Biography

Karina A. Barbosa received the B.S. Degree in Applied Mathematical from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1997, and her Master and Doctor degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. From 2005 to 2007, she held a post-doctoral position at Laboratório Nacional de Computação Científica (LNCC/MCT), Petrópolis, Brazil. She was also an Academic Visitor at Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (CDSC), at The University of Newcastle, Australia from August 2007 to June 2008. In 2009, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Electrical Engineering of Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile. Currently, she is a full time Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile. She is an IEEE Senior Member, and since 2011 is part of the Chilean Automatic Control Society (ACCA) Board of Directors. Her research interests include robust filtering, robust control and descriptor systems.