Dhafer J. Almakhles received the B.E. degree from the department of Electrical Engineering of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in 2006 and the Master's (Hons.) degree from the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, in 2011. He completed his Ph.D. degree in 2016 from the University of Auckland. During his PhD, he managed to publish and submit high quality journal and conference papers and one book chapter. Currently, he is Assistant Professor at the Department of Communication and Networks Engineering and the coordinator of renewable energy research unit, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His research interests include networked, event-triggered and quantized control systems, nonlinear control system, sliding mode control and real-time implementations on FPGA.
