Mentorship
Current doctoral students
Supporting the next generation of researchers.
Ahmad Bany Abdelnabi
Post Doctoral Scholar
Daniel Kennedy
Current Ph.D. student
Murtadha Alsayegh
Post doctoral Scholar
Costi Al-Dalou
Current Ph.D. student
Mohammad Baniabdelnabi
Current Ph.D. student
Former doctoral students
An international network of scholars and practitioners.
Former students have continued into academic, research, government and industry leadership roles.
Jean-Paul Arnaout
Graduated 2006
Professor and Dean, Gulf University for Science and Technology
Leonardo Bedoya-Valencia
Graduated 2007
Associate Professor, Colorado State University Pueblo
Okay Isik
Graduated 2009
Academic career in Turkey
Sean Deller
Graduated 2009
Senior technical operations leader and retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel
Chris Garcia
Graduated 2010
Professor and Associate Dean, University of Mary Washington
Sezgin Kaplan
Graduated 2011
Research in aerial refueling scheduling
Elkin Rodriguez
Graduated 2011
Assistant Professor, National University of Colombia
Mahmoud Khasawneh
Graduated 2012
Associate Professor, Texas A&M International University
Nevan Shearer
Graduated 2012
Research Scientist, Sandia National Laboratories
Arif Arin
Graduated 2012
Founder and CEO, Indata Analytics
Gulsah Hancerliogullari
Graduated 2013
Associate Professor, Istanbul Technical University
Fatemah Al-Duoli
Graduated 2015
Technical Project Manager, Microsoft
Mark Doran
Graduated 2016
U.S. Coast Guard and adjunct professor
Bulent Soykan
Graduated 2016
Associate Research Scientist, University of Central Florida
Mariam Kotachi
Graduated 2018
Assistant Professor, Shenandoah University
Ahmed Hamdy
Graduated 2019
Senior Project Manager, STIHL
Hesamoddin Tahami
Graduated 2023
Postdoctoral researcher, University of Central Florida
Wael Khallouli
Graduated 2024
Assistant Research Professor, Old Dominion University
Recognition
Selected awards and honors.
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2026
Outstanding Faculty Service
College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida
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2025
Faculty Excellence in Mentoring Postdoctoral Scholars
College of Graduate Studies, University of Central Florida
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2022
Faculty Development Award
Improving graduate instruction of graphical methods in operations research using DESMOS
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2017
NATO Global Innovation Challenge — First Place
Logistical decision support systems for efficient disaster relief
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2016
Doctoral Mentoring Award
Old Dominion University
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2008
Fulbright Specialist Program Award
Business plan development for a center for modeling and simulation in Jordan
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2007
NASA Board Action Invention Award
Generic Simulation Environment for Modeling Future Launch Operation (GEM-FLO)
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2006
NASA Software Invention Award
Space Shuttle macro-level discrete-event simulation model
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2003
NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship
NASA Langley Research Center
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