Sofwah Ahmad
Assistant Teaching Professor
Research Interests
Professor Ahmad’s research focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations and dynamical systems involving nonlocal operators (e.g. the fractional Laplacian and fractional time derivatives) motivated by real-world problems in mathematical biology, mathematical physics, and material science. She is particularly interested in the qualitative behavior of solutions to these systems, including the study of singularities and blow-up phenomena in nonlinear systems, global existence and large-time behavior of nonlinear evolution equations, and optimal control theory. Her work has applications in epidemiology and the study of noncommunicable diseases, with future directions including cellular-level studies. Her current research interests include nonlocal and nonlinear models in biology and physics, the study of fractional physics-informed neural networks, and inverse problems. Email
Prior to joining MBZUAI, Professor Ahmad was a Teaching Assistant at Khalifa University, where she taught undergraduate and postgraduate mathematics courses, including Partial Differential Equations, Ordinary Differential Equations, Functional Analysis, Linear Algebra, and Calculus. She also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the Universitas Indonesia and a Teaching Assistant at Institut Teknologi Bandung. Her research focuses on nonlinear partial differential equations and dynamical systems involving nonlocal operators, with various real world applications. She has undertaken research visits to the University of Wrocław, Poland, hosted by Prof. Grzegorz Karch, and to Ghent University, Belgium, hosted by Prof. Michael Ruzhansky. In recognition of her research excellence, she received the Elite Young Researcher Award from Khalifa University in 2024.
- Ph.D. in Mathematics from Khalifa University
- Master of Science in Mathematics from Institut Teknologi Bandung
- Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Universitas Indonesia
Elite Young Researcher Award, Khalifa University, 2024