Mohamad T. Shahab

Mohamad T. Shahab is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering at Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU), where he joined in 2025. His research focuses on control theory and autonomous systems, with particular expertise in adaptive control, robotics, and optimization.

Dr. Shahab completed his PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2020. He received his BSc in Control and Instrumentation Engineering (2007) and MSc in Systems Engineering (Automation and Control) (2015), both from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). Prior to joining TMU, he held postdoctoral appointments at KAUST working with Professor Eric Feron and worked as an R&D engineer with Baker Hughes.

His research spans Control Theory, Robotics, Adaptive Control, Control & Optimization, and Autonomous Systems. Dr. Shahab's work particularly focuses on adaptive control strategies that yield linear-like behavior, robustness analysis of adaptive control systems, and applications to robotics and autonomous aerial vehicles. His recent work has centered on modular tetrahedral-shaped aerial robots and their control under uncertainty.

Dr. Shahab has published numerous papers in top-tier journals including IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, as well as in major conferences like IEEE ICRA and AIAA SciTech. His research shows a clear trajectory toward developing more robust and reliable adaptive control strategies for complex systems, particularly in robotics and autonomous vehicles.

Dr. Shahab is actively recruiting graduate students (MASc, MEng, PhD) and undergraduate researchers interested in control theory, robotics, and autonomous systems. He encourages students with strong backgrounds in control, optimization, robotics, and machine learning to contact him.