General areas of research interest include control systems theory, sampled-data control, system modeling and simulation, model reduction, spatially distributed systems, nonlinear systems, optimal control, decentralized control and robust control.

Faculty and graduate research projects include:

	Control system analysis, design, simulation, and algorithms
	Model order reduction of large-scale systems
	Real-time industrial control
	Fuzzy/neuro-fuzzy logic control
	Reliable control systems
	Robustness error bound calculations in model development
	Control of Tilting-pad journal bearing systems for rotating machinery
	Nonlinear systems and chaos
	Spatially distributed systems
	Fractional order systems
	System simulation and modeling
	Battery modeling