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Dr. Abdelkader Baggag
Senior Scientist Associate Professor
Dr. Abdelkader Baggag
Senior Scientist Associate Professor
Educational Qualifications
PhD
Masters
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
College of Science and Engineering
Divison
Information & Computing Technology
Biography
Dr. Abdelkader Baggag is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. He has a joint appointment as an Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in the Division of Information and Computing Technology, where he teaches “Learning From Data” which is an advanced course on Machine Learning. He completed his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota. Among the positions Dr. Baggag held prior to joining QCRI is Associate Professor at Laval University in Canada (tenured), and Assistant Professor at McGill University where he established a curriculum in HPC at the consortium on high-performance computing in Quebec, CLUMEQ, funded by the Canadian Foundation for Innovation; and he lead the scientific activities of CLUMEQ by taking on the mission of facilitating the use of parallel computing for the large CLUMEQ constituency. Prior to that, Dr. Baggag was a research fellow at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, USA.
PhD
University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN, USA
2002
Masters
Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal; Montreal, Quebec, Canada
1993
Ingenieur d’etat
Ecole Polytechnique of Algiers; Algiers, Algeria
1990
Senior Scientist
Qatar Computing Research Institute; Hamad Bin Khalifa University; Qatar
2014 - present
Associate Professor
College of Science and Engineering; Laval University; Canada
2010 - 2014
Associate Professor
Mechanical Engineering; Clarkson University; USA
2011 - 2013
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science; Louisiana Tech University; USA
2008 - 2010
Assistant Professor
Computer Science; McGill University; Canada
2005 - 2008
Senior HPC Analyst
CLUMEQ Supercomputer Center; McGill University; Canada
2003 - 2008
Visiting Scholar
Computer Science; Purdue University; USA
2001 - 2003
Assistant Professor
Computer Science; Hampton University; USA
2000 - 2001
Research Fellow, ICASE
NASA Langley Research Center; USA
1995 - 2001
- “Learning Spatiotemporal Latent Factors of Traffic via Regularized Tensor Factorization: Imputing Missing Values and Forecasting.” IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2019
- “Resilience analytics: coverage and robustness in multi-modal transportation networks.” EPJ Data Science Journal (2018) 7:14. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-018-0139-7.
- “Deep Reinforcement Learning for Traffic Light Optimization.” IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (ICDM2018).
- Advanced Computation of Sparse Precision Matrices for Big Data. PAKDD (2) 2017: 27-38.
- “A Multiplex Approach to Urban Mobility.” In: Cherifi H., Gaito S., Quattrociocchi W., Sala A. (eds) Complex Networks & Their Applications V. COMPLEX NETWORKS 2016. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 693. Springer, Cham.
- Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport, Quebec – Scholarships program in Science and Engineering: only 8 professors were recruited under this program. Dr. Baggag was one of them.
- Scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education of Algeria to pursue graduate studies in Canada, 1990 – This scholarship is awarded to the top 20 from the École Nationale Polytechnique. Dr. Baggag was ranked first in the exam –nationwide.
- Ranked first nationwide in the “Examen du Baccalauréat” section mathematics, 1985 – Received by the president of Algeria (Chadli Bendjedid) and awarded a scholarship.