RECOLLECTION OF MY RESEARCH LIFE

Acupuncture research is part of my life.

Acupuncture has been used in China for more than 3,000 years. Although the clinical application of acupuncture is very popular, its mechanisms of action are still unclear. Beginning in the middle of the 20th century, a boost of research on acupuncture emerged in China, and I was one of the researchers involved in this episode. With the help of modern neuroscience, the mechanisms of acupuncture ...

My Life

Recollections of My Life

Indian Mutiny, the particulars of which thrilled them with horror, and the happy termination with profound gratitude, at the time of their occurrence. Early life is well depicted, when sport, adventures and escapes from danger make strong impressions on the mind. An experience of medical interest is well described, where, when swimming in the sea off Bermuda, shortly after having seen a poor bo...

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...

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...