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Golden Apple For Teaching Excellence

           University of Southern California (2015)

Dissertation Research Award

American Statistical Association (2013)

Citation of Honor

Utah Legislature (2012)

Robin Awards Finalist- Man of the Year

Utah State University (2011)

Graduate Teacher of the Year

Utah State Univeristy (2008 and 2011)

Dean's List Award for Outstanding Achievements

Utah State University (2008-2012)

President's Award Finalist

Lebanese American University (2006)

 

 

 

 

R, SAS, MATHEMATICA, C, JAVASCRIPT, HTML, LATEX

Skills

STATISTICAL COMPUTING

DATA VISUALIZATION

STATISTICS EDUCATION

INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Education

 

Honors &

Awards
 

Utah State University

​2007 - 2012

 

​PhD, Statistics

Dissertation Title: "Visual Data Mining Techniques for Functional Actigraphy Data: An Object Oriented Approach in R"

 

MS, Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences

Project Title: "Creating Pedagogical Agents as Social Models in an Online Learning Environment MathGirls"

 

Lebanese American University

​2001 - 2006

 

MS, Computer Science

Thesis Title: "The Relationship between Using of an Intelligent Tutoring System and Class Achievement in a Basic Mathematics Course"

 

BS, Computer Science

Project Title: "Bank Citing System for Beirut City Using GIS"

Academic Director

2015 - present

 

I am the academic director for the MS in Business Analytics program at USC Marshall School of Business. My main responsibility is admissions, recruiting, advising students, and managing the program. 

 

Assistant Professor

​2013 - present

 

I teach statistics courses at both the undergraduate and gradute levels  at the USC Marshall School of Business. My classes range from introductory statistics to data analysis for decision-making through to advanced modern statistical learning techniques.

 

 

Research Assistant

​2008 - 2012

 

I have conducted research in the field of statistical computing and visualization under the supervision of Professor Juergen Symanzik during my graduate studies at Utah State. I designed and implemented an R package for the visualization of functional data, used regression tools, experimental design, multivariate statistics tools, and categorical data anlysis tools in various projects.

 

 

Software Engineer

​2007 - 2008

 

I worked for the Center for Research on Engaging Advanced Technology for Education as a software engineer. My job was to write computer code to facilitate the human computer interaction between students and animated pedagogical agents.

Work Experience