Rate My Professor Mazen Bokhuzam

Mazen Bou Khuzam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the American University of Iraq, Sulaimani, in the Kurdistan Region. He earned his B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from the American University of Beirut and his Ph.D. in Mathematics, with a specialty in Geometry and Topology, from the University of Cambridge. Dr. Bou Khuzam has accumulated more than eighteen years of teaching experience at university level across institutions in the Middle East, contributing his extensive expertise to mathematics education at AUIS. His academic background equips him to deliver rigorous instruction in core mathematical concepts, fostering a strong foundation for students in the sciences and related fields.

Dr. Bou Khuzam's research specializations center on low dimensional topology, exotic R⁴’s, contact structures on 3-manifolds, and the Atiyah-Sutcliffe conjectures regarding n distinct points in R³. His scholarly output includes several significant publications in reputable journals. These encompass "Inequalities on Invariants of Exotic R4's" in the JP Journal of Geometry and Topology (volume 3, 2006, pages 245-254); "A Comparative Study of Two Fundamental Invariants of Exotic R4's" in the Journal of Geometry (volume 102, 2011, pages 19-25); "Lifting the 3-dimensional Invariant of 2-plane fields on 3-manifolds" in Topology and its Applications (volume 159, 2012, pages 704-710); "An Improved Kernel for the Undirected Planar Feedback Vertex Set Problem" in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Springer, volume 7535, 2012, pages 264-273); "The G-properties of Knots" in Geometriae Dedicata (volume 163, 2013, pages 45-59); and "On the Conjecture Regarding the 4-point Atiyah Determinant," co-authored with Michael Johnson, in SIGMA (volume 10, 2014, article 070, 9 pages). These works demonstrate his contributions to advancing knowledge in geometric and topological invariants and related mathematical structures.