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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences

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

PhD, Applied Mathematics, Laval University, Canada, 2004

MS, Applied Mathematics, University of Nancy I, France, 2000

BS, Applied Mathematics, University of Mohammed V, Morocco, 1999

Professional experience

Full Professor, Mathematics And Statistics, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2025 - Present

Associate Professor, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2017 - 2024

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department Of Biomedical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2009 - 2019

Assistant Professor, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, 2015 - 2017

Assistant Professor, University of Alberta, Alberta, Canada, 2006 - 2015

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department Of Mathematical And Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, 2010 - 2014

Memberships

American Mathematical Society., March 2016

Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Montréal University, Canada., CRM, 2009

Applied Math Institute, University of Alberta, Canada., AMI, 2007

Interdisciplinary Research Group of Finite Elements, Laval University, Québec, Canada., GIREF, November 2006

Contact

[email protected]

+971 6 515 2906

Dr. Youssef Belhamadia

Professor

PhD, 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

Fatima-ezzahrae Moutahir, Youssef Belhamadia, Mohammed Seaid And Mofdi El-amrani. Modelling and simulation of radiative heat transfer in non-grey absorbing and emitting media under phase change, Computers & Mathematics With Applications, December 2024

Nabil El Moçayd, Youssef Belhamadia And Mohammed Seaid. Unsupervised stochastic learning and reduced order modeling for global sensitivity analysis in cardiac electrophysiology models, Computer Methods And Programs In Biomedicine, October (4th Quarter/Autumn) 2024

Youssef Belhamadia And Mohammed Seaid. Preface: Ninth International Conference on Modeling, Simulation and Applied Optimization, Aip Conference Proceedings, 5 March 2024

Youssef Belhamadia And Mohammed Seaid. A mixed finite element method for nonlinear radiation–conduction equations in optically thick anisotropic media, Mathematics And Computers In Simulation, February 2024

Youssef Belhamadia And Mohammed Seaid. Computing enhancement of the nonlinear SPN approximations of radiative heat transfer in participating material, Journal Of Computational And Applied Mathematics, December 2023

Youssef Belhamadia, Jean Deteix, Basma Jaffal-mourtada And Driss Yakoubi. Existence and uniqueness for a convective phase change model with temperature–dependent viscosity, Journal Of Mathematical Analysis And Applications, November 2023

Youssef Belhamadia, Guilherme Cassol And Stevan Dubljevic. Numerical modelling of hyperbolic phase change problems: Application to continuous casting, International Journal Of Heat And Mass Transfer, August 2023

Mohammad Akil, Abdelaziz Soufyane And Youssef Belhamadia. Stabilization Results of a Piezoelectric Beams with Partial Viscous Dampings and Under Lorenz Gauge Condition, Applied Mathematics & Optimization, April (2nd Quarter/Spring) 2023

Fatima-ezzahrae Moutahir, Youssef Belhamadia, Mofdi El-amrani And Mohammed Seaid. Enhancing Computational Steel Solidification by a Nonlinear Transient Thermal Model, 2022

Youssef Belhamadia, Thomas Briffard And André Fortin. Efficiency of parallel anisotropic mesh adaptation for the solution of the bidomain model in cardiac tissue, Journal Of Computational Science, May 2022

Mireille El Haddad, Youssef Belhamadia, Jean Deteix And Driss Yakoubi. A projection scheme for phase change problems with convection, Computers & Mathematics With Applications, 18 January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2022

Maryam Alqasemi And Youssef Belhamadia. A Semi-implicit Backward Differentiation ADI Method for Solving Monodomain Model, 2021

Youssef Belhamadia, Thomas Briffard And André Fortin. Application of parallel anisotropic mesh adaptation for solving monodomain cardiac model, 2021

Youssef Belhamadia And Zeinab Rammal. Efficiency of semi-implicit alternating direction implicit methods for solving cardiac monodomain model, Computers In Biology And Medicine, March 2021

Azzam Hazim, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. A Simulation Study of the Role of Mechanical Stretch in Arrhythmogenesis during Cardiac Alternans, Biophysical Journal, January (1st Quarter/Winter) 2021

Youssef Belhamadia, André Fortin And Thomas Briffard. A two-dimensional adaptive remeshing method for solving melting and solidification problems with convection, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A: Applications, 18 August 2019

Azzam Hazim, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Effects of mechano-electrical feedback on the onset of alternans: A computational study, Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal Of Nonlinear Science, 1 June 2019

Youssef Belhamadia And Justin Grenier. Modeling and simulation of hypothermia effects on cardiac electrical dynamics, Plos One, 3 May 2019

Azzam Hazim, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Mechanical perturbation control of cardiac alternans, Physical Review E, 21 May 2018

Azzam Hazim, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Control of Cardiac Alternans in a Realistic Electromechanical Model of Cardiac Tissue, Proceedings Of The 39th Conference Of The Canadian Medical And Biological Engineering Society, 2016

Azzam Hazim, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Control of cardiac alternans in an electromechanical model of cardiac tissue, Computers In Biology And Medicine, August 2015

