Nicanor Quijano Silva

Nicanor Quijano (IEEE Senior Member) received his B.S. degree in Electronics Engineering from Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Bogotá, Colombia, in 1999. He received the M.S. and PhD degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The Ohio State University, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. In 2007, he joined the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, Universidad de los Andes (UAndes), Bogotá, Colombia as an Assistant Professor. He is currently a Full Professor, the director of the research group in control and automation systems (GIAP, UAndes), and an associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, the Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, and Energy Systems. He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Control Systems Society (CSS) for the 2014 period, and he was the chair of the IEEE CSS, Colombia for the 2011-2013 period. He has published more than 100 scientific papers (journal papers, international conference papers, book chapters), he has co-advised the best European PhD thesis in the control systems area in 2017, and he is the co-author of the best paper of the ISA Transactions, 2018. In 2021, he obtained the Experienced Research Award from the School of Engineering, UAndes. Currently his research interests include hierarchical and distributed network optimization methods for control using learning, bio-inspired, and game-theoretical techniques for dynamic resource allocation problems, especially those in energy, water, agriculture, and transportation.