Rate My Professor Kamel Haddad

Haddad earned a bachelor’s degree in applied mathematics from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in mathematics, in the area of topological and symbolic dynamics, from the University of Maryland. He is a Senior Fulbright Scholar and recipient of California State University, Bakersfield’s Millie Ablin Outstanding Professor Award. His research focuses on topological dynamics and ergodic theory, with notable publications including “Recurrence in pairs” (2008, Ergodic Theory and Dynamical Systems, with William Ott), “Synchronous recurrence” (2015, with William Ott and Ronnie Pavlov), “New limiting notions of the IP type in the enveloping semigroup” (1996), and “Enveloping Semigroups and Mappings onto the Two-Shift” (1998, with Kenneth Berg and David Gove). In collaboration with CSUSM colleague Anna Woodcock, he co-authored “Increasing Hispanic STEM Majors' Persistence to Degree” (2025) and secured a three-year, $830,000 grant to support families of incoming Hispanic STEM majors.