Faculty

College / Department

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Teaching areas

Applied Mathematics.

Research areas

Numerical methods for PDEs and ODEs; scientific computing; finite element method; mesh adaptation; computationalsolid-liquid phase change with convection and electrocardiology.

Education

B.Sc.,University of Mohammed V, Morocco, 1999.

M.Sc., University of Nancy I, France, 2000.

Ph.D., Laval University, Canada, 2004.

Professional experience

2009-present, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada.

2010-2015, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences. University of Alberta, Canada.

2006-2015, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. 2008-2015, Online Academic Expert (I.S.T.) and Subject Matter Expert of Mathematics, Athabasca University, Canada.

2017-present, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University of Sharjah.

2015-2017, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University of Sharjah.

Memberships

Member of the American Mathematical Society,Associated Faculty of Interdisciplinary Research Group in Finite Elements (GIREF), Laval University, Québec, Canada. Associated Membre of Centre de Recherches Mathématiques (CRM). Montréal University, Montréal, Canada.

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2906

Dr. Youssef Belhamadia

Associate Professor

PhD in Mathematics, Laval University, Canada

Youssef Belhamadia has many years of experience in teaching mathematics courses in Canadian institutions such as the University of Alberta, Laval University and Athabasca University. He also has experience in supervising both graduate and undergraduate students. The main interest of his research is the development and the implementation of numerical methods for partial differential equations with strong applications in biomedical and industrial problems. His research has been published in well-known journals and refereed proceedings. He has been awarded grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and from the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada.

Publications

Hazim, Azzam, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Mechanical perturbation control of cardiac alternans." Physical Review E 97, no. 1 (2018): 052407.

Hazim Azzam, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Control of cardiac alternans in an electromechanical model of cardiac tissue." Computers in Biology and Medicine 63, no. 1 (2015): 108–117.

Hazim, Azzam, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Control of cardiac alternans in an electromechanical model of cardiac tissue." Computers in Biology and Medicine 63, no. 1 (2015): 108–117.

Belhamadia Youssef, André Fortin, and Yves Bourgault. "On the performance of anisotropic mesh adaptation for scroll wave turbulence dynamics in reaction–diffusion systems." Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics 271, no. 1 (2014): 233–246.

Izadi Mojtaba, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Dynamical Analysis of Melt Flow in the Bridgman Process." Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research 53, no. 45 (2014): 17811–17817.

Yapari Felicia, Dipen Deshpande, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Control of cardiac alternans by mechanical and electrical feedback." Physical Review E (Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics) 90, no. 1 (2014): 012706.

Aksikas Ilyasse, Leily Mohammadi, J. Fraser Forbes, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Optimal control of an advection-dominated catalytic fixed-bed reactor with catalyst deactivation." Journal of Process Control 23, no. 10 (2013): 1508–1514.

Belhamadia, Youssef, Abdoulay S. Kane, and André Fortin. "An enhanced mathematical model for phase change problems with natural convection." International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling, Series B 3, no. 2 (2012): 192--206.

Grenier Justin, and Youssef Belhamadia. "Nested Implicit Runge‐Kutta Method for Simulating Cardiac Cell Models." International Journal of Bioelectromagnetism 14, no. 1 (2012): 40-45.

Belhamadia Youssef, Recent Numerical Methods in Electrocardiology. Book chapter in New developments in Biomedical Engineering, ISBN 978-953-7619-57-2. 2010.

Aksikas Ilyasse, J. Fraser Forbes, and Youssef Belhamadia. "Optimal control design for time-varying catalytic reactors: a Riccati equation-based approach." International Journal of Control 83, no. 7 (2009): 1219-1228.

Belhamadia Youssef, André Fortin, and Yves Bourgault. "Towards accurate numerical method for monodomain models using a realistic heart geometry." Mathematical Biosciences 220, no. 2 (2009): 89–101.

Belhamadia Youssef. "A Time-Dependent Adaptive Remeshing for Electrical Waves of the Heart." IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 55, no. 2 (2008): 443 - 452.

Fortin André, and Youssef Belhamadia. "Numerical prediction of freezing fronts in cryosurgery: Comparison with experimental results." Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 8, no. 4 (2005): 241-249.

Fortin André and Belhamadia Youssef, Numerical Modeling of Phase Change Problems, Book Chapter in Control and Boundary Analysis, Marcel Dekker. (2005) ISBN 1574445944.

Conference Presentations

Hazim Azzam, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Control of cardiac alternans in a realistic electromechanical model of cardiac tissue." In Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 24-27, 2016.

Grenier Justin, and Youssef Belhamadia. "Efficient Solver for Cardiac Cell Models." In Proceeding of the eleventh international conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Beni Mellal, Morocco, April 27-29, 2016.

Hazim, Azzam, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Control of cardiac alternans in a realistic electromechanical model of cardiac tissue." In Proceedings of the 39th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 24-27, 2016.

Grenier, Justin, and Youssef Belhamadia. "Efficient Solver for Cardiac Cell Models." In Proceeding of the eleventh international conference on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Beni Mellal, Morocco, April 27-29, 2016.

Hazim Azzam, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Control of Cardiac Alternans using Electrical Boundary Pacing and Spatially Distributed Perturbation Control." In Proceedings of the 37th Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 20-23, 2014.

Belhamadia Youssef. "Adaptive Meshes for Simulation of Inviscid Boussinesq Convection." In Proceedings of the 2nd Society of Engineering and Applied Sciences International Conference, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, November 23-24, 2013.

Belhamadia Youssef, Kane Abdoulay, and Fortin Andr?. "A Mixed Finite Element Formulation for Solving Phase Change Problems with Convection." In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada. Canmore, Alberta, Canada, May 9-11, 2012.

Izadi Mojtaba, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Lagrangian Coherent Structures for Fluid Flow in Bridgman Process." In Proceedings of the 20th Annual Conference of the CFD Society of Canada. Canmore, Alberta, Canada, May 9-11, 2012.

Deshpande Dipen, Youssef Belhamadia, and Stevan Dubljevic. "Cardiac Alternans Annihilation by Distributed Mechano-Electric Feedback (MEF)." In Proceeding of the 2011 Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. Boston, MA, USA, August 30 - September 3, 259-262.. Boston: IEEE, 2011.259-262. 2011.

Rioux Myriam, Bourgault Yves, Youssef Belhamadia, and Rousseau Olivier. "Numerical Computations of Cardiac AP using Level Set Based Geometries." In IEEE Xplore. 8th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart & 8th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism. Banff, Alberta, Canada May 13-16, 81 - 86. Banff: IEEE, 2011.

Belhamadia Youssef, Fortin Andr?, and Bourgault Yves. "Efficient Simulation of Scroll Wave Turbulence in a Three-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion System." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational and Mathematical Methods in Science and Engineering, Almeria, Spain, June 26?30, 2010.

Belhamadia, Youssef. "Mesh Adaptation in Electrocardiology." In Proceedings of the CRM-GIREF conference, Qu?bec, Qu?bec, Canada, May 25-27, 2010.

Belhamadia Youssef, Bourgault Yves, and Fortin Andr?. "Mathematical Simulation of the Electrical Activity of the Heart." In Proceedings of the 32nd Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, May 20-22, 2009.

Belhamadia Youssef. "An Efficient Computational Method for Simulation of the Two-dimensional Electrophysiological Waves." In Proceeding of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 20-25, 5922 - 5925. Vancouver: IEEE, 2008.

Wan Richard, Yang Bahong, Youssef Belhamadia, Donelly Bryan, and Muldrew Ken. "Finite Element Modelling of Prostate Cryosurgery." In Proceedings of 7th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Antibes, France, March 22-25, 2006.

Awards and Honors

2016, Faculty Research Grant – Travel Grant. AED 15,000.00. Awarded by the American University of Sharjah.

2015 Seed Grant. AED 5,000.00. Awardedby the American Univerity of Sharjah.

2012-2014, $114000, Grants-In-Aid from Heart and Stroke Fondation of Canada (HSFC), joint work with S. Dubljevic (PI), Cardiac Alternans Annihilation by Electric and Mechano-Electric Feedback.

2015-2020 (ended in 2016), $55000, Discovery grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), principal investigator, Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation of Moving Interface Involved in Biomedical and Industrial Problems.

2009-2015, $70000, Discovery grant from Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), principal investigator, Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation in Electrocardiology.

Other creative/research

Grant Reviewer for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and for the French National Research Agency.

Track Chair of the 7th International Conference on Modelling, Simulation and Applied Optimization 2017. Organizer of mini-symposiums on the control of partial differential equation. Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting. Quebec, Canada. 2013 and 2016.Co-organizer of the 8th International Symposium on Noninvasive Functional Source Imaging of the Brain and Heart & 8th International Conference on Bioelectromagnetism, Banff, Alberta, Canada, 2011.

Member of Examining Committee for Master students from Industrial Engineering Department andfrom Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University of Sharjah. Member of Examining Committee for a Ph.D. student from Department of Biomedical Engineering, and Master students from Chemical & Materials Engineering Department, from Department of Civil Engineering, and from Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta.

Reviewer for the following journals and conferences: Journal of Computational Science, International Journal of Computer Mathematics, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering Letter, Computers in Biology and Medicine, Medical Engineering & Physics, Computers and Mathematics with Applications Journal, the Australian Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, the 34th Annual International IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conferenc