SOE announces finalists for COSMIAC director
November 14, 2025
The search committee for the position of director of COSMIAC has announced two finalists who will each present seminars on their vision for the research center.
UNM School of Engineering faculty and staff are invited and encouraged to attend both candidate seminars next week to view presentations and ask questions.
The vision seminars are scheduled to take place at 12:30 p.m. in Larrañaga Auditorium (CEC 1041) on Tuesday, Nov. 18 and Thursday, Nov. 20, respectively. Both seminars will be made available on Zoom.
Please submit feedback and evaluations of the COSMIAC finalists via the online survey.
Manel Martínez-Ramón
Professor, UNM Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Seminar: Tuesday, Nov. 18 at 12:30 p.m. in Larrañaga Auditorium Zoom: https://unm.zoom.us/j/96040123876
Passcode: 893764
Martínez-Ramón received his Ph.D. degree in Telecommunications Technologies from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 1999. He is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico, where he holds the King Felipe VI Endowed Chair, created by the Household of the King of Spain. He joined the University of New Mexico in 2013 as a full professor. His research interests include the application of machine learning to smart antennas, smart grids, photovoltaics, and particle accelerators. He teaches courses in artificial intelligence and is co-author of books like Digital Signal Processing with Kernels (IEEE Press/Wiley, 2018), Machine Learning Applications in Electromagnetics and Antenna Array Processing (Artech House, 2021), and Deep Learning: A Practical Introduction (Wiley, 2024).
Claus Danielson
Assistant Professor, UNM Department of Mechanical Engineering
Seminar: Thursday, Nov. 20 at 12:30 p.m. in Larrañaga Auditorium Zoom: https://unm.zoom.us/j/94361396103
Passcode: 427241
Danielson joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico as an assistant professor in August 2020. He received his doctorate in 2014 from the Model Predictive Control Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Master's and Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the University of Washington, respectively. From 2014 to 2020, he was a principal research scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories in Cambridge, MA. His research interests are in motion planning and constrained control. His specialty is developing methods for exploiting structure in extreme-scale or complex planning, control, and optimization problems. He has applied his research to a variety of fields, including autonomous vehicles, robotics, spacecraft guidance and control, heating ventilation and air conditioning, energy storage networks, adaptive optics, atomic force microscopy, and cancer treatment.
