Dr. Samer Habre Associate Professor Lebanese American University

Currently an associate professor of Mathematics at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, Lebanon. I have earned my Ph.D. from Syracuse University in 1992. A year later I returned to Lebanon where I was hired as an Assistant Professor at the University, then called Beirut University College.

My research focuses on the use of technology in the teaching of mathematics at the college level. Recently, I have also become interested in dynamical systems.

In 1998, I was selected by the J. Williams Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board for an award under the Mutual Educational Exchange (Fulbright) Program. During the academic year 1998-99, Beverly West and John Hubbard of Cornell University hosted me as a Fulbright Scholar. The primary aim of my scholarship was to do research on the teaching of differential equations.

In the Fall of 2005, I was a visiting Scholar at California Polytechnic State University. I spent the semester working on linear iterative systems.

I am married to Paula Abboud, an English instructor at the Lebanese American University. I have two boys: Nadeem (born in 1996) and Sari (born in 2000). Both are enrolled at the International College in Beirut.