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² Habilitation Universitaire, 2000, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia.

² Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, 1989, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA.

² M.S., Electrical Engineering, 1985, Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL, USA.

² B.S., Electromechanical Engineering, 1982, Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis, Tunisia.

² Theory and Application of Nonlinear Control and Neuro-fuzzy Systems,

² Robust Control & Stabilization of Random Dynamical Systems,

² Computational Intelligence as applied to NP-Hard problems,

² Finite Alphabet Adaptive Filtering and DSP as applied to digital communication,

² Fault Detection & Isolation,

² Application of DSP & Systems and Control Theory.

² Invited paper, IEEE Int. Conf. on Communication, Computer, and Power (IEEE-ICCCP’01),

Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, (February 2001).

² IEEE Certi…cate of Appreciation & Recognition, IEEE Region 8 Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, (Oct.

² Invited speaker, Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systems (LAAS), Centre Nationale

de la Recherche Scienti…que (CNRS), Toulouse, France, (January 2000).

² Invited speaker, Hirota Laboratory, Dept. of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science,

Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, T.I.T., Tokyo, Japan, (July

² Invited speaker, The Institute of Systems Science, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing,

China, (July 1999).

² Invited distinguished speaker at the Advanced Controls Group, Distinguished Lecturer Program,

the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), UTA, Texas, USA, (April, 1998).

² Invited speaker at the Ingenieria Electrica, Control Automatico, of the Centro de Investigaciony de Destudios Avanzados del I.P.N. (CINVESTAV), Mexico City, Mexico, (June, 1998).

² Visiting Research Professor, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, July 1998-June 1999.

² Visiting Research Professor, Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), UTA, Arlington,

² Jemison Institute Fellow, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, July 1998-August 1998.

² Technology Transfer Program Fellow, Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education, March 1998-June

² Invited Visiting Scholar, School of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,

² Member of Eta Kappa Nu, Pi Mu Epsilon, and Gamma Beta Phi.

² Distinguished to excellent academic performances during 1989-94 academic years (Saudi Arabia).

² Tunisian Government scholarship for graduate education (1982-84 and 1985-89).

² IEEE Senior Member.

² IEEE CEB Associate Editor.

² Who’s Who in the World, the Millennium Edition.

² Who’s Who in Science and Engineering.

² Member of theMinisterial Committee for the elaboration and design of Technopole El-Manar,

² Disturbance-Accommodating Neurocontroller (DANC), Submitted to the U.S. Patent and Tradematk

² The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE)

² IEEE Control Systems Society

² IEEE Systems Man and Cybernetics Society

² IEEE Circuits and Systems Society

² The International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC).

² L’ Association des Spécialistes Electriciens de Tunisie (ASET).

² The Balaton Group (INRIC)

² General Secretary (1996-99) of the Association des Spécialistes Electriciens de Tunisie (ASET).

² Founding Member of Nabeul-21.

² Founder and President (1983-85), of the International Student Organization at the Univ. of

² Founder and General Secretary (1979-82), then President (1996-98) of the Tunisian Young Scientists

² Represented the Tunisian Young Scientists Association in two international conferences for

1. Dr. Abraham H. Haddad,

2 Dr. Frank Lewis, IEEE Fellow,

3 Dr. James V. Herod,

4 Dr. Meriem Jaidane,

² Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, ENIT

² Assistant Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, ENIT

² Visiting Research Professor at Dartmouth College. Hanover, USA.

² Fellow at the Jemison Institute, Dartmouth College, USA. Initiated a Systems Theoretic research

² Visiting Research Professor at the Automation and Robotics Research Institute (ARRI), The

² Assistant Professor at the Systems Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum

² Invited Visiting Scholar, July 1994, EPRI Research Project, School of Electrical Engineering,

² Acting Chairman, Summer 1991, KFUPM.

² Graduate Research Assistant, School of Electrical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology,

² Ph.D. Thesis Research: Studied and developed new techniques for the analysis, control and

² Participated in the analysis and design of the common module Thermal Control System (TCS)

² Graduate Research & Teaching Assistant, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

² Master Thesis Research: Studied the parameter sensitivity of discretized systems.

² U. S. Army Sponsored Research: Compared and evaluated digital control techniques, control

² Teaching assistant for senior level course: "Operational Methods in Engineering."

