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Automatic Control Department (ESAII)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech 
Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria Industrial de
Barcelona (ETSEIB)
Av. Diagonal, 647, 2nd floor, DSH 2.26
08028 Barcelona, SPAIN
+34 93 401 5752
carlos.ocampo@upc.edu
https://carlos-ocampo.staff.upc.edu

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Personal Data

Current Position Full Professor UPC (Catedràtic Contractat (Catalonia))
Researcher ID C-9496-2012
ORCID 8 0000-0001-9251-6044
SCOPUS ID 23110642600
Keywords Constrained predictive control, large-scale systems management (partitioning and non- centralized control), process control, industrial applications (mainly related to the key scopes of water and energy, and smart manufacturing under the IoT framework)

Qualifications

Title Ph.D. degree (cum laude) in Automatic Control, Vision and Robotics
Year 2007 ISCED Level 6
Institution Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), Spain
Topic Model predictive control, hybrid systems and fault-tolerant control
Title Degree in Automatic Control and Industrial Electronics Engineering
Year 2006 ISCED Level 5
Institution Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), Spain
Title Diploma in Advanced Studies on Control
Year 2005 ISCED Level 5
Institution Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), Spain
Topic Optimal control of sewer networks
Title Master of Science in Industrial Automation
Year 2003 ISCED Level 5
Institution Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales)
Topic Nonlinear phenomena in switched systems and sliding mode control
Title Degree in Electronic Engineering
Year 2001 ISCED Level 5
Institution Faculty of Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales)
Speciality Control and Industrial Automation

Other Courses

Title Postgraduate degree in University Education of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)
Year July 2021
Institution Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), Institut de Ciències de l’Educació (ICE)
Course Qualified Teaching Skills (Programa de Formació Inicial – ProFI)
Place & Date Barcelona, November 2011 – June 2013
Organizer Institut de Ciències de l’Educació (ICE), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaT- ECH (UPC)
Course High-Gain Observers in Nonlinear Feedback Control
Speaker Prof. Hassan Khalil (Michigan State University, USA)
Place & Date Supélec – Paris, March 7–11, 2011
Organizer European Embedded Control Institute (EECI) – HYCON2 NoE
Course Distributed Control & Estimation of Networked Control Systems
Place & Date Grenoble (FR), September 7–10, 2010
Organizer GIPSA-Lab CNRS
Course Advanced Topics in Systems Control and Identification
Speaker Prof. Ricardo Sánchez Peña (Technical Institute of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Place & Date Barcelona, July 13-22, 2010
Organizer Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC)
Course Short course on Non-linear Dynamics and Chaos
Speaker Prof. Soumitro Benerjee (Indian Institute of Technology, India)
Place & Date Barcelona, June 21-22, 2010
Organizer Department of Electrical Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC)
Course Short Course of Model Predictive Control of Hybrid Systems
Speaker Prof. Alberto Bemporad (Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy)
Place & Date Barcelona, July 17-21, 2006
Organizer Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC)
Course Predictive Control Course
Speaker Prof. Jan Maciejowski (University of Cambridge, UK)
Place & Date Barcelona, July 17-21, 2006
Organizer Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC)
Course First HYCON PhD School on Hybrid Systems
Place & Date Siena (Italia), July 19-22, 2005
Organizer HYBCON NoE, Università degli Studi di Siena
Course PhD School on Diagnosis of Systems and Industrial Processes
Place & Date Barcelona, May 17–25, 2004
Organizer UPC, University of Valladolid, University of Seville, University of Girona

