Nabil Belacel

Nabil Belacel, (Ph.D. Free University of Brussels, Belgium; postdoctoral at GERAD “Group for Research in Decision Analysis” of Université de Montreal) is a Senior Research Officer at digital technologies research center of National Research Council Canada. He is a Registered Professional Engineer in Canada. He is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including a gold award of excellence from Canadian Information Productivity Awards in 2007 for his project: "New strategy for gene expression-based biomarker discovery". He has also received in May 2009 the CATA Alliance Innovation and Leadership Award in the Public Sector Leadership in Advanced Technology category at the 24th Annual Canadian Innovation and Leadership Awards Gala. Dr Belacel is an expert in operation research and machine learning. The innovative methods he has developed combine optimization, discrete mathematics and multicriteria decision analysis. His machine learning algorithms for Decision Support System have benefited numerous research programs and clients. Dr Belacel has applied his expertise to advance research areas such as bioinformatics, decision support system, educational data mining, cybersecurity, document and image analysis. Dr. Belacel has published more than 100 articles (including 2 US patents on biomarker discovery for prostate and colon cancer diagnosis) and has been cited over 1865 times in total, with an H-index of 21.