International Group of Control Systems

Welcome to the website of International Group of Control Systems (IGCS). In the IGCS, we focus on open problems in mathematical control theory and work with collaborators from industry and government laboratories on the transition of our solutions, to the extent possible, to real-world engineering problems.

Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar and Prof. Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan are the founders of this international group to extend the network of control systems in different countries around the world.

I hope you will be interested in the different subjects and topics of the site.

Group Leaders

Prof. Ahmad Taher Azar, PhD, IEEE Senior Member

Research Professor, College of Computer & Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

and

Faculty of Computers and Artificial Intelligence, Benha University, Egypt

Email: ahmad_t_azar@ieee.org

Website: http://www.bu.edu.eg/staff/ahmadazar14

https://sites.google.com/view/profazar

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

• Prof. Ahmad Azar is a Research Professor at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom Saudi Arabia, and associate director of research and initiative center. He is also a professor at the Faculty of Computers and Artificial intelligence, Benha University, Egypt.

• Prof. Azar is the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of System Dynamics Applications (IJSDA) and International Journal of Service Science, Management, Engineering, and Technology (IJSSMET), published by IGI Global, USA. He is also the Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics (IJIEI), Inderscience Publishers, Olney, UK.

• Prof. Azar has worked as associate editor of IEEE Trans. Neural Networks and Learning Systems from 2013 to 2017 and Associate Editor of ISA Transactions, Elsevier from 2018 to 2020. He is currently associate editor of IEEE systems journal and Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences, Springer. Dr. Ahmad Azar has worked in Control Theory & Applications, Robotics, Process Control, Artificial Intelligence, and machine learning. He has authored/co-authored over 350 research publications in peer-reviewed reputed journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings.

• He is an editor of many books in Fuzzy logic systems, modeling techniques, control systems, Robotics, computational intelligence, Chaos Modeling, and Machine learning published by Springer and Elsevier. Dr. Ahmad Azar is closely associated with several international journals as a reviewer. He serves as an international program committee member in many international and peer-reviewed conferences.

• Dr. Ahmad Azar has been a Senior Member of IEEE since Dec. 2013 due to his significant contributions to the profession. Dr. Ahmad Azar is the recipient of several awards, including the Benha University Prize for Scientific Excellence (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018) and the Highest Citation Award from Benha University (2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018).

• In June 2018, Prof. Azar was awarded the Egyptian State Encouragement Award in Engineering Sciences, the Academy of Scientific Research and Technology of Egypt, 2017.

• In July 2018, he was selected as an Energy and Electricity Research council member, Academy of Scientific Research, Ministry of Higher Education. In Aug. 2018, he was selected as a senior Member of the International Rough Set Society (IRSS).

• In Dec. 2019, Prof. Azar was selected from Guide2Research among the top researchers in Saudi Arabia in the computer science field.

• In February 2020, Prof. Azar was awarded the Distinguished Egyptian Order of the first class from the Egyptian President.

• In October 2020, Prof. Azar was awarded Abdul Hameed Shoman Arab Researchers Award in Machine learning and Big data analytics.

• In October 2020, Prof. Azar was selected as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

• In November 2020, Prof. Azar was selected from Stanford university among the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence. These statistics were published by Stanford University in PLOS journal and based on SCOPUS Database.

• In October 2021, Prof. Azar was selected from Stanford university among the top 2% of scientists in the world in Artificial Intelligence and image processing. These statistics were published by Stanford University in PLOS journal and based on SCOPUS Database.

• In October 2021, Prof. Azar was selected as a Distinguished researcher at Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Ahmad Azar is the Chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Egypt Chapter, Vice-chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society Interdisciplinary Emergent Technologies Task Force, vice-Chair Research Activities of IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Egypt Chapter, Committee member of IEEE CIS Task Force on Fuzzy Logic in Medical Sciences Also, he is the Vice-president (North) of System dynamics Africa Regional Chapter and an Academic Member of IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence.

Fields of Interests

• Control Systems,

• Chaos Control and Synchronization.

• Applications of system modeling to process control

• Computational intelligence

Prof. Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan

Professor and Dean, Research and Development Centre,

Vel Tech University,

Avadi, Chennai-600062, Tamil Nadu India.

Email: sundarvtu@gmail.com

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sundarapandian_Vaidyanathan

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

Sundarapandian Vaidyanathan (India) obtained his D.Sc. degree in Electrical and Systems Engineering from Washington University, St. Louis, USA in May 1996. Dr. Sundarapandian (called as “Sundar”) has specialized in the areas – Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems, Chaos Theory, Intelligent Control, Systems Modelling and Computational Science. Presently, Sundar is serving as Professor and Dean of the Research and Development Centre at Vel Tech University, Chennai, India. Earlier, he has served as Professor and Acting Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management-Kerala at Trivandrum, India (IIITM-K). Sundar has over 20 years of teaching and research experience. Sundar has published 6 books on Science and Engineering subjects, viz. Numerical Linear Algebra (PHI Learning, India), Probability, Statistics and Queuing Theory (PHI Learning, India), and Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations (McGraw Hill Education, India), Computational Intelligence Applications in Modeling and Control (jointly with Ahmed Taher Azar) (Springer, Germany, 2015), Chaos Modeling and Control Systems Design (jointly with Ahmed Taher Azar) (Springer, Germany, 2015) and Handbook of Research on Advanced Intelligent Control Engineering and Automation (IGI-Global, USA, 2015). He has guided several doctorate students in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. He has 225 Scopus-indexed publications in International Journals and Conference Proceedings. He has served as General Chair and Conference Chair of International Conferences held in many countries, and delivered many plenary talks on Chaos and Control Systems. He is in the Editorial Board of several International Journals on Control Systems, Information Technology, Electrical Engineering, Modelling, Computer Science, Scientific Computing and Soft Computing. He has conducted several workshops on Control Systems, Chaos, Systems Modelling and Computational Science using SCILAB and MATLAB.

• Fields of Interests

  • Chaos Theory, Hyperchaos and Synchronization.

  • Linear and Nonlinear Control Systems,

  • Soft computing,

  • Scientific Modelling

  • Simulation with MATLAB and SCILAB

The IGCS research group is organized into 9 different laboratories:

• Linear control and nonlinear control

• Adaptive control

• Optimal Control

• Robust control

• Fault-tolerant control

• Sliding Mode Control

• Intelligent Control

• Chaos Control and Synchronization

• Robotic Control