PhD, SMIEEE · Faculty Member, KFUPM
My research sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and mobility systems, services andb business models: from seamless integrated mobility and software-defined vehicle observability to the design, planning, and control problems behind people mobility, logistics, and transportation infrastructure.
Research, writing and teaching around artificial intelligence for smart, sustainable and inclusive mobility.
Advancing AI-driven smart mobility ecosystems through research on seamless integrated mobility, contextual observability and causal intelligence for software-defined vehicles, and complex planning and decision-making across people mobility, logistics, and intelligent infrastructure.
Explore researchSix books, seven book chapters, more than 200 refereed papers and 72 filed US patents, trade secrets and defensive publications.
Browse publicationsForty-five undergraduate and graduate courses across Canada, Saudi Arabia, Spain and Egypt, with class sizes from 8 to 600 students.
See coursesFounding chair of the IEEE ITSS Saudi Arabia Chapter and of IEEE SM; founder of Agentic AI @ KFUPM community, and recipient of the GM Crticial Talent Award and IEEE MGA Achievement Award.
View service recordWritten for practitioners who need to put search, optimization, and mobility technology to work.
Manning Publications, 2024. Deterministic and stochastic derivative-free optimization, nature-inspired search and machine-learning methods, with Python case studies throughout.
About this book
Apress (Springer Nature), 2021. A holistic view of how the smart mobility triad (technology, governance, and city planning) combines to create sustainable mobility.
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Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
AI for Smart Mobility Lab. Open positions.