Dr. Khouider has a PhD in applied mathematics from the University of Montreal. His research is in atmospheric science and climate modeling. In the last 20 years, he is particularly interested in convectively coupled tropical waves and atmospheric convection. He wrote approximately 100 research articles and book chapters on this topic and a solo author book of 300 pages on “Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics: Waves, Clouds, and Precipitation? (Springer 2019). Khouider is one the pioneers in using stochastic models in climate models. He uses Ising-type models to represent features of tropical convection in climate models. The implementation of such models by Khouider and his collaborators as well as by other groups (around the world) has led to break throughs in our ability to represent features of tropical climate variability in coarse resolution climate models. Khouider has trained more than 30 students and 7 post docs.