Work Experience

2025 Full Professor (Catedràtic), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), Automatic Control Department (ESAII), Barcelona, Spain.
2022 Academic Coordinator, Master’s degree in Automatic Control and Robotics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), Escola Tècnica Superior d’Enginyeria In- dustrial de Barcelona (ETSEIB), Barcelona, Spain.
2016 – 2025 Associate Professor, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech (UPC), Automatic Control Department (ESAII), Barcelona, Spain.
2014 – 2018 Deputy Director, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
2011 – 2015 Assistant Professor (Tenure-track Lecturer), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), Automatic Control Department (ESAII), Barcelona, Spain.
2008 – 2011 Juan de la Cierva Research Fellow, Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC, Barcelona, Spain.
Post-doctoral position for working on MPC and hybrid modelling applied to network systems.
2007 – 2008 Research Academic, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science – The University of Newcastle, Callaghan (Australia).
Post-doctoral position at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), working on control systems design, fault-tolerant control and invariant sets.
2003 – 2007 Training Researcher, Spanish Ministry of Science – UPC, Terrassa (Spain).
Direct participation in the project DPI2002-03500 from Spanish Ministry of Education and Science (Sci- ence and Technology) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC), ESAII Department. Topic: Fault-Tolerant Control of complex systems.
2001 – 2002 Electronic System Co-designer, Government of Manizales, Manizales (Colombia).
Design of circuits using programable automata for the project “Observatorios Medioambientales” (En- vironmental Observers) from the Manizales Government and Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales).
2001 Research Assistant, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales), Manizales (Colombia).
Scientific activities within the Academic Workgroup in Perception and Intelligent Control (PCI), working on Expert systems, Intelligent Control, Nonlinear dynamical systems, among other topics.

Awards and Professional Recognitions

Certifications

  • S3: Certificate of positive assessment corresponding to six years of excellence in research activities (Avaluació de l’Activitat Investigadora – Sexeni 2016-2021). ID 6BLJWNN81, Catalan Agency for the University Quality AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), July 2022.
  • Certificate of scientific ability for full-professor position (acreditació de recerca avançada) by the Commission for Scientific Merits of the Catalan Agency for the University Quality AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), November 2021.
  • S2: Certificate of positive assessment corresponding to six years of excellence in research activities (Avaluació de l’Activitat Investigadora – Sexeni 2010-2015). ID NJ2B8V4NF, Catalan Agency for the University Quality AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), June 2016.
  • Certificate of ability for Associate Professor position (acreditación de profesor titular universitario) by the Spanish Quality Assessment and Certification Agency (Agencia Nacional de Evaluación de la Calidad y Acreditación – ANECA), Ref. 2013-001331, June 2013.
  • S1: Certificate of positive assessment corresponding to six years of excellence in research activities (Avaluació de l’Activitat Investigadora – Sexeni 2003-2009). Ref. U1448/14055678- 136, Catalan Agency for the University Quality AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), July 2012.
  • Certificate of scientific ability for the tenured associate professor position (acreditació de recerca) by the Commission for Scientific Merits of the Catalan Agency for the University Quality AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), October 2010.
  • Certificate of scientific ability for the tenure-track lecturer position by the Commission for Scientific Merits of the Catalan Agency for the University Quality AQU Catalunya (Agència per a la Qualitat del Sistema Universitari de Catalunya), Ref. U1443/9088853-81, 2009.

Scholarships

1. Grant for Research Stay abroad into the José Castillejo Programme (type B), Resolution 13706 of December 15, 2014 (BOE no. 316 of 31-12-2014). Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport, 2015.
2. Grant for Research Stay abroad within IJP13 Programme from Santander Universidades, Banco Santander (Spain), 2012.
3. Grant for Research Stay abroad (BE-DGR 2011), Resolution ECO/1689/2011, of 28 of June (DOGC no. 5918 of 12-7-2011). Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), 2011.
4. Predoctoral grant for young researchers (FPI) granted by “Dirección General de Investigación” from Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (Resolution from 14 May, 2003). Objective: PhD degree in Control, Vision and Robotics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC).
5. Post-degree grant (master degree) granted by the Engineering Faculty of the Universidad Na- cional de Colombia (Sede Manizales), Resolution VR No. 287 on 14 March, 2002. Objective: Master’s degree in Industrial Automation.

