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Hi all. I've been wanting for a long time to create a webpage for me with the goal of centralizing research, teaching, and miscelaneous info. In fact, it is been so since I joined Unifesp at 2019, but only now I had the opportunity of finishing it. I am not a web designer so  I could only hope that by tinkering with the Google Site Tools I would be able to get something at least presentable. 

So there you have it! In the "Home" section, you can find some bibliographic info about myself; in the "Teaching" section you'll find (guess what?) some info regarding classes I've been teaching at Unifesp; in "Research" I highlighted my research interests and some selected articles; in "Projects" you can find my current and past research and extension projects; in "Interests" you're going to find some hobbies and interests I have; in "Contact", my job address and some research webpages can be found and, finally, in "Blog" you're going to find this page. I am satisfied for now with the (never)ending result.

As for the news, I have a paper authored with Prof. Oswaldo Costa that was recently accepted for publication in the International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control. The subject is robust filtering for semi-Markov jump linear systems, and the design conditions are given in terms of LMIs using slack variables. Indeed, as far as I know,  this is a new parametrization with an interesting property: whenever we restrict to the ``pure'' MJLS case, the optimal filter can be achieved. It can also be directly used for uncertain continuous-time LTI systems, and this similar property would be inherited for that kind of system. That is, whenever the system is precisely known, the conditions also become necessary.




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