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Faculty Members
Chaouki T. Abdallah
obtained his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from GA Tech in 1982,
and 1988 respectively. He joined the Electrical and Computer
Engineering department at the University of New Mexico where he is currently
professor, associate chair, and the director of the graduate program.
Professor Abdallah conducts research and teaches courses in the general area
of systems theory with focus on control and communications systems.
His research has been funded by national funding agencies (NSF, AFOSR, NRL),
national laboratories (SNL, LANL), and by various companies (Boeing, SVS).
He has also been active in designing and implementing various international
graduate programs with Latin American and European countries. He was a
co-founder in 1990 of the ISTEC consortium, which currently includes more
than 150 universities in the US, Spain, and Latin America. He
has published 4 books, and more than 150 peer-reviewed journals. His
PhD students hold academic positions in the USA and in Europe, and senior
technical positions in various US National Laboratories.
Dr. Peter Dorato Peter
Dorato is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the
University of New Mexico. He received the B.S.E.E. (1955), from the City
College of New York, M.S.E.E. degree from Columbia University (1956) and the
D.E.E. degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn (1961). He was a
faculty member at the Poytechnic University (1961-1972) and the University
of Colorado at Colorado Springs (1972-1976), and from 1976 to 1984, he was
chairman of the electrical and computer engineering department at the
University of New Mexico. He was a visiting professor at the University of
Colorado, 1969-70, at the University of California at Santa Barbara,
1984-85, and at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, 1991-92. He is currently
director of the School of Engineering Center for Intelligent Engineering
Systems, sponsored by NASA grant NAG2-1480.
Rafael Fierro received a M.Sc.
degree in control engineering from the University of Bradford, UK and a Ph.D.
degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington
in 1990 and 1997, respectively. He held a postdoctoral appointment with the
GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania, and a faculty position with the
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Oklahoma State University.
In August 2007, Dr. Fierro joined the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, University of New Mexico as an associate professor. His
research interests include hierarchical hybrid and embedded systems,
optimization-based cooperative control, and robotics. He is the recipient of
a Fulbright Scholarship and a 2004 National Science Foundation CAREER Award.
Rafael Fierro was also a finalist in the Best Paper Conference Competition
at the 2001 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).
He is a member of the IEEE and ASEE.
Dr. Yasamin Mostofi Yasamin
Mostofi received the B.S. degree in electrical
engineering from Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1997, and
the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University, Stanford, CA, in 1999
and 2004, respectively. From 2004 to 2006, she was a postdoctoral scholar
at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. In 2006, she
joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the
University of New Mexico as an assistant professor. Her research interests
include sensor networks, collaborative information processing in multi-agent
mobile networks, optimization of real-time wireless networks, optimum
allocation of computation and communication resources, and cross-layer
designs. She teaches courses relevant to both communication systems and
control. She has industry experience at National Semiconductor (2001) and
Bell Labs (1999). At Stanford, she was a recipient of Bellcore fellow-advisor
award. She is a member of IEEE and an elected member of Sigma Xi.
Bert
Tanner received his PhD in
Mechanical Engineering from NTUA in 2001. The topic of his thesis was "Motion
Plannning and Control of Multiple Mobile Manipulators Handling Deformable
Objects". From 2001 to 2003 he was a post-doctoral researcher in the
Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of
Pennsylvania and a member of the GRASP Lab. He joined the Faculty of
Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Mexico in 2003 and he has a
secondary appointment at the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department.
He is a member of the IEEE Robotics
and Automation Society and the IEEE
Control Systems Society. He serves as an Associate Editor in the
Conference Editorial Board of the Control Systems Society and in the
Editorial Board of the
Robotics and Automation Magazine. He is also affiliated with the
Institute for Infrastructure Surety (IFIS) at UNM. He is working on
cooperative control of multi-agent interconnected systems with
applications in robotics. Recent work focuses on swarm
coordination and formation control, as well as hybrid
modeling and abstraction of embedded control systems. His research
interests also include nonholonomic systems, motion planning,
nonsmooth control, robot force control and deformable
material manipulation.
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Dr.
Chaouki T. Abdallah
Dr.
Rafael Fierro
Dr.
Bert Tanner