Awards, Grants, and Patents

⋆IEEE Senior Member, elevation to this grade in The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019. [file]
⋆ISA Transactions Best Paper Award 2018 in Recognition to the best paper published in ISA Transactions in the previous year, as determined by a review committee with the paper “Dynamical tuning for MPC using population games: A water supply network application” ISA Transactions, Vol. 69, pages 175-186, July 2017.
⋆EECI Ph.D Award in Recognition to the Best Ph.D. Thesis in Europe in the Field of Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems 2017, European Embedded Control Institute (EECI), awarded during European Control Conference (ECC) 2018, Limassol, Cyprus, 2018.
Postdoctoral Individual Research Travel Award, New York University in Abu Dhabi (NYUAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2018.
⋆Best Ph.D. Thesis in Control Engineering 2017 Award, Spanish National Committee of Automatic Control (CEA) and Springer, 2017. [file]
⋆Excellent Cum Laude, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
International Doctor Mention, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
Scholarship for a Research Stay, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and “La Caixa” Bank, Barcelona, Spain, 2017.
Student Travel Support, Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS), 2014.
Doctoral Scholarship FI, Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), Barcelona, Spain, 2014.
Doctoral Scholarship/Condonable Loan 6172, National Department of Science and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS), Bogota, Colombia, 2014.
“Jóvenes Investigadores” Fellowship, National Department of Science and Innovation (COLCIENCIAS), Colombia, 2013.
Laureate Thesis, Universidad Santo Tomas (USTA), Bogota, Colombia, 2011.
Cum Laude, Universidad Santo Tomas (USTA), Bogota, Colombia, 2011.
Partial Scholarship for Outstanding GPA, Universidad Santo Tomas (USTA), Bogota, Colombia, Three times between 2008-2009.