Dr. Seddik M. Djouadi

• Robust and Distributed Control
• Control of Biological Processes
• Modeling of Wireless Systems
• Networked Control Systems
• Preferential Image Segmentation and Video Tracking
• Model Reduction and Control of Fluid Flows

• Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering - 1999, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• M.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering - 1992, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering - 1989, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria

• Patent No.: US 7,030,808 B1, “NonLinear Target Recognition”, granted April 18, 2006, with D.W. Repperger and E. Alderman.

• AF Invention # AFD-0683, “Highly Sensitive Nonlinear Target Recognition Device Based on Principles of Potential Energy and Force,” granted November 13, 2003, with D.W. Repperger and E. Alderman.

• Selected by Automatica as an outstanding reviewer for 2006-2007 (Automatica is a major journal in the control area. From a pool of 1300 reviewers only 25 were selected as outstanding reviewers.)
• Best paper award in the 1st Mediterranean Conference on Intelligent Systems and Automation, held from June 30 to July 2, 2008 in Annaba, Algeria.
• US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship, March 2007.
• US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship, March 2006.
• Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement award 2005
• Selected by Automatica as an outstanding reviewer for 2003-2004 (Automatica is a major journal in the control area. From a pool of 1350 reviewers only 40 were selected as outstanding reviewers.)
• National Academy of Science/US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship, March 2003
• National Academy of Science/US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship, March 2002
• National Academy of Science/US Air Force Office of Scientific Research Summer Faculty Fellowship, April 2001
• National Research Council/Air Force Research Laboratory Associateship Award, January 2000
• Member of the American Flywheel Systems, Inc. Team Winner of the Tibbets Award, October 1999
• American Control Conference, Best Student Paper Certificate (best five in competition), June 1998
• Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal, AECSP scholarship (awarded to the three best master students of the year) 1991
• Scholarship from the Algerian Ministry of Higher Education 1990-1992 (After ranking first in a national screening test in Automatic Control taken by students selected nationwide March 1989.)
• Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, First Class honors and best student prize in Electrical Engineering in 1987, 1988 and 1989
• Amara Rachid High School, prize of excellence 1984

• IEEE Control Systems Society, Information Theory, Communications and Signal Processing, and the Image Processing Societies.
• The American Mathematical Society.
• Mathematical Association of America.
• Société Mathématique de France.

S.M. Djouadi, Optimal Disturbance Rejection and Robustness for LTV Systems, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, Time-Varying Optimal Disturbance Minimization in the Presence of Plant Uncertainty, in press SIAM Journal on Optimization and Control.

S.M. Djouadi, M.M. Olama and Y. Li, Optimal Approximation of the Impulse Response of Wireless Channels by Stochastic Differential Equations, IEEE Signal Processing letters, vol. 15, Nov. 2008, pp. 896-899.

C.D. Charalambous, S.M. Djouadi and C. Kourtellaris, Statistical Analysis of Multipath Fading Channels using Generalizations of Shot-Noise, EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking, , vol. 2008, Article ID 186020, 9 pages.

J. Sun and S.M. Djouadi, Robust Stabilization over Communication Channels in the Presence of Unstructured Uncertainty, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 54, No. 4, April 2009, pp. 830-934.

S.Z. Denic, C.D. Charalambous and S. M. Djouadi, Information Theoretic Bounds for Compound MIMO Gaussian Channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 55, No. 4, April 2009, pp. 1603-1617.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell and S.M. Djouadi, Preferential Image Segmentation using the Trees of Shapes, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, No. 4, April 2009, pp. 854-866.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Stochastic Differential Equations for Modeling, Estimation and Identification of Mobile-to-Mobile Communication Channels, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, Vol. 8, No. 4, April 2009, pp. 1754-1763.

S.M. Djouadi, On the Optimality of the Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Balanced Truncation,Proceedings of the 47th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, Cancun, Mexico, December 2008, pp. 4221- 4226.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Position and Velocity Tracking in Mobile Networks Using Particle and Kalman Filtering with Comparison, IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, Vol. 57, No. 2, March 2008, pp. 1001-1010.

