Magdi S. Mahmoud is 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 fifty-one (51) books, inclusive book-chapters and the author/co-author of more than 610 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 several national, regional and international prizes in recognition of his outstanding research and served on the Editorial Board of several International Journals. 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, cyberphysical systems and information technology.
Bilal J. Karaki was born in Hebron in the Palestinian territories, in 1990. He received M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in systems and control engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), KSA, Dhahran, in 2017 and 2021, respectively. He has several publications in international journals. His current research interests include multiagent systems, hybrid systems, and time-delay systems.