PEOPLE

Dr Sami El-Ferik

Professor

Research Scholar and Director, Interdisciplinary Research Center for Smart Mobility & Logistics

​Education

  • PhD. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department “Optimizing Flexible Manufacturing Systems under Hedging Control Policy,” Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, 1996
  • MSc. Electrical and computer Engineering Department, “Identification of a renewal stochastic model for electrical thermal loads,’’ Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, 1991
  • BSc.  Electrical Engineering, Laval university (Quebec), 1988

Teaching

  • CIE 201 Introduction to Control & Instrumentation Systems  Engineering
  • CIE 301 Numerical Methods
  • CIE 302 Linear Control Systems
  • CIE 316 Control System Design
  • CIE 318 Computer Control Systems
  • CIE 418 Industrial Process Control
  • CIE 433 Condition-Based Maintenance and Control  Loop Performance Monitoring
  • CIE 461 Computer Aided MFG and Robotics
  • CIE 463 Theory of Stochastic Systems
  • SCE 505 Real-Time Computer Systems
  • SCE 513 Systems Modeling & Identification
  • SCE 514 Optimal Control
  • SCE 527 Adaptive Control
  • SCE 590 Special Topic in  Eng.: Advanced Condition-Based Maintenance

Research Interests

  • Control of drug administration,
  • Process control and control loop performance monitoring,
  • Control of systems with delays,
  • Modeling and control of stochastic systems,
  • Analysis of network stability,
  • Condition monitoring, and condition-based maintenance

Current Students

  1. Rawan Alnawasrah (MS Student)
  2. Eman Mahmoud (PhD Student)
  3. Sajjad Ahmed Mahmoud (PhD Student)
  4. Ahmed Chalal (MS Student)
  5. Syed Ghafoor Shah (PhD Student)
  6. Boutheina Abdelhak (PhD Student)
  7. Noman Bashir (MS Student)
  8. Wissem Dilmi (PhD Student)
  9. Khaled Saeed Bin Gaufan (PhD Student)

Selected Publications:

  1. El-Ferik, Sami; Qureshi, Aminuddin; Lewis, Frank L;   Neuro-adaptive cooperative tracking control of unknown higher-order affine nonlinear systems, Automatica, Vol. 50 (3), pp.798-808, 2014
  2. Al Sharif, Sharif MS; Deriche, Mohamed; Maalej, Nabil; El Ferik, Sami; A Fast Geodesic Active Contour Model for Medical Image Segmentation Using Prior Analysis and Wavelets, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol.39(2),pp.1017-1037, 2014
  3. El Ferik, Sami; Ahmed, Ghufran; Omar, Hanafy M; Load swing control for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a slung load, Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), 2014 11th International, 9-Jan, 2014
  4. Malhamé, R; Boukas, EK; El Ferik, S; Manufacturing System: A Case Study, Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technolog: Selected Papers from 7th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS /IMACS/ISPE Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 25-28 May 1992, p.459, 2014
  5. Shihada, Basem; El-Ferik, Sami; Ho, Pin-Han;  FAST TCP over optical burst switched networks: Modeling and stability analysis, Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 10(2), pp.107-118, 2013
  6. El-Ferik, Sami; Syed, Asim H; Omar, Hanafy M; Deriche, Mohamed A;       Anti-Swing Nonlinear Path Tracking Controller for Helicopter Slung Load System, Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, Vol. 2(1), pp. 134-141, 2013
  7. El Ferik, Sami; Siddiqui, Bilal Ahmed; Ben-Mansour, Rached; Al-Sunni, Fouad M;    Dual submarine leak detection system, Patent, 2013
Dr Sami El-Ferik

Professor