Sonia Martínez Díaz

Sonia Martínez Díaz is a Spanish mechanical engineer whose research applies control theory to the coordinated motion of robot swarms and mobile wireless sensor networks.[1] She is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.[2]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martínez and the second or maternal family name is Díaz.

Education and career

Martínez was the first in her family to study at a university, the University of the Basque Country.[3] She has a licenciatura in mathematics from the University of Zaragoza,[4] awarded in 1997,[5] and she completed a Ph.D. in engineering mathematics at Charles III University of Madrid in 2002,[2][3] working with Manuel de León Rodríguez of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.[1][6]

After working as a visiting assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, she came to the US on a Fulbright Fellowship for postdoctoral research with Francesco Bullo at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and University of California, Santa Barbara.[2] She took her faculty position at the University of California, San Diego in 2005,[2][3] and became a full professor there in 2014.[5]

Recognition

In 2018, Martínez was named an IEEE Fellow, affiliated with the IEEE Control Systems Society and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, "for contributions to geometric mechanics and control".[7]

Selected publications

Articles
  • Martínez, Sonia; Cortés, Jorge (2002), "Design of oscillatory control systems", Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1509–1514, doi:10.1109/cdc.2002.1184733. Winner of the CDC Best Student-Paper Award.[8]
  • Cortés, Jorge; Martínez, Sonia; Karataş, Timur; Bullo, Francesco (April 2004), "Coverage control for mobile sensing networks", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 20 (2): 243–255, doi:10.1109/tra.2004.824698
  • Cortés, Jorge; Martínez, Sonia; Bullo, Francesco (August 2006), "Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51 (8): 1289–1298, doi:10.1109/tac.2006.878713. Listed as a "classic paper" by Google Scholar.[9]
  • Martínez, Sonia; Cortés, Jorge; Bullo, Francesco (August 2007), "Motion coordination with distributed information", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 27 no. 4, pp. 75–88, doi:10.1109/mcs.2007.384124. Winner of the 2008 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award.[10]
  • Zhu, Minghui; Martínez, Sonia (January 2012), "On distributed convex optimization under inequality and equality constraints", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57 (1): 151–164, doi:10.1109/tac.2011.2167817

Books
  • Bullo, Francesco; Cortés, Jorge; Martínez, Sonia (2009), Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: A Mathematical Approach to Motion Coordination Algorithms, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9781400831470
  • Zhu, Minghui; Martínez, Sonia (2015), Distributed Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Agent Networks in Complex Environments, Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Control, Automation, and Robotics, Springer

References
  1. "Sonia Martinez", People in Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 38 no. 6, pp. 28–30, December 2018, doi:10.1109/mcs.2018.2866652
  2. Faculty Profile: Sonia Martínez, UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering, retrieved 2020-12-14
  3. Lopez-Villafaña, Andrea (29 June 2017), "Sonia Martinez Diaz: Learning Through Teaching", La Prensa San Diego
  4. "Speaker biography", Workshop on Geometric Control of Mechanical Systems, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2004
  5. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2020-12-14 – via Docplayer
  6. Sonia Martínez Díaz at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. "2018 IEEE RAS Fellow Class Announced", RAS News, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, retrieved 2020-12-14
  8. "And the winners are ...", In the News, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 23 no. 2, p. 81, April 2003, doi:10.1109/mcs.2003.1188777
  9. "Classic papers in control theory: 2006", Google Scholar, retrieved 2020-12-14
  10. IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, retrieved 2020-12-14
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