Jesus Felez

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Full Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering, ETSII Industriales.
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
José Gutiérrez Abascal, 2; 28006 Madrid
E-mail: jesus.felezATupm.es.
ORCID link
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.es/citations?hl=es-ES&user=jesus.felez.mindan@gmail.com&pli=1&user=l9U-apcAAAAJ
Researcher ID: I-7679-2012
Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/jesus-felez-99971b16

Industrial Engineer, major in Mechanical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | 1985
PhD Mechanical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | 1989

Honorary Member of the Conference of Directors of Industrial Engineering 2014
Teaching Excellence Award 2014
UPM Educational Innovation Groups Award 2008
Best Book of the UPM. Award for the textbook Fundamentos de Ingeniería Gráfica. 1998

Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley 09/2017 - 08/2018
Visiting Professor at University of California at Davis 05/2014 - 07/2014
Director of the Research Group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 07/2016 - X
Member of the Scientific and Technical Commission for the establishment of improvements in the railway sector. Spanish Ministry of Infrastructures 07/2013 - 08/2015
Director of the Research Group in Railway Technologies at UPM - CITEF 06/1998 - 10/2014
Researcher at INSIA - Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil UPM 1990 - 1997
Researcher at ITAINNOVA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón 1986 - 1990

Director of the ETS Industrial Engineers UPM 2006 - 2014
Deputy Director Head of Studies of the ETS Ingenieros Industriales UPM 2000 - 2006
President of the Conference of Directors of Industrial Engineering 2006 - 2014
Vice-president of the Association of Industrial Engineers of Madrid - AIIM 2009 - 2012
Member of the University Degree Verification and Accreditation Commissions. Participation in the commissions of ANECA (national), UNIBASQ (Basque Country), ACCUA (Andalusia), ACSUG (Galicia) and ACPUA (Aragon) 2014 - X

Vaquero-Serrano MA; Felez J. A decentralized robust control approach for virtually coupled train sets. Computer-Aided Civil And Infrastructure Engineering. 38(14):1896-1915 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mice.12985
Felez J; Vaquero-Serrano MA. Virtual Coupling in Railways: A Comprehensive Review. Machines. 11(5) 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines11050521
Felez R; Castro J; Felez J. Design of a predictive control system for the smart regulation of renewable climatization systems. Renewable Energy And Power Quality Journal. 21:172-177 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24084/repqj21.272
Sala AJ; Felez J; Cano-Moreno JD. Efficient Railway Turnout Design: Leveraging TRIZ-Based Approaches. Applied Sciences-Basel. 13(17) 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13179531
Felez, J; Sala, Antonio J. J.; Sanz Bobis, Juan de Dios And Gonzalez, Jaime. New Anti-Derailment System in Railway Crossings. Machines. 10(12) 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines10121224
Felez, J; Vaquero-Serrano, Miguel Angel; Sanz, Juan de Dios;. A Robust Model Predictive Control for Virtual Coupling in Train Sets. Actuators. 11(12) 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/act11120372
Felez J; Kim Y; Borrelli F. A Model Predictive Control Approach for Virtual Coupling in Railways. Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 20(7):2728-2739 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2914910

2023 - 2026. Concept Development of a System for Pods and Pod-Carriers to be used as Moving Infrastructures mainly for Rail, but as well for Road and Ropeways. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA7-01. Web: Pods4Rail
2023 - 2025. European Shift Enabler Portal 4 Freight. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-ExplR-03. ESEP4Freight
2023 - 2024. Maglev-Derived Systems for Rail. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA7-02 FA7-2. MaDe4Rail
2022 - 2025. Intelligent virtual coupling applied to railway operation. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Ref:PID2021-124761OB-I00.
2020 - 2023. Intelligent Secure Trustable Things Ref: H2020-ECSEL-2019-1-IA. 06/2020-06/2023. InsecTT