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Faculty Profile - Patricio Antonio Vela

Assistant Professor; Goizueta Foundation Junior Faculty Rotating Professorship
Systems and Controls

Phone: 404.894.8749
Fax: 404.894.5935
Office: TSRB 445

Biography

Patricio Vela was born in Mexico City, Mexico and grew up in California. He earned his bachelor of science degree in 1998 and his doctorate in 2003 at the California Institute of Technology, where he did his graduate research on geometric nonlinear control androbotics. Dr. Vela came to Georgia Tech as a post-doctoral researcher in computer vision and joined the ECE faculty in 2005.

His research interests lie in the geometric perspectives to control theory and computer vision. Recently, he has been interested in the role that computer vision can play for achieving control-theoretic objectives of (semi-)autonomous systems. His research also covers control of nonlinear systems, typically robotic systems.

Selected Publications, Patents

Research Interests
  • Geometric estimation and control
  • Computer vision
  • Robotics
  • Applied differential geometry and geometric mechanics.
  • Biologically inspired mechanics and computer vision.
Distinctions
  • HENAAC Most Promising Engineer 2005

Last revised on July 25, 2006.