Biography
Fernando Lizarralde (IEEE S'94, M'97, SM'16) was born in Bell Ville, Argentina. He received
the Ingeniero Electricista degree from the Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahia Blanca,
Argentina, in 1989 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Federal
University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992 and 1998, respectively.
Since 1996, he has been with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro,
where he is currently Full Professor. In 2010–2011, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Center
for Automation Technologies and Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His current
research interests include nonlinear control systems, adaptive control, variable structure control,
visual servoing, stability of nonlinear systems and their applications to industrial process control
including thermal systems, industrial and cooperative robotics, field and underwater robotics.
Prof. Lizarralde is a member of the Sociedade Brasileira de Automática and of the IEEE Control
Systems Society. He was an Associate Editor for the IEEE Control Systems Society Conference
Editorial Board during 2008-2015, and Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation
Letters (RA-L) during 2015-2018.
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