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: In Search of Lost Metric: Human Empowerment as a Pillar of Socially Conscious Navigation, by V. Baddam, B. Chalaki, V. Tadiparthi, H. Mahjoub, E. Pari, H. Eldardiry, A. Boker, has been accepted in the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025), March 2025, Melbourne, Australia. This work is in collaboration with Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. March 2024, taught a course on Stochastic Processes and Application at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS), B. Tech Data Science Program, Mumbai, India. 
8. Happy and grateful to receive research support from Siemens USA.
9. Started the position of Chair of Control Systems Chapter, IEEE Northern Virginia Section, 2022.