X. Ma, S.M. Djouadi, T. Kuruganti, J. Nutaro, and A. Drira, Estimation over Unreliable Communication Links without Arrival Information of Packet Losses, AIP Conf. Proc. -March 5, 2009 – Volume 1107, pp. 243-248. Intelligent Systems and Automation: 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Intelligent Systems and Automation (CISA'09); doi:10.1063/1.3106480

S. Sahyoun, S.M. Djouadi, H. Qi, and A. Drira, Source Localization using Stochastic Approximation and Least Squares Methods, AIP Conf. Proc. - March 5, 2009 - Volume 1107, pp. 59-64, Intelligent Systems and Automation: 2nd Mediterranean Conference on Intelligent Systems and Automation (CISA'09); doi:10.1063/1.3106513.

M. Olama, Y. Li, S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, Stochastic Wireless Channel Modeling, Estimation and Identification from Measurements, Proceedings of 1st Mediterranean Conference on Intelligent Systems and Automation, June 30-July 2, 2008. (Best paper award.)

S.M. Djouadi, R.C. Camphouse and J.H. Myatt, Empirical Reduced Order Modeling for Boundary Feedback Flow Control, Journal of Control Science and Engineering Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 154956, 11 pages. doi:10.1155/2008/154956.

S.M. Djouadi, On Robustness in the Gap Metric and Coprime Factor Uncertainty for LTV Systems, submitted for publication to Systems & Control Letters.

Y. Li, M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, A. Fathy, S.M. Djouadi and T. Kuruganti, , UWB Indoor Wireless Channel Modeling and Estimation from Received Signal Measurements, Proceedings of the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, pp. 195-198, 2009.

S.M. Djouadi and J.D. Birdwell, J.D. Duality Theory of the Optimal Two-Block H-infinity Problem, International Journal of Robust and Non-linear Control. Volume 18, issue 12, Date: August 2008, Pages: 1302-1316.

C.D. Charalambous and S.M. Djouadi, Stochastic H-infinity Control of Nonlinear Discrete-Time Partially Observable Systems and Dissipation Inequalities: An Action Functional Approach, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

C. D. Charalambous, S.Z. Denic and S. M. Djouadi, Capacity of a Gaussian Noise Channel with H-infinity Normed Channel and Noise Uncertainties, submitted to the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell and S.M. Djouadi, Efficient Bottom-Up Image Segmentation Using Region Competition and the Mumford-Shah Model for Color and Textured Images, submitted International Journal of Image and Graphics.

S.M. Djouadi and Y. Li, On Optimal Robustness in the Gap Metric for LTV Systems, Systems & Control Letters. Vol. 56, Issues 11-12, November-December 2007, pp. 753-758.

M. Olama, K.K. Jaladhi, S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, Recursive Estimation and Identification of Time-Varying Long-Term Fading Channels, Research Letters in Signal Processing, vol. 2007, Article ID 17206, 5 pages, 2007.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Stochastic Power Control for Time-Varying Long-Term Fading Wireless Networks, EURASIP journal on Applied Signal Processing. Volume 2006, Article ID 89864, Pages 1–13.

C.D. Charalambous, S.M. Djouadi and S.Z. Denic, Stochastic Power Control for Wireless Networks via SDE's: Probabilistic QoS Measures, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 51, No. 2, pp. 4396-4401, December 2005.
S.M. Djouadi, R.C. Camphouse and J.H. Myatt, Reduced Order Models for Boundary Feedback Flow Control, Proceedings of the 2008 American Control Conference, Seattle, June 11-13, 2008, pp. 4005-4010.

S.M. Djouadi, Robustness in the Gap Metric and Coprime Factor Perturbations for LTV Systems, IEEE Control and Decision Conference, New Orleans, December 12-14, 2007, pp. 6400 - 6405.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, I.G. Papageorgiou, Estimation of Position and Velocity in Multipath Wireless Networks from Received Signal Measurements, accepted for presentation in the IEEE Control and Decision Conference 2007.

