Ricardo Sanfelice is a professor of electrical and computer engineering and leads the Hybrid Systems Lab at UC Santa Cruz. His research focus is on automation and control for systems with nonlinear hybrid dynamics, cyber-physical systems, and feedback systems emerging in robotics, aerospace, power systems, and biology. His research interests include modeling, stability, robust control, observer design, and simulation of nonlinear and hybrid systems with applications to power systems, robotics, aerospace, and biology.