Houssain Kettani received his bachelor’s in electrical and electronic engineering from Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus, in 1998, and master’s and doctorate, both in electrical engineering, from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 2000 and 2002, respectively. He served as faculty at the University of South Alabama (2002–2003), Jackson State University (2003–2007), Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico (2007–2012), and Fort Hays State University (2012–2016) before joining Florida Polytechnic University in 2016. He served as staff research assistant at Los Alamos National Laboratory in the summer of 2000, visiting research professor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the summers of 2005 to 2011 and at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center at the University of Alaska in the summer of 2008, and visiting professor at the Joint Institute for Computational Sciences at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville in the summer of 2010. His research interests include computational science and engineering, high-performance computing algorithms, information retrieval, network traffic characterization, number theory, robust control and optimization, and population studies. Dr. Kettani has presented his research in over sixty refereed conference and journal publications, and his work has received over 400 citations by researchers all over the world. He has chaired more than a hundred international conferences throughout the world and successfully secured external funding in millions of dollars for research and education from US federal agencies such as NSF, DOE, DOD, and NRC.
