Personal Information
Name: Aya Khaled Al-Zarka
Nationality: Egyptian
Marital Status: Single
Date of Birth: 15 June 1988
Nationality: Egyptian
Marital Status: Single
Date of Birth: 15 June 1988
Education
2010-2012 MSc. Mathematical Modelling (focus: bio-mathematics) with honors, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
research project: Spatial Modelling of Contagion (pdf)
2006-2010 BSc. Mathematics (general) with honors, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2005-2006 Academic English Study, College Preparation Program at Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
-2005 Secondary School Certificate, Science Section, 7th Secondary School for Girls, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
GPA 99.16%
research project: Spatial Modelling of Contagion (pdf)
2006-2010 BSc. Mathematics (general) with honors, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2005-2006 Academic English Study, College Preparation Program at Dar Al-Hekma University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
-2005 Secondary School Certificate, Science Section, 7th Secondary School for Girls, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
GPA 99.16%
Experience
Graduate
Attending a joint symposium between OCCAM and KAUST "The Impact of Applied and Computational Mathematics in the 21st Century", KAUST, January 22nd 2011. Attending the 1st KAUST study group in Mathematics for Industry, KAUST, January 24th and 26th 2011, as a listener.
Undergraduate
During My undergraduate study, I worked on several independent projects, mostly individually, inspired by my enthusiasm toward applied mathematics, e.g., Ocean Surface Dynamics pdf of paper, and presentation.
Translating three posters of Mathematical Moments of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) into Arabic for the first time. These were subsequently posted in their website, here.
Presentation entitled “Mathematics and Climate Change” presented at the scientific meeting at the college of science, KAU, 2009 (with Doa'a Al-Awady) (PPt) (written document of talk in Arabic)
Writing a proposal for establishing a student journal for the department of mathematics in 2008, and publishing a demonstration copy in June
2010. You can download a pdf of the proposal here and the magazine here (in Arabic) .
Conducting two interviews with a physics graduate student and a professor in electronics for F5 Magazine, 6th issue, 2010. (pdf of the issue, in Arabic)
Translating three posters of Mathematical Moments of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) into Arabic for the first time. These were subsequently posted in their website, here.
Presentation entitled “Mathematics and Climate Change” presented at the scientific meeting at the college of science, KAU, 2009 (with Doa'a Al-Awady) (PPt) (written document of talk in Arabic)
Writing a proposal for establishing a student journal for the department of mathematics in 2008, and publishing a demonstration copy in June
2010. You can download a pdf of the proposal here and the magazine here (in Arabic) .
Conducting two interviews with a physics graduate student and a professor in electronics for F5 Magazine, 6th issue, 2010. (pdf of the issue, in Arabic)
Skills
Computer Skills
Elementary experience:
Programming Languages: Python (NetworkX, SimPy, Matplotlib, NumPy, SciPy) , C++
Mathematical programs: MATLAB, Maple, Scientific Workplace
LaTeX
Languages
Arabic (native) fluent
English: writing and reading- excellent, listening and speaking- good
Italian: beginner
Elementary experience:
Programming Languages: Python (NetworkX, SimPy, Matplotlib, NumPy, SciPy) , C++
Mathematical programs: MATLAB, Maple, Scientific Workplace
LaTeX
Languages
Arabic (native) fluent
English: writing and reading- excellent, listening and speaking- good
Italian: beginner
Personal Attributes
Honors
Award for solving the challenging problem submitted to the first issue of F5 Magazine of physics students, Saudi Physical Society, late 2008
(pdf of solution) - At that time I had just finished the course Multivariable Calculus (Calculus III) and it was very delightful to me putting my technical knowledge at practical work! :)
(pdf of solution) - At that time I had just finished the course Multivariable Calculus (Calculus III) and it was very delightful to me putting my technical knowledge at practical work! :)
MSc Courses
1- Biomathematics (Topics: scaling, Oxygen transport and insect
respiration, bone, chemotaxis, brain, blood, bird flight)
2- Computational and Simulation Methods
3- Nonlinear Systems (Topics studied: continuous / discrete
dynamical systems, nonlinear waves)
4- Advanced Modelling Mathematical Techniques (Topics:
Perturbation Methods, Stochastic Procsses, Complex Variable
Methods)
5- Operational Research (Optimisation and linear programming,
integer programming heuristic methods, project management
techniques and network flow problems, compartmental Modelling
in pharmacokinetics, probability theory and Marcov chains)
6- Frontiers in Mathematical Modelling and its Applications
(Topics: transient growth, Wave instability: absolute and
convective instabilities, the Turing instability mechanism,
propagating fronts: Fisher and Burger’s equations, Ginzburg
Landau equation: secondary instability, viscous liquid films)
7- Mathematical Ecology
8- Evolutionary Games and Population Genetics
respiration, bone, chemotaxis, brain, blood, bird flight)
2- Computational and Simulation Methods
3- Nonlinear Systems (Topics studied: continuous / discrete
dynamical systems, nonlinear waves)
4- Advanced Modelling Mathematical Techniques (Topics:
Perturbation Methods, Stochastic Procsses, Complex Variable
Methods)
5- Operational Research (Optimisation and linear programming,
integer programming heuristic methods, project management
techniques and network flow problems, compartmental Modelling
in pharmacokinetics, probability theory and Marcov chains)
6- Frontiers in Mathematical Modelling and its Applications
(Topics: transient growth, Wave instability: absolute and
convective instabilities, the Turing instability mechanism,
propagating fronts: Fisher and Burger’s equations, Ginzburg
Landau equation: secondary instability, viscous liquid films)
7- Mathematical Ecology
8- Evolutionary Games and Population Genetics