Dr Abdul-Wahid A. Saif

Professor

Research Scholar, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Smart Mobility & Logistics

• Office:22/437
• Phone: +966-13-860-2407
• Fax: +966-13-860-2965
• Email: awsaif(at)kfupm.edu.sa​
• Google Scholar

Education

• PhD, Control and Instrumentation, Leicester Univ., UK, 1996
• MSc, Systems Engineering, KFUPM., SA, 1984
• MPhil, Electrical Engineering, KFUPM., SA, 1986
• BSc, Physics, KFUPM., SA, 1979

Teaching

• CIE-204 Digital Systems
• CIE 301 Numerical Method
• ISE 307 Engineering Economics
• CIE-312 Instrumentation I
• CIE-438 Advance Instrumentation
• CIE-318 Computer Control
• CIE-423 Model Predictive Control
• CIE-432 Digital Signal Processing
• SCE-507 Linear Systems
• SCE-514 Optimal and Robust Control
• SCE 529 Decentralized Control
• SCE-546 Internet and Wireless Control
• SCE 566 Optimal and Learning-Based Process Control Design
• SCE-571 Robot Dynamic and Control

Research Interests

• Robust Control
• Wire and Wireless Network Control
• Strong and Simultaneous Stabilization
• Control of Autonomous Systems
• Control of Time Delay Systems
• Numerical Optimization methods

Current Students

1. Raft Mohmmad Saeed Qaid Al-Rebati (PhD Student)
2. Hathem Abdo Abdullah (PhD Student)
3. Abdulkarim Abduljalil Abdulraof Abdulaziz (PhD Student)
4. Mohammed Abdelnasser Ahmed Mohammed (PhD Student)

Selected Publications

1. Basem Almadani, Muhammad Naseer Bajwa, Shuang-Hua Yang, and Abdul-Wahid A. Saif, "Performance Evaluation of DDS-Based Middleware over Wireless Channel for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems", Hindawi Publishing Corporation, International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 863123
2. Abdul-Wahid A. Saif, Abdallah AL-Shihri, Moustafa Elshafei, " Design of Robust Nonlinear Control for Nonlinear Networked Control Systems", International Journal of Inventive Engineering and Sciences (IJIES), Volume-3 Issue-8, July 2015
3. Yasir A. Siddiqui, Abdul-Wahid A. Saif, Lahouri Cheded, Moustafa Elshafei, Abdur Rahim "Integration  of multivariate statistical process control and multivariate engineering process control: A novel framework" , International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology.
4. Magdi S. Mahmoud and Abdul-Wahed A. Saif, " Dissipativeity Analysis and Design for Uncertain Markovian Jump Systems with Time-Varying Delays". Applied Mathematics and Computation, Volume 219, Issue 18, 15 May 2013, Pages 9681–9695
5. Magdi S. Mahmoud, Nezar M. Alyazidi and Abdul-Wahed A. Saif, " LQG control design over lossy communication links", International Journal of Systems Science , 2013