Ricardo P. Aguilera received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Universidad de Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile; the M.Sc. degree in electronics engineering from the Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Valparai}so, Chile; and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from The University of Newcastle (UoN), Newcastle, NSW, Australia, in 2003, 2007, and 2012, respectively. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Research Academic at UoN, where he was part of the Centre for Complex Dynamic Systems and Control. From 2014 to 2016, he was a Senior Research Associate at The University of New South Wales, Australia, where he was part of the Australian Energy Research Institute.

Since September 2016, he has been with the School of Electrical and Data Engineering, at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia, where he currently holds an Associate Professor position.

His main research interests include theoretical and practical aspects on model predictive control with application to power electronics, renewable energy integration, and microgrids.

Since 2021, he has been the Vice-Chair of the IEEE NSW Joint Chapter PEL/IES/IAS.