Ali (Alain) AJAMI (EL)

Campus de Zahlé et de la Békaa – Professeur associé

École supérieure d'ingénieurs de Beyrouth – Professeur associé

+961 (8) 803 325 ext 6200 alain.ajami@usj.edu.lb

Enseignant Profile

Associate professor at the Faculty of Engineering (ESIB) of Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon. Graduated in Engineering (Electrical Engineering Control Systems) in 2006, then earned a PhD from the University of Toulon, France, in 2013. Main research areas: large-scale control theory.


Education

Diplôme Université Pays Année
PhD in Control Engineering Université de Toulon et du Var France 2013
Engineering degree Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard France 2006

Teaching at USJ

Enseignant Ens a USJ
Thermodynamique, Signaux physiques, Techniques digitales

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ Pays Institution Start date End date
Part-time lecturer Lebanon Université Antonine (UA) 01/09/2014 31/07/2018
Part-time lecturer France Université de Toulon et du Var 01/09/2011 31/08/2013

Professional experience outside USJ

Professional experience Organisation Start date End date
Industrial engineer ATECH Engineering 02/10/2006 31/01/2010

Areas of expertise

Enseignant Discipline
Engineering and Technology, Sciences

Research themes

Enseignant Thematique

<div>UAVs</div><div>Path Planning</div><div>Nonlinear Systems</div><div>Optimal Control</div>

Publications and communications

Enseignant Publi and Com

<p classMsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">Alain Ajami</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">, Jean-Paul Gauthier, Francesco Rossi. Jointly equivariant dynamics for interacting particles. Journal of Physica D (Nonlinear Phenomena), 2024.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"="">Jean Sawma, </span><b style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"="">Alain Ajami</b><span style="font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;="" font-size:="" 12pt;"="">, Thibault Maillot & Joseph El Maalouf. Lyapunov-LaSalle Based Dynamic Stabilization For Fixed Wing Drones. Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems (JAMRIS), 2024.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">A. Ajami</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">, I. Pranoto and J. -P. Gauthier. HALE UAV: Output Stabilization with the Minimum Time Strategy. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT, USA, pp. 1-6., 2023.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">Alain Ajami</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">, Jean-Paul Gauthier & Ludovic Sachelli. Dynamic output stabilization of control systems: an unobservable kinematic drone model. </span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">Automatica Journal, 2021.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">Alain Ajami</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">, Marwan Brouche, Jean-Paul Gauthier & Ludovic Sachelli. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">Output Stabilization of Military UAV in the Unobservable Case, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, USA, 2020.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">Alain Ajami</span></b><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">, Jean-Paul Gauthier, Thibault Maillot & Ulysse Serres. </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: " times="" new="" roman",="" serif;"="">How Human Fly. In ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, June 2013.</span></p>

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Awards and distinctions

Enseignant Prix Dist
Qualification section 61 (CNU) : Génie informatique, automatique et traitement du signal