Rate My Professor Fadi Alsaleem

Fadi Alsaleem is the James S. and Virginia A. Blackman Associate Professor of Architectural Engineering at the Durham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where he also holds a courtesy appointment as Assistant Professor in the Mechanical and Materials Engineering Department. He joined the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in August 2016. Previously, Alsaleem served as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita State University from 2015 to 2016. Prior to academia, he spent four years as a Senior Lead Algorithm Engineer at Emerson Climate Technology, developing cloud-based sensor monitoring and learning algorithms for fault diagnostics and energy supervision in residential HVAC systems. Following his doctoral studies, he worked for two years as a MEMS Control Engineer at Microstaq Inc. in Austin, Texas, developing control algorithms for MEMS microfluidic valves in HVAC and refrigeration systems.

Alsaleem earned his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2007 from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He also holds a Graduate Certificate in Mechatronics Engineering from the American University of Sharjah in 2006 and a B.S. in Mechatronics Engineering from The Hashemite University in Jordan in 2003. His research focuses on AI-integrated MEMS hardware for computing and sensing, neuromorphic computing, Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, and smart buildings. He has produced over 100 publications and holds 19 patents or patent applications, including four granted U.S. patents commercialized through NUtech Ventures. Key publications include "Machine Learning-Based Peripheral Artery Disease Identification Using Laboratory-Based Gait Data" in Sensors (2022), "An IoT Framework for Modeling and Controlling Thermal Comfort in Buildings" in Frontiers in Built Environment (2020), and "Neuromorphic MEMS Sensor Network" in Applied Physics Letters (2019). Alsaleem has received the James S. and Virginia A. Blackman Associate Professorship (2025), UNL Faculty Research and Creative Activity Award (2022), and Excellence in Research Awards from the UNL College of Engineering (2019, 2020, 2023). He contributes to a startup translating wearable medical technologies for healthcare and smart infrastructure applications.