Marcio Lacerda

EDI Committee Member

Marcio Lacerda is an Associate Professor in Robotics and AI in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). Previously, he was a Reader in Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems at London Metropolitan University and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Federal University of São João del-Rei , Brazil. He held postdoctoral research positions at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), and the Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics Department at the University of Minnesota, USA. He was awarded a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UNICAMP in 2014. 

His main research interests include constrained control, LPV systems, and cyber-physical systems. The main focus of Marcio’s research is the development of conditions for analysis and robust control design for systems under constraints.  In 2021, he received the Fellowship of Research Productivity from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development. He served as Guest Editor for the Journal of the Franklin Institute, and as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Control Automation and Electrical Systems, and IEEE Latin America Transactions. He is currently serving as a member of the IEEE Conference Editorial Board  (CEB) and the IEEE Technology Conference Editorial Board (TCEB)..