2259 AV Williams Bldg

Website: http://www.glue.umd.edu/~nmartins/

Biography:

Nuno Martins earned his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, minor in Mathematics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2004. He received the "Licenciado" and MSc. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He also completed a Financial Technology Option degree from MIT’s Sloan School of Management in 2004. His primary research interests are in Control Theory, Estimation, Information Theory.

Martins was an author of the European project titled "Leonardo da Vinci" in the area of Signal Processing. He was also one of five founders of the Evolutionary Systems and Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (LaSEEB), located in the Institute for Systems and Robotics at Lisbon. He joined the Polytechnic Institute of Setubal as a Faculty member in 1995, where, in 1998, he was the youngest ever to be promoted to a position equivalent to Adjoint Professor. In 1996, he was the coordinator of the LaSEEB participation in the signal processing module of the European Neurological Network project. His Masters Thesis was used directly as part of the project. His work was one of 25 selected worldwide to be included in the prestigious volume Spatiotemporal Models in Biological and Artificial Systems, IOS Press, 1997, F.H. Lopes da Silva et al. (eds).

In 1999, while at the Laboratory of Information and Decision Systems at MIT, he played a major role in a DARPA project in the area of distributed resource allocation in adversarial environments. In September 2004, he served as a Post-Doctoral fellow at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. He was appointed Assistant Professor with the University of Maryland's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2005. He was awarded an NSF CAREER Award in 2007 for "Distributed control of dynamic systems using a wireless communication medium: two new paradigms." He serves on the Editorial Board of Systems & Control Letters, one of the leading journals in the field of systems and control.


Research Interests:

Professor Martins' long terms goals are to establish a research program in the interface between control and information theory, with applications to decentralized and networked control, biological control systems, and applications of control to information theory.

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