Fernando G. Paganini is a Uruguayan

control theorist Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems in engineered processes and machines. The objective is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system ...

from the Universidad ORT Uruguay.

Education and career

Paganini earned an

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degree and a

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in mathematics in 1990 from the

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. He came to the

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for graduate study in electrical engineering, earning a master's degree in 1992 and completing his Ph.D. in 1996. After postdoctoral research at the

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he became an assistant professor at the

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in 1997, earned tenure there, and remained there as a faculty member until 2005, when he returned to Uruguay as a professor at Universidad ORT Uruguay. In 2019 he became vice dean for research at the university. In April 2020, Paganini was appointed a member of the

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, an advisory committee created by President

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to define methods and studies to advise the government regarding the

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. He shared the group with Dr. Rafael Radi, the first Uruguayan scientist at the

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of the

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and president of the National Academy of Sciences of Uruguay; and Dr. Henry Cohen, President of the National Academy of Medicine and awarded as a Master by the World Gastroenterology Organisation in 2019.

Book

With Geir E. Dullerud, Paganini is a coauthor of the book ''A Course in Robust Control Theory: A Convex Approach'' (Texts in Applied Mathematics 36,

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, 2005).

Recognition

Paganini was named an

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in 2014 "for contributions to robust control and communication networks". He is also a member of the National Academy of Sciences of Uruguay, the National Academy of Engineering of Uruguay, and the Latin American Academy of Science.

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Paganini, Fernando Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Uruguayan engineers University of the Republic (Uruguay) alumni California Institute of Technology alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Academic staff of Universidad ORT Uruguay Fellows of the IEEE