Short Bio

I work as an Associate Professor and Director of AI for Smart Mobility Lab in Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and IRC for Smart Mobility and Logistics at KFUPM. I am the author of Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts and Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems.

News/Events

• My book titled Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems is now available.
• I'll give a keynote speech in The International Conference on Electrical Systems and Smart Technologies (ICESST 2024), Dec. 13-15, 2024, Dakhla, Moracco.
• I gave a keynote speech in The IEEE International Conference on Smart Applications, Communications and Networkin (SmartNets 2024), May 28-30, 2024, Harrisonburg/Washington DC – USA.
• I gave a keynote speech titled Smart Mobility for Traffic Safety in The Sixth International Traffic Safety Forum and Exhibition, Dammam, Saudi Arabia, December 6, 2023.
• I gave a keynote speech titled Smart Mobility for Sustainable Development Goals: Enablers and Barriers in FARI Conference: Local & Sustainable AI, Data, and Robotics in Brussels, Belgium, Sepetmber 2023.
• My paper titled Smart Mobility for Sustainable Development Goals: Enablers and Barriers has been selected as Best Paper in Smart Mobility Governance Track of The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility.
• I teach ECE1724H: Bio-inspired Algorithms for Smart Mobility grad course in 2022 Fall Session in The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at University of Toronto.
• My book titled Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts is now available.

Books

• Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems introduces the AI algorithms that can solve these complex and poorly-structured problems. Inside you’ll find a wide range of optimization methods, from deterministic and stochastic derivative-free optimization to nature-inspired search algorithms and machine learning methods.
• Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts gives a holistic view of smart mobility systems and services and covers how the smart mobility triad — technology, governance, and city planning — work together to create a smart and sustainable mobility.
• AI for Smart Mobility, Medium.com publication with open-source projects.
• AI Search Algorithms for Smart Mobility, an open-source Jupyter book.
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Research

I lead the AI for Smart Mobility Lab at KFUPM, where we focus on the intersection of AI with mobility systems, services, and business models. Our current active projects include "Contextual Observability of Software-Defined Vehicles" and "an "Agentic AI-based Framework for Seamless Integrated Mobility".

Publications

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.

Teaching

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.

Awards/Honors

• Listed in the 2024 Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% most-cited scientists list.
• Recipient of GM Critical Talent Award, 2022-2024 and was recognized by GM Global Patent & Invention Management as the "Inventor of the Month" several times.
• Vice-chair of CSA Connected and Automated Vehicles Advisory Council (CAVAC) 2022-2024.
• The 2018 recipient of the 2018 IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Achievement Award.
• Founder of The IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility.