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This list presents a number of selected AUIS faculty and staff and their areas of expertise. To contact them please email [email protected]
Department of Business Administration
Fahrettin Sümer Ph.D. University of South Carolina M.A. University of South CarolinaM.A. Rutgers University
Sümer holds a Ph.D. in International Studies and two Masters degrees in Political Science and Economics. He won the 2002 Grand Prize of the ISAu South Paper Competition and the meritu based Governor John West Fellowship during his doctoral studies. Sümer has also published several academic articles and written opu eds for newspapers.
In 2012 he published a book, The Neglected Impact Of Nonp Economic Factors On The Development Of Financial Crises And Governmental Responses: The Mexican And Malaysian Cases Of The 1990s. His most recent research has focused on Turkey’s foreign relations with the EU and the Middle East. He is also interested in Greece’s current financial crisis. Before joining AUIS, Sümer taught multiple economics, political economy, international relations, international business, and political science courses in South Carolina and Virginia. Currently he is the Chair of the Department of Business Administration but has previously worked in the Department of Social Sciences.
Sümer is available for comment on economics, international political economy, international relations theory, foreign policy analysis, globalization, and financial crises.
Earl Patrick Cline M.B.A. University of North CarolinaB.S. Clemson University
Earl Patrick Cline focuses on economic development and how the expansion of financial intermediation can facilitate and speed economic growth. As part of his research, Cline examines the development of capital markets and how they improve access to capital for both individuals and business. He is also very interested in promoting entrepreneurship as a means to developing the capacity of the private sector. Cline has been in Iraq for five years.
Cline is available for comment on business, finance and entrepreneurship.
Robert Ritchie M.B.A. Boston University School of ManagementJ.D. Temple University School of LawB.A. Arcadia University
Dr. Robert Ritchie is the Director of Professional Development Institute (PDI) at AUIS. In this role Dr. Ritchie overseas all activities related to the creation and provision of educational programs fostering professional growth and development. Dr. Ritchie also directs the University’s Masters of Business Administration program, in which he teaches courses in Financial Management and Business Law and Ethics.
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Ritchie has over 15 years of international business development and university teaching experience, including 12 years in the MENA region. During this time he has been instrumental in helping establish and guide numerous business start-‐ups, providing expertise in business plan development, strategic and tactical management analysis, financial resource planning, and training and development. His particular interest is in supporting human capacity development through business education and development.
Ritchie is available for comment on financial management, business and human capacity development.
Department of Engineering
Hayder Abdul-‐Razzak, Chair Ph.D. Illinois Institute of Technology M.A. Illinois Institute of TechnologyB.A. Illinois Institute of Technology
Dr. Hayder Abdul-‐Razzak is a professor of mechanical engineering with over 25 years of academic and industrial experience. He is an expert in the design, analysis, and modeling of fluid, thermal, and energy systems.
Abdul-‐Razzak has developed and taught a variety of graduate and undergraduate courses in thermal and fluid sciences and computational methods. He has also conducted and supervised numerous research and design projects. Abdul-‐Razzak has published more than fifteen journal articles as well as conference papers and proceedings with over one thousand citations. He is the editor of the book Atmospheric Aerosols-‐ Regional Characteristics -‐ Chemistry and Physics.
For the past twenty years he has been involved with a major research project supported by NASA and the United States Department of Energy to investigate the impact of anthropogenic aerosols on the global atmosphere in collaboration with Pacific Northwest Laboratory and several other national laboratories and universities. His treatment of aerosol activation has been selected for incorporation in the Community Climate System Model and will be used to represent aerosol effects on clouds in the next round of simulations for the Nobel Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. His scheme is being adopted for other global climate models as well, including the Japanese and German models. It is also being used in regional models such as the Weather Research and Forecasting model and in several cloud-‐ resolving models.
Abdul-‐Razzak is available for comment on climate change, engineering, fluid and thermal energy systems.
Sarbast Rasheed Ph.D. University of Waterloo M.Sc. University of BaghdadB.S. University of Baghdad
Sarbast Rasheed received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1981 and the M.Sc. degree in Computer & Control Engineering in 1985 from the University ofBaghdad, Iraq. He worked as an R&D Engineer from 1987 to 1989 at the Iraqi
Electronics Industries Company and then transferred to an academic position as a Lecturer in the Department of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Baghdad, and then in the Department of Computer Science, Applied Science University, Amman, Jordan until 1999. In 2006, he received the Ph.D. degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Then he worked as a post-‐doctoral fellow at the same department. From 2007 to 2008, he worked as a Vision System Engineering Specialist with the Canadian company Rotoflex International. From 2009-‐2012, he worked as a Research Associate in the medical imaging area at the Department of Systems Design Engineering, University of Waterloo. Rasheed is now an Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering, the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani. Rasheed has published several refereed journal and conference papers. He is a professional engineer and a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) and IEEE. His current research interests are in the areas of digital systems design, real-‐ time embedded systems design, and control systems design and automation. Rasheed is available for comment on engineering and computer science.
Department of English and Journalism
Akeel Abbas Ph.D. Purdue University M.A. Gannon University B.A. Al-‐Mustansiraya University Before teaching at AUIS, Abbas worked for several years as a journalist covering Iraq and the Middle East, appearing as a guest analyst in a number of Arabic-‐language TV programs. He has made a number of documentary films focusing on Iraqi women activism for equal rights, oil and Iraq's history. Abbas was also involved in writing a series of English and Arabic guides on democratization in Iraq for the Washington, DC-‐based non-‐profit organization the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. Previously, Abbas founded and managed the Ayoon Organization for Human Rights, a non-‐profit organization that documented human rights abuses in Iraq. Abbas is available for comment on journalism. Choman Hardi Ph.D. University of Kent in Canterbury M.A. University College London B.A. Queen’s College, Oxford University Hardi’s research and teaching interests include gender and power, poetry, translation, creative writing and feminist literature. Her post-‐doctoral research resulted in the book, Gendered Experiences of Genocide: Anfal Survivors in Kurdistan-‐Iraq (Ashgate, 2011). It was chosen by the Yankee Book Peddler as a UK Core Title. She has published articles about creative writing, the Anfal campaign, gender and migration, and the women’s movement in Kurdistan.
Also a poet, Hardi has published collections in Kurdish and English. Four poems from her English collection, Life For Us (Bloodaxe Books, 2004), were selected onto the English GCSE syllabus in the UK in 2010. Her forthcoming collection, Considering The Women, will be published by Bloodaxe Books in 2016.
Dr. Hardi is available to comment on gender issues, feminism, poetry and literature, the Anfal Campaign and women’s movement in Kurdistan.
Loren Higbee (ABD) University of Notre Dame M.A. Brigham Young UniversityB.A. Brigham Young University
Loren Higbee researches European lyric tradition and comparative poetics. His dissertation focused on aspects of “the modern” in the poetry of Petrarch and early British Modernism. Particular areas of interest include Dante, Petrarch, contemporary speculative fiction, Mormon literature, Melville, and T.S. Eliot. Higbee’s writings have been published in literary journals such as The Formalist, the Portland Review, and Foliate Oak. His academic work draws mostly on the English and Italian traditions but has also expanded at times to include literature in French, Spanish, German, while his creative work has also been touched by Japanese, Akkadian, Sanskrit, and Kurdish influences.
Higbee is available for comment on poetry and literature.
Department of Information Technology
Alan Amin M.S. Rochester Institute of TechnologyB.S. in Ege University
Amin is a computer engineer who started his academic career after he received the Fulbright scholarship to pursue his master’s degree. He holds a master’s degree in Information Technology and a bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering. He has been teaching undergraduate courses in computing since 2008. Before joining AUIS, he was the head of the computer-‐engineering department at Ishik University. He has been teaching courses in programming and algorithms, web development, data structures, and management information systems. His current research interests include machine learning and software standards in health care systems. He has created many free and paid applications and websites for different business domains including telecommunications, health care and web development companies.
Amin is available for comment on IT issues in Kurdistan Region and application development in general.
