Ahmed LEGROURI , Ph.D. Dean, School of Science and Engineering

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All Faculty

Biology

Dr. Fouad Berrada, Associate Professor of Biology

Ph.D. In Biopathology/Molecular Biology from Université de Montréal, 1995

 

Teaching Interests:

Teaching different biology courses

Research Interests:

Early detection of cancers and HIV expression in transgenic models

Office:

bldg 5 R009

Extension:

2126

Email:

F.Berrada(at)aui.ma

Web page:

www.aui.ma/~F.Berrada

 

Dr Fouad Berrada


 

Dr El Asli Abdelghani, Assistant Professor of Biology

Ph.D. in Biotechnology, 2003, Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi, Tétouan, Morocco 
MS in Biology, 1993, City college of New York (CUNY), USA

 

Teaching Interests:

Implementation of the information technology tools in the teaching of science courses

Research Interests:

Biovalorization of natural resources and waste with a center on the bioconversion of lignocelluse into biofuels and the detoxification of waste pollutants

Office:

room 4, B 5

Extension:

21-23

Email:

a.elasli(at)aui.ma

 

 


 

 

Dr Sendide Khalid, AssociateProfessor of Biology

 

 

Teaching Interests:

·     Molecular Immunology,

·     Molecular Biotechnology,

·     Biosafety and Bioethics,

·     Basic Chemistry

Research Interests:

·     Molecular mechanisms involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis,

·     Production of Bioactive molecules by Green Biotechnology

Office:

Office 101, Building 05

Extension:

21-05

Email:

k.sendide(at)aui.ma

 

 

Chemistry

Dr. Ahmed Legrouri, Professor of Chemistry and Materials Science

Ph. D., Materials Chemistry University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 1988.

 

Teaching Interests:

General Chemistry and Materials Science courses at the undergraduate level.

Research Interests:

·     Understanding and Development of new solid materials in relation with natural resources valorization and water purification.

·     Water resource management and environment.

Email:

a.legrouri(at)aui.ma

Extension:

2131

Web page:

www.aui.ma

 


 

Dr Ouardaoui Abdelkrim, Assistant Professor of Chemistry

Ph. D. Chemistry, University of Massachusetts Lowell. USA, 1996

 

Teaching Interests:

 

Research Interests:

 

Office:

007/Bldg 06

Extension:

2151

Email:

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Dr. Samir El Hajjaji, Assistant Professor in Chemistry

Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry at the University of Nottingham, UK, 2009

 

Teaching Interests:

General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry at the undergraduate level

Research Interests:

My research interests lie in the fields of Organic Chemistry and Organic & Organometallic Catalysis.

Email:

s.elhajjaji(at)aui.ma

Extension:

2158

Web page:

http://aui.ma/personal/~S.ElHajjaji/

 

 

 

Computer Science

Dr. Fouad Mohammed Abbou, Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. Degree, Telecommunications, Multimedia University (MMU), Malaysia, 2001.
Ingenieur Degree, Electrical Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, 1995

 

Teaching Interests:

Wireless Communications
Computer Communications
Advanced Computer Networks
Broadband Networks
Optical Networks
Fiber Optic Communications
Antenna and Wave propagation
Electromagnetic Theory
Radar System
Laser Technology

Research Interests:

Optical Transmission Systems
Optical Networks
Security in Al-Optical Networks.

Office:

Building 6/Office 1

Extension:

2107

Email:

F.Abbou(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/personal/~F.Abbou/

 

 


 

 

Dr. Mohamed Riduan ABID, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D, Computer Science, Auburn University, USA

 

Teaching Interests:

Networking
Operating Systems
Data structures
Programming

Research Interests:

WMNs - Wireless Mesh Networks
MANETs - Mobile Ad-hoc Networks
MACs for Wireless Networks
IMSs - IP Multimedia Subsystems

Office:

110 / Bldg:07

Extension:

2102

Email:

R.Abid(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/~R.Abid

 

Mr Mohamed Riduan

 


 

 

Dr. Nasser Assem, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Ingenieur EMI -- Ph.D., Comp. Science, Michigan State University, 2002

 

Teaching Interests:

Database Systems, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Operating Systems, Computer Organization & Assembly Language, Discrete Math.

