Biographical

• Born in Tulkarm, Palestine, which has a tourist page
• BS in EE, Texas A \&M University (College Station, TX), August 1983.
• Ph.D in EE, Rice University (Houston, TX), May 1987
• Assistant Professor in EECS, MIT, 1987-1991
• Associate Professor in EECS, MIT 1991-1992
• Visiting Associate Professor, Caltech, 1993
• Finmeccanica Associate Professor, MIT 1992-1995
• Associate Professor in EECS, MIT 1995-1998
• Professor in EECS, MIT 1998-present
• Consultant at several companies, including:
• Draper Labs (3 years) Attitude control of the space station, underwater autonomous vehicles.
• NASA (JSC) (3 years) Attitude control of the space station.
• FIAT research center (2 years) Modern control, modeling and system identification applied to the design of active suspensions.
• BBN (2 years) Robust and adaptive control design for active noise cancellation and vibration suppression.
• Convolve (1 year) Input shaping for control of compact discs.
• Alphatech (2 years) Infrastructure modeling using multi-agent economic models.
• Textron Specialty materials
• Brighams and Women

 

• Founder of Crescent Technologies (1996-2000)Supply chain systems for large scale production.
• Founder of Infolenz Co.(2000-present) Enterprise economic models of markets
My interests include basketball, swimming, coffee, and political debate.

Awards

• Hugo Schuck Award for Theory (for the paper coauthored with Martins), CSS 2008.
• George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (with Bamieh and Paganini), IEEE CSS, Dec 2004
• IEEE Fellow 2000
• Graduate Council Teaching Award, 1995
• Donald P. Eckman Award of the American Control Council, 1993
• Finmeccanica Career Development Chair, 1992
• Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991
• George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (with Pearson), IEEE CSS, Dec 1990
• Ralph Budd Award For Best Engineering Thesis, Rice Univ., May 1987
• Graduated Suma Cum Laude, Texas A\&M Univ, Aug 1983
• Deans Honor Award, Texas A\&M Univ, 1980-1983