Dr. Samad is a Corporate Fellow at Honeywell Laboratories, the central R&D organization for the corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

His research has focused on intelligent systems and control technologies and he has led projects investigating applications of these technologies in various businesses related to automation and control. These projects have included externally funded program with government and private customers, commercialization projects conducted jointly with business units, and internal research initiatives. He has also been instrumental in initiating several university/industry collaborations, both within the U.S. and internationally, and he is currently an adjunct professor of electrical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Honeywell Star Inventor with eleven patents.

His recent publications include two edited volumes, "Automation, Control, and Complexity: An Integrated View" (co-edited with John Weyrauch; John Wiley & Sons) and "Perspectives in Control Engineering: Technologies, Applications, and New Directions" (IEEE Press).

He is the editor-in-chief of IEEE Control Systems Magazine.

Dr. Samad received his B.S. in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.