Dr. Abdel-Khalik is an Associate Professor at the Department of Nuclear Engineering at Purdue University. He completed his B.S.N.E at the University of Alexandria, Egypt in 2000 followed by his M.S. (2002) and Ph.D (2004) in Nuclear Engineering at the North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. He has worked at AREVA and North Carolina State University before joining Purdue in 2014. His primary areas of interest include Mathematical Inference, Reduced Order Modeling, Uncertainty Quantification, Big Data Analytics with primary focus on nuclear energy systems