{"id":588,"date":"2025-10-24T23:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/?p=588"},"modified":"2025-10-24T23:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T23:09:01","slug":"dr-wasfi-taher-saalih","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/dr-wasfi-taher-saalih\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Wasfi Taher Saalih"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-color:#ddd5cd;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:100px;--awb-padding-bottom:100px;--awb-padding-top-medium:60px;--awb-padding-bottom-medium:60px;--awb-padding-top-small:60px;--awb-padding-bottom-small:60px;--awb-background-color:var(--awb-color1);--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row 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style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:50%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:50px;--awb-margin-bottom-large:0px;--awb-spacing-left-large:50px;--awb-width-medium:50%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:50px;--awb-spacing-left-medium:50px;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:50px;--awb-spacing-left-small:50px;\" data-animationtype=\"fadeInRight\" data-animationduration=\"1.3\" data-animationoffset=\"top-into-view\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-title title fusion-title-1 fusion-sep-none fusion-title-text fusion-title-size-one\" style=\"--awb-text-color:#1d3033;--awb-margin-bottom:40px;--awb-font-size:67px;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-title-heading title-heading-left\" style=\"font-family:&quot;Baskervville&quot;;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;margin:0;font-size:1em;letter-spacing:-0.024em;text-transform:var(--awb-typography1-text-transform);line-height:1;\">Dr. Wasfi Taher Saalih Kahwachi<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1 fusion-text-no-margin\" style=\"--awb-font-size:20px;--awb-line-height:1.4;--awb-letter-spacing:0px;--awb-text-transform:var(--awb-typography4-text-transform);--awb-text-color:#1d3033;--awb-margin-bottom:45px;--awb-text-font-family:&quot;League Spartan&quot;;--awb-text-font-style:normal;--awb-text-font-weight:400;\"><p>Dr. Wasfi Taher Saalih Kahwachi is Research Center Director at TIU\u2013Erbil and an Assistant Professor of Statistics with 36+ years of academic leadership, previously serving as Dean, Department Head, and Vice President at Salahaddin University and TIU. He holds a top-ranked Ph.D. in Statistics &amp; Digital Image Processing and has published 40+ papers, supervised 35+ theses, and led UNESCO, World Bank, USAID, and DAAD-funded projects. A Fulbright alumnus, he advised KRG ministries and UN agencies on demographic, education, and economic policy, and works at the intersection of applied statistics, AI\/ML, and\u00a0development.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":589,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-team"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":592,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588\/revisions\/592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sosdat.org\/ku\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}