² Teaching assistant for senior level electronics laboratory.

² Training at Dietz Computer System,West Germany. Designed and realized a microprogrammable

² Training at Plastic Omnium, France. Developed a CAD package for injection molds design.

12. "Flexible Manufacturing Systems: Recent Developments," A. Raouf &M. Ben Daya (Eds.), 1994.

1. "My Ongoing Research: Many Questions and Few Answers!" January 2000, Invited

Speaker, Laboratoire d’Analyse et d’Architecture des Systems (LAAS), CNRS, Toulouse, France.

2. "On Lyapunov Exponents and their Furstenberg-Kesten Bounds," July 1999, Invited

Speaker, Hirota Laboratory, Dept. of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary

3. "On Almost Sure Stability of Hybrid Systems," July 1999, Invited Speaker, The Institute

4. "On Almost-Sure Stabilization of Discrete-Time Jump Parameter Systems: An

LMI Approach," 1998, Invited distinguished speaker at the Advanced Controls Group, Distinguished

5. "On Lyapunov Spectrum Assignment for Hybrid Systems," 1998, Invited speaker at

the Ingenieria Electrica, Control Automatico, of the Centro de Investigacion y de Destudios

6. "Stabilization of Hybrid Systems via Averaging," 1990, Systems Engineering Graduate

Seminar, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

7. "Almost-Sure Stability of Random Dynamical Systems," 1990, Invited lecture to the

Mathematics Colloquium, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

8. "Singularly Perturbed Nonlinear ODE’s and Interior Point Optimization Algorithms,"

1994, Invited lecture to the Mathematics Optimization Seminars, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

9. "On Singularly Perturbed Jump Linear Control Systems," 1995, Systems Engineering

Funded Research Project Presentation, KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

Conferences: As Scienti…c/Chairman and/or Organizing Member

1. IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control, SSSC’01, Prague, Czech Republic, August

2. 9th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED’01, Dubrovnik, Croatia,

3. SSD 2001, Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2001.

4. Computational Engineering in Systems Application, IMACS/IEEE Multiconference, Tunisia,

5. IEEE TechCom’98, Fort Worth, TX, USA, April 1998,

6. Les Deuxiémes Journées Francophones de Recherche Opérationnelle, FRANCORO II, Tunisia,

7. La Méthodologie Bon Graph pour l’Etude des Systèmes Physiques, ASET/ISET, Tunisia, Mars

9. L’Aide á la Décision en Environnement Incertain, ASET/ISET, Tunisia, Dec. 1996,

10. Le Traitement du Signal et de l’Image et ses Applications, ASET/CNRS, Tunisia, Mars 1996,

11. Le Deuxiéme Seminaire sur La Commande Robuste et ses Applications, SCRA’95, ASET, Dec.

1. 20th Balaton Group Meeting, Csopak, Hungary, September 2001.

2. IFAC Symposium on System Structure and Control, SSSC’01, Prague, Czech Republic, August

3. 9th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, MED’01, Dubrovnik, Croatia,

4. SSD 2001, Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2001 (speaker & Chair).

5. IEEE ICCCP 2001, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman, Feb. 2001 (Invited paper).

6. 18th Balaton Group Meeting, Csopak, Hungary, September 200.

7. IEEE ISCAS 2000, Geneva, Switzerland, May 2000 (speaker).

8. IFAC World Congress 1999, Beijing, P.R. China, July 1999 (speaker).

9. IEEE TechCom’98, Fort Worth, TX, USA, April 1998 (Systems Track Chair).

10. 17th Balaton Group Meeting, Csopak, Hungary, September 1998.

11. The 3rd Arab Aerospace Education Organization Conference, Sousse, Tunisia, July 1997,

12. EFDAN ’97, 2nd European Workshop on Fuzzy Decision Analysis and Neural Networks for

Management, Planning and Optimization, Dortmund, Germany, June 1997,

13. ACHEMA ’97, Frankfurt, Germany, June 1997,

14. AUTOMATION EUROPE 97, Paris, France, January 1997,

15. L’Aide à la Décision en Environnement Incertain, ASET/ISET, Douz, Tunisia, Dec. 1996,

16. 16 émes journées tunisiennes d’electrotechnique et d’automatique, Nabeul, Tunisia, Nov. 1996

17. 1996 Triennial World Congress, International Federation of Automatic Control IFAC’96, San

18. Ecole de printemps sur le traitement du signal et de l’image et ses applications, Douz, Tunisia,

19. 2éme Seminaire sur la commande robuste et ses applications, SCRA’95, Nabeul, Tunisia, Dec.

