HOD - Professor

Carlos Fonseca is a Full Professor in Mathematics at Kuwait College of Science and Technology, since September 2018. Professor Fonseca worked in the Departments of Mathematics at University of Coimbra, Portugal, and Kuwait University, before he assumed his current position. He graduated from the University Of Coimbra, Portugal, in Mathematics.   He has (co)-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in pure and applied mathematics, namely in linear algebra, spectral graph theory, combinatorial matrix theory, trigonometric sums, and chemical indexes.  He has participated in many in worldwide conferences.  He is the Editor-in-Chief of Special Matrices, a journal of the publisher De Gruyter.

Professor

Ziad Zahreddine is a professor of Mathematics at Kuwait College of Science and Technology. His research interests cover a variety of mathematical topics: Control Theory, Robust Stability, Uncertain Dynamical Systems, Mathematical Analysis, Differential Equations and Operators, Mathematical Economics and Market Dynamics. His teaching philosophy is based on placing the student at the center of the learning process. Students are partners and the role of the instructor is to inspire and guide them throughout the process, and make them believe that Mathematics is something they can do and engage them in the joy of thinking and puzzling over various mathematical structures, and how they relate to other subjects and to various fields of life. He is an advocate of the constructive and selective use of technology in Math education. In order to foster student-centered learning, he incorporates information technology, simulation techniques, JAVA applets, Mathematical software, and hyperlinks, in classroom activities. That led to the creation of lively animations and beautiful graphical illustrations of mathematical concepts that were previously considered as abstract topics.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ghostine received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 2009 from the University of Strasbourg. From 2009 to 2012 he was a lecturer and Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Strasbourg and the National Institute of Applied Sciences, then at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology during 2013-2016. In 2016, he joined KSCT where he serves as assistant professor of Mathematics. He is the author or co-author of more than 15 papers in international refereed journals and more than 15 conference contributions. His research interests cover several areas in Applied Mathematics, mainly numerical modeling of PDEs and data assimilation.

Assistant Professor

Ikram Al-Attar is a part time lecturer of mathematics at KCST. She holds a doctorate in Environmental Engineering from Ain Shams University, Cairo. She holds a master’s degree and B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Kuwait University. Her research interest is in Application of Geographic Information System (GIS) and remote sensing (RS) to water resources and Environmental Engineering, Water quality and contaminant transport modelling. She accumulated more than 20 years of teaching experience in Kuwait University and Australian College of Kuwait.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Fawwaz Batayneh is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait. He earned his doctorate in Applied Mathematics from The University of Queensland, Australia. Before that, he spent time in JUST, Jordan and University of Pittsburgh, Clemson University and LSU, USA. His research focuses on the ergodic theory of random dynamical systems in higher dimensions. Currently, he collaborates on topological deep learning with collaborators in the US. He has also worked on frame theory and compact operators. His work has been published in journals such as journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Stochastics and Dynamics. He is a member in the American mathematical society and the Australian mathematical society.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Jaafar Almutawa is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at KCST. He completed his Ph.D. from the department of Applied Mathematics and Physics at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, in 2006. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, from 2006-2022 before he assuming his current position. He was also a visiting researcher at Kyoto University, Japan, which was funded by the Japan Petroleum Institute (2008). He was awarded the Sunahara Award as the best research paper of Japan in 2005.

His research interests are in the field of data driven of mathematical inverse problems. His research work spans various topics such as system identification, outliers, particle Kalman filter and Monte-Carlo simulations. He published numerous research articles in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and collaborated with many international universities and institutes throughout his career.