Rate My Professor Julio Braslavsky

Dr. Julio Braslavsky is a Conjoint Senior Lecturer in the School of Engineering at the University of Newcastle, with continuous affiliations since 1995 including Research Associate (1995-1996), Research Academic (1998-1999 and 2002-2010), and Programme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control (2008-2010). He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Newcastle in 1996 and his Electronic Engineer degree, equivalent to a Master's, from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, in 1989. Currently, Braslavsky holds the position of Senior Principal Research Scientist and Research Team Leader for Energy Systems Modelling, Analysis and Optimisation at CSIRO Energy since 2024, following prior roles as Principal Research Scientist (2017-2024) and Senior Research Scientist (2010-2017). His earlier career includes Associate Professor at the Department of Science and Technology, Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, Argentina (1999-2002), Research Fellow with CONICET, Argentina (2001-2004), Visiting Researcher at the Center for Control Engineering and Computation, University of California, Santa Barbara (1997-1998), and Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Systems Engineering, Automatics and Applied Mechanics, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium (1996).

Braslavsky's research specializations include modelling, analysis, and control of dynamic systems applied to renewable energy integration in electricity grids, encompassing networked control systems, sampled-data control systems, switched control systems, and fundamental performance limitations in filtering and control. He co-authored the book Fundamental Limitations in Filtering and Control (Springer, 1997) with M. M. Seron and G. C. Goodwin, and has authored or co-authored over 140 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, garnering more than 5,300 citations. Key contributions feature signal-to-noise ratio frameworks for feedback over communication channels, frequency domain lifting techniques for sampled-data robustness analysis, optimal cheap control linking to Bode integrals for nonlinear systems, and limiting performance analysis for optimal linear filters. He has secured research grants totaling $18,375,913, including major ARC and CSIRO funding. Braslavsky has served in editorial capacities as Senior Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Engineering Practice (2023-present), Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology (2017-2024) and IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010-2014), and chaired the Australian Control Conference (2010-2011). Notable awards include the CSIRO Collaboration Award (2025), AIRAH Innovative Use of Renewable Energy in HVAC&R Award (2022), Best Presentation Award at IEEE ISGT Asia (2021), Energy Networks Australia Innovation Award (2020), and election to Senior Member of IEEE (2013).