Katongo Lukwesa M.S. University of NamibiaB.S. University of Zambia
Katongo Lukwesa has over 15 years in the IT industry in both industry and academic environments. He has worked in the airline industry, where he specialized in check-‐digit
real time implementations via programming. He has also led transition from mainframe to PC-‐based data entry and validation systems and worked in communications as part of a turnkey solution to hardware and software installations. Further, he managed an IT network for an academic faculty including a challenging ground-‐up implementation, along with architectural planning with a team of dynamic engineers, technicians, architects, and contractors. Lukwesa has previously taught diverse IT-‐based courses including Computer Forensics (an exciting treatment of law and computing on the forensics trail). He teaches Computer Science and IT Applications, Database Management Systems, and IT Project Management. Lukwesa is available for comment on IT and society, e-‐Governance and IT government, intelligent systems in (Tacit) knowledge management, and solutions to customer-‐centric services in e-‐government. Atheer Matroud Ph.D Massey University MSc University of Putra Malaysia Atheer Matroud is a computational biologist, Mathematical biologist and Bioinformatician with 12 years experience teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses in computer science, mathematics and bioinformatics. His current research interests include computational biology, bioinformatics, networking and graph theory. In the last 5 years, he has been working on the analysis of DNA sequences where he designed software tools for bioinformatics. Matroud has worked at the University of Otago, Massey University, University of Nottingham and Universiti Putra Malaysia. He was a member of IEEE, International Society for Computational Biology, New Zealand Mathematical Society and The Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution. His main research focus is building phylogenetics tools using repeated elements in DNA. He is available for comment on computational biology, mathematical biology, bioinformation, networking and graph theory. Farzad Sanati Ph.D. University of Technology Sydney M.IT. University of Western Sydney B.IT. University of Western Sydney Dr. Farzad Sanati was awarded a Ph.D. for his research work in Computer Science on E-‐Government Intelligent Service integration from UTS. He has worked over 14 years for Australian Federal and State Governments in large-‐scale E-‐Government design and implementation projects. Sanati has been giving advice to Chinese government officials from E-‐government and ICT department of Jiangsu Provincial (the hub of information technology industry in China). Sanati is currently teaching Information Technology in the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS). He has earned two certificates, a Certificate in Workplace Assessment and Training Option Institute, Sydney and a Certificate in Accounting TAFE NSW, Sydney while completing his graduate and undergraduate programs respectively. Sanati is available to comment on E-‐Government, Enterprise Architecture and Software Engineering.
Muhammad Shariq M.S. College of Staten IslandM.B.A. Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan
Muhammad Shariq came to AUIS from the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), where he served as Dean of Faculty and Assistant Professor of IT. At AUAF, he helped establish its degree programs and the faculty governance structure. He was also the first secretary of AUAF’s Faculty Senate.
At his previous institutions, Shariq has taught courses in Programming, Database Management, Web Development, Web Applications, Hardware Systems and Organization, and Information Systems. At AUIS he has taught Intro to Computers (CSC101) and E-‐Commerce Application Development (ITE306). He is currently teaching Intro to Programming (CSC202) and Special Topics: Mobile Application Development (ITE 480).
Shariq is available for comment on Computer Science Education, Semantic Web and Mobile Computing/ Location Based Systems.
Department of Social Sciences
Djene Rhys Bajalan D.Phil Candidate at the University of OxfordM.A Istanbul Bilgi UniversityM.Sc The London School of EconomicsB.A The London School of Oriental and African Studies
Djene Rhys Bajalan currently teaches Modern World Civilizations and Middle Eastern History at AUIS and has previously experience lecturing at Salahaddin University, Istanbul Bilgi University and the University of Oxford.
He has published in the Turkish journals Dipnot and Toplum ve Kuram as well as English language academic journals including British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Iranian Studies and Middle Eastern Studies. His monograph entitled Jön Kürtler: Birinci Dünya Savaşı'ndan önce Kürt Hareketi (1898p 1914) [The Young Kurds: The Kurdish movement before the First World War] was published in 2010. He is currently completing his doctoral degree at the University of Oxford.
