I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at James Madison University . My previous name is Hala AH Shehadeh. Before JMU, I was a postdoc at the University of Michigan- Ann Arbor mathematics department . I finished my Ph.D. in 2010 at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Enjoy my first book Essential Math for AI with O'Reilly Media. Follow my journey as I write my second book and build the Foundations of AI and Data. Follow me on LinkedIn Visit my personal blog: How It All Happened When I am not doing mathematical models, I model: Non-mathematical Modeling AI and Data Strategy at JMU Follow this work at JMU President's AI Task Force AI and data strategy at JMU naturally interfaces with Re-engineering Madison project and Data Governance structures Artificial Intelligence Generation- AI Native When my daughter was 10, while randomly chatting with a robot girl on an app, she comes to me and says: I love the idea of artificial intelligence, it's like raising a child, you're slowly influencing and informing its personality as you chat with it. And just like that, Sary summed up the way AI works without even thinking about it. That's the generation of AI. They naturally get it. Research Interests Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Science Applied Mathematics and Modeling Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science Inverse Problems and Imaging Sign up for these exciting classes when I teach them! Mathematics for the Industry Help Harrisonburg City Fire Department and Department of Public Transportation make optimal use of the their data. Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence It will be intelligent, you will be intelligent. You can brag that you took this course with an O'Reilly Media author 😉. Hacking for Diplomacy, National Security, and Defense Serve your country solving real world problems from the US military. Computers and Numerical Algorithms (Math 248) My favorite class to teach, it plunges you straight into python, data, and mathematical modeling and computation. Snapchat's doll version of Sary and me Important links Math REU at JMU site College of Science and Mathematics at JMU: CSM website. College Council Faculty Senate at JMU: JMU's Faculty Senate Women In Math of Materials Network WIMM

Live Interviews! AI, Data, Mathematical Modeling Mar 2024 Interview Interview with Hymaïa at Data Nights Talk Show, Paris, France Feb 2024 Interview Interview with Joaquin Melara on SWARM community’s the AI Digest podcast (to be released May 2024) Nov 2023 Interview with Ron Itelman, CEO of Intelligence.AI and author of Unifying Business, Data, and Code on his Thinking in Networks podcast Sept 2023 Interview with Ole-Olesen-Bagneux, author of The Enterprise Data Catalogue on his The Data Democracy podcast Aug 2023 Interview with Joe Reis and Matthew Housley, best selling authors of Fundamentals of Data Engineering on Monday Morning Data Chat podcast Aug 2023 Interview with Thomas Bustos on Let's Talk AI podcast March 2023 Interview with Andy Petrella founder of Kensu and author of Foundations of Data Observability on ZooThor March 2023 Interview with Harpreet Sahota on The Artists of Data Science podcast May 2020 Interview with Matthew LaPlante on Utah Public Radio’s UnDisciplined I wrote a book Essential Math for AI (O'Reilly Media 2023) I am now writing a new book: Foundations of AI, Data, and Information Webpage for Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning click here Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Seminar Series click here Do only what you want to do, and nothing else Contact Information Department of Mathematics and Statistics 305 Roop Hall MSC 1911 James Madison University Harrisonburg, VA 22807 Office location: 320 Roop Hall Email: nelsonhy-at-jmu-dot-edu Office Phone: (540) 568-6968 Gibran.. On Children and On Love JMU Fight Song

Publications and Preprints

• Nelson H., Powell C., Shah A. Sherwood C., and Gammino D., Data to the Rescue, A Partnership with Harrisonburg City Fire Department, report submitted in May 2022 and paper in preparation.
• Nelson H., Webb J., White A., Okey E., Bihler M., and Reyes N., Modeling Supply And Demand In Public Transportation Systems, A Partnership with Harrisonburg City Department of Public Transportation, arxiv link.
• Nelson H., S. Deyo, S. Granzier-Nakajima, K. Tully, P. Puente, and J. Webb, A mathematical model for meat cooking, European Physical Journal Plus, Vol 135 (2020), article no. 322. pdf . Link.
  Article in the media:
  UnDisciplined program on Utah Public Radio: link .
  Mentions: link .
  JMU news: link .
  Science Daily: link .
  Food and Wine: link .
  Physics World: link (should be JMU reference not UFL).
  New Food Magazine: link .
• L. Cao, Y. Epshteyn, A. Howell, H. Nelson and P. Newell, Fluid driven fracture in porous media. In preparation.
• Nelson H., Statistical mechanics and hydrodynamic limit of a near equilibrium solid on solid model. Preprint.
• J. V. Alcala and H. AH Shehadeh, Threat detection: Recovering the source function in the advection diffusion equation, Mathematical Inverse Problems, Vol 5 no 1 (2018), pp. 20-34. pdf. Link.
• H. AH Shehadeh, A. Malcolm and J. Schotland, Inversion of the Bremmer series, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol.35, No.5 (2017), pp. 586-599. pdf.
• H. AH Shehadeh, R.V. Kohn and J. Weare, The Evolution of a Crystal Surface, Physica D, 240 (2011), pp. 1771-1784. pdf. Link.
• H. AH Shehadeh, S. Jaafar and K.K. Makdisi, Generating functions for Hecke operators, International Journal of Number Theory, Vol 5, issue 1 (2009), pp. 125-140. pdf. Link.
• H. AH Shehadeh, Ph.D. Thesis, ProQuest (2010).

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