Research Interests
- Develop solution methodologies and efficient algorithms to solve
non-linear programming problems in general and polynomial programming
problems in particular.
- Model and solve optimization problems motivated by engineering and business applications.
Education
- Ph.D. in Operations Research, Department of
Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, August 2011.
Supervisors: Professor Miguel Anjos and Professor Juan Vera.
- Masters of Applied Sciences, Department of
Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada, April 2007.
Supervisor: Professor Miguel Anjos.
- Bachelor of Engineering, Computer and Communication
Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon, June 2005.
Research Experience
- Universität zu Köln:
Visiting Researcher, Professor Michael Jünger and PD Dr. Frauke Liers research
groups, Institut für Informatik, Universität zu Köln, Germany, May 2010
– July 2010.
- University of Waterloo: Research Assistant, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, September 2007– Date.
- Algorithmic Discrete Optimization Network (ADONET): Visiting Researcher, Professor Michael Jünger's research group, Institut für
Informatik, Universität zu Köln, Germany, May 2007 – August 2007.
- University of Waterloo: Research Assistant, Department of Management Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, University of Waterloo, July 2005– April 2007.
Teaching Experience
Instructor (Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo)
- Introduction to Optimization (May- Aug. 2011).
Certificate in University Teaching (CUT), completed GS901: Preparing for University Teaching and GS903: Teaching Practicum.
Graduate Teaching Assistant (Department of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo)
- Deterministic Optimization Methods and Models (undergraduate course).
- Data Structures and Algorithms (undergraduate course).
- Engineering Economy (undergraduate course).
- Principles of Finance (undergraduate course).
- Introduction to Operations Research (undergraduate course).
- Production and Operations Management (undergraduate course).
- Principles of Operations Research (graduate course).
Selected Awards
- Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council Industrial R&D Fellowship 2011.
- Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council Canada Graduate Scholarships - Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement 2010.
- Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council Alexander
Graham Bell Canada Graduate Scholarship,
NSERC CGS-D2, 2009-2011.
- Honorable
Mention, Student Paper Competition, Canadian Operational Research
Society, Edmonton, 2010.
- Fraser
Award for Best Graduate Research Paper,
University of Waterloo 2008.
- First
place at CORS SIMUL8 Simulation Competition, sponsored by VISUL8,
CORS Conference, Quebec 2008.
- Ontario Graduate Scholarship,
2007-2008, 2008-2009 (one of only 60 awarded to international
students in Ontario).
- President's Graduate Scholarship, University of Waterloo, September 2007-2011.
- ADONET
Marie-Curie Researcher Scholarship,
University of Cologne, May-August 2007.
- Teaching
Assistant Award,
University of Waterloo, Fall 2006.
- Canadian
Operational Research Diploma in Operations Research,
Canadian Operational Research Society, April 2007.
- Annual
Clough Memorial Award,
in recognition of superior scholarship in the first year of graduate
studies in management sciences, University of Waterloo, July 2006.
- El-Gabbani
Annual Scholarship,
in recognition of superior scholarship in the first year of the
Master’s program in management sciences, University of Waterloo,
July 2006
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