Distributed $H_{2}/H_\infty$ Filter Design for Discrete-Time Switched Systems

Nezar M. Alyazidi graduated from Hadramout University of Science and Technology (HUST), Yemen. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in systems and control engineering (2012, 2016) respectively from the Systems Engineering Department at King Fahd University for Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He worked as a Lecture-B with Systems Engineering Department at KFUPM (2013-2016). In 2013, he joined the distributed control research group at KFUPM, as a Research Fellow from 2013 to present. He worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Systems Engineering Department at KFUPM (2017-2018). He is currently Assistant Professor at KFUPM with Systems Engineering Department. His research interests include optimal control, adaptive control, reinforcement learning, intelligent algorithms, distributed generation units, time delay systems and networked control systems.e-mail:nalyazidi@kfupm.edu.sa

Magdi S. Mahmoud obtained B.Sc. (Honors) in communication engineering, the M.Sc. in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. in systems engineering, all from Cairo University in 1968, 1972 and 1974, respectively. He has been a Professor of Engineering since 1984. He is now a Distinguished Professor at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia. He was on the faculty at different universities worldwide including Egypt (CU, AUC), Kuwait (KU), UAE (UAEU), UK (UMIST), USA (Pitt, Case Western), Singapore (Nanyang) and Australia (Adelaide). He lectured in Venezuela (Caracas), Germany (Hanover), UK ((Kent), USA (UoSA), Canada (Montreal) and China (BIT, Yanshan). He is the principal author of thirty-seven (37) books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 600 peer-reviewed papers. He is a Fellow of the IEE, a Senior Member of the IEEE, the CEI (UK), and a Registered Consultant Engineer of information engineering and systems (Egypt). He received the SCIENCE STATE INCENTIVE PRIZE for outstanding research in engineering, (1978, 1986), the STATE MEDAL FOR SCIENCE AND ART, First Class, (1978), and the STATE DISTINCTION AWARD, (1986), Egypt. He awarded the ABDULHAMED SHOWMAN PRIZE for Young Arab Scientists in the field of Engineering Sciences, (1986), Jordan. In 1992, he received the DISTINGUISHED ENGINEERING RESEARCH AWARD, College of Engineering and Petroleum, Kuwait University, (1992), Kuwait. He is co-winner of the Most Cited Paper Award 2009, " Signal Processing", vol. 86, no. 1, 2006, pp. 140-152. His papers were selected among the 40 best papers in Electrical & Electronic Engineering by the Web of Science ISI in July 2012. He interviewed for "People in Control", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, August 2010. He served as Guest Editor for the Special Issue "Neural Networks and Intelligence Systems in Neurocomputing" and Guest Editor for the 2015 International Symposium on Web of Things and Big Data (WoTBD 2015) 18-20 October 2015, Manama, Bahrain. He is a Regional Editor (Middle East and Africa) of International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications (JSCC), INDERSCIENCE Publishers since 2007, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (NACO), Australia since 2010, an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Dynamics Applications (IJSDA), since 2011, member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Engineering Management, USA since 2012 and an Academic Member of Athens Institute for Education and Research, Greece since 2015. Since 2016, He is an Editor of the Journal Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Hindawi Publishing Company, USA. He is currently actively engaged in teaching and research in the development of modern methodologies to distributed control and filtering, networked control systems, fault-tolerant systems, cyber-physical systems and information technology