Afef Fekih, Ph.D.
Dr. Afef Fekih is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and the Harold Callais Memorial Professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering at the University of Louisiana at
Lafayette,
Dr. Fekih received her BS, MS and PhD degrees all in Electrical
Engineering from the
Dr. Fekih's research interests focus on
control theory and applications, including nonlinear and robust control, fault
tolerant control, dynamic system modeling, applications to aircraft systems and
power machines. Dr. Fekih’s current research
program covers projects in Fault Tolerant Control Design for Aircraft Systems
and Autonomous Vehicles. One of Dr. Fekih’s
papers was recently featured in Thomson
Reuter’s Science Watch by virtue of being highly cited.
Dr. Fekih is a senior member of
the
Dr. Fekih served as Review
Panelist for the National Science Foundation (NSF), online proposal Reviewer
for the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration (NASA),
Judge for the Region VI Science Fair, and session chair and co-chair for the
American Control Conference. Dr. Fekih is currently serving as Steering Committee
Member for the Southeastern Symposium on System Theory SSST, Member of the
Telecom Graduate Faculty committee, Member of the Departmental Committee Review
of Graduate Student Applications, and Faculty Senate Representative in the