Dr Samir Al-Amer

Assistant Professor​

Office: 22-349

Phone: 966-13-860-3749

Fax: 966-13-860-2965

Email: samirha(at)kfupm.edu.sa

Personal Website

​Education

• PhD, Systems Engineering, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1998
• Master, Systems Engineering, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1990
• B.S., Systems Engineering,  KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1984

Teaching

• CIE-201 Intro. to Control and Instru. Systems Eng.
• CIE-204: Digital Systems Design
• CIE-301: Numerical Methods
• CIE-302: Linear Control Systems
• CIE 318: Computer Control Systems
• CIE-390 Seminars
• CIE 412: Mechatronics
• CIE 418 : Industrial Process Control
• CIE 436: Robust Control
• CIE 456: Safety and Reliability of Control Systems
• CIE 351: COOP Training
• CIE399 : Summer Training
• ISE 307: Engineering Economic Analysis
• SCE 507:Multivariable Control Systems
• SCE 513: Identification

Research Interests

• Systems Identification,
• Model reduction,
• Robust Control and
• Time-Delay systems

Selected Publications

1. Al-Amer S. H ., " An L2 Gap metric Identification Algorithm" , IEEE Technical Exchange Meeting , Paper X-4 و ِ April 2003.
2. Al-Amer S . and AL-Sunni F., H-infinity Error Bounds in Approximating Time-Delay Systems, Proc. Instn Mech. Engin. Vol 217, Part I: Systems and Control Engineering. pp. 421-426, 2003.
3. Al-Amer S . H. and M.A. Elshafei, " A New Approach to H ∞ Decoupling with Applications to Control of Distillation Columns", WISC, Session III, May 2004 .
4. Al-Amer S . H. and Al-Sunni F. M. " On the Use of L2-gap Metric for Identifying Hammerstein Models" 5th Asian Control Conference. pp 112-117,2004.
5. AL-Sunni F, E. Boukas and S. Al-Amer, “Robustness Bounds for Sampled-data Linear Time-delay Systems, Proc. Instn Mech. Engin. Vol 217, Part I: Systems and Control Engineering. pp. 1-8, 2003.
6. M. Al-Ghumgham, A. Hermoso, M. Claudio, M. Al-Abaidi and S. Al-Amer, “Industrial Case Study: On SAFCO3 gas turbine Control System Sensitivity to NG variations” . Presented on SABIC Technical Meeting (October ,2004).