Awards

European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems, 2025. Thesis On the Design of Optimization-Based Controllers via Generalized Nash Equilibrium Seeking in Evolutionary Games over Networks, by J. Martinez-Piazuelo. Advisors: C. Ocampo-Martinez and N. Quijano.
IFAC Best Paper Award in recognition of the paper Advanced Fault Detection in Steam Turbines Using Welch’s Method and Probabilistic Modeling, authored by C. Puerto-Santana, N. Lizarraga-Odriozola, J. Diaz-Rozo, and C. Ocampo-Martinez. Smart Energy Systems for Efficient and Sustainable Smart Grids and Smart Cities, SENSYS 2025.
ISA (International Society of Automation) Spanish Branch Student Award 2022, University Category for the Master’s final project entitled Robotic cloth manipulation: Real implementation using model predictive control and reinforcement learning, by A. Luque Acera under the advising of Dr. A. Colomé Figueras and Prof. C. Ocampo-Martinez. Madrid, June 2022.
Ing. Luis A. Huergo Prize 2021 from the National Academy of Engineering, Argentina “at- tending to the relevant value of the work Model-based control design for H2 purity regulation in high-pressure alkaline electrolyzers, by M. David, F.Bianchi, C. Ocampo-Martinez and R. Sánchez-Peña.”
Innovative research project MISTI (MIT) – Fundació La Caixa, for promoting leading research in green energies, 2018. https://www.elmundo.es/cataluna/2018/04/18/5ad7195f22601dab128b456e.html
ISA Transactions Best Paper Award 2017. Paper: Dynamical tuning for MPC using population games: A water supply network application, J. Barreiro-Gomez, C. Ocampo-Martinez and N. Quijano, ISA Transactions, Vol. 69, pages 175-186, July 2017.
European PhD Award on Control for Complex and Heterogeneous Systems, 2017. Thesis The Role of Population Games in the Design of Optimization-based Controllers: A Large-scale Insight by J. Barreiro-Gomez. Advisors: C. Ocampo-Martinez and N. Quijano.
Best PhD Thesis in Control Technology CEA-Springer Award. Spanish Committee on Automatic Control, 2017. Thesis The Role of Population Games in the Design of Optimization-based Controllers: A Large-scale Insight by J. Barreiro-Gomez. Advisors: C. Ocampo- Martinez and N. Quijano.
WindEurope Best Poster Award 2017. Poster: A wind farm operational strategy to optimise primary frequency support by S. Siniscalchi Minna, F. Bianchi, C. Ocampo-Martinez and M. De Prada.
Senior Member of the IEEE Control Systems Society (since September 2013).
Best PhD Thesis of Research on 2007. Automatic Control Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH (UPC). Barcelona, Spain, March 2008.
Ph.D. thesis with Doctor Europeus mention and mark excellent cum laude. Barcelona, 27 April, 2007.
Best PhD Student Presentation Award. Joint CTS-HYCON Workshop on Nonlinear and Hybrid Control. Paris, 10-12 July, 2006. Talk: Hybrid MPC applied on sewer network: Barcelona case study.

Academic Stays

Type Visiting Scientist
Centre Department of Chemical Engineering – Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Place Cambridge, USA
Host Researcher Prof. Richard Braatz
Year & Length 2015, three months
Topic MPC for large-scale complex systems, robust control approaches
Type Visiting Researcher
Centre Centro de Sistemas y Control – Instituto Tecnológico de Buenos Aires (ITBA)
Place Buenos Aires, Argentina
Host Researcher Prof. Ricardo Sánchez Peña
Year & Length 2013, two months
Topic Control Perspectives in Energy Systems: robust and unfalsified control strategies
Type Visiting Researcher
Centre Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology
Place Delft, The Netherlands
Host Researcher Prof. Bart De Schutter
Year & Length 2012, two and a half months
Topic Non-centralized MPC of large-scale network systems
Type Visiting Professor
Centre Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia (Sede Manizales)
Place Manizales, Colombia
Host Researcher Prof. Fabiola Angulo
Year & Length 2009, one month
Topic Nonlinear MPC in Lixiviation Processes
Type Postdoctoral stay
Centre School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, The University of Newcastle
Place Callaghan, Australia
Host Researcher Dr. Maria Serón & Prof. Graham Goodwin
Year & Length 2007, one year
Topic Actuator fault-tolerant control and set invariance
Type Doctoral stay
Centre Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Siena
Place Siena, Italy
Host Researcher Prof. Alberto Bemporad
Year & Length 2006, four months
Topic Hybrid MPC in the MLD framework for complex and large-scale systems
Type Doctoral stay
Centre Engineering Department, University of Cambridge
Place Cambridge, UK
Host Researcher Prof. Jan Maciejowski & Dr. Eric Kerrigan
Year & Length 2005, three months
Topic MPC and its application on sewage systems
Type Doctoral stay
Centre Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial, CSIC-UPC
Place Barcelona, Spain
Host Researcher Prof. Jordi Riera
Year & Length 2003, nine months
Topic Control Strategies for Electric Energy Generation in Isolated Environments and their Applications in Hybrid Vehicles

