My Research Experience in Japan

A Few Lessons from my Long Experience in IB Research

AIB Insights 17 my long experIence In IB research has taught me several lessons which may resemble or differ from the experiences of other researchers. I offer some of them in order to elicit your comments and generate a discussion among us. This paper is not a summary of my research work. Rather, I wanted to reflect on what I consider a few of the major challenges and implications for IB resea...

My Experience with Smallpox

Description of my Research

I study algorithms in graphs, maily applied to the spreading of the information in telecommunications networks. I study the structure of graphs and some routing problems through graph searching games. In these games, a team of searchers aims at capturing a fugitive in a graph. The mobile agents follow the paths in the graph with bounded or unbounded speed and satisfying some constraints. The (N...

My Experience Learning About Autism

I remember the first time I heard the word "autistic." I was 10 years old, and my mom mentioned that someone had a child who was autistic. I was confused because I mistook her description as "artistic." In April 2001, our first child, Isaiah, was born. My wife, Lanier, was concerned that he had autism at about 11 months of age, but I did not recognize his obvious problems, even though he was no...

Summary of My Research

My research interests span control theory, nonlinear and robust control, robotics, hybrid systems, dynamical systems, optimization, and power systems. I develop nonlinear feedback control solutions for dynamical models ranging from robotic systems to power systems. The models of these systems are typically characterized by high dimensional state spaces, with nonlinear and hybrid dynamics. My re...