S.M. Djouadi, R. Chris Camphouse and James H. Myatt, On the Optimality of Proper Orthogonal Decomposition and Balanced Truncation with Application to the 2-D Burgers' Equation, IEEE Control and Decision Conference, New Orleans, December 12-14, 2007, pp. 3507 - 3512.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, A General Framework for Continuous Time Power Control in Time Varying Long term Fading Wireless Networks, Proc. of the 9th IASTED International Conference on Control and Applications, Montreal, pp. 69-74, 2007.

S.M. Djouadi ad C.D. Charalambous, Time-Varying Optimal Disturbance Rejection in Presence of Plant Uncertainty, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007, pp. 2395-2401.

M. Olama, K. Jaladhi, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Estimation and Identification of Time-Varying Long-Term Fading Wireless Channels with Application to Power Control, Proceedings of the European Control Conference 2007, Kos, Greece, July 2-5, 2007, pp. 1886-1893.

S.Z. Denic, C.D. Charalambous and S. M. Djouadi, Channel Capacity Subject to Frequency Domain Normed Uncertainties - SISO and MIMO Cases, 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Theory of Networks and Systems, July 24-28, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.

S.M. Djouadi and Y. Li, On Robust Stabilization in the Gap Metric for LTV Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San-Diego December 2006.

R.C. Camphouse, S.M. Djouadi and J.H. Myatt, Feedback Control for Aerodynamics, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San-Diego December 2006.

M.M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, and C.D. Charalambous, Position and Velocity Tracking in Cellular Networks Using Particle and Kalman Filtering with Comparison, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, San-Diego December 2006.

S.M. Djouadi, Disturbance Rejection and Robustness for LTV Systems, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3648-2653-6080, June 14-26, 2006.

J. Sun and S.M. Djouadi, On Robust Stabilization Over Communication Channels in the Presence of Unstructured Uncertainty, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 3648-2653-6080, June 14-26, 2006, pp. 3488-3493.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Stochastic Channel Modeling for Ad Hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 6075-6080, June 2006.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Time Varying Channel Modeling for Ad-hoc Mobile Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, Volume 3, April 3-6, 2006, pp. 1277 – 1282.

M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C. Pendley, Position and Velocity Tracking in Mobile Cellular Networks Using the Particle Filter, Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, April 3-6, 2006, pp. 165 - 170.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell and S.M. Djouadi, Bottom-Up Hierarchical Image Segmentation Using Region Competition and the Mumford-Shah Functional. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’06), Volume 2, 20-24 Aug. 2006 Page(s):117 - 121.

Y. Pan, Douglas J. Birdwell, Seddik M, Djouadi, Efficient Bottom-Up Image Segmentation Using Region Competition and the Mumford-Shah Model for Color and Textured Images, International Symposium on Multimedia 2006, San Diego, CA, USA, Dec. 11-13, 2006.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell and S.M. Djouadi, An Efficient Bottom-Up Image Segmentation Method Based on Region Growing, Region Competition and the Mumford Shah Functional, Proceedings of the International Workshop On Multimedia Signal Processing 2006, Victoria, BC, Canada, Oct. 03-06, 2006.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell and S.M. Djouadi, Efficient Implementation of the Chan-Vese Models Without Solving PDEs, Proceedings of the International Workshop On Multimedia Signal Processing 2006, Victoria, BC, Canada, Oct. 03-06, 2006.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell, and S.M. Djouadi, Image Segmentation Using Curve Evolution and Anisotropic Diffusion, IEEE International Symposium of Multimedia (ISM2005) Irvine, California, pp. 387-394, December 2005.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell, and S.M. Djouadi, Probabilistic Curve Evolution Using the Particle Filter, joint IEEE Conference on Decision and Control and Europen Control Conference, Seville, Spain, pp. 6335-6340, December 2005.

