Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Ecole des Ponts Paris-Tech, France 2008 Dr. Babacar Seck joined the department as an Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Actuarial Science Bachelor Program. He graduated from one of the top French Grandes Ecoles-Ecole des Ponts-ParisTech, back to 2009. His areas of expertise are mathematical finance (financial and energy risk management) and optimization (stochastic optimization, large-scale systems and process control). He was a research associate and an instructor in various post-secondary institutions in Alberta, Canada, namely University of Alberta, University of Calgary and Red Deer University before joining the University of Bahrain.