• Office Address: Min H. Kao Building, Room 640
• Phone: 865-974-5447
• Fax: 865-974-5483
• E-mail: mdjouadi@utk.edu

Education

• PhD in Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1999
• MAS in Electrical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1992
• BS in Electrical Engineering, Ecole Nationale Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria, 1989

Awards and Recognitions

• 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

Professional Service

• EEE 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

• 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

Publications

• 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.)

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Patents

• 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.