HOD-Associate 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.

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

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 currently an assistant professor of Mathematics in the faculty of engineering at Kuwait College of Science and Technology (KCST), Kuwait. Dr. Batayneh earned his doctoral degree in applied Mathematics from The University of Queensland (top 50 university worldwide), Australia.

Before joining KCST, Dr. Batayneh was a research fellow in the department of civil engineering in Queensland University of Technology for few months in 2021. From July, 2017 until Oct, 2021, Dr. Batayneh was a tutor in the school of Math and Phys in The University of Queensland. From Aug 2015 until July 2017, Dr. Batayneh was a teaching assistant in the Math department at University of Pittsburgh, USA. From Aug 2012 until May 2015, Dr. Batayneh was a research and teaching assistant in the mathematical sceices department at Clemson University, USA. From Jan 2011 until Aug 2011, Dr Batayneh was a teaching assistant in the Department of Mathematics at Louisiana State University, USA. Dr. Batayneh worked as a part-time lecturer in some other universities.

Dr. Batayneh's research focuses on the ergodic theory of random dynamical systems in higher dimensions, low dimensional topology and functional analysis. Dr. Batayneh has published in international journals such as journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems, Stochastics and Dynamics.

Dr. Batayneh has presented in several international conference in USA, Europe and Australia. Dr. Batayneh is a member in the American mathematical society and the Australian mathematical society.

For more information on Dr. Batayneh's research, see:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jjOrojQAAAAJ&hl=en

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.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Muhammad Ilyas is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics, KCST. He completed his Ph.D. from The University of Newcastle, Australia. Before joining KCST, from August 2018 to June 2023, he was a Lecturer in the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, Western Sydney University, The College, Australia. His research interest focuses on algebraic and applied mathematics, particularly the numerical solution of a partial differential equation. He published many articles in peer-reviewed international journals/conferences and collaborated with many international universities/institutes. He is currently a member of the Australian Mathematical Society.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Meylan, M. H., Ilyas, M., Lamichhane, B. P. and Bennetts, L. G. (2021). Swell-induced flexural vibrations of a thickening ice shelf over a shoaling seabed. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 477(2254), 20210173. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0173.
• Banz, L., Ilyas, M., Lamichhane, B.P., McLean, W., Stephan, E.P. (2021) A mixed finite element method for the Poisson problem using a biorthogonal system with Raviart–Thomas elements. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 37(3), 2429–2445. https://doi.org/10.1002/num.22722.
• Ilyas, M., Meylan, M. H., Lamichhane, B., & Bennetts, L. G. (2018). Time-domain and modal response of ice shelves to wave forcing using the finite element method. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 80, 113–131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2018.03.010.
• Droniou, J., Ilyas, M., Lamichhane, B. P. and Wheeler G. E. (2017). A mixed finite element method for a sixth-order elliptic problem. IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis., volume 39, number 1, pages 374–397. https://doi.org/10.1093/imanum/drx066.

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ali Nabavi is currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Mathematics at KCST. He received his DEUG A degree from Université Paris VII in 1990. His master's and PhD were earned at the Ohio State University in 1993 and 2000, respectively. He was a mathematics lecturer at the University of Nevada Las Vegas in 2001-2002 and 2004-2005. The American University in Dubai employed him as an Assistant Professor from 2005 to 2012. The American University of the Middle East in Kuwait appointed him as an Assistant Professor in September 2014, and he was promoted to Associate Professor in October 2018. His research interests include Hadamard matrices and Circulant Weighing matrices, linear algebra, and combinatorial matrix theory.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Nonexistence of two circulant weighing matrices of weight 81 with K.T. Arasu Transaction on Combinatorics 3 (2015), 43-52.
• Nonexistence of CW(154,36) and CW(170,64) with K.T. Arasu Discrete Mathematics 8-9(2011),769-779.
• Determination of all possible orders of weight 16 circulant weighing matrices with K. T. Arasu, Ka Hin Leung, Siu Lun Ma, D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri Finite Fields and their Applications, 12(2006), 498-538.
• Circulant weighing matrices of weight 22t with K. T. Arasu, Ka Hin Leung, Siu Lun Ma, D. K. Ray-Chaudhuri Designs, Codes and Cryptography, 41(2006), 111-123.