Owais KHAN

Owais Khan is a postdoctoral researcher scholar in the School for Engineering of Matter, Transport, and Energy at Arizona State University. Khan’s research interests include Hybrid Model Predictive Control, Social Cognitive Theory Dynamical Model, Adaptive Behavioral mHealth Interventions, Mixed Logical Dynamical Systems, State Estimation, Fault-Tolerant Control, and application of control systems theory to different dynamical systems of different fields.

 At ASU, Owais Khan is leading the design and implementation of the controller for the Control Optimization Trial (COT) project. His primary responsibilities as a Postdoc at ASU are to conduct research activities leading to the development of novel control engineering-based strategies for improving mobile health interventions in behavioral medicine. These strategies rely on engineering concepts from the fields of system identification and Model Predictive Control to implement and validate the Control Optimization Trial (COT). Activities include theoretical development, software development, validation/proof-of-concept, and documentation and dissemination of the research results through publications. He is working on the application of control systems theory (System identification, hybrid model predictive control, linear model predictive control, mixed logical dynamical systems, Kalman filter design, internal model control) to adaptive behavioral intervention that can urge sedentary people to walk 10,000 steps per day. The results are submitted to the upcoming IEEE CDC conference 2022. Apart from that, we recently submitted an article to "IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering," which is now under review. We propose a robust model predictive control strategy for nonlinear systems for sampled-data systems in that study, which we apply to flexible joint robots. During my master's program, I authored articles on self-balancing robots, inverted pendulum robots, and flexible joint robots using control system theory. Regarding my professional experience, He is the reviewer of various renowned journals and conferences such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Ocean Engineering, Journal of Franklin Institute, ISA Transactions, International Conference on Frontier of Information Technology, International Symposium on Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering, etc.

He did his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering with a specialization in control systems from Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS) Islamabad, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Ghulam Mustafa (Supervisor) and Prof. Dr. Abdul Qayyum Khan (Co-Supervisor). His PhD thesis was titled “Robust Model Predictive Control and Fault Tolerance for Uncertain Dynamical Systems”. He received an M.S Degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in control systems from COMSATS University Islamabad, Pakistan in March 2016 and a B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Peshawar, Pakistan in October 2011.

During his Ph.D. research, he developed an observer-based robust model predictive control (RMPC) scheme for non-uniformly sampled systems (NUSS) subject to bounded disturbances. NUSS are modeled as a linear polytopic uncertain system based on variations in the sampling period and a quasi min-max RMPC scheme based on state observer was used for designing an output feedback controller. Furthermore, a fault-tolerant RMPC scheme was also developed for uncertain time-delay systems where the uncertainty origin was variations in the parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed schemes was demonstrated by an application to a chemical reactor, i.e., Continuous Stirrer Tank Reactor. The results were published in different renowned journals such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, ISA Transactions, IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, etc., with a cumulative impact of 26.15. During his PhD, he also got a funded project from NESCOM entitled “Active Vibration Cancellation and Frequency Estimation of Vibration due to Imbalance Mass” and was the team leader of the project. During his MS and PhD coursework, he studied courses like Control Systems Design, Convex Optimization, Optimal Control, Nonlinear Control Systems, Robust Control Systems, Linear Control Systems, Linear System Theory, Fault Diagnosis and Tolerance, Computation Intelligence (Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic), System Identification, and Advanced Topics in Control Systems, etc. 

Regarding his teaching experience, he served as a Senior Instructor (Electrical Technology) at Swabi Institute of Technology Swabi for two years after my bachelor. During his PhD, he had served in different positions at different organizations, as a Lab Engineer at PIEAS for one year and as a Lecturer at Grafton College of Engineering and Sciences Islamabad for 2.5 years which cumulative becomes more than 5 years. He also supervised two FYP groups. During his job at Grafton College and PIEAS, he was a member of the OBE implementation committee and also offer services as an FYP coordinator.