FACULTY BIO

Professor Ebrahim Abdulla Mattar

Professor of Cybernetics and Robotics at University of Bahrain. He has received the B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering (Bahrain University-1986), for M.Sc. in Electronics (Southampton University-1989), Ph.D. (Reading University-1994, thesis written under Prof. K. Warwick supervision), the awarded the Gulf Executive Program (University of Virginia, Darden School of Business-2000). His research and publications frameworks have been focused on computational AI. Worked on (20) research projects, including the face neural recognition, the King Saud University (KSA) Robotics Project during (2010-2014), the Robotics Project at UoB and the CERN project related to UoB. He has supervised several thesis-projects, and is currently working on multi-dimensional Brainwaves, biometric data mining, decoding and learning for robotics control and intelligence.

Editor board member of a number of journal and conference and been a reviewer for a number of journals. He has been awarded several awards, including University of Bahrain, best research in 2001, 2002, 2006, 2007, 2017 UoB Hackathon award, and an IET award during 2018. He is a member of several professional bodies, MIET, SMIEEE, IFAC affiliate, and Bahrain IET Local Network H. Chair; IEEE Control Society, IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS), affiliate member of IFAC, an active IET member, IET– Bahrain Network Honorary X-Chair, X-member of IET EMEA Regional Board, X-member of IET Knowledge Program Advisory, and currently member of IET related committees.

He has been elected as Bahrain honorary chair for the IEE (earlier) and IET for two sessions; Responsible body for eight IET colloquiums-forums held in Bahrain held during 2008 till 2016. In addition, a responsible body for major symposiums-conferences. Served as the organizing head for the International Conference on (Millennium Dawn in Training and Continuing Education), 16-18th of April 2001. Served as the technical committee head member of IET ICIS-2008 International Conference on Intelligent Systems, December 2008 in Bahrain, and responsible body for seven IET symposiums-colloquiums in Bahrain, including (New Directions in Automatic Control: Theories and Applications).

Organized vast number of IET events in Bahrain since 2006 till today. Responsible body for the Annual IET Smart Cities Symposium and the Annual IET-GCC Robotics Challenge. Prof. Mattar has written many journals publications, conferences, chapters of book, and authored four complete books (three in Arabic and One in English related to Robotics).

Computational Skills: (open CV library), Dynamic Programming, (OOP), Optimization, Mathematica, MatLab, Python, LabView, NAG and LaTex. Prof. Mattar has been involved in academic lecturing, this includes during (1989-1994), undergraduate student’s Laboratories/tutorials, at Reading University. For University of Bahrain: Discrete-time control systems (Digital Control - Nonlinear Control), Signals and Systems, Numerical Methods (with OOP), Robotics Control, Intelligent Systems, Engineering Ethics. Probabilities and Stochastic Systems, Signals and Noise, Modern Control, Computer Vision, Computer Architecture, Algorithm Concepts, Principles of Artificial Intelligence, Special Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Advanced Numerical Methods, and Finite Element Methods, Research Methodology.