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M Sami Fadali
( University of Nevada, Reno )
- Institution:University of Nevada, Reno
- Departments: Electrical and Biomedical Engineering
- Disciplines: Biomedical/Medical Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Engineering
- Location:Washoe County
- Funding:EPSCoR - Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
Biography
M. Sami Fadali earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1974, an MS from the Control Systems Center, UMIST, England, in 1977 and a Ph. D. from the University of Wyoming in 1980. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of King Abdul Aziz in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia 1981-1983. From 1983-85, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Colorado State University. In 1985, he joined the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1994 he was a visiting professor at Oakland University and GM Research and Development Labs. He spent the summer of 2000 as a Senior Engineer at TRW, San Bernardino. His research interests are in the areas of fuzzy logic stability and control, state estimation and fault detection, and applications to power systems, renewable energy, and physiological systems.