Faculty


Our faculty members graduated from highly reputed universities and are active in their fields while also being dedicated teachers and mentors. Their expertise covers a wide range of sub-disciplines and specialties, and they are regularly producing internationally-recognized research.

Dr. Anas AlGhazi
Chairman & ​​Assistant Professor
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​Areas of Interest​: ​Production Systems, Operations Research, Supply Chain, and Data Science. Office:22/238 ☏:1570 ✉:alghazi

Dr. Salih Duffuaa
Professor
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​Areas of Interest​: ​Math. Modeling, OR, Optimization of Quality Systems, Maintenance Eng. & Management. O:22-422 ☏2692 ✉duffuaa

Dr. Ahmad Al-Hanbali
Associate Professor
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Areas of Interest: Maintenance & Reliability Eng., Supply Chain Mod., Stoch. OR, Queueing Th. O:22/420-1 ☏4958✉ahmad.alhanbali

Dr. Mohammad AlDurgam
Associate Professor
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Areas of Interest​: ​Operations Research and Operations Management. Office:22/345 ☏7099 ✉aldurgam

Dr. Syed Mujahid
Associate Professor
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Areas of Interest​: ​Math.Programming, Data Analysis, Applied OR, Machine Learning, Optimization Methods O:22/352 ☏7908 ✉smujahid

Dr. Ahmed Attia
Associate Professor
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Areas of interest: Supply Chain Modelling & Optimization, Inventory & Production Control, Quality Contr. O: 22/240 ☏2905 ✉amattia

Dr. Ahmad Baubaid
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest: Transportation & Logistics Systems, Network Design, Approx. Dynamic Programming, OR. O:22/237 ☏1995 ✉baubaid

Dr. Ahmet Kolus
​Assistant Professor
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​Areas of Interest​: ​Human Factor Eng., IE Applications, Fuzzy Syst. Modeling, Multi Objective Optimization. O:​22-230 ☏2807 ✉akolus

Dr. Asif Iqbal
Assistant Professor
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Areas of interest: Optimization, Supply chain, Inventory management O: 22/242 ☏5138 ✉ asifiqbal.malik

Dr. Haitham Saleh
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest: Mathematical Modeling, Healthcare Systems, AI, and Decision Support Systems. O:22/423 ☏7247 ✉haithamhs

Dr. Ismail Al-Maraj
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest​: ​Multi-Criteria Optimization, Production Systems & Supply Chain, Quality Engineering O:22/351 