Dr. Taylor's Graduate Students

Dr. Taylor has supervised the following graduate students in their research at UNB:

  1. Pavol Seres -- MScEng [thesis accepted, August 1996], Expert-System Aided Controller Design User Interface to the Bailey INFI 90
  2. Dawit Kebede -- MScEng [thesis accepted, May 1997], An Effective Discontinuity Handling Method for Hybrid Continuous-Time Systems Simulation
  3. Bora Eryilmaz -- MScEng [co-supervised with Dr. Bruce Wilson; thesis accepted, May 1997], A Frequency-Domain Model-Order-Deduction Algorithm for Linear Systems (at Northeastern University)
  4. Saied Salamat Sharif -- PhD [co-supervised with Dr. Eugene Hill; thesis accepted, October 1998], Optimal Reactive Power Flow Problem
  5. Lan Sheng -- MScEng [thesis accepted, May 1998], Fuzzy Logic Controller Synthesis for Electro-mechanical Systems with Nonlinear Friction
  6. Tamara Djokic -- MScEng [thesis accepted, May 1999], Identification of Predictive Models for Treatment of Neutropenia in Post-Chemotherapy Cancer Patients
  7. Zhao Xiaozhong -- MEng [report accepted, September 2001], A Prototype Process Control System for Chemical Vapor Deposition -- download here
  8. Nysret Dedinca - MEng [report accepted, September 2001], Descrepancy Audit of the Simulator at Point Lepreau
  9. Atalla Sayda - MScEng [thesis accepted, April 2002], Model Predictive Control of a Mechanical pulp Bleaching Process -- download here
  10. Lijie Zhang -- MEng [course only; completed May 2004]
  11. Khaled Mohammed Akida -- MScEng [thesis accepted, May, 2005], Indirect Adaptive Model Predictive Control of a Mechanical Pulp Bleaching Process using a Smart Delay Time Predictor -- download here
  12. Shuanjun (James) Wang -- MEng [report accepted, March 2005], Waste Water Treatment Plant Control System Design in Coleson Cove Refurbishment Project -- download here
  13. Jie Zhang -- MScEng [thesis accepted, September 2005], Creation of Hybrid System Modeling and Simulation Environment in MATLAB -- download here
  14. Maira Omana -- MScEng [thesis accepted, December 2005], Robust Fault Detection and Isolation Using a Parity Equation Implementation of Directional Residuals -- download here
  15. Liqiang Wang -- MScEng [thesis accepted, January, 2006], On-line Fault Diagnosis Using Signed Digraphs -- download here
  16. Jing He -- MScEng [thesis accepted, April, 2006], Neuro-fuzzy Based Fault Diagnosis for Nonlinear Processes -- download here
  17. Mazyar Laylabadi -- MScEng [thesis accepted, May 2006], Adaptive Nonlinear Dynamic Data Reconciliation and Gross Error Detection -- download here
  18. Atalla Sayda -- PhD [thesis accepted, May 2008], Intelligent Control and Asset Management of Oil and Gas Production Facilities -- download here
  19. Etienne Dupuis -- MScEng [thesis accepted, August 2008], Power Scheduling for a Network of Distributed Generators -- download here
  20. Maira Omana -- PhD [thesis accepted, October 2009], Fault Detection, Isolation and Accommodation Using the Generalized Parity Vector Technique -- download here
  21. Sean Perry -- MScEng [thesis accepted, December 2009], Operator Interface for Autonomous Unmanned Aircraft Mission Feasibility and Control -- download here -- warning: it is more than 22 MB...
  22. Rocio Del Pilar ("Pilar") Moreno -- MScEng [thesis accepted, January 2010], Steady State Detection, Data Reconciliation, and Gross Error Detection: Development for Industrial Processes -- download here.
  23. Hazem Mohamed Saad Ibrahim -- MScEng [thesis accepted, March 2010], Wireless Networked Control System Coordination Agent -- download here.
  24. Someshwar Singh -- MScEng [thesis accepted, March 2011], Energy Management and Control for a Wind Energy System -- download here.

In addition, Dr. Taylor co-supervised the following students at other institutions, as an Adjunct Professor (both at RPI and OSU) and as an Assistant Professor at IISc Bangalore:

  1. James O'Donnell, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1992 -- co-advisor
  2. Albert Antoniotti, MEngg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988 -- co-advisor
  3. Peter Mroz, MSc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1988 -- co-advisor
  4. Craig Luce, MSc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1987 -- co-advisor
  5. John James, PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986 -- co-advisor
  6. Amir Nassirharand, PhD, Oklahoma State University, 1986 -- co-advisor
  7. Richard Gerhardt, MSc, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1986 -- co-advisor
  8. Kevin Strobel, MEngg, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1984 -- co-advisor
  9. L. M. Patnaik, MSc, Indian Institute of Science, 1971 -- advisor
  10. N. Viswanadham, PhD, Indian Institute of Science, 1972 -- co-advisor


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Last update: 2011 March 31
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