Soumaya Yacout

Organizations: Universities
Professions: Educator

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Professor

Soumaya Yacout

1951

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


4952 Grosvenor

H3W2M1

Quebec

Montreal

Canada

514-484-4859

 

CONTACT INFORMATION / WORK


École Polytechnique

Mathematics and Industrial Engineering

2500 chemin de Polytechnique

H3T1J4

Quebec

Montreal

Canada

514-340-4711 ext. 4517

514-340-4463

Soumaya.yacout@polymtl.ca

Education


D.Sc. Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. Georges Washington University, 1985.

M.Sc. Industrial Engineering, 1979.

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, 1975.

languages


Arabic

French

English

COMPETENCES


Data analysis, pattern recognition, knowledge extraction from industrial data.

Diagnosis and prognosis for prescriptive maintenance management of physical assets.

Optimization of decisions by reinforcement learning.

Dynamic Systems’ reliability optimization based on time-series data exploitation by machine learning.

Systems and products quality engineering.

WORK HISTORY


Professor of Mathematics and Industrial Engineering, École Polytechnique of Montreal, 1999-present.

Vice Rector of Academic Affairs, École Polytchnique of Montréal, 1999-2003.

Dean of Engineering, University of Moncton, 1997-1999.

Vice Dean of Engineering, University of Moncton,1996-1997.

Industrial Engineering Department Chair, University of Moncton, 1995-1996.

Honorary office and memberships


Associate Editor of the Reliability and Maintainability Symposium. USA. 2013-2016.

Program Visitor for the Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board. Engineers Canada. 1995-2010.

Superior Council of Education of Québec. Member of the Higher Education Teaching and Research Committee. 2001-2004.

The Egyptian Arabic School. Member of the Board of directors, responsible of the educational committee. 2003-2004.

Pulp and Paper Research Institute of Canada. Member of the Research Program Committee. 2001-2003.

Productions and Works


Inventor of three inventions.

More than 200 scientific papers published in prestigious scientific journals.

Author of three books.

Twelve research grants from the National Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada and industrial organizations.

Research director of more than fifty graduate students from all over the world.

AWARDS


First woman Dean of Engineering of a francophone university in Canada, and second woman Dean of Engineering for all the Canadian universities.

First woman Vice Rector of Engineering in Canada.

Woman of the year, in World Women’s Day, the Egyptian Cultural and Educational Office in Canada. 2015.

The Best Paper Award of the IIE Annual Conference. First Prize 2014.

Keynote Speaker in the International Conference of System Engineering Management 2011.

Trophy of Desjardins Québec cross-cultural week in recognition of special contributions as member of a cultural communities and of Québec society 2010.

Invited Speaker at Concordia University, University of Windsor and University of Toronto 2010.