20. 15 émes journées tunisiennes d’electrotechnique et d’automatique, Nabeul, Tunisia, Nov. 1995

21. IEEE 15th ACC, Seattle, WA, June 1995 (speaker).

22. SIAM Conf. on Control and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1992 (speaker).

23. 14th IMACS World Congress, Georgia Tech., Atlanta, Georgia, July 1994 (speaker).

24. I.E. Series of Seminars on Practical Applications of Industrial Engineering, Dhahran, Saudi

25. IEEE 11th ACC, Chicago, IL, June 1992 (speaker).

26. SIAM Conf. on Control and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1992 (speaker).

27. 33rd Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada,

28. 23d Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, The Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore,

29. IEEE 8th ACC, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, June 1989 (speaker).

30. 22nd Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ,

31. 27th IEEE CDC, Austin, Texas, Dec. 1988 (speaker).

32. 7th ACC, Atlanta, GA, June 1988 (speaker).

33. International Symposium on Singular Systems, Atlanta, GA, December 1987.

34. 18th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, The Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee,

² Analyse des Systèmes Dynamiques (Grad/TU),

² Contrôle des Systèmes et Procédés (Grad/TU),

² Systèmes Complexes (Grad/TU),

² Diagnostic des Systèmes (Grad/TU),

² Optimal Control (Grad/KSA),

² Industrial Automation (Grad/KSA & TU),

² Operational Methods in Engineering (USA),

² Introduction to Systems Engineering (KSA),

² Advanced Computer Programming (KSA),

² Numerical Methods (KSA),

² Control System Design (plus Lab.) (KSA),

² Linear Control Systems (plus Lab.) (KSA),

² Computer Control Systems (plus Lab.) (KSA),

² Nonlinear Control (plus Lab.) (KSA),

² Large Scale Control Systems (plus Lab.) (TU),

² Simulation (TU),

² Control Systems Design using Matlab (TU),

² Modeling, Identi…cation, and Estimation (TU),

² Senior Electronics Laboratory (USA).

² Design, Analysis and Simulation of Industrial Control Systems (1990), (Instructor).

² Computer Aided Industrial Control System Design (1991), (Coordinator & Instructor).

² Applied Industrial Process Identi…cation and Control: A Case Study (1992), (Coordinator &

² Industrial Process Control Design and Tuning (1993), (Coordinator & Instructor).

² Advanced Distributed Process Control Concepts & Implementation (1994), (Coordinator & Instructor).

² Process Control: Basics & Applications (1995), (Instructor).

² As Advisor or Co-advisor:

² As Committee Member:

² As Advisor or Co-advisor:

1 (1991), 2 (1992), 3 (1993), & Final Report SE/LINPROG/138 (1993).

1. Editor of the theme issue "Control Theory and Its Applications, The Arabian Journal for Science

2. A chapter Titled : "Convergence in distribution and generalized stability of random dynamical

systems, " with J. Elton, in "Di¤usion Processes, and Related Problems in Analysis: Stochastic

Flows," Vol. II, Eds. M. Minsky, and V. Wihstutz, Birkauser Boston, Inc., 1990.

Electrique: Cas de la Tunisie Horizon 2020," to appear in Revue Tunisienne de l’Energie 2001.

The Finite Alphabet Case," to appear, Int. EURASIP Journal of Signal Processing, 1999.

Systems: an LMI Approach," Int. J. Cont., Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 1129-1146, 1997.

Lyapunov Spectrum," Chaos, Solitons, & Fractals, Vol. 7, No. 8, pp. 1213-1225, August 1996.

5. Ezzine, J., Al-Sunni F., and Ksouri, M., "The Arab World," IEEE Control Systems, Special

Issue: A World View of Control Education. Vol. 16, No. 2, pp.11-15, April 1996.

6. Ezzine, J., "Robust Stability Bounds for Sampled-Data Systems," International Journal of Systems

Science, Vol. 26, No. 10, pp. 1951-1966, 1995.

