He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology in 1995. Professor Dabdub's expertise is in mathematical modeling of air pollution dynamics and numerical algorithms using high performance parallel computation. He has worked on several projects funded by the Environmental Protection Agency, National Science Foundation--Division of Advanced Scientific Computing, California Air Resources Board, Department of Energy, California Energy Commission, IBM Corporation, and EPRI developing new physics and chemistry for air quality models, designing new algorithms for the numerical solution of the overrunning equations of air pollution dynamics, and implementing urban photochemical models on concurrent computers.