
Dr. Attaullah Y. Memon received his BE degree from NUST, Pakistan in 1999, and the MS and PhD degrees from Michigan State University, USA, in 2004 and 2009, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He specializes in the areas of mathematical modeling and design of robust nonlinear controllers for dynamical electro-mechanical systems ranging from autonomous unmanned vehicles to mobile robotic platforms. His current research interests include design and development of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs), nonlinear robust and optimal control, robotics & automation, and hybrid control of networked and embedded control systems. He is the founding director of Robotics and Dynamic Systems (RDS) Research Laboratory at NUST-PNEC and is currently working as the Principal Investigator of various funded R&D projects in the fields of marine robotics and underwater technologies. Dr. Memon is winner of the Best Teacher Award for the years 2011 and 2016, and Best Researcher Award for the Year 2015. Since 2007, he is a professional member of IEEE Control Systems Society and Robotics and Automation Society.