{"id":7,"date":"2020-05-30T18:44:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T18:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:25:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T16:25:31","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"Almuatazbellah (Muataz) Boker"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"wp-image-59\" src=\"http:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20190820-Mauataz-Boker-By-Peter-Means-9298-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20190820-Mauataz-Boker-By-Peter-Means-9298-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20190820-Mauataz-Boker-By-Peter-Means-9298-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20190820-Mauataz-Boker-By-Peter-Means-9298-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20190820-Mauataz-Boker-By-Peter-Means-9298-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/20190820-Mauataz-Boker-By-Peter-Means-9298.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-layout-grid-column wp-block-jetpack-layout-grid__padding-none\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-info\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-address\">\r\n<div class=\"jetpack-address__address jetpack-address__address1\">Collegiate Assistant Professor<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"jetpack-address__address jetpack-address__address2\">Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering<\/div>\r\n<div>Innovation Campus<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"jetpack-address__address jetpack-address__address3\">Virginia Tech<\/div>\r\n<div>3625 Potomac Ave, Alexandria, VA 22305<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-contact-info\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-email\"><a href=\"mailto:boker@vt.edu\">boker@vt.edu<\/a><\/div>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-jetpack-phone\"><span class=\"phone-prefix\">Office Phone: <\/span><a href=\"tel:5718583316\">571-858-3316<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bibliography\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul type=\"1\">\r\n<li>Collegiate Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech, 2019-present.<\/li>\r\n<li>Assistant Professor, College of Information Technology and Engineering, Marshall University, 2016-2019.<\/li>\r\n<li>Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, North Carolina State University, 2014-2015 (Supervisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/people.engr.ncsu.edu\/achakra2\/\">Dr. Aranya Chakrabortty<\/a>).<\/li>\r\n<li>PhD in Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University, 2013 (thesis advisor: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egr.msu.edu\/~khalil\/\">Dr. Hassan Khalil<\/a>).<\/li>\r\n<li>Assistant Lecturer, Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, University of Benghazi, Libya, 2004-2008.<\/li>\r\n<li>MSc in Control Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, UK, 2003.<\/li>\r\n<li>BEng in Mechatronics Engineering, University of Leeds, UK, 2002.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Highlights\u00a0\u00a0<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Jannuary 2025, pleased to have joined the VT <a href=\"https:\/\/iac.vt.edu\/\">Institute for Advanced Computing<\/a> as a core faculty.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>The paper: In Search of Lost Metric: Human Empowerment as a Pillar of Socially Conscious Navigation, by\u00a0V. 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 (<span class=\"markcnbi73pke\" data-markjs=\"true\" data-ogac=\"\" data-ogab=\"\" data-ogsc=\"\" data-ogsb=\"\">HRI<\/span> 2025), March 2025, Melbourne, Australia. This work is in collaboration with Honda Research Institute USA, Inc.<\/li>\r\n<li>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.<\/li>\r\n<li>Grateful to an VT-ICTAS grant to work on Optimization Schemes for Resilient Power Grid and Effective Human Response in Disaster Scenarios.<\/li>\r\n<li>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.<\/li>\r\n<li>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.<\/li>\r\n<li>The paper: P. Algikar, L. Mili, M Ben Hassine, A. Boker,\u00a0 Identification of Power System Oscillation Modes using Blind Source Separation based on Copula Statistic, is accepted for publication in 2023 IEEE PES General Meeting, <strong>selected as one of the best conference papers<\/strong>.<\/li>\r\n<li>March 2024, taught a course on Stochastic Processes and Application at the <a href=\"https:\/\/nmims.edu\/\">Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS)<\/a>, B. Tech Data Science Program, Mumbai, India.\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<li>Happy and grateful to receive research support from Siemens USA.<\/li>\r\n<li>Started the position of Chair of Control Systems Chapter, IEEE Northern Virginia Section, 2022.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Research Interests<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Autonomous and robotic systems<\/li>\r\n<li>Machine learning methods for autonomous decision making<\/li>\r\n<li>Distributed control and optimization<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publications<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A link to my Google Scholar can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=-DgRQ9YAAAAJ&amp;hl=en&amp;inst=13410158990364976897&amp;authuser=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A poster about my PhD work on output feedback control of nonlinear systems can be found <a href=\"\/\/mupfc.marshall.edu\/users\/bokera\/public_html\/GRS_NOV_2012_v2.pdf\">here<\/a>. This was the Best Poster Award Winner at the 2012 Graduate Research Symposium, Michigan State University.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>A couple of posters about my work on aggregate control of clustered networks can be found at the following links:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/poster.pdf\">Poster#1<\/a> <a href=\"\/\/mupfc.marshall.edu\/users\/bokera\/public_html\/FREEDM-media_2015_sv_poster_Boker_20151.pdf\">Poster#2<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Video Clip illustrating the clustering and aggregation concept <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/QUIcQ8PkJpM\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/QUIcQ8PkJpM<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=95&amp;action=edit\">Mini-course on Composite Control of Networks via Singular Perturbation Theory, July 2016.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Prospective Graduate Students and Postdocs<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>If you are interested in working with me as an undergraduate, graduate student or a postdoc, please send me an email. I would be happy to consider it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Teaching<\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At Virginia Tech<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\r\n<li>ECE5606 Stochastic Signals and Systems.<\/li>\r\n<li>ECE3704 Continuous and Discrete Systems.<\/li>\r\n<li>ECE5744 Linear Systems Theory.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>At Marshall University<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\" type=\"1\">\r\n<li>EE360 Control Systems.<\/li>\r\n<li>EE330 Random Signals and Systems.<\/li>\r\n<li>EE440 Digital Control.<\/li>\r\n<li>ME465 Mechatronics.<\/li>\r\n<li>EE210 Programming Lab.<\/li>\r\n<li>ME420 Instrumentation and Control.<\/li>\r\n<li>ME604 Research Methods, Fall 2016.<\/li>\r\n<li>ENGR104 The Engineering Profession.<\/li>\r\n<li>ENGR111 Engineering Computations.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jannuary 2025, pleased to have joined the VT Institute for Advanced Computing as a core faculty.\u00a0 The paper: In Search of Lost Metric: Human Empowerment as a Pillar of Socially [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":71,"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199,"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/boker.ece.vt.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}