Alaa Khamis, PhD, SMIEEE AI & Smart Mobility Technical Leader at General Motors
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I work as an AI & Smart Mobility Technical Leader at General Motors Canada. I also teach a grad course about AI for smart mobility at University of Toronto. I am the author of Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts and Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems.
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My current research focuses on the intersection of mobility systems, AI, and business models. I address complex challenges in smart mobility, such as situation awareness, contextual causal inference, and solving design, planning, and control problems related to people mobility, logistics, and transportation infrastructure. Additionally, I explore the sustainability aspects of both existing and emerging business models in mobility, along with the human factors that shape the evolving smart mobility systems and services.
Continue reading →I published 6 books, 7 book chapters, and more than 190 scientific papers in refereed journals and international conferences. I also filed 72 US patents, trade secrets and defensive publications. I authored “Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts” book published by Apress (Springer Nature) in 2021. I also authored "Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems" book published by Manning Publications in 2024.
Continue reading →I taught 37 different undergraduate and graduate courses at different universities in Canada, Spain and Egypt such as University of Toronto, University of Waterloo, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, German University in Cairo and Zewail City of Science and Technology. The class sizes of these courses vary from 8 students to up to 600 students.
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