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.[2]
Esfandiari, Farzad; Khalil, Hassan K. (1 November 1992). "Output feedback stabilization of fully linearizable systems". International Journal of Control. 56 (5): 1007–1037. doi:10.1080/00207179208934355. (Cited 900 times, according to Google Scholar.[5])
Atassi, A.N.; Khalil, H.K. (Sep 1999). "A separation principle for the stabilization of a class of nonlinear systems". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 44 (9): 1672–1687. doi:10.1109/9.788534. S2CID11458113. (Cited 880 times, according to Google Scholar.[5])
Khalil, H.K. (Feb 1996). "Adaptive output feedback control of nonlinear systems represented by input-output models". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 41 (2): 177–188. doi:10.1109/9.481517. (Cited 739 times, according to Google Scholar.[5])
Khalil, H.K. (May 1995). "Adaptive control of a class of nonlinear discrete-time systems using neural networks". IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control. 40 (5): 791–801. doi:10.1109/9.384214. (Cited 658 times, according to Google Scholar.[5])
Seshagiri, S.; Khalil, H.K. (Jan 2000). "Output feedback control of nonlinear systems using RBF neural networks". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks. 11 (1): 69–79. doi:10.1109/72.822511. PMID18249740. (Cited 582 times, according to Google Scholar.[5])
Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1989, for contributions to singular perturbation theory and its application to control.
Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2007, for contribution to singular perturbation theory, nonlinear feedback control and control education.
George S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award, IEEE Control Systems Society, 1989.