Prof. Abdelouahed Hamdi

Dr. Abdelouahed Hamdi is a distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Qatar University, with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics earned from Blaise Pascal University-Clermont-Ferrand, France, in 1997. His academic journey includes postdoctoral research positions as an Applied Mathematician at the Facultés Notre Dame of Namur in Belgium and at Trier University in Germany. Throughout his career, Dr. Hamdi has held academic appointments at prestigious institutions, including King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait University, in Kuwait; and Prince Sultan University in Riyadh. He has also undertaken short visiting appointments at INRIA–Grenoble, France. Prof. Hamdi's research interests span the domain of continuous optimization, variational inequalities, algorithmic analysis of portfolio optimization, financial mathematics, and their diverse applications. He has contributed significantly to the field, with numerous published papers and four impactful books, two of them focusing particularly on basic mathematics for junior mathematics competition preparation. His expertise extends to delivering lectures at various international conferences. As a dedicated scholar, Prof. Hamdi serves as a reviewer for several esteemed international journals, including the Journal of Global Optimization, Applied Mathematics Letters, Optimization, Mathematics, and Applied Mathematics and Computations.