Nabil Belacel

Nabil Belacel
National Research Council of Canada (NRC)
Canada

Biography

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 the National Research Council Institute for Information Technology – Knowledge discovery Group in Moncton. Dr. Belacel is internationally recognized for his research on multiple criteria classification methods and their application to life sciences. Currently he is developing the multiple criteria classification methods for clinical decision support systems for which he holds an NSERC grant. Dr Nabil Belacel is the recipient of numerous scholarships and awards, including a gold award of excellence from Canadian Information Productivity Awards in 2007. He has also received in May 2009 the CATAAlliance Innovation and Leadership Award in the Public Sector Leadership in Advanced Technology category at the 24th Annual Canadian Innovation and Leadership Awards Gala. Nabil′s research interests include operations research, fuzzy classification, multiple criteria decision analysis, clinical decision support system and bioinformatics. He has extensive publications in a number of these different areas.