Luay Nakhleh
| Luay K. Nakhleh | |
|---|---|
| William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering | |
| Assumed office January 1, 2021 | |
| Preceded by | Reginald DesRoches | 
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 8, 1974 Israel | 
| Citizenship | Israel United States | 
| Education | BSc, 1996, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology MSc, Texas A&M University PhD, University of Texas at Austin | 
Luay K. Nakhleh (Arabic: لؤي نخله; born May 8, 1974) is a Palestinain-Israeli-American computer scientist and computational biologist. He is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. Nakhleh's research is on computational and statistical approaches to phylogenomics and comparative genomics.