Ernesto Kofman

Ernesto Javier Kofman is an Argentine engineer and researcher, Principal Investigator at CONICET (CIFASIS, Rosario) and Titular Professor at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario's Department of Control. He earned his Electronic Engineering degree (1992-1999) and PhD in Engineering (2003) at UNR, and has been a leading figure in numerical simulation of continuous and hybrid systems and automatic control, co-authoring the reference books 'Theory of Modeling and Simulation' (3rd ed., 2018) and 'Continuous System Simulation' (2006). As a high-school student he represented Argentina at the International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI) in 1992, winning a Silver medal (30th of 171, 185/200 points).

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• Principal Researcher at CONICET (CIFASIS, Rosario) since 2018; previously Independent Researcher there 2012-2018 and CONICET researcher from 2005.2018
• Won a Silver medal representing Argentina at IOI 1992 (Bonn, Germany), ranking 30th of 171 finalists with 185/200 points.Jul 21, 1992
• Co-author of the reference 'Theory of Modeling and Simulation, 3rd Edition' (Zeigler, Muzy, Kofman; Academic Press, 2018) and 'Continuous System Simulation' (Cellier & Kofman; Springer, 2006).2018
• Leads the Simulation and Control of Dynamic Systems group at CIFASIS; research spans numerical integration, discrete-event/hybrid system simulation and DEVS formalism.2024
• Public contact email [contact omitted] published on his UNR personal page contact section.2024
• Professor at FCEIA, Universidad Nacional de Rosario: Adjunct 2001-2018, Associate 2018-, and Titular from 2022.2022
• Doctor in Engineering (2003, UNR), thesis 'Discrete Event Simulation and Control of Continuous Systems', supervisor Sergio Junco.2003
• Competed for Argentina at IOI 1992; the same year he began his Electronic Engineering degree at UNR, suggesting the olympiad launched his academic path.1992
• During COVID-19 he joined the 'Unidad Covid' modeling project forecasting pandemic scenarios (MinCyT-funded) and became a public media voice on restrictions (El Litoral).2020
• Leads R&D grants as Principal Investigator, e.g. PICT-2017 2436 'Modeling and Simulation of Large Scale Hybrid Systems' and a PUE-CONICET grant for an autonomous weeder robot.2018
• Visiting Researcher at ETH Zurich (Institute of Computational Science), Jan-Feb 2007.2007