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research fields of interest are mainly, control systems, fault diagnosis and fault tolerant control. He received his Master and PhD Degrees in Automatic Control from the University Henri Poincaré, Nancy 1, France in 1990 and 1993. He obtained his Habilitation to supervise Researches in Automatic Control at University Henri Poincaré, Nancy1 in March 2002. He was Associate Professor in this University from 1994 to 2003. In September 2003, he joined University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III, France as a Professor in Control Systems.

He has supervised several Master degree students and twelve PhD students (seven completed). He had participated and led research projects in collaboration with industry in the fields of fault diagnosis and fault-tolerant control. He has authored and co-authored one book, one book chapter, and over 100 journal and conference papers. He is a co-author of the Springer book "Fault Tolerant Control  Systems" (2009, ISBN 978-1-88482-652-6).

Abbas A. Fardoun received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Houston, in 1988, and his MS and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990 and 1994, respectively. He worked with Advanced Energy Inc. from 1994-1996 where he was involved with high frequency power supply design and RF Tuner Analysis. From 1996 until 1998, he worked at Delphi on Electrical Power Steering. From 1998 until 2006, Dr. Fardoun has been with TRW Automotive where he held several Engineering positions within TRW Automotive. Dr. Fardoun is currently serving as an associate professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of the United Arab University where he has been Since 2006.

Dr. Fardoun main research area has been with energy efficient systems. Dr. Fardoun holds 7 awarded patents. He developed a new system approach for EPS that was adopted globally within the TRW community. While at UAEU, Dr. Fardoun has been coordinating a vibrant Renewable energy group. He has been very active member to the IEEE Industrial Application Society where, he organized, chaired sessions at the annual IAS meeting. He was elected as a senior IEEE member in 2005.

Dr. Fardoun received the Hariri Foundation distinguished graduate award in 1994. He received TRW distinguished patent award in 1999. His main interests are AC-DC converters, AC drives, DC-DC power supplies for renewable energy applications.