Nadia Ghazzali

Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science.[1] As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set.[2]

Education and career

Ghazzali was born on April 3, 1961,[3] in Casablanca. After studying at the University of Rennes 1 in France,[4] she came to Canada as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, and joined the faculty at the Université Laval in 1993.[3]

She was president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 2012 until 2015, when she resigned after facing criticism from the Auditor General of Québec over management practices in university construction.[5][6][7]

Ghazzali is current (2021-2023) Deputy President of INWES, the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists.

Recognition

At Laval, Ghazzali was given the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) in 2006.[3][8] In the same year, she was named a corresponding member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Nadia Ghazzali", Répertoire des experts, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, retrieved 2019-07-30
  2. ^ Pacheco, Erik Rodriguez (2015), Unsupervised Learning with R, Packt Publishing, p. 64, ISBN 9781785885815
  3. ^ a b c d "Nadia Ghazzali" (PDF), Annuaire de l’Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques (in French), Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies, December 2007
  4. ^ Lortie, Myriam (April 22, 2014), "Nadia Ghazzali: Dans le bureau de la rectrice", Zone Campus
  5. ^ Vienne, Jean-François (July 5, 2017), "The tough job of university rector in Quebec", University Affairs
  6. ^ Cafley, Julie (August 19, 2015), "Universities need a new model of governance", The Globe and Mail
  7. ^ Papillon, Mathieu (May 27, 2015), La gestion de l'UQTR critiquée par la vérificatrice générale (in French), Radio Canada
  8. ^ Previous Chairholders for Women in Science and Engineering, NSERC, 2016-06-28, retrieved 2019-07-30