Research Interests:

Data & Knowledge Management, Data Mining, Information Retrieval, Pattern Recognition

Office:

B7/R18

Extension:

2111

Email:

n.assem(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/~N.Assem

 

 


 

 

Dr. Violetta Cavalli-Sforza: Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. in Intelligent Systems, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 1998.

 

Teaching Interests:

My teaching interests are basically software oriented. They include MS Office applications, introduction to computers, computer programming and software engineering, data structures, programming languages, artificial intelligence and natural language processing.

Research Interests:

My research interests focus primarily on (intelligent) tutoring systems / computer-assisted instruction, machine translation and other aspects of natural language processing, and the combination of these areas of study.

Office :

Building 7/Office 110

Extension :

2106

Email:

V.CavalliSforza(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://citi.aui.ma/sse/violetta_cavalli_sforza

 

 

 


 

 

Dr Hachim Haddouti, Adjunct Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Database Systems at Technical University of Munich 1999

 

Teaching Interests:

Database Systems, Data Warehousing, Project Management and Leadership, XML and Data Management, Enterprise Architecture Management, Enterprise Content Management

Research Interests:

Enterprise Content & Knowledge Management, Mutilingual Information Retrieval

Office :

N/A

Extension :

N/A

Email:

H.Haddouti(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.haddouti.de

 

 

 


 

 

Dr. Hamid HARROUD, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

Ingénieur EMI, Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Ottawa , Canada

 

Teaching Interests:

Computer Programming, Languages & Compilers, Algorithm Analysis, Software Engineering, Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, Agent-Based Systems, Database Systems, Advanced Topics in Software Engineering

Research Interests:

Mobile Computing, Policy-Based Management, Agent-Based Multimedia Applications, Context Awareness, Ambient Networks

Office :

Bld 6/Office 10

Extension :

2194

Email:

H.Harroud(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/~H.Harroud

 

 

 


 

 

Mr. Omar Iraqi, Lecturer of Computer Science

Ingénieur d'Etat, EMI 1998. Master of Science in Computer Networks, AUI 2003

 

Teaching Interests:

Networking and Internet Technologies

Research Interests:

AOP Extension of Distributed and Component-Based Software, Model Driven Design and Architecture

Office:

104, blg 7

Extension:

2414

Email:

o.iraqi(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/~O.Iraqi

 

Mr. Omar Iraqi

 


 

 

Dr. Driss Kettani, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Ph.D. in Computer Science, Laval University in Canada, 1998

 

Teaching Interests:

Software Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and GIS

Research Interests:

eTechnologies, ICT4D, GIS/GPS/GSM Integration, Process/Data Modeling

Office:

Building 9, no. 102

Extension:

2178

Email:

d.kettani(at)aui.ma

 

 


 

 

Mrs. Asmaa Mourhir, Lecturer of Computer Science

Master of Science in Computer Science, Al Akhawayn University 2000

Teaching Interests:

Computer Architecture & Organization, Object Orinted Programming

Research Interests:

Object Oriented Modeling, Component Based Software, VoIP

Office:

104, Blg 7

Extension:

2144

Email:

A.Mourhir(at)aui.ma

 

Mrs Asmaa Mourhir

 


 

 

Dr. Tajje-eddine Rachidi, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Ingénieur ENSIMAG, France Ph.D. Computer Science, University of Essex UK

 

Teaching Interests:

Operating Systems, Computer Networks, Broadband networks, Comuter and Network Security, Internet protocols, Distributed Systems, Multimedia Interworking

Research Interests:

QoS provisioning in 3G Wireless Networks, Arabic Text processing, Multimadia Computing

