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. Congratulations to my PhD student Muhammad Al Saaideh on the occation of his graduation. Dr. Al Saaideh is now going to start a post-doc position at Memorial University, Canada.
2. Research Grant, US Department of Energy. Title: Sensor Placement and Optimization Tool for the integration of Solar Systems. Amount: $3,000,000, Virginia Tech portion: $300,000, Role: co-PI, 06/2024-06/2027. This project is led by the US National Renewable Energy Lab.
3. The paper by Al Saaideh, A. Boker, M. Al Janaideh, Output Feedback with Feedforward Robust Control for Motion Systems Driven by Nonlinear Position-Dependent Actuators, has been accepted for publication IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, to appear 2024.
4. The paper by S. Hesarkuchak, A. Boker, V. Baddam, L. Mili, H. Eldardiry, “Learning-Based Pareto Optimal Control of Large-Scale Systems with Unknown Slow Dynamics”, has been accepted for publication in the IEEE Control Systems Letters (L-CSS), 2024.
5. The paper by V Baddam, H Eldardiry, A Boker, Learning-based Optimal Control of Linear Time-Varying Systems Over Large Time Intervals. accepted in Systems & Control Letters, 2024. 
6. 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).
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. March 2023, taught a course on Stochastic Processes and Application at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), B. Tech Data Science Program, Mumbai, India. 
11. Happy and grateful to receive research support from Siemens USA.
12. Started the position of Chair of Control Systems Chapter, IEEE Northern Virginia Section, 2022.