Education

I measure my knowledge with respect to what I am able to learn and do but not with respect to what I really know.
KNJR, 1996.

Ph.D.: Scientific Computing, Department of Mathematics , The George Washington University, Washington, DC, January 1998.; Dissertation : High-Order Multigrid for Partial Differential Equations; Advisor: M. M. Gupta.
Ingenieur (MS): Electrical Engineering - Computer Networks, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications - Paris France, July 1993.
Maitrise (4 years of higher education): Mathematics and Fundamental Applications, Universite des Sciences et Techniques du Languedoc - Montpellier France, June 1991.

CRAY T3E Applications Programming, CRAY Research Inc , Calverton MD, Nov. 12-15, 1996.
MM5 Mesoscale Model Users' Tutorial, NCAR, Boulder CO, June 9-12, 1998
NASA EOSDIS Tools Training, NASA GSFC, October 16, 2001.
This training was on the use of tools to search and order EOS and related data held in the EOSDIS archives, and to visualize and manipulate HDF-EOS data.

20 Percent ESS and Space Flight Award, NASA HPCC Earth and Space Sciences, Guest Investigator (PI), Porting MM5 on the CRAY T3E at GSFC (Fiscal Years 1997-99).
20 Percent ESS and Space Flight Award, NASA HPCC Earth and Space Sciences, Guest Investigator (PI), Optimizing the ETA Model on the Cray T3E at GSFC (Fiscal Years 2000-02).
SIAM/NSF Travel Grant to attend the Fourth International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
National Research Council Research Associateship Award, 1997 (declined).
Fellowship, The George Washington University, 1994-1997.
Marvin Green Prize for outstanding performance in mathematics and/or computer science, The George Washington University, 1997.

It is better to be humble and stay poor than to be one of the arrogant and get a share of their loot.