Since Oct. 2014: INSA Lyon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ampère Lab. Assistant/Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences, tenured in Oct. 2015).
2012-2014: UC San Diego MAE, San Diego, CA. Postdoctoral Scholar. Advisor: Professor Miroslav Krstic.
Boundary control of PIDEs with non-strict-feedback terms (Fredholm integrals).
State Estimation for Partial Differential Equations.
Energy applications: Li-ion batteries.
Participation in ARPA-e AMPED program in partnership with Robert Bosch LLC.
2012 Université de Grenoble / GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France. Ph.D. in Control Systems. Dissertation: Infinite dimensional control and Input-to-State stability of the safety factor profile in a tokamak plasma. Advisors: E. Witrant and C. Prieur. [Video]
Research: Non-homogeneous transport stability and control.
Energy applications: Tokamaks.
Teaching Assistant in Control Systems at Grenoble INP (ENSE3).
Advisor of a Master student in LPV systems with application to tokamak control.
Collaborations within France (CEA) and with Switzerland (EPFL).
Participation in European Union projects FR-FCM (EURATOM) and HYCON2 (FP7).
2009 Grenoble INP / GIPSA-lab, Grenoble, France. M.S. in Control Systems. Thesis: Model predictive control of autonomous skid-steering vehicles. Advisors: N. Marchand and O. Sename.
Mention Trés Bien (With High Honors).
Collaboration with Vietnam (IPHCMV).
2009 Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey, Mexico. B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering.
Mención Honorífica de Excelencia (With Highest Honors).
International degree program.
Advanced Learning Program for High Achievement (ALPHA).
Research and Innovation program.
Since 2015 INSA Lyon, Ph.D. Advisor (6 defended PhDs, 2 in progress as of February 2026)
Since 2014 INSA Lyon, Lyon, France. Assistant/Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department.
2009-2012 Grenoble INP, Grenoble, France. Instructor.
Doctorant contractuel enseignant (Moniteur) at ENSE3. Control Systems.
2012 Advisor of a Master student on LPV systems with application to Tokamak plasmas.
2006-2007 Prepanet, Monterrey, Mexico. Highschool Teacher.
Associate Editor, IEEE Control Systems Letters 2020-2025, Outstanding Associate Editor for 2022 (the journal awards 1 AE per year)
Associate Editor, European Journal of Control 2018-2023
Associate Editor, Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CDC, ACC) 2016-2019
Participation in the International Program Committee for the 60th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Austin, Texas, USA, 2021)
Participation in the International Program Committee for the 59th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (Jeju Island, Korea, 2020)
Participation in the Program Committee for the 2013 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference (Stanford)
Reviewer for several international journals and conferences including:
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (outstanding reviewer 2012)
Automatica
Systems & Control Letters
ESAIM: Control, Optimization and Calculus of Variations
Journal of the Franklin Institute
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
International Journal of Control