Languages
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
