Nadia Ghazzali

Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Canadian statistician, the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science.[1] As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set.[2]

Education and career

Ghazzali was born on April 3, 1961,[3] in Casablanca. After studying at the University of Rennes 1 in France,[4] she came to Canada as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, and joined the faculty at the Université Laval in 1993.[3]

She was president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 2012 until 2015, when she resigned after facing criticism from the Auditor General of Québec over management practices in university construction.[5][6][7]

Recognition

At Laval, Ghazzali was given the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering in 2006.[3][8] In the same year, she was named a corresponding member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies.[3]

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gollark: No, I mean that that makes it quite hard for you to go around murdering me, as well as the other reasons.
gollark: See, society is mostly set up to *prevent* arbitrary murdering.
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gollark: This is irrelevant, however, as I am an immortal (probably) probabilistic anomaly.

References
  1. "Nadia Ghazzali", Répertoire des experts, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, retrieved 2019-07-30
  2. Pacheco, Erik Rodriguez (2015), Unsupervised Learning with R, Packt Publishing, p. 64, ISBN 9781785885815
  3. "Nadia Ghazzali" (PDF), Annuaire de l’Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques (in French), Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies, December 2007
  4. Lortie, Myriam (April 22, 2014), "Nadia Ghazzali: Dans le bureau de la rectrice", Zone Campus
  5. Vienne, Jean-François (July 5, 2017), "The tough job of university rector in Quebec", University Affairs
  6. Cafley, Julie (August 19, 2015), "Universities need a new model of governance", The Globe and Mail
  7. Papillon, Mathieu (May 27, 2015), La gestion de l'UQTR critiquée par la vérificatrice générale (in French), Radio Canada
  8. Previous Chairholders for Women in Science and Engineering, NSERC, 2016-06-28, retrieved 2019-07-30
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