Office:

Bld 7/25 & Bld 9/201

Extension:

2110

Email:

T.Rachidi(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/~T.Rachidi

 

Dr Tajje-eddine Rachidi

 


 

 

Dr. Kevin Smith, Associate Professor of Computer Science

Phd, Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1988

 

Teaching Interests:

Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, Algorithms

Research Interests:

IT support for education, Visualization, High Performance Computing

Office:

Building 7 room 14

Extension:

2138

Email:

K.Smith(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/~K.Smith

 

Dr. Kevin

 


 

 

Mrs. Hanaa Talei, Lecturer of Computer of Science

Master of Science in Computer Networks, Al Akhawayn University, 2005

 

Teaching Interests:

Computer programming, Data Structures

Research Interests:

 

Office :

Building 5/Office 101

Extension :

3194

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H.Talei(at)aui.ma

 

 

 

Mrs. Yousra Chtouki, Lecturer of Computer Science

Master  in Computer Science with a Database Track. Oklahoma City University, 2005, USA

 

Teaching Interests:

 Database, Theory of Computing, Introduction to computers, Data Structures.

Research Interests:

 Service Composition,  Ethics in Computing, E-learning, and Technology in Education. 

Office:

Building 5/Office 102

Extension:

3171

Email:

y.chtouki(at)aui.ma

 

 

Engineering


 

 

Dr Anas Bentamy, Assistant Professor of Engineering

Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, ,2003
M.Sc. A in Chemical Engineering, LAVAL University, Quebec 1997

 

Teaching Interests:

Mechanical Engineering (Statics and Dynamics, Material Science) and Physics.

Research Interests:

My research interests are in the field of Multidisciplinary Design Optimization.

Office:

Building 7/Office 109

Extension:

2140

Email:

A.Bentamy(at)aui.ma

 

Dr. Bentamy


Dr. Yassine Salih-Alj, Assistant Professor of Engineering

Ph.D. in Telecommunications, Wireless Communications, (2008), INRS-EMT: Institute for Scientific Research - Energy, Materials and Telecommunications, Canada.

 

Teaching Interests:

Digital Design, Electronics, Electric Circuits, Engineering Instrumentation, Wireless Communications, Digital Telecommunications, Broadband Communications, RF Design

Research Interests:

Wireless Communications
Indoor Positioning
UWB -Ultra-Wideband
Digital System Implementation
GPS -Global Positioning System

Office:

Building 7/Office 105

Extension:

2101

Email:

Y.SalihAlj(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma /~Y.SalihAlj/

 

 


Dr. Khallaayoun Ahmed, Assistant professor of Engineering

Ph.D. Degree, Electrical Engineering, Montana State University 2010 (Bozeman, Montana, US). 
M.S Degree, Electrical Engineering, Montana State University 2006. 
B.S Degree, Electrical Engineering, Montana State University 2002.

Teaching Interests:

· RF Circuits 
· Communication Systems and Networking 
· Cellular Systems, Multi-access systems 
· Wired and wireless communication 
· systems optical fiber systems 
· Electro-optical systems 
· Antenna Engineering 
· Analog electronics 
· Control systems
· Digital signal processing

Research Interests:

·High Resolution Direction of Arrival Estimation 
·Systems Modeling 
·Electronics design and implementation 
·Smart antennas and spatial multiplexing 
·Next Gen Networks

Office:

Building 7 Office 102

Extension:

3004

Email:

a.khallaayoun(at)aui.ma

Web page:

 

 


Management Science

Dr. Ilham Kissani, Assistant Professor of Management Science

Ph.D., Laval University, M.Sc in Logistics, Engineer in Operations Research

Teaching Interests:

Engineering Statistics and Probability, Operations and Production Management, Quantitative Methods, Engineering Economy, Supply Chain Management, Risk Management

Research Interests:

Decision Support Systems, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Risk Management

Office:

