Luay Nakhleh

Luay K. Nakhleh
William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering
Assumed office
January 1, 2021
Preceded byReginald DesRoches
Personal details
Born (1974-05-08) May 8, 1974
Israel
CitizenshipIsrael
United States
EducationBSc, 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.