Every day I learn that failure is part of human life. Failures have brought me disappointments, fear, sadness but also successes. I remember that almost at the end of my high school studies, I failed to pass a national exam that prevented me from moving to the next grade level. But since then, I was able to get academic results that I could not have imagine.
The problem is not ``failure'' itself, but it is to fail to learn from it, or to fail to take necessary steps to prevent it from happening again.
KNJR, 1996.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

Research Scientist,

School of Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD.
Since January 1998, work on the following projects:

• Benchmark weather/climate models on parallel computers,
• Develop algorithms for the numerical solution of partial differential equations on parallel computers,
• Involve in the implementation of a numerical atmospheric model on high performance computers,
• Data/Web/Text mining.

Research Associate,

The George Washington University, Washington DC.
Participated in a project which goal was to simulate the impact of temperature data on numerical weather prediction in the context of the Earth Observing System. This work was carried out at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (09/97-12/97).

Intern,

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Earth Space Data and Compution Division .
Study of performances of Climate Models on vector and parallel computers. (Sept. 1996-Aug. 1997).

Visiting Student,

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Earth Space Data and Compution Division . Worked on porting a climate model on the Cray T3D. (June-August 1996).

Intern, ,

Centre National d'Etude des Telecommunications (CNET) - Paris France. Optimization of a Telephone network in a Competitive Environment. Designed a network optimization problem and compared different algorithms to solve it ,July-December 1992.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Instructor,

School of Engineering, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD. Responsible of the undergraduate course Discrete Systems (EEGR.322, Fall 2001, Spring 2002), and of the computational section of a graduate course on Partial Differential Equations (EEGR.505, Falls 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001).

Teaching Assistant,

Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington DC. Conduct recitations and grade quizzes. (January 1994 - May 1997).

Instructor,

Department of Mathematics, The George Washington University, Washington DC. Fully responsible of a course General Mathematics (Summer School 94), and in Precalculus (Summer School 95).

Instructor, ,

Training Program of a Chamber of Commerce, Paris. Responsible of an introductory course in Network Computers and the running of TCP/IP, April 1993.

STUDENTS MENTORED

• Kenneth Pelman, Simulation Experiments with GCMs, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Student Enrichment Program, Summer 1998.
• Christian Kammogne, Porting MM5 on Cray Systems, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Student Enrichment Program, Summer 1998.
• Sheron Matthews and LaTasha Green, Porting of a Parallel Code on a Network of SGI Workstations, Morgan State University High Performance Computing Summer School, Summer 2000.
• Elana Klein, Design Of An Interface For The Preprocessing Procedure Of The Eta Code, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Student Enrichment Program, Summer 2000.
• Emmanuel Cephas, MM5v3 on the NASA Center for Computational Science Parallel Systems , NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Visiting Student Enrichment Program, Summer 2002.
• Tanika Day, Francis Dada and John Patrick, Data, Web and Text Mining, Morgan State University KMCOE Summer 2003 Program.

JOURNALS REFEREED

• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
• Journal of Computational Physics
• Computers and Mathematics with Applications
• Applied Mathematics Letters