Dr Ali Nasir received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering. from the University of Engineering and Technology, Taxila, Pakistan. He obtained his M.Sc. degrees in electrical engineering and aerospace engineering and his PhD in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He is the recipient of a Fulbright scholarship for an MS leading to a PhD. He is currently working as an associate professor in the Control and Instrumentation Engineering Department at KFUPM, KSA. He is an affiliate of the Interdisciplinary Research Center (IRC) for Intelligent Manufacturing and Robotics at KFUPM. He is also a guest affiliate of the IRC for Aviation and Space Exploration. He is currently working on fault-tolerant control and decision-making for industrial robots. His research interests also include approximate dynamic programming, nonlinear control, and state estimation.