Grace El Khoury

Grace El Khoury is an assistant professor and the math coordinator of the faculty of Engineering at Université La Sagesse. She holds a PhD in Applied Linear Algebra from the University of Western Brittany, a Research Master’s degree in Geometry from the Lebanese University and a BS in Pure Mathematics from the Lebanese University. Her research is applied and focuses on solving Lyapunov equations and refining invariant subspaces of large-scale sparse matrices. Her role is to oversee Mathematics curriculum development, to coordinate math courses and to mentor students.

Qualifications

• PhD in Mathematics (2014), University of Western Brittany (France).
• Master’s degree in Research (Geometry) (2010), The Lebanese University (Lebanon).
• BS degree in Pure Mathematics (2008), The Lebanese University (Lebanon).
• Qualification to the position of lecturer CNU 26 (Applied Mathematics) (France).

Teaching interests

• Discrete Mathematics
• Linear Algebra
• Calculus
• Probability and Statistics
• Differential Equations
• Numerical Analysis

Research interests

• Applied Linear Algebra
• Image processing and point cloud

Publications

• P. BENNER, G. EL KHOURY, M. SADKANE (2013), On the squared Smith method for large-scale Stein equation, Numerical linear algebra with applications, https://doi.org/10.1002/nla.1918
• G. EL KHOURY, Yu.M. NECHEPURENKO, M. SADKANE (2014), Acceleration of inverse subspace iteration with Newton’s method, Computational and Applied Mathematics, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cam.2013.06.046
• R. YOUNES, R. ABI ZEID DAOU, G. EL KHOURY, J. POSSIK and C. YAACOUB (September 2024), Impact of Pretraining Datasets on Point-MAE Performance in Point Cloud Classification, 21st International Multidisciplinary Modeling and Simulation Multiconference, Spain. https://doi.org/10.46354/i3m.2024.emss.034
• R. YOUNES, C. YAACOUB, G. EL KHOURY, J. POSSIK, and R. ABI ZEID DAOU (November 2024), Evaluation of Point-MAE for Robust Point Cloud Classification Across Diverse Datasets, 2nd International Conference on Smart Systems and Power Management (IC2SPM), Beirut. 10.1109/IC2SPM62723.2024.10841347
• R. YOUNES, R. ABI ZEID DAOU, G. EL KHOURY, P. BILANE, J. POSSIK, and C. YAACOUB (February 2025), Evaluating the Impact of Sampling Strategies on Classification Accuracy in Point-MAE for Point Cloud Classification, International Conference on Control, Automation, and Instrumentation, Beirut, Lebanon. 10.1109/IC2AI62984.2025.10932172

Community Services

• Expert in Math program preparation for the launching of the Faculty of Engineering, 2016