Afef Fekih

Afef Fekih is a Tunisian and American electrical engineer specializing in control theory, with applications including wind energy, unmanned aerial vehicles, and active suspensions. She is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, where she directs the Advanced Control Systems Laboratory.

Education and career Fekih was a student at the National Engineering School of Tunis, where she received a bachelor's degree in 1995, master's degree in 1998, and Ph.D. in 2002.

After work as an assistant professor at the Higher Institute of Medical Technologies of Tunis, she became an adjunct professor and then visiting professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in 2003 and 2004, and a regular-rank assistant professor in 2005. She was promoted to full professor in 2016, and holds the Harold Callais/BORSF Endowed Professorship in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the O'Krepki/BORSF Professorship in Telecommunications.

Recognition Fekih was given the University of Louisiana at Lafayette's Distinguished Professor Award in 2022. She was a 2025 recipient of the IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Member Award, given "for significant technical contributions in the area of fault tolerant control and outstanding service to the Control Systems Society". Fekih has experience editing and reviewing multiple journals and conferences. She has been a part of the publishing of more than 200 international journals, chapters, and conference hearings.