Coordinator of Distributed Control Research Group, Systems Engineering Department, KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.

Magdi Sadek Mahmoud is a Distinguished Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide. He is the principal author of twenty-three (23) books, forty-one (41) book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 565 peer-reviewed papers. He is the recipient of several national and international prizes for outstanding research in engineering and applied mathematics. He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in distributed control and filtering, networked-control systems and information technology.