He is available to comment on government and politics in Turkey, Kurdish history and politics in Turkey and Iraq, politics of the KRG, USu Middle East relations, nationalism and the Kurdish question, Kurdish intellectuals, as well as the history and politics of the Middle East in general.
Elizabeth CampbellPh.D. University of Washington M.A. University of WashingtonB.A. University of California, Berkeley
Elizabeth Campbell studies the history and archaeology of Mesopotamia and the Middle East from late antiquity to the Mongols. Her research focuses on religion in Iraq and Christianu Muslim relations. She is currently working on a study of monasteries in
northern Iraq during Islamic period, including a map of the approximate location and extant remains of medieval monasteries, as well as other digital humanities projects to document the cultural heritage of Iraq.
Campbell is available for comment on Middle East history, archaeology, and Christian-‐Muslim relations.
Geoffrey Gresk M.P.H. Johns Hopkins UniversityB.S. Grand Valley State University
Geoffrey Gresk has been working in development and education for over ten years. After serving for two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Cape Verde, Gresk worked as an HIV prevention specialist in the Chicago Public Schools. He holds a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. In addition to being a teacher, Gresk is also the Assistant Dean of Academic Integrity.
Gresk is available for comment undergraduate education and student affairs.
James Hart M.A. Indiana UniversityB.A. University of Montana
James Hart focuses on Central Asia with particular interest in the religious history of the region, the migration and formation of states among the early Turkic peoples, and cultural interaction and borrowing from dominant regional powers. With a B.A in Classical Languages and MA in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, Hart uses a cross-‐disciplinary approach with special attention paid to languages and the arts of the regional peoples, including their literature and visual art as well as their history.
Hart is available for comment on Central Asia and the Turkic peoples.
Edith Szanto Ph.D. University of Toronto M.A. University of Texas at AustinB.A. Arizona State University
Dr. Edith Szanto teaches Middle Eastern History, Western Civilization, Comparative World Religions, and Islam. Her research focuses mainly on Islam in the modern Middle East. She has published several articles on Twelver Shi’i practices in Syria, where she spent three years as a Fulbright scholar researching popular Islamic practices and working for the UN. Her current project examines Sufism in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Szanto is available for comment on Twelver Shi‘ism, Sufism, Gender, the Anthropology of Islam, Iraq, Kurdistan, and Syria.
Bilal Wahab Ph.D. George Mason University M.A. American UniversityB.A. Salahaddin University
Bilal Wahab’s research focuses on energy policy and industry, democratic transition, corruption and good governance, and economic development in Iraqi Kurdistan. A native of Sulaimani, Wahab has appeared regularly in the media and at conferences,
including PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Aljazeera English and Arabic, NPR's Dianne Rehm Show, Voice of America, Georgetown University, Yale University, Amherst College, and AUIS’ Sulaimani Forum. Wahab is available for comment on oil and gas in Iraqi Kurdistan, Kurdish politics, good governance and economic development.
Department of Mathematics and Natural Science
Adeyinka Aina Ph.D University of Nottingham M.Sc. University of Ibadan B.Sc. (Honours) University of Ibadan Adeyinka is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) United Kingdom. He obtained his doctoral degree from the prestigious School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. He has extensive professional experience in both teaching and scientific research, having worked in Nigeria, China, Singapore, Malaysia and in England. His current research effort focuses on the use of various techniques such as Raman spectroscopy, X-‐Ray Powder Diffraction, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Hot Stage Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy in the physical/chemical analysis of active pharmaceutical ingredients as well as drug carrier agents. Adeyinka Aina is available to comment on spectroscopy, X-‐Ray Powder Diffraction, Differential Scanning Calorimetry, Hot Stage Microscopy and Scanning Electron Microscopy. Mazen Bou Khuzam Ph.D. University of Cambridge M.S. American University of Beirut B.S. American University of Beirut Dr. Mazen Bou Khuzam earned his B.S. and M.S. degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut. He then went to the University of Cambridge where he obtained his doctorate degree with specialty in Geometry and Topology. He is currently serving as the Chair of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Science. He has been working recently on the Atiyah-‐Sutcliffe conjectures on n distinct points of R^{3}. He is available for comment on Low dimensional topology, exotic R^{4}’s, and contact structures on 3-‐manifolds. Tara Faidhalla Ph.D. University of Florida M.S. University of Baghdad B.S. University of Baghdad Faidhalla’s research interests focus on three major fields that include: food processing, protein chemistry, and immunology methods. Her current focus is primarily on the application of novel technologies, such as power ultrasound, to reduce the allergenicity of soybeans. In addition, she studies the mechanisms that underlie the effects of power
