Education
· PhD. Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
“Optimizing Flexible Manufacturing Systems under Hedging Control Policy,” Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, 1996
· MSc. Electrical and computer Engineering Department, “Identification of a renewal stochastic model for electrical thermal loads,’’ Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, 1991
· BSc. Electrical Engineering, Laval university (Quebec), 1988
Teaching
· CISE 201 Introduction to Control & Instrumentation Systems Engineering
· CISE 301 Numerical Methods
· CISE 302 Linear Control Systems
· CISE 316 Control System Design
· CISE 318 Computer Control Systems
· CISE 418 Industrial Process Control
· CISE 433 Condition-Based Maintenance and Control Loop Performance Monitoring
· CISE 461 Computer Aided MFG and Robotics
· CISE 463 Theory of Stochastic Systems
· SCE 505 Real-Time Computer Systems
· SCE 513 Systems Modeling & Identification
· SCE 514 Optimal Control
· SCE 537 Adaptive Control
· SCE 590 Special Topic in Eng.: Advanced Condition-Based Maintenance
Research Interests
· Control of drug administration,
· Process control and control loop performance monitoring,
· Control of systems with delays,
· Modeling and control of stochastic systems,
· Analysis of network stability,
· Condition monitoring, and condition-based maintenance
Selected Publications:
1. El-Ferik, Sami; Qureshi, Aminuddin; Lewis, Frank L; Neuro-adaptive cooperative tracking control of unknown higher-order affine nonlinear systems, Automatica, Vol. 50 (3), pp.798-808, 2014
2. Al Sharif, Sharif MS; Deriche, Mohamed; Maalej, Nabil; El Ferik, Sami; A Fast Geodesic Active Contour Model for Medical Image Segmentation Using Prior Analysis and Wavelets, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol.39(2),pp.1017-1037, 2014
3. El Ferik, Sami; Ahmed, Ghufran; Omar, Hanafy M; Load swing control for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with a slung load, Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), 2014 11th International, 9-Jan, 2014
4. Malhamé, R; Boukas, EK; El Ferik, S; Manufacturing System: A Case Study, Information Control Problems in Manufacturing Technolog: Selected Papers from 7th IFAC/IFIP/IFORS /IMACS/ISPE Symposium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 25-28 May 1992, p.459, 2014
5. Shihada, Basem; El-Ferik, Sami; Ho, Pin-Han; FAST TCP over optical burst switched networks: Modeling and stability analysis, Optical Switching and Networking, Vol. 10(2), pp.107-118, 2013
6. El-Ferik, Sami; Syed, Asim H; Omar, Hanafy M; Deriche, Mohamed A; Anti-Swing Nonlinear Path Tracking Controller for Helicopter Slung Load System, Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems, Vol. 2(1), pp. 134-141, 2013
7. El Ferik, Sami; Siddiqui, Bilal Ahmed; Ben-Mansour, Rached; Al-Sunni, Fouad M; Dual submarine leak detection system, Patent, 2013 | 