Building 7, Room 001

Extension:

2122

Email:

i.kissani(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://citi.aui.ma/sse/Ilham_Kissani/

Mathematics

Dr. Fouad Chaatit, Associate Professor of Mathematics

Universite Haute Normandie, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Universite Paris VII, University of Texas at Austin

 

Teaching Interests:

Mathematics

Research Interests:

• Stability of  Banach Spaces

• Uniform Homeomorphisms Between Spheres of  Banach Spaces

• Function Spaces 

• Baire Class 1 Functions

• Functional Analysis

• Quality Assurance 

• Network Simulation

• Strategic Planning 

Office:

08

Extension:

2109

Web page:

www.aui.ma/~F.Chaatit

Representative research papers and other research output:

Conference Proceedings

1. F. Chaatit,  Twisted Types and Uniform Stability. Functional analysis (Austin, TX, 1987/1989), 183--199, Lecture Notes in Math. 1470, Springer, Berlin, 1991

Journal Papers

1. F. Chaatit, On uniform homeomorphisms of the unit spheres of certain Banach lattices. Pacific J. Math.168 (1995), no.1, 11—31

2. F. Chaatit, M.  Khamsi,  Uniform Kadec-Klee property in Banach lattices, Math. Japon.43 (1996), no. 2, 357--364.

3. F. Chaatit, A representation of stable Banach spaces. Arch. Math. (Basel) 67 (1996), no. 1,  59--69.

4. F. Chaatit, V. Mascioni, and H. Rosenthal, On functions of finite Baire index, (joint with Mascioni, V. and  Rosenthal, H. ) J. Funct. Anal. 142 (1996), no. 2,  277--295

5. F. Chaatit, On simple DBSC functions. Math. Japon. 46 (1997), no. 2, 357--361.

6. F. Chaatit, H. Rosenthal, On differences of semi-continuous functions, Quaest. Math. 23 (2000), no. 3, 295--311. 

7. F. Chaatit,  Une Remarque Sur les Homéomorphismes Uniformes, Scient. Math. Japon.,59, No. 1 (2004)

8. T.Rachidi, A. Mourhir, and F. Chaatit, "Delivery of Unified Communications over Thin-IMS," International Journal of Mobile Computing and Multimedia Communication, 4 (1), 43-56, January-March 2012   43

CONFERENCE PAPERS:

1. F. Chaatit, A. Marzouk, Quantitative Skills Assessment at a Liberal Arts College, AUI as an Example, Learning Technologies and Middle East Mathematics Conference Proceedings. 2007.

2. T.Rachidi, F. Chaatit, A. Hazgour and  H.Bouzekri , Delivery of Multimedia Commercials  in a SIP Network: an Initial Simulation of Resources, 199-202, Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, Marrakech, Morocco, 2010. ISBN 978-9954-9091-0-2

3. T. Rachidi, A. Mourhir and F.Chaatit, SIPTALK: a  Platform for Telecommunication Services,  49-55,   Proceedings of the International Conference on Next Generation Networks and Services, Marrakech, Morocco, 2010. ISBN 978-9954-9091-0-2

4. F. Chaatit, K.Smith, and A. Legrouri, Quality Assurance in Higher Education: Experience of Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco, World Education - Arts, Sciences and Education Congress 12th-15th January 2011, New Delhi, India

5. Smith, K., Chaatit, F., and Legrouri, A, Implementation of Quality Assurance in a North American Style University in Morocco, International Conference of Education, Research, and Innovation (ICERI 2010), 15-17 November, 2010, Madrid, Spain.

