UH Professor Named Fulbright Specialist

Heidar Malki, Professor and Associate Dean of the College of Technology at the University of Houston has been added to the Fulbright Special Roster. Malki teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Engineering Technology. He is a senior member of IEEE and was associate editor for the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems. He spent two summers at the NASA Ames Research Center as part of the ASEE-NASA Fellowship program to work on vibration control of UH-60 helicopters in 2002 and 2003. Dr. Malki was the general chair for the 1997 ASEE/GSW Conference and one of co-chairs of 1997 ICNN-IEEE International Conference on Neural Networks. His research interests are: applications of neural networks, fuzzy logic controllers, and design of fuzzy logic controllers for industrial applications. He has been either PI or Co-PI on several NSF grants and two Texas Workforce Commission projects.