Dr. Mahdi Abdelguerfi

Dr. Abdelguerfi is currently professor of computer science at the University of New Orleans (UNO) and the founder and executive director of the interdisciplinary Canizaro-Livingston Gulf States Center for Environmental Informatics (GulfSCEI - pronounced Gulf Sea), whose primary goal is to assist state, federal agencies and non-government organizations solve environmental problems of the coastal margin of the State of Louisiana as well as other Gulf States.

His current research interests include geospatial environmental informatics, geospatial intelligence, big geospatial data mining, and spatio-temporal information systems. Dr. Abdelguerfi's federal research grants/contracts currently in force amount to a total of about $4.6M as a Principal Investigator. His research has been funded substantially, consistently and without interruption by the U.S. Department of the Navy over the last twenty years, indicating a high-level of satisfaction with, and confidence in, the quality of the research produced and the ability of my research team to meet its contractual deliverables in a timely manner.

Dr. Abdelguerfi is the recipient of the 2022 "UNO's Career Research Award." He was awarded the 2003 and 2016 "Alan Berman Annual Research Publication Award" from the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington D.C. for research performed jointly with scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). He received the 2016 UNO's "Competitive Funding Prize" in recognition of outstanding and innovative work in support of UNO's research mission. He was also the recipient of UNO's Early Career Achievement Award for Excellence in Research.