Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Actuarial Science. He is the Founder of the Actuarial Science Program and former Vice Provost and Director of Graduate Studies and research at AUC. Ali S. Hadi received his PhD degree with honors from New York University in 1984. Prior to joining AUC in 2000, he has worked at Cornell University for 17 years during which he has held the ranks of assistant, associate and full professor and has served as the chair of the Department of Social Statistics from 1994-98. He is also a Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor Emeritus at Cornell University. Hadi is a former Distinguished Visiting Professor at AUC and Clemson University and a former Visiting Professor at the University of Castilla La Mancha (Spain), Neuchâtel University (Switzerland), University of Carlos III (Spain), Cantabria University (Spain), Umea University (Sweden), and New York University. Hadi has written five books, four book chapters and more than 100 articles in refereed journals. See Google’s Scholar Citation Indices at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=-8xAh5IAAAAJ&hl=en. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses in statistics, mathematics, expert systems and artificial intelligence; and has won several excellence in research and excellence in teaching awards. He is a co-editor of the Journal of Economic and Social Research, editor-in-chief of a Special issue of the International Journal of Statistical Sciences, a formereditor-in-chief of the International Statistical Review, which is the flagship journal of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) and of its family of Associations. He is a former editor of the Newsletter of the International Environmetrics Society, an Associate Editor of Environmetrics, and an Associate Editor of TEST: Journal of the Spanish Statistical and Operations Research Society. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. For more info see his personal Website: http://www.aucegypt.edu/faculty/hadi.

Regression and Multivariate analysis, Visualization of massive hyperdimensional Data (Big Data),  Expert Systems and Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Neural, Bayesian, Markov, and Functional Networks Matrix Algebra and its applications