ultrasound on the structure of protein allergens to understand if this technology can be used to reduce the allergenicity of proteins. During the past seven years, she has observed the agendas of research centers in Malaysia and the United State to understand the foundation of scientific advance. There, she found several aspects to be significantly different from the academic teaching standard in Iraq, for example, the critical thinking, and teamwork in class. Her previous work in Iraq and Malaysia and her experience and education in the United State have equipped her with the tools, knowledge, and confidence necessary to introduce and design courses based on Iraqi students’ need. Faidhalla is available for comment on food processing, protein chemistry and immunology methods. Nasseer Idrisi Ph.D. State University of New York M.S. University of Basrah B.S. University of Basrah Dr. Nasseer Idrisi’s research interests include the study of aquatic (freshwater, estuarine, and marine) food web dynamics, especially the interaction of biological populations and communities with their environment. The goal of his research is to understand how populations adapt to changes, and develop means to predict outcomes based on hypothesized scenarios. He also researches how water is used and managed in agricultural and urban settings. Idrisi’s research experience includes field data collection for nutrient-‐phytoplankton-‐zooplankton analysis and interaction studies, and laboratory studies on bioenergetics of aquatic invertebrates and vertebrates that include oxygen consumption, excretion and growth experiments. Other experiences include coupled biological-‐physical modeling using general circulation ocean models (GCOM). He has conducted field work in the southern Iraqi marshes, Shatt-‐al Arab, Arabian Gulf, Oneida Lake (New York State), Atlantic Gulf Stream, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean Sea. Idrisi is available for comment on aquatic systems, water management and biodiversity. Ramalingam Periasamy Ph.D University of Wales M.Eng. Anna University, Chennai M.Sc. St. Joseph’s College University of Madras, Chennai Dr. Ramalingam Periasamy is an experimental laser Physicist with more than 20 years experience teaching undergraduate courses in physics and geology. His current research interests include building of high power lasers and laser electro-‐optics and electronics, the evaluation of pedagogy of teaching methods in Physics, developing Java applets for effective use in classroom teaching, mathematical modeling, and the detection of counterfeit anti-‐malarial drugs using laser Raman spectroscopy. Periasamy has worked on US Department of Education projects to develop interest in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) through junior enrichment programs that incorporate summer programs aimed at inquiry based learning about science through lab experiments and interactive discussions.
Periasamy is available for comment on lasers, physics and science pedagogy. Maria Saldarriaga Ph.D. University of Bergen, Norway M.Phil. University of Bergen, Norway B.E. National University of Colombia Maria Saldarriaga holds a Bachelor in Management Engineering from the National University of Colombia and a Masters and a Ph.D. in System Dynamics from the University of Bergen in Norway. She is originally from Colombia, but her studies and research have taken her to Norway, India and Zambia. She specializes in the use of modeling and social sciences methods to study the linkages between humans and the environment, and in the design of integrated policies for natural resources management. For the past two years, she has conducted research on local climate change and food security in the south of Zambia, where she has worked with small holder farmers to investigate their vulnerability to climate change and their ability to adapt to it. Maria is an Assistant Professor at the Mathematics and Natural Science Department and an IRIS Research Fellow. The working title of Saldarriaga’s research is: “A Social-‐Ecological Systems Study of Karez in Iraqi Kurdistan: Understanding the Role of Traditional Groundwater Management Systems in Sustainability, Food Insecurity and Internal Migration.” Through her research, Saldarriaga aims to understand the role that karez currently play in rural water and food security. Additionally, she will explore whether karez can be used for sustainable water management given the future challenges of climate change. Saldarriaga is available for comment on social-‐ecological systems in Iraqi Kurdistan and water and water management in Iraq.