Maurício de Oliveira

In Brief

I spent the first half of my professional life in academia, of which more than 20 years actively at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, teaching and conducting research in the area of Optimization, Dynamic Systems, and Control, and this website is a somewhat frozen snapshot of the activities I conducted up until circa 2022.

Since then I have been a full-time engineer with ASML working on signal processing, controls, optimization, and machine learning problems as part of the EUV Source team in San Diego.

Aside from my academic experience, I have have worked as a consultant to one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds in the area of portfolio optimization starting in 2008 and for more than ten years. I have also worked as a consultant for Cymer — an ASML company, and in research and development with Solar Turbines — a Caterpillar company.

For my work in finance, see efportfolio.com and vicbee.net.

Pardon the occasional broken links, lots of material here are not actively maintained.

Bio Capsule

I concluded my Ph.D. in 1999, M.S. in 1996 and B.S. in 1995, all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil. Prior to joining UCSD I was an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Campinas, SP, Brazil from 2001 to 2003. From 2005 to 2006 I was the Chief Research Engineer at Dynamic Systems Research, Inc., San Diego, CA, where I led a large team on the development of an energy-harvesting station-keeping sea drogue. From 2003 until 2022 I taught and conducted research at University of California San Diego. Since 2022 I am with ASML helping to develop the world's only EUV light source.

Books

• Fundamentals of Linear Control: A Concise Approach
  Cambridge University Press, 2017 · book site · Amazon
• Tensegrity Systems
  with Bob Skelton · Springer, 2009 · Amazon · figures in color (PDF)

Research & Publications

Topics

• Systems and Control
• Signal Processing
• Machine Learning and Optimization
• Noncommutative Symbolic Algebra
• Tensegrity

If you are interested in any of my publications please email me and I will be glad to send you a PDF. Full list on Google Scholar or ORCID.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Graduate

COSMOS — California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science

Open-Source Software

EMSTrack — an open emergency-response platform. See the work of the UCSD Global TIES students, featured in this news release, and the EMSTrack web app and Android app.

NCAlgebra — a Mathematica add-on for working with symbolic expressions with noncommutative products (e.g. matrix multiplications), bundled with noncommutative Gröbner basis algorithms and a semidefinite programming solver. Grab the latest version.

ctrl — a Python suite for systems and control that eases the implementation of feedback controllers on embedded systems, supported on the BeagleBone Black and the Raspberry Pi. Repository.

rcpy — a set of Python bindings for the Robotics Cape library. Repository.

Other open-source projects at mcdeoliveira on GitHub.