S.M Djouadi, MIMO Disturbance and Plant Uncertainty Attenuation by Feedback, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 12, 14 pages, December 2004.

S.M. Djouadi, Operator Theoretic Approach to the Optimal Two-Disk Problem, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 10, pp. 1607-1622, October 2004.

M. Olama, S.M. Shajaat, S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, Stochastic Power Control for Time-Varying Long Term Fading Wireless Channels, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1817-1822 June 2005.

M. M. Olama, S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, Stochastic Power Control for Time- Varying Wireless Fading Communication Networks, Proceedings of the Joint 13th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation and the 20th IEEE ISIC’05 held in Limassol, June, 2005..

M. M. Olama; S. M. Shajaat; S. M. Djouadi; C. D. Charalambous, Stochastic Power Control for Time-Varying Short Term Flat Fading Wireless Channels, Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress held in Prague, from July 4 to July 8, 2005.

C. D. Charalambous, S.Z. Denic; S. M. Djouadi, Robust Capacity for Additive Colored Gaussian Uncertain Channels, Proceedings of the 16th IFAC World Congress held in Prague, from July 4 to July 8, 2005.

S.M. Djouadi and J.D. Birdwell, J.D. On the Optimal Two-Block H-infinity Problem, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 4289-4294, June 2005.

C. D. Charalambous, S.Z. Denic; S. M. Djouadi, Robust Capacity of a Gaussian Noise Channel with Channel and Noise Uncertainty, Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1829-1834 June 2005.

S.M. Djouadi, Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation for Continuous Time-Varying Systems, International journal of robust and non-linear control, Volume 13, pp.1181-1193, 2003.

C. D. Charalambous, S.Z. Denic; S. M. Djouadi, Robust Capacity of White Gaussian Noise Channels with Uncertainty, Proc. of the IEEE 43th Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, pp. 4880-4884, December 14-17, 2004.

Y. Pan, J.D. Birdwell, and S.M. Djouadi, A New Gradient and Region Based Geometric Snake, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing. Vol. II, pp. 745-748, 2005

S.M Djouadi, Comments on “Is the Frobenius Matrix Norm Induced”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Volume: 48 Issue: 3, pp. 518-519, 2003.

S.M. Djouadi and G. Zames, On Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 46, pp. 343-351, 2002.

S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, On Optimal Performance for Linear-Time Varying Systems, Proc. of the IEEE 43th Conference on Decision and Control, Paradise Island, Bahamas, pp. 875-880, December 14-17, 2004.

S.Z. Denic and C.D. Charalambous and S.M. Djouadi, “Capacity of Gaussian Channels with Noise Uncertainty”, Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, Niagara Falls, May 2-5, pp. 421-424, 2004.

C.D. Charalambous, R. Farzad and S.M. Djouadi, Characterization of the Optimal Disturbance Attenuation for Nonlinear Stochastic Uncertain Systems, in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 4, pp. 4260-4264, December 2003.

S.M Djouadi, Operator Theoretic Solution to the MIMO Extension of ORDAP, in the Proceedings of the European Control Conference, September 2003.

C.D. Charalambous and S. Djouadi, “Burkers Model of Turbulence: Probabilistic Representations Free Energy and Relative Entropy,” 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Rodos, Greece, June 18-20, 2003.

C.D. Charalambous and S.M. Djouadi, Large Deviations and Deterministic Measures of Information, In the Proceedings of the European Control Conference, September 2003

S.M. Djouadi, Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation for Continuous Time-Varying Systems, International journal of robust and non-linear control, Vol.13, pp.1181-1193, 2003.

C.D. Charalambous, S.M. Djouadi and A. Farhadi, Action Functional Stochastic H-infinity Estimation for NonLinear Discrete Time Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1028-1033, December 2002.

S.M. Djouadi and C.D. Charalambous, MIMO Disturbance and Plant Uncertainty Attenuation by Feedback, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1040-1045, December 2002.

