Chaouki Abdallah

Chaouki Tanios Abdallah is an emeritus professor and was, for fourteen months, President of the University of New Mexico (UNM). He joined UNM's Electrical and Computer Engineering department, chairing the department between 2005 and 2011. He served as Provost of the UNM between 2011 and 2016, after which he became President from 2017 to 2018, initially in an acting capacity. Abdallah was active in designing international graduate programmes with Latin American and European countries. In 1990 he co-founded the Ibero-American Science and Technology Education Consortium (ISTEC), which includes more than 150 universities in Latin America, Spain and the United States.

Educated to degree level in Lebanon and the United States, Abdallah went on to obtain two postgraduate qualifications in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, finishing his PhD in 1988.

Abdallah's teaching and research speciality is systems theory, particularly related to robotic control and communications systems. He is a recipient of the Millennium Medal of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed papers and seven books, including Robot Manipulator Control: Theory and Practice (2003, with Lewis and Dawson).