Collegiate Assistant Professor

Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Virginia Tech

Virginia Tech Research Center, 900 N Glebe Rd, Arlington, VA 22203

boker@vt.edu

Office Phone: 571-858-3316

Bibliography 

1. Collegiate Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019-present.
2. Assistant Professor, College of Information Technology and Engineering, Marshall University, 2016-2019.
3. Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, 2014-2015 (Supervisor: Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty).
4. PhD in Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2013 (thesis advisor: Dr. Hassan Khalil).
5. Assistant Lecturer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, University of Benghazi, Libya, 2004-2008.
6. MSc in Control Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, 2003.
7. BEng in Mechatronics Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, 2002.

News  

1. The paper by V Baddam, H Eldardiry, A Boker, Learning-based Optimal Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems Over Large Time Intervals. provisionally accepted in Systems & Control Letters, 2024. 
2. Two papers are accepted for publication in the American Control Conference (ACC 2024) to be held in Toronto, Canada, July 2024:
   1. V Baddam, S Gumussoy, H Eldardiry, A Boker, Searching for Sparse Controllers with a Budget: A Bottom-Up Approach.
   2. V Rustagi, V Baddam, A Boker, C Sultan, H Eldardiry, Efficient Near-Optimal Control of Large-Size Second-Order Linear Time-Varying Systems. This paper also accepted for publication in IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS).
3. Two papers are accepted for publication in the 62^nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC23) to be held in Singapore, December 2023:
   1. M. Al Saaideh, A. Boker, M. Al Janaideh, Singular Perturbation-Based Approach for Robust Control of Reluctance-Actuated Motion Systems.
   2. Y. Al-Rawashdeh, M. Al Saaideh, A. Boker, H. Eldardiry, M. Heertjes, M. Al Janaideh, Trajectory Generation using Activator-Inhibitor Systems.
4. The paper: P. Algikar, L. Mili, M Ben Hassine, A. Boker,  Identification of Power System Oscillation Modes using Blind Source Separation based on Copula Statistic, is accepted for publication in 2023 IEEE PES General Meeting, selected as one of the best conference papers.
5. Paper co-authored with M. Aafaque and Y. Sardahi, and titled:  Three‐time scale multi‐objective optimal PID control with filter design got accepted for publication in the Asian Journal of Control, 2023.
6. Paper co-authored with Al-Rawashdeh, V. Reddy, M. Al Saaideh, H. Eldardiry, M. Al Janaideh and titled: Near-Optimal Trajectory Generation for Flexible Motion Systems using Two-Boundary Approach, is accepted for publication in the European Control Conference (ECC), Bucharest, Romania, June 2023.
7. Two papers are accepted for publication in the American Control Conference to be held in San Diego, CA, May 2023:
   1. A. Khalil, A. Boker, Khaled A., M. Al Janaideh, Transmissibility-based Kalman Filtering For Systems With Non-Gaussian Process Noise.
   2. M. Al Saaideh, A. Boker, M. Al Janaideh, Tracking Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Using Only Feedback of Inertial Coordinates. 
8. Paper co-authored with Mohammad Al Saaideh and Mohammad Al Janaideh, titled: Robust Output Feedback controller for a Serial Robotic Manipulator with Unknown Nonlinearities and External Disturbances Conference, got accepted for publication in the 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2023.
9. December 2022, taught a course on Stochastic Processes and Application at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), B. Tech Data Science Program, Mumbai, India. 
10. Three papers are accepted for publication in the 61st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC22) to be held in Cancun, Mexico, December 2022:
    1. A. Khalil, A. Boker, M. Al Janaideh, Robust State Estimation of Nonlinear Systems Using High-Gain Transmissibility.
    2. M. Al Saaideh, A. Boker, M. Al Janaideh, Output-Feedback Control of Electromagnetic Actuated Micropositioning System with Uncertain Nonlinearities and Unknown Gap Variation.
    3. A. Dutta, A. Boker, T. T. Doan, Convergence Rates of Distributed Consensus over Cluster Networks: A Two-Time-Scale Approach.
11. Our paper: Near-Optimal Control of Atomic Force Microscope for Non-contact Mode Applications, Joshua Sutton, Almuatazbellah Boker, Mohammad Al Janaideh, to appear in the joint 9th IFAC Symposium on Mechatronic Systems (Mechatronics 2022) and the 16th International Conference on Motion and Vibration Control (MoViC 2022), University of California, Los Angeles, September 2022.  
12. Our paper: Singular Perturbation-based Reinforcement Learning of Two-Point Boundary Optimal Control Systems, Vasanth Reddy, Hoda Eldardiry, Almuatazbellah Boker, to appear in the American Control Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, May 2022. More information about our work on data-driven optimal control of dynamic systems can be found here.
13. Happy and grateful to receive research support from Siemens USA.
14. Started the position of Chair of Control Systems Chapter, IEEE Northern Virginia Section, 2022.