 

Dr Fouad Chaatit


 

 

Dr Abderrazzak El Boukili, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Pierre et Marie Curie University, Paris, 1995

 

Teaching Interests:

Partial differential equations, Numerical Analysis, Computational Mathematics, Calculus and Linear Algebra, Mathematical Modeling, Industrial Mathematics, Computer Science, Semiconductor Physics, and Electron Transport theory

Research Interests:

Semiconductor Device and Process Simulation, Optoelectronics, Photonics, Nanotechnology, Laser Physics, Optics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, TCAD Software Development Engineering, Biomedical, Video Game Development Industry, Fiber Optic Communication, and Computational Geometry

Office :

Building 5/Office 001

Extension :

2127

Email:

A.Elboukili(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/perosnal/~A.Elboukili

 

Dr Abderrazzak El Boukili

 


 

Dr Naeem Nisar Sheikh, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. (2008) in Mathematics from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois USA.

 

Teaching Interests:

 

Research Interests:

 

Office :

 

Extension :

3165

Email:

N.Sheikh(at)aui.ma

Web page:

 

 

 


 

Dr. Veronique Van Lierde, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. in mathematics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2004

 

Teaching Interests:

Discrete Mathematics for Engineers, Discrete mathematics for Humanities and Business

Research Interests:

Commutative algebra; integrally closed ideals, degree functions, 2-dimensional regular local rings, 2-dimensional rational singularities

Office:

7/Class 18

Extension:

2447

Email:

v.lierde(at)aui.ma

 


 

Dr Lahcen Laayouni, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Mohamed V University, Rabat, 2001

 

Teaching Interests:

Ordinary differential equations for engineers, Partial differential equations, Numerical Analysis, Calculus and Linear Algebra.

Research Interests:

Domain Decomposition Methods, Optimized Schwarz Algorithms, Krylov Subspace Methods, Parallel space time methods, Multilevel and Multigrid Methods, and Preconditioning.

Office:

Building 7/Office 5

Extension:

2112

Email:

L.Laayouni(at)aui.ma

Website:

www.aui.ma/personal/~L.Laayouni

 

Dr. Laayouni


 

Dr Sedki Samadi, Assistant Professor of Mathematics

Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Seville, Spain in 2001

 

Teaching Interests:

Discrete Mathematics, Mathematical Thinking, Differential Equations, Calculus & Precalculus

Research Interests:

Functional Analysis, in particular fixed-point theory in modular function spaces

Office:

Building 5/Office 102

Extension:

2179

Email:

S.Samadi(at)aui.ma

Website:

http://www.aui.ma/personal/~S.Samadi/

 

Dr Samadi

 

Physics

Dr. Hassane Darhmaoui, Associate Professor of Physics

PhD in Physics, University of Alberta, Canada (1997)

 

Teaching Interests:

Physics, Statics & Dynamics

Research Interests:

High-Temperature Superconductivity, Solar Energy Systems and Astronomy Education

Office:

Building 7, Room 16

Extension:

2141

Email:

H.Darhmaoui(at)aui.ma

Web page:

http://www.aui.ma/personal/~H.Darhmaoui/

 

 


 

 

Dr Loudiyi Khalid, Assistant Professor of Physics

Ph.D., Physics, Oklahoma State University, December 1989

 

Teaching Inteersts:

 

Research Interests:

 

Office:

006/Bldg7

Extension:

2108

Email:

k.loudiyi(at)aui.ma

 

 

Dr. Asmae Khaldoun, Assistant Professor of Physics

PhD. in Physical chemistry, Abdel Malek Essaadi University, Tetuan, Morocco

 

Teaching Inteersts:

Physics & Engineering courses: 
-Conceptual Physics PHY1400
_General Physics I PHY1401
-General Physics II PHY 1402
- Materials Science EGR 3304

Research Interests:

Formulation and stability of colloidal suspensions and emulsions 
Flow behavior “Rheology” of complex materials like Tarsands, Rassoul. quicksand and quickclay
Study of the physics behind natural phenomenon’s like quicksand and quick Clay.

Office:

Building 7/Office113

Extension:

2154

Email:

a.khaldoune(at)aui.ma

Website:

http://citi.aui.ma/sse/Asmae_khaldoun/

 

 

 

 
 

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