Professor Ing. Marvin K. Bugeja received the B.Eng.(Hons.)(Melit.) with first-class honours (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. degrees from the University of Malta in 2002 and 2011 respectively. His doctoral research, entitled "Computational Intelligence Methods for Dynamic Control of Mobile Robots", contributes to the fields of Intelligent Control and Mobile Robotics. It proposes novel control techniques for stochastic neuro-adaptive control of nonlinear multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) systems, and introduces the use of dual adaptive control for mobile robots.
Over the past two decades Prof Ing. Bugeja has worked in industry and academia. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Systems and Control Engineering at the University of Malta, and an Invited Professor at the Institute of Solid Mechanics, Mechatronics and Biomechanics of Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic. He has served as the Maltese representative on the General Assembly of the European Control Association (EUCA), a Member of Senate of the University of Malta, and as Chair of the IEEE Malta Student Branch, besides other roles.
His main research interests revolve around robotics and control systems engineering, with particular focus on adaptive, nonlinear, and intelligent control, as well as mobile robot control, multi-robot systems and robotic applications. He leads and collaborates on several funded research projects in these areas. Prof. Ing. Bugeja has published more than 44 articles in peer-reviewed books, journals, and international conference proceedings, and has received a best paper award in four different occasions.
He is an Associate Editor on the EUCA Conference Editorial Board, and regularly acts as a reviewer for various conferences and journals. He served as Programme Chair for the 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2017), and for the 10th International Conference on Control, Decision and Information Technologies (CoDIT 2024). He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of the IET, the Malta Chamber of Engineers, a licenced Energy Performance Assessor, and holds the Maltese Warrant to practise the engineering profession.
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 12/2019: Energy Performance Assessor of Buildings (Dwellings) The Building & Construction Agency, Malta 10/2005: Warrant to practise as a Professional Engineer Engineering Profession Board, Malta
AWARDS 10 /2009: Best Paper Award, The 3rd International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences (ADVCOMP'09), Sliema, Malta. 10/2009: Best Student Paper Award — International Conference on Neural Computation (ICNC'09), Madeira, Portugal. 11/2006: IEEE-IES Student Scholarship, The 32nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON'06), Paris, France. 9/2003: IEEE R8 Student Paper Contest Finalist, IEEE EUROCON'03, Ljubljana, Slovenia. 7/2002: Best Final Year Engineering Project, Chamber of Engineers Award, Malta. 11/1998: Distinction in Matriculation Award, University of Malta, Malta.
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS/ACTIVITIES (a selection) 2023-PRESENT: Associate Editor on the European Control Association (EUCA) Conference Editorial Board. 2023-PRESENT: Member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) with designatory letters MIET. 2021-PRESENT: Research committee member of the Centre Innovation Drones de Normandie (CIDN). 2018-PRESENT: Member of the University of Malta PhD and Master Degrees (Research) Scholarship Selection Board. 2017-PRESENT: National representative (elected) on the general assembly of the European Control Association (EUCA). 2016-PRESENT: External Examiner for PhD and MSc students. 2016 - 2017: Programme Chair of the IEEE co-sponsored 25th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2017). Led a large team of AEs to manage 932 reviews of 354 manuscripts. 2014 - PRESENT: Programme Committee Member of the annual International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO). 2013 — 2019: Member of Senate of the University of Malta. 2012 — PRESENT: Regular invited lecturer at the ISMMB, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic. 2011-PRESENT: Member of various boards of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Malta. 2006 — 2007: Chair of the IEEE Malta Student Branch. 2006 — 2007: Council Member of the IEEE Malta Section. 2005 — PRESENT: Chair of various international conference sessions. 2000 — PRESENT: Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 2000 — PRESENT: Member of the Malta Chamber of Engineers (CoE)
