Abdel H. El-Shaarawi

National Water Research Institute
Burlington, Ontario, Canada


Abdel H. El-Shaarawi is a Research Scientist at the National Water Research Institute and a Professor of Statistics at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the Co-founder and Past President of The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), the Co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of Environmetrics, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a Fellow of the Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He received a Distinguished Achievement Medal from the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment, a Citation of Excellence Award from the Government of Canada, and the Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award at the Ninth Lukas Symposium in 1999 at Bowling Green University. He authored and co-authored of more than 120 papers and reports and edited or co-edited 8 books and journal special issues. He served or continue to serve on the Editorial Board of Stochastic Hydrology and Hydraulics, Environmental Modelling & Software, International Statistical Review, Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems, Journal of Aquatic Ecosystem Health, Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, Environmental and Ecological Statistics, Journal of the Turkish Statistical Association, Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering, and the Eastern Mediterranean Journal of World Health Organization. He has served as Vice Chair for the ISI Committee on Environmental Statistics, as Program Chair for the Statistical Society of Canada Meeting, and serves as member of the Bernoulli Committee on Probability and Statistics. He served or continues to serve as a consultant and or an advisor to the International Development Research Centre of Canada, Canadian International Development Agency, World Health Organization, the Columbian Petroleum Institute, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Center for Statistics and Environment, and NASA. He has a B.Sc. and M.Sc. from Cairo, and a Ph.D. from University of Waterloo.


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