Hassan K. Khalil

Hassan K. Khalil (born February 20, 1950, in Cairo) is an Egyptian-born American electrical engineer. He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 1989 for contributions to singular perturbation theory and its application to control.

Khalil received a BS and MS from Cairo University in 1973 and 1975 respectively, and a PhD from the University of Illinois in 1978, under Petar V. Kokotovic. He became an assistant professor at MSU at 1978, and became a University Distinguished Professor in 2003.

Khalil was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Automatica, and Neural Networks, and was Editor of Automatica. Khalil retired on May 15, 2020, and was granted emeritus status.