William Melek
Professor
Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering
University of Waterloo
Canada
Biography
William Melek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He also serves as the Director of Mechatronics and the Director of the Laboratory of Computational and Intelligence Automation. The Laboratory of Computational and Intelligence Automation conducts research on modular robotics and Intelligent Systems Modeling and Control. The research efforts place emphasis on manufacturing and automotive applications which involves design of modeling and control algorithms for flexible automation, autonomous systems and vehicles stability systems. Bioinformatics is also an area of research undertaken by Professor Melek and his team. This research involves clinical decision-support systems and non-convex optimization methods for scheduling clinical resources.
Research Interest
Artificial Intelligence Intelligent Control Mechatronics
Publications
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Borjian R, Lim J, Khamesee MB, Melek W. The design of an intelligent mechanical active prosthetic knee. InIndustrial Electronics, 2008. IECON 2008. 34th Annual Conference of IEEE 2008 Nov 10 (pp. 3016-3021). IEEE.
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Biglarbegian M, Melek W, Golnaraghi F. Intelligent control of vehicle semi-active suspension systems for improved ride comfort and road handling. InFuzzy Information Processing Society, 2006. NAFIPS 2006. Annual meeting of the North American 2006 Jun 3 (pp. 19-24). IEEE.
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Mendel J, Hagras H, Tan WW, Melek WW, Ying H. Introduction to type-2 fuzzy logic control: theory and applications. John Wiley & Sons; 2014 Jun 16.