C.D. Charalambous, S.M. Djouadi and N. Ahmed, Stochastic H-infinity Control of Nonlinear Discrete Time Partially Observable Systems and Dissipative Inequalities, Estimation for NonLinear Discrete Time Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 592-597, December 2002

S.M. Djouadi and G. Zames, On Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation, Systems & Control Letters, vol. 46, pp. 343-351, 2002.

S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous and D.W. Repperger, A Convex Programming Approach to the Multiobjective H2/H-infinity Problem, Proceedings of the ACC, pp. 4315-4320, 2002.

S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous, and D.W. Repperger, Multiobjective H2/ Hinfinity by Banach Space Operator Theory, Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3982-3984, December 2001.

C. D. Charalambous, S. Z. Denic, S.M. Djouadi and N. Menemenlis, Stochastic Power Control for Short-Term Flat Fading Wireless Networks: Almost Sure QoS Measures, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1049-1052, December 2001.

C.D. Charalambous and S.M. Djouadi, Stochastic Nonlinear Minimax Linear Filtering in Continuous Time, ” in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 2520-2525, December 2001.

C. D. Charalambous, S. Z. Denic, and S.M. Djouadi, N. Menemenlis, Stochastic Power Control for Large Scale Shadowing Wireless Networks: An Average Power Measure, in Proceedings of the 40th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1049-1052, December 2001.

S.M. Djouadi, D.W. Repperger, J.E. Berlin, Gain-Scheduling H-infinity Control of a Pneumatic Muscle Using Wireless MEMS Sensors, 44th IEEE’s Midwest Symposium of Circuits and Systems, Dayton, Ohio 2001.

S.M. Djouadi, C.D. Charalambous and D. W. Repperger, On Multiobjective H2/ H-infinity Optimal Control, in Proceedings of the 2001 American Control Conference, pp. 4091-4096, 2001.

K. Iqbal and S.M. Djouadi, Coordination between a human arm and a robot manipulator, Proceeding 32nd International Symposium on Robotics (ISR 2001), Seoul Korea, 19-21 April 2001.

D.W. Repperger and S.M. Djouadi, An Adaptive Learning System Yielding Unbiased Parameter Estimates, Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium On Intelligent Control, pp.139 –144, (ISIC 2000.)

R. Bartlett, J. Coyner, S.M. Djouadi, E. Zorzi, P. Allaire, E. Hilton, J. Luo, P. Tsiotras, F. Maher, R. Strunce, A Simulation of Spacecraft Energy Momentum Wheels Using Advanced Magnetic Bearing Controllers, Aerospace Flywheel Workshop, NASA Glenn Research center, Cleveland, Ohio, October 19-20, 1999.

S.M. Djouadi, MIMO Disturbance Rejection for Uncertain Plants, Proceedings of the 38th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 4050 -4055 vol.4, 1999.

S.M. Djouadi, Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation for MIMO Uncertain Systems in H-infinity , in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp. 1856 –1860 vol.3, June 1999.

S.M. Djouadi, Exact Solution to the Non-Standard H-infinity Problem, Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, vol. 3, pp. 2843-2848, December 1998.

S.M. Djouadi, Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation for Continuous Linear Time-Varying Systems, in Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 3819 -3824 vol.4, December 1998.

S.M. Djouadi, Performance Optimization of Uncertain Unstable systems: An Operator Theoretic Approach, Proceedings of the International Federation of Automatic Control Conference on System Structure and Control, Nantes, France, June 1998

S.M. Djouadi and G. Zames, On Optimal Robust Disturbance Minimization, in Proceedings of the American Control Conference, pp.1531 -1535 vol.3, June 1998.

S.M. Djouadi and G. Zames, Operator Theoretic Solution to the Optimal Robust Disturbance Attenuation Problem, Proceedings of the World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics, Caracas, Venezuela, July 1997.

S.M. Djouadi, D. Dochain, A.B. Turgeon, Adaptive Generalized Predictive Control of Internally Delayed Systems. Proceedings of the European Control Conference, pp. 1279-1284, 1993.