Youssef Belhamadia, 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, December 2014

Azzam Hazim, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Control of Cardiac Alternans using Electrical Boundary Pacing and Spatially Distributed Perturbation Control., Proceedings Of The 37th Conference Of The Canadian Medical And Biological Engineering Society, 2014

Mojtaba Izadi, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Dynamical Analysis of Melt Flow in the Bridgman Process, Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 12 November 2014

Felicia Yapari, Dipen Deshpande, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Control of cardiac alternans by mechanical and electrical feedback, Physical Review E, 25 July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2014

Youssef Belhamadia. Adaptive Meshes for Simulation of Inviscid Boussinesq Convection, In Proceedings Of The 2nd Society Of Engineering And Applied Sciences International Conference, 2013

I Aksikas, L Mohammadi, Jf Forbes, Youssef Belhamadia And S Dubljevic. Optimal control of an advection-dominated catalytic fixed-bed reactor with catalyst deactivation, Journal Of Process Control, 2013

Youssef Belhamadia, Abdoulaye Kane And André Fortin. A mixed finite element formulation for solving phase change problems with convection, 2012

Mojtaba Izadi, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Lagrangian Coherent Structures for Fluid Flow in Bridgman Process, 2012

Youssef Belhamadia, A. Kane And A. Fortin. An enhanced mathematical model for phase change problems with natural convection, Int. J. Numer. Anal. Model, 2012

J. Grenier And Youssef Belhamadia. Nested Implicit Runge-Kutta Method for Simulating Cardiac Cell Models, International Journal Of Bioelectromagnetism, 2012

Dipen Deshpande, Youssef Belhamadia And Stevan Dubljevic. Cardiac alternans annihilation by distributed mechano-electric feedback (MEF), August 2011

Myriam Rioux, Yves Bourgault, Youssef Belhamadia And Olivier Rousseau. Numerical computations of cardiac AP using level set based geometries, May 2011

Youssef Belhamadia. Recent numerical methods in electrocardiology, 2010

Youssef Belhamadia, André Fortin And Yves Bourgault. Efficient Simulation of Scroll Wave Turbulence in a Three-Dimensional Reaction-Diffusion System, 2010

Youssef Belhamadia. Mesh Adaptation in Electrocardiology, 2010

Youssef Belhamadia, Yves Bourgault And André Fortin. Mathematical Simulation of the Electrical Activity of the Heart, 2009

Youssef Belhamadia, André Fortin And Yves Bourgault. Towards accurate numerical method for monodomain models using a realistic heart geometry, Mathematical Biosciences, August 2009

Ilyasse Aksikas, J. Forbes And Youssef Belhamadia. Optimal control design for time-varying catalytic reactors: a Riccati equation-based approach, International Journal Of Control, July (3rd Quarter/Summer) 2009

Youssef Belhamadia. An efficient computational method for simulation of the two-dimensional electrophysiological waves, August 2008

Youssef Belhamadia. A Time-Dependent Adaptive Remeshing for Electrical Waves of the Heart, Ieee Transactions On Biomedical Engineering, February 2008

Richard Wan, B Yang, Youssef Belhamadia, B Donelly And K Muldrew. Finite Element Modelling of Prostate Cryosurgery, 2006

André Fortin And Youssef Belhamadia. Numerical prediction of freezing fronts in cryosurgery: Comparison with experimental results, Computer Methods In Biomechanics And Biomedical Engineering, 2005

Andre Fortin And Youssef Belhamadia. Numerical Modeling of Phase Change Problems, 4 March 2005

Youssef Belhamadia, André Fortin And Éric Chamberland. Anisotropic mesh adaptation for the solution of the Stefan problem, Journal Of Computational Physics, 2004

Youssef Belhamadia, André Fortin And Éric Chamberland. Three-dimensional anisotropic mesh adaptation for phase change problems, Journal Of Computational Physics, 2004

Conference Presentations

A Reduced Model for Phase-Change Problems With Radiation: Application To Molten Salt Thermal Energy Storage, Uk Association Of Computational Mechanics Conference 2025, 25 April 2025

A Semi-implicit Backward Differentiation ADI Method for Solving Monodomain Model, The International Conference On Computational Science, June 2021

Introduction to MATLAB, Math Dept Seminar, 16 March 2021

Accurate Numerical Modelling of Interface Problems: Applications to Convective Phase Change and Electrocardiology, Online Seminars On Numerical Methods For Pdes, 16 October 2020

Application of Parallel Anisotropic Mesh Adaptation for Solving Monodomain Cardiac Model, International Conference Of Computational Methods In Sciences And Engineering, 21 September 2020

Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of phase change problems, Invited Speaker At The First International Conference On Applied Mathematics In Science And Engineering (amse- 2019), October 2019

Accurate Numerical Modeling of Water Phase Change, Invited Speaker At The First Workshop & Summer School On Hydroinformatics, July 2019