Services to the Scientific Community

Participation in Editorial Boards (Journals)

Associate Editor of IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), 2025.
Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems, 2023.
Associate Editor of IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2021.
Associate Editor of Journal of Process Control, 2019.

Participation in Editorial Boards (Conferences & Congresses)

IPC Area Chair (in MHE and output feedback MPC) of the 7th IFAC Conference on Nonlinear Model Predictive Control, NMPC, Bratislava, (Slovakia), 11-14 July, 2021.
Member of the Conference Editorial Board, IEEE CSS, 2016 – 2024.
Technical Associate Editor (TC 8.3) of the IFAC World Congress, Toulouse (France), 2017.
Technical Associate Editor (TCs 8.3 and 5.4) of the IFAC World Congress, Cape Town (South Africa), 2014.

Participation in Editorial Boards (Guess Editor)

Guest Associate Editor of the Special Issue on Intersection of Machine Learning with Control . IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2024.
Guest Associate Editor of the Special Issue on Control and Monitoring of Next-Gen Urban Infrastructure: Applications to Power, Transportation, and Water Systems. IEEE Open Journal of Control Systems, 2023.
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Reliable and Resilient Monitoring, Maintenance and Control for Sewer Systems. Water, 2022
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Game-theoretical methods in control of engineering sys- tems. IEEE Control Systems, February 2017.
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Modeling, diagnosis and control of fuel cell based systems. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics – IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2014.

Participation in Technical Committees

Member of the Technical Committee for the Area of Industrial Production, Civil Engineering, and Engineering for Society (PIN) – Subarea of Electrical, Electronic, and Automation Engineering (EEA), Knowledge Generation projects from Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, 2025.
Member of the Board of Governors of the Comité Español de Automática (CEA-IFAC, main Spanish Association in Automatic Control), 2020 – 2024.
Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 2.4 on Optimal Control since 2020.
Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 5.4 on Large Scale Complex Systems since 2012.
Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 6.1 on Chemical Process Control since 2015.
Member of the IFAC Technical Committee 8.3 on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems since 2012.
Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Process Control (Control Systems Society) since 2015.
Vice-chair of the IFAC Technical Committee 8.3 on Modelling and Control of Environmental Systems (2014 – 2017).
IFAC TC 8.3 liaison with the IFAC Education Committee (2013 – 2017).