7. Ezzine, J., and Haddad, A. H., "Error Bounds in the Averaging of Hybrid Systems," IEEE

Trans. Aut. Cont., Vol. 34, No. 11, pp. 1188-1191, November 1989.

Int. J. Cont., Vol. 49, No. 6, pp. 2045-2055, 1989.

for Jump Parameter Systems," Proc. SSSC’01, Prague, Czech Republic, August 2001.

Discrete-Time Linear Jump Parameter Systems Using the Lyapunov Exponent," Proc. MED’01,

Coupled Inverted Pendulums, " Proc. SSD’01, Hammamet, Tunisia, 27-30 March 2001.

4. Ezzine, J., "Products of Random Matrices in Control and Signal Processin," Proc. IEEE Int.

Conf. on Communication, Computer, and Power (IEEE-ICCCP’01), Muscat, Sultanate of

Oman, 12-14 February 2001 (INVITED PAPER).

the Finite Alphabet Case," acepted, 2000 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

(ISCAS’2000), Emerging Technologies for the 21st Century, Geneva, Switzerland, 28-31

Satellite Channels," Proc. IEEE/Globecom’99, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 5-9 Dec., 1999.

7. Ezzine J. and F. L. Lewis, "Disturbance-Accommodating Neurocontrol (DANC)," Proc. 1999

IFAC World Congress, Beijing, P. R. China, July 1999.

Filters: The Finite Alphabet Case," Proc. IEEE-EURASIP, Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and

Image Processing (NSIP’99), Antalya, Turkey, June 1999.

LMS," Proc. 6 µeme Colloque Magrebin sur les Modèles Numeriques de l’Ingénieur, Tunis, Tunisia,

Analysis," Proc. IEEE-SMC CESA’98, Nabeul-Hammamet, Tunisia, Nov. 1998

Jump Parameter Systems: A Pole Placement Approach," Proc. IEEE-SMC CESA’98, Nabeul-

Varying Channels: The Finite Alphabet Input Case," Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Conf. on Elec. Circ.

and Systems (ICECS’98), Lisboa, Portugal, Sept. 1998.

Jump Parameter Systems," accepted, Proc.IFAC-LSS’98, Patras, Greece, July 1998.

Alphabet Fini," Proc. GRETSI, Grenoble, France, 1997.

Filters: The Finite Alphabet Case," Proc. Workshop, COST 254 on Emerging Techniques for

Communication Terminals, Toulouse, France, 1997.

their Riccati Transformation, Proc. IFAC’96, San Francisco, California, 1996.

Numerique: Context de l’Alphabet Fini," Proc. 16 émes journées tunisiennes d’electrotechnique

et d’automatique, Nabeul, Tunisia, Nov. 1996.

Parametres Incertains Structurés," Proc. 16 émes journées tunisiennes d’electrotechnique et

d’automatique, Nabeul, Tunisia, Nov. 1996.

Case," Proc. IEEE 15th ACC, Seattle, Washington, June 1995.

Algorithms," Proc. IEEE 15th ACC, Seattle, Washington, June 1995.

Exponential Condition Number," Proc. 15 émes journées tunisiennes d’electrotechnique et

d’automatique, Nabeul, Tunisia, Nov. 1995.

Systems: an LMI Approach," Proc. 2éme Seminaire sur la commande robuste et ses

applications, SCRA’95, Nabeul, Tunisia, Dec. 1995.

Proc. 14th IMACS World Congress, Georgia Tech., Atlanta, Georgia, July 1994.

Spectrum," Proc. IEEE 11th ACC, pp. 1057-1059, Chicago, IL, June 1992.

25. Ezzine, J., "A New Failure Detection and Isolation Algorithm for Linear Systems," Proc. SIAM

Conf. on Control and its Applications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, September 1992.

Algorithm," Proc. 2nd IASTED International Conf.: Computer Applications in Industry,

Theory," Proc. 2nd IASTED International Conf.: Computer Applications in Industry, Alexandria,

Flow Control," Proc. 23d Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 7-12, The

Stabilization of Hybrid Systems," Proc. IEEE 8th ACC, pp. 805-810, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,

30. Ezzine, J., and Haddad, A. H., "Error Bounds in the Averaging of Hybrid Systems," Proc. 27th

IEEE CDC, pp. 1787-1791, Austin,Texas, December 1988.

