About Me

I’m a PhD Student at University of California, Santa Barbara. I work under the supervision of Prof. Jason R. Marden and Prof. Francesco Bullo. My current research interests include Design and Analysis of Large-Scale Systems, Distributed Control, Game Theory and its Control Engineering Applications. [Resume]

Education

• M.S. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, University of Los Andes, 2020.
• B.S. in Electronic Engineering, University of Los Andes, 2018.
• Minor in Computational Mathematics, University of Los Andes, 2018.

Publications

Journal Papers

• G. Díaz-García, F. Bullo, and J. R. Marden, “Strategic Coalitions in Networked Contest Games,” ArXiv preprint arXiv:2408.00883, (Submitted), 2024. [link]
• Y. John, G. Díaz-García, X. Duan, J. R. Marden, and F. Bullo, “A Stochastic Surveillance Stackelberg Game: Co-Optimizing Defense Placement and Patrol Strategy,” ArXiv preprint arXiv:2308.14714, (Submitted), 2024. [link]
• G. Díaz-García, F. Bullo, and J. R. Marden, “Distributed Markov Chain-Based Strategies for Multi-Agent Robotic Surveillance,” IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2527–2532, 2023. [link]
• J. Martinez-Piazuelo, G. Díaz-García, N. Quijano and L. F. Giraldo, “Discrete-Time Distributed Population Dynamics for Optimization and Control,” in IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2022. [link]
• G. Díaz-García, G. Narváez, L. F. Giraldo, J. Giraldo and A. A. Cardenas, “Resilient Structural Sparsity in the Design of Consensus Networks,” in IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, 2021. [link]
• G. Dı́az-Garcı́a, D. Guatibonza, and L. F. Giraldo, “Distributed Reconfiguration for Resilient Synchronization of Multi-Agent Systems,” IEEE Access, 2021. [link]
• A. F. Zambrano, G. Díaz-García, S. Ramírez, L. F. Giraldo, H. Gonzalez-Villasanti, M. T. Perdomo, I. D. Hernández, and J. M. Godoy, “Donation Networks in Underprivileged communities”, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, pp. 1–10, 2020. [link]

Conference Papers

• Y. John, C. Hughes, G. Diaz-Garcia, J. R. Marden, and F. Bullo, “RoSSO: A High-Performance Python Package for Robotic Surveillance Strategy Optimization Using JAX,” in 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), IEEE, 2024, pp. 2169–2175. [link]
• G. Diaz-Garcia, F. Bullo, and J. R. Marden, “Beyond the ‘Enemy-of-my-Enemy’ Alliances: Coalitions in Networked Contest Games,” in 2023 62nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC), IEEE, 2023, pp. 2220–2225. [link]
• G. Diaz-Garcia, C. A. Uribe, and N. Quijano (2021). “Population Dynamics for Discrete Wasserstein Gradient Flows over Networks” [Oral Presentation]. International Conference on Machine Learning Conference: LatinX in AI (LXAI) Research Workshop 2021, Virtual. [link]
• G. Diaz-Garcia , L. F. Giraldo and S. Jimenez-Leudo, “Dynamics of a Differential Wheeled Robot: Control and Trajectory Error Bound,” 2021 IEEE 5th Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), 2021, pp. 25-30. [link]
• J. Martinez-Piazuelo, G. Diaz-Garcia , N. Quijano, and L. F. Giraldo, “Distributed Formation Control of Mobile Robots using Discrete-Time Distributed Population Dynamics”, 2, vol. 53, Elsevier, 2020, pp. 3131–3136. [link]
• G. Diaz-Garcia , L. Burbano, N. Quijano, and L. F. Giraldo, “Distributed MPC and Potential Game Controller for Consensus in Multiple Differential-Drive Robots,” in Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 4th Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC), IEEE, 2019, pp. 1–6. [link]

Working Papers

• G. Diaz-Garcia, K. Paarporn and J. R. Marden. “The Value of Compromising Strategic Intent in General Lotto Games (Extended Version with Proofs)”. [link]