Ziad Rached was born in Zahle, Lebanon, on September 25, 1970. After initial studies at the “Notre Dame” and “Saint Joseph” schools in Lebanon, he received the B.Sc. degree and the M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He received the M. Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in applied mathematics (information theory) from Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, in 1998 and 2002, respectively. In 2002, he joined the department of Mathematics and Statistics at Notre Dame University, Zouk Mosbeh, Lebanon, where he is currently an assistant professor.
Research interests:
Information and Communication Theory: Generalized information measures and their operational characterizations in source coding, hypothesis testing and channel coding; Error exponent, probability of error and correct decoding, generalized cutoff rates and channel reliability function.
Linear Algebra: Jordan triple systems and Jordan algebras. Classification of different kinds of algebras and modules via polynomial identities.

Ph.D. in Mathematics (Information theory), Queen’s University, Canada, 2002.

M.Sc. in Mathematics (Information theory), Queen’s University, Canada, 1998.

B.Sc. in Mathematics, University of Ottawa, Canada, 1994.

Refereed Journal Articles

Alajaji, F., Chen. P. N. and Rached. Z. (2004) Csiszár’s Cutoff rates for the general hypothesis testing problem. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 663-678.

Rached, Z., Alajaji. F and Campbell, L. L. (2004) On the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate for Finite Alphabet Markov Sources. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 50, No. 5, pp 917-921.

Alajaji, F., Chen. P. N. and Rached, Z. (2002) A Note on the Poor-Verdú Conjecture  IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 48,  No. 1, pp. 309-313.

Rached, Z., Alajaji. F., and Campbell, L. L. (2001) Rényi’s Divergence and Entropy Rates for Finite Alphabet Markov Sources. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Vol. 47, No. 4, pp. 1553-1560.

Rached, Z.  and Racine, M. (1997) Exceptional Jordan Triple  systems. Communications in Algebra, 25(8), pp. 2687-2702

Rached, Z. and Racine, M. (1996) Jordan Triple Systems of Degree at Most 2. Communications in Algebra, 24(3), pp. 963-1001.

Conference Proceedings

Rached, Z. (2008) Divergence Rate Between Stationary Gaussian Stochastic Processes. Proceedings of the first conference on Current Trends in the Theory and Applications of Computer Science, CTTACS, Beirut: Notre Dame University Press, pp. 252-256.

Alajaji, F., Chen, P. N. and Rached, Z. (2002) Csiszár’s forward cutoff rate for testing between two arbitrary sources. International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 30-34.

Alajaji, F., Chen, P. N. and Rached. Z (2001) On the Poor-Verdú Conjecture for the Reliability Function of Channels with Memory. International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT), pp. 50-53.

Rached, Z., Alajaji, F., and Campbell, L. L. (2000) On the Renyi Divergence for Finite Alphabet Markov Sources. International Symposium on Information Theory and its Applications (ISITA), pp. 81-85.