Proc. IEEE 7th ACC, pp. 41-46, Atlanta, GA, June 1988.

Proc. 22nd Annual Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, pp. 579-584, Princeton

a perturbation technique," Proc. 18th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory, pp. 545-550,

Linear Systems," Proc. of the 1988 Conf. on Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton

2. D. W. Browning, "On Flow Control in High-Rate Data Networks," Proc. of the 1990 Conf. on

Information Sciences and Systems, Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ, March 1990. (2 citations,

plus 1 co-author citation)

3. M. Mariton, "Jump Linear Systems in Automatic Control," Marcel Dekker, Inc., N.Y., 1990. (2

Converters," IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems, Vol. 38, No. 8, 1991, pp. 905-915. (1

5. C. C. Tsai, and A. H. Haddad, "Stabilization of Stochastic Hybrid Systems," Proc. of the 30th

Conf. on Decision and Control, Brighton, England, December 1991, pp. 1842-1843. (1 citation)

Jump-Markov Systems via Nonlinear Filtering," Proc. of the 30th Conf. on Decision and

Control, Brighton, England, December 1991, pp. 1784-1785. (1 citation)

7. L. Campo, and Y. Bar-Shalom, "Control of Discrete-Time Hybrid Stochastic Systems," IEEE

Trans. Aut. Cont., Vol. AC-37, No. 10, October 1992. (1citation)

Proc. of the American Control Conf., Chicago, Illinois, June 1992, pp. 2109-2113. (1

Stochastic Hybrid Systems," Int. J. of Control, Vol. 55, No. 5, 1992, pp. 1219-1238. (2

citations, plus 1 co-author citation)

Pade and Inverse-Pade Method," IEE Proc. D Control Theory and Appl. Vol 140, No. 6, 1993,

Slowly Time-Varying Parameters," Int. J. of Control, Vol. 58, No. 6, 1993, pp. 1437-1444. (1

IEEE Trans. on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, Vol. 29, No.3, 1993, pp. 755-771.

Completely Observable Stochastic Control Matrix," Proc. of the 32nd Conf. on Decision and

Control, San Antonio, Texas, December 1993, pp. 849-854. (1 citation)

14. D. G. Browning, "Flow Control in Hight-Speed Communication Networks," IEEE Trans. on

Communication, Vol. 42, No. 7, July 1994, pp. 2480-2489. (2 citations, plus 1 co-author

15. F. Dufour, and P. Bertrand, "Stabilizing Control Law for Hybrid Systems," IEEE Trans. on

Aut. Control, Vol. 39, No. 11, November 1994, pp. 2354-2357. (1 citation)

16. M. S. Branicky, "Stability of Switched and Hybrid Systems," Proc. of the 33rd Conf. on Decision

and Control, Lake Buena Vista, FL, December 1994, pp. 3498-3503. (1 citation)

Continuous-time Uncertain Systems," IEE Proc. Control Theory Appl., Vol. 142, No. 4, July

Scaling and Squaring Geometric Series Method," Circuits Systems Signal Process, Vol. 14, No.

Control with a Completely Observable Stochastic Control Matrix," IEEE Trans. on Aut.

Control, Vol. 41, No. 3, March 1996, pp. 424-430. (1 citation)

20. R. Fierro, and F. L. Lewis, "A Framework for Hybrid Control Design," IEEE Trans. on Systems,

Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, Vol. 27, No. 6, Nov. 1997, pp. 765-773.

Hybrid Systems," IEEE Trans. on Aut. Control, Vol. 43, No. 4, April 1998, pp. 475-482. (1

22. F. M. Al-Sunni, and S. H. Al-Amir, "Robust Control of Sampled-Data Systems," IEE-Control

Theory and Applications, Vol. 145, No. 2, 1998, pp. 236-240. (1 citation)

Systems," Proc. of the IEEE, Vol. 88, No. 7, July 2000, pp. 1069-1082.(1 citation)

IEEE Trans. on Aut. Control, Vol. 45, No. 10, Oct. 2000, pp. 1864-1876. (1 citation)

26. Z. Sun, and D. Zheng, "On Reachability and Stabilization of Switched Linear Systems," IEEE

Trans. on Aut. Control, Vol. 46, No. 2, Feb. 2001, pp. 291-295. (1 citation)