M. Sami Fadali
Professor and Chair- Phone: (775) 784-6951
- Email: fadali@unr.edu
- Building: SEM
- Room: 325
- Mailstop: 0260
M. Sami Fadali earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University in 1974, an MS from the Control Systems Center, UMIST, England, in 1977 and a Ph. D. from the University of Wyoming in 1980. He was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of King Abdul Aziz in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia 1981-1983. From 1983-85, he was a Post Doctoral Fellow at Colorado State University. In 1985, he joined the Electrical Engineering Dept. at the University of Nevada, Reno, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering. In 1994 he was a visiting professor at Oakland University and GM Research and Development Labs. He spent the summer of 2000 as a Senior Engineer at TRW, San Bernardino. His research interests are in the areas of fuzzy logic stability and control, state estimation and fault detection, and applications to power systems, renewable energy, and physiological systems.
- Ph.D., Electrical Engineering University of Wyoming, 1980
- M.S., Control Systems Center, University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology, 1977
- B.S., Electrical Engineering, Cairo University, 1974
University of Nevada-Reno
- Professor 1995-Present
- Associate Professor 1989 to 1995
- Assistant Professor 1985-89
- Tenured 1991
Duties include teaching, funded research, graduate and undergraduate advising, Assessment Coordinator. Chair Department Curriculum Committee, Past: Graduate Student Coordinator and Chair of Graduate Admission Committee 1989-98, Past Chair College Personnel Committee.
Colorado State University
- Post Doctoral Fellow, 1984-1985
Investigated problems in robotics, satellite maneuvering,biochemical process control and physiological system identification.
King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah
- Assistant Professor, 1981-1983
Duties included teaching, undergraduate advising and research. Participated in starting a new bioengineering program.
University of Wyoming
- Teaching Assistant, 1979-80
Taught several introductory electrical engineering labs.
Cairo Research Center
- Engineer, 1975
Participated in research on computer control of electrical machines.
Giza Systems, Consultants
- Engineer, 1974-75
Participated in the specification formulation for the communication system of the Egyptian Power Network.
Research interests
- Fuzzy logic control
- Fault detection
- Renewable energy systems
- Random signals
- Application to renewable energy systems