Ali (Alain) AJAMI (EL)

Ali (Alain) AJAMI (EL)

Associate Professor

Zahle and Beqaa Campus – Directeur CZB

School of Engineering of Beirut – professeur associé

School of Engineering of Beirut - Zahle and Beqaa Branch – Chargé de Cours

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

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

Degree University Country Year
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

Thermodynamique, Signaux physiques, Techniques digitales

University teaching outside USJ

University teaching outside USJ Country 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

Engineering and Technology, Sciences

Research themes

UAVs
Path Planning
Nonlinear Systems
Optimal Control

Publications and communications

Alain Ajami, Jean-Paul Gauthier, Francesco Rossi. Jointly equivariant dynamics for interacting particles. Journal of Physica D (Nonlinear Phenomena), 2024.

Jean Sawma, Alain Ajami, Thibault Maillot & Joseph El Maalouf. Lyapunov-LaSalle Based Dynamic Stabilization For Fixed Wing Drones. Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems (JAMRIS), 2024.

A. Ajami, 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.

Alain Ajami, Jean-Paul Gauthier & Ludovic Sachelli. Dynamic output stabilization of control systems: an unobservable kinematic drone model. Automatica Journal, 2021.

Alain Ajami, Marwan Brouche, Jean-Paul Gauthier & Ludovic Sachelli. Output Stabilization of Military UAV in the Unobservable Case, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, USA, 2020.

Alain Ajami, Jean-Paul Gauthier, Thibault Maillot & Ulysse Serres. How Human Fly. In ESAIM: Control, Optimisation and Calculus of Variations, June 2013.

Awards and distinctions

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