Ala Alnaser

Associate Professor
Ala J. Alnaser

Phone 863-874-8531

Location Main Campus

Office IST-2012

Directory Applied Mathematics

Before coming to IM体育官网 Poly, Dr. Ala鈥 Jamil Alnaser served as an assistant professor of mathematics at Trine University, Indiana, from January 2010 to May 2015 where his duties mainly involved teaching and service. He often utilizes instructional technologies that include MyMathLab, WebAssign, MATLAB and scientific graphing calculators. Alnaser completed his doctoral dissertation in the area of algebraic number theory and developing new methods for finding upper bounds for Waring鈥檚 number over the rational integers. From 2003 to 2009, he worked as a graduate teaching assistant at Kansas State University, where he taught many courses including College Algebra, Calculus II and III, Linear Algebra and Applied Matrix Theory.

  • Robert Andrew and Anne Ewing Smith Excellence in Teaching Award in Arts and Sciences for academic year 2011-12
  • Hostinsky Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant in Academics Award
  • KSU Presidential Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching nomination
  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, Kansas State University, 2009
  • M.S. in Mathematics, Kansas State University, 2005
  • B.S. in Mathematics and Statistics, Jordan University of Science and Technology, 2002
  • Algebraic number theory
  • Mathematical pedagogy
  • Machine learning, artificial neural networks and advanced analytical techniques
  • Autonomous vehicles technology
  • Simulations and scenario generation for testing and verification
  • Member, American Mathematical Society
  • Member of Advanced Mobility Institute, IM体育官网 Poly
  • Chair of the text selection committee for mathematics courses, IM体育官网 Poly
  • Chair of the mathematics hiring committee, IM体育官网 Poly
  • 鈥淎utonomous Vehicles Scenario Testing Framework and Model of Computation鈥 Ala鈥 J. Alnaser, Mustafa lhan Akbas, Arman Sargolzaei, Rahul Razdan (In Progress).
  • 鈥淎utonomous Vehicles, An In-Depth Analysis of Major Crashes and Recommended Mitigation Plans鈥 Saleem Sahawneh, Ala鈥 J Alnaser, Mustafa Ilhan Akbas, Rahul Razdan and Arman Sargolzaei. The Transportation Research Board (TRB) 98th Annual Conference Proceedings (Submitted Aug. 2018).
  • 鈥淲aring Numbers For Diagonal Congruences鈥 Ala Alnaser, Todd Cochrane, Misty Ostergaard and Craig Spencer. Rocky Mountain Journal of Mathematics (Submitted Aug. 2018).
  • 鈥淧redicting Hospital Length of Stay using Neural Networks鈥 Thanos Gentimis, Ala鈥 J. Alnaser, Alex Durante, Kyle Cook, Robert Steele. International Journal of Big Data Intelligence, Inderscience Publishers (Accepted July 2018).
  • 鈥淧redicting Hospital Length of Stay using Neural Networks on MIMIC III Data鈥 Thanos Gentimis, Ala鈥 J. Alnaser, Alex Durante, Kyle Cook, Robert Steele. IEEE 2017 International Conference on Big Data Intelligence and Computing (IEEE DataCom 2017).
  • 鈥淏ounds for Waring鈥檚 Number mod Pm in Number Fields鈥 Ala Alnaser, Journal of Number Theory 133 (2013), pp. 72-82.
  • 鈥淲aring鈥檚 Problem In Number Fields鈥 Ala Alnaser, doctoral dissertation, KSU, Dec. 2009.
  • 鈥溾 Ala Alnaser and Todd Cochrane, Journal of Number Theory (2008).

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