Participation in Conferences/Congresses Program Boards

Program Committee member of the 65th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2026, Hawaii (USA), 15-18 December, 2026.
International Program Committee Chair of the 1st IFAC Workshop on Smart Energy Systems for Efficient and Sustainable Smart Grids and Smart Cities, SENSYS 2025, Bari (Italy), 18-20 June, 2025.
Program Committee member of the 61th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, CDC 2022, Cancún (Mexico), 6-9 December, 2022.
International Program Committee member of the 13th Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems Symposium, DYCOPS-CAB, Busan (South Korea), 6-9 June, 2022.
International Program Committee member of the 11th IFAC Symposium on Advanced Control of Chemical Processes, ADCHEM, Venice (Italy), 13-16 June, 2021.
International Program Committee member of the 12th IFAC Symposium on Dynamics and Control of Process Systems, including Biosystems, Florianópolis (Brazil), 23-26 April, 2019.
International Program Committee Chair of the 4rd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, Medellín (Colombia), 15-18 October, 2019.
International Program Committee member of the 22nd International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Sinaia (Romania), 10-12 October, 2018.
General Chair of the 3rd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control, Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), 18-20 October, 2017.
International Program Committee member of the International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL), 8th edition, Southampton (United Kingdom), 18-20 October, 2017; 7th edi- tion, Lisbon (Portugal), 7-9 September, 2016; 6th edition, Delft (The Netherlands), 23-25 September, 2015.
Program Committee Member of the 2nd IEEE Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), Manizales (Colombia), 14-16 October, 2015.
International Program Committee member of the XVI Latinoamerican Congress of Automatic Control (CLCA 2014), Cancún, Quintana Roo (Mexico), 14-17 October, 2014.
International Program Committee member of the International Conference on Knowledge- Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES): 16th edition, San Sebastián (Spain), 10-12 September 2012; 18th edition, Gdynia (Poland), 15-17 September 2014.
International Program Committee member of the IEEE International Conference on Networking, Sensing and Control (ICNSC): 8th edition, Delft (The Netherlands), April 2011; 9th edi- tion, Beijing (China), April 2012; 10th edition, Paris-Evry (France), April 2013; 11th edition, Miami (USA), April 2014; 12th edition, Taipei (Taiwan), April 2015; 13th edition, Calabria (Italy), May 2017.
International Program Committee member of the IFAC Symposium on Large-Scale Complex Systems – Theory and Applications (IFAC LSS): 13th edition, Shanghai (China), 7-10 July, 2013; 14th edition, Riverside (USA), 26-28 May, 2016; 15th edition, Delft (The Netherlands), 26-28 May, 2019; 16th edition, Xi’an (China), 22-24 April, 2022.
Special Sessions General Co-Chair of the 20th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED’12), Barcelona (Spain), 3-6 July, 2012.
Organising Committee member of the 7th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety of Technical Processes (SAFEPROCESS), Barcelona (Spain), summer 2009.

Participation in PhD. Dissertation Committees

PhD examiner of:

Otacilio Bezerra Leite Neto (Aalto University, 2025)
Andrés F. Córdoba Pacheco (Politecnico di Milano, 2025)
Augusto Bozza (Politecnico di Bari, 2024)
Andrés F. Córdoba Pacheco (Politecnico di Milano, 2024)
Jesús de Miguel F. (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH, 2023)
Alberto San Miguel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH, 2023)
Juan Diego Valladolid Quitoisaca (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2023)
Pedro Fornaro (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, 2023)
Paolo Scarabaggio (Politecnico di Bari, 2022)
Jorge Val Ledesma (Technical University of Denmark, 2022)
Liu Renke (Nanyang University in Singapore, 2021)
Carlos Trapiello F. (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH, 2021)
Jan Lorenz Svensen (Technical University of Denmark, 2021)
Jiuling Li (University of Queensland, 2021)
Jesús Lago (Delft University of Technology, 2020)
Tomás Pipia (Delft University of Technology, 2020)
César Díaz Londoño (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, 2020)
Thibault Péan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH, 2020)
Farid Alavi (Delft University of Technology, 2019)
Hamed Layeghi (McGill University, 2018)
Zhou Su (Delft University of Technology, 2018)
Luis Alejandro Fletscher B. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2018)
Nicoleta Stroe (Université d’Orléans, 2017)
Fancisco Javier Muros Ponce (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
Pablo Velarde Rueda (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
Javier Ramírez de la Pinta (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
Filiberto Felle (Universidad de Sevilla, 2017)
Huarong Zheng (Delft University of Technology, 2016)
Francesco Acquaviva (Politecnico di Bari, 2016)
Rodrigo López Farías (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, 2016)
Eduard Galvis Restrepo (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH, 2016)
Angélica María Alzate I. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales, 2015)
Germán Obando Bravo (Univesidad de los Andes – École des Mines de Nantes, 2015)
Alejandro Márquez Ruiz (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2015)
John Anderson Sandoval Moreno (Université de Grenoble, 2014)
Stephan Strahl (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTECH, 2014)
Jaime Enrique Arango Castro (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales, 2014)
Juan C. Calderón Osorio (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2013)
Nikola Stankovic (Supelec, 2013)
José Fernando García T. (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Medellín, 2013)
Xu Min (Delft University of Technology, 2013)
Nicolás Toro (Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales, 2012)