Biographical

• Born in Tulkarm, Palestine, in August 27, 1962.
• 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: Control design
• Brighams and Women: Hyperthermia treatment of prostate cancer.
• Founder of Crescent Technologies(1996-2000): Supply chain systems for large scale production.
• Founder of Infolenz Co.(2000-present): Scientific Marketing: Modeling and Optimization for Offer Design.

General Interests

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

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