Nadia Ghazzali

Nadia Ghazzali (born April 3, 1961) is a Moroccan-Canadian statistician,[1] the former president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, where she continues to work as a professor in the department of mathematics and computer science.[2] As a statistician, she is known for her work on NbClust, a package in the R statistical software system for determining the number of clusters in a data set.[3]

Education and career

Ghazzali was born on April 3, 1961,[4] in Casablanca. After studying at the University of Rennes 1 in France,[5] she came to Canada as a postdoctoral researcher at McGill University, and joined the faculty at the Université Laval in 1993.[4]

She was president of the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières from 2012 until 2015, when she resigned after facing criticism from the Auditor General of Québec over management practices in university construction.[6][7][8]

Ghazzali is current (2021-2023) Deputy President of INWES, the International Network of Women Engineers and Scientists.

Recognition

At Laval, Ghazzali was given the NSERC Chair for Women in Science and Engineering (CWSE) in 2006.[4][9] In the same year, she was named a corresponding member of the Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies.[4]

References

  1. ^ "Canada : Une Marocaine nommée rectrice d'une université du Québec". 2012-01-23. Retrieved 2025-10-23.
  2. ^ "Nadia Ghazzali", Répertoire des experts, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, retrieved 2019-07-30
  3. ^ Pacheco, Erik Rodriguez (2015), Unsupervised Learning with R, Packt Publishing, p. 64, ISBN 9781785885815
  4. ^ a b c d "Nadia Ghazzali" (PDF), Annuaire de l’Académie Hassan II des Sciences et Techniques (in French), Hassan II Academy of Sciences and Technologies, December 2007
  5. ^ Lortie, Myriam (April 22, 2014), "Nadia Ghazzali: Dans le bureau de la rectrice", Zone Campus
  6. ^ Vienne, Jean-François (July 5, 2017), "The tough job of university rector in Quebec", University Affairs
  7. ^ Cafley, Julie (August 19, 2015), "Universities need a new model of governance", The Globe and Mail
  8. ^ Papillon, Mathieu (May 27, 2015), La gestion de l'UQTR critiquée par la vérificatrice générale (in French), Radio Canada
  9. ^ Previous Chairholders for Women in Science and Engineering, NSERC, 2016-06-28, retrieved 2019-07-30
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