Dr. Khaldoun Khashanah, Distinguished Service Professor and Program Director, Financial Engineering (FE), conducts research in stochastic systems dynamics and modeling, high-frequency finance and algorithmic trading, systemic risk and systems of systems.

He started his research in areas of underwater acoustics, porous media and Biot theory, functional analysis, and inverse problems in partial differential equations.

He is the author, co-author, or contributor to 18 scholarly articles and papers delivered at national and international professional conferences. Khashanah received his B.E. in Electrical Engineering from the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, his M.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Cincinnati, and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Delaware.