Adaptive Mesh Method for Solving Phase Change Problems with Convection, The 2nd International Conference On Applied Mathematics, 2018

A semi-implicit ADI splitting method for solving the monodomain cardiac models, Invited Speaker At The Workshop On Mathematical Methods In Cardiac Electrophysiology, November 2017

Application of Mathematics in Biomedical Engineering, Invited Speaker At The Second Aus Regional Students’ Conference On Mathematics, March 2017

Accurate Numerical Method for Solving Nonlinear Reaction-Diffusion Systems with Application to Complex Cardiac Dynamics., 20th International Association For Mathematics And Computers In Simulation World Congress, December 2016

Accurate simulation of phase change problems with convection, Canadian Society Of Applied And Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting, June 2016

Study of Cardiac Mechano-Electrical Feedback for Controlling Cardiac Alternans, Canadian Society Of Applied And Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting, June 2016

Accurate Numerical Modeling of Phase Change Problems with Convection, Uae Math Day, March 2016

A Study on the Effects Mechanoelectric Feedback and Mechanical Perturbation Approach on the Electrical Properties Using a Bidomain Model of Cardiac Tissue, American Institute Of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, November 2015

Effects of Thermal Stress on the Mechanical Deformation of Cardiac Tissue, The 2014 American Institute Of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, November 2014

Control of Cardiac Alternans using Boundary Pacing and Mechanical Perturbations Control, Biomedical Engineering Society (bmes) Annual Meeting, October 2014

Study of Mechano-Electric Feedback On Cardiac Wave Propagation, The 2013 American Institute Of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, November 2013

Lagrangian Coherent Structures for fluid flow in Bridgman process during crystal growth, The Annual Meeting Of The Canadian Society Of Applied And Industrial Mathematics - Caims 2013, June 2013

Nested Implicit Runge-Kutta Technique for Solving Cardiac Cell Models, The Annual Meeting Of The Canadian Society Of Applied And Industrial Mathematics - Caims 2013, June 2013

Analysis of Melt Flow of Bridgman Process Using Lagrangian Coherent Structures, The 2012 American Institute Of Chemical Engineers Annual Meeting, November 2012

Numerical Modeling of Phase Change Problems with Convection, Canadian Applied And Industrial Mathematics Annual Meeting, June 2012

Mesh Adaptation in Electrocardiology, Invited Speaker At The Crm-giref Conference On Mesh Adaptation And Error Estimators, May 2010

Efficient Mathematical Simulation in Electrocardiology, Invited Speaker At The Workshop On Bidomain Equation, October 2009

Accurate Numerical Modeling in Electrocardiology, Invited Speaker At The Mathematical Modeling And Computing In Electrocardiology Conference, June 2009

Accurate Numerical Modeling of Moving Interface Involved in Biomedical Problems, Journ´ees Internationales De Math´ematiques Appliqu´ees De Safi., June 2008

Accurate Numerical Modeling of the Electrical Waves of the Heart, Invited Speaker At The First Crm-inria-mitacs Meeting, May 2008

Accurate Numerical modeling of Multiprobe Cryosurgery, Extreme Cryo 2008., February 2008

Adaptive finite element method with applications to cryosurgery and heart wave propagation., Crm Spring School And Workshop, Mini-invasive Procedures In Medicine And Surgery : Mathematical And Numerical Challenges, May 2005

Numerical Modelling of Cryosurgery Problems., Invited Speaker At The Informatics And Mathematics Applied To Interventional Medicine (im2im) Workshop, December 2003

Mod´elisation num´erique par ´el´ements finis des probl`emes de changement de phase., Acfas, May 2003

Mod´elisation num´erique par ´el´ements finis des problèmes de changement de phase, Ism 2003 Quebec-wide Graduate Student Conference, May 2003

Grants and sponsorships

Grant, Faculty Research Grant – Comprehensive Grant, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2022 - 31 May 2025

Grant, AUS Open Access Program 2024-2025, American University of Sharjah, April 2025 - April 2025

Grant, International Research Collaboration Fund, January 2025 - January 2025

Grant, International Exchanges 2020, The Royal Society, UK, 30 March 2021 - 29 March 2023

Grant, 2020 Faculty Research Grant - Small, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2020 - 31 May 2021

Grant, 2018 Enhanced Faculty Research Grant, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2018 - 31 May 2020

Grant, Summer research travel grant, Materials Science and Engineering Research Institut, American University of Sharjah, 1 June 2018 - 31 May 2019

Grant, Seed Grant, American University of Sharjah, 19 November 2015 - 19 November 2015

Grant, Research grant, Campus Saint-Jean, University of Alberta, - 2009

Grant, Summer Student Employment Programs & Student Employment funds, Campus Saint-Jean University of Alberta, - 2009

Grant, Start up grant, University of Alberta, - 2008

Awards and Honors

Chosen by CSJ students as ”Best Professor of the Month”, Campus Saint-Jean University of Alberta, October 2008

Third place in the poster competition at the MITACS 6th annual conference at the University of Calgary, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems (MITACS), Canada., 2005