Note to Prospective Students

If you are a student at UCSB or planning to apply for a graduate program at UCSB and would like to work on my group the following applies to you:

1. Please look at my web page (http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~hespanha). There you will find a brief description of the research areas I am interested in. It may be especially useful to look my publications page (http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/~hespanha/published.html), which I keep updated with all my recent publications.

2. If you find something that interests you, you have past experience (projects, papers, etc.) on that subject, and you are applying for a PhD program, please send me an email. In this email, describe briefly what your interests are and what you have done in the area. If you have papers published, please include an URL from where I can download the papers.

3. If one of my research topics interests you, but you do not have past experience on the area, I still encourage you to apply to UCSB. To make sure that I will see your file, please include my name in your Statement of Purpose and also your particular area of interest.

I receive many emails from prospective students and I do not have time to reply to all of them. I apologize for that.

Postdoctoral research associate position

Distributed Control of Autonomous Systems

A vacancy exists for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on distributed control of autonomous systems at the University of California at Santa Barbara. This position is part of a federally funded project with partners in industry and other universities.

The candidates are expected to have a strong background on at least two of the following areas, and some familiarity with the rest: optimization, control theory (in particular, stochastic and decentralized control), hybrid systems, information theory, and computer networks.

The successful candidate will have opportunity to establish close interaction with both industry and academia for exciting multidisciplinary research. The position is initially offered for 1 year but it is extendible up to four years. The position is available immediately.

The applicants should contact Prof. Joao Hespanha (hespanha at ece.ucsb.edu) via email and include the following items:

1. curriculum vita;

2. brief description of their most recent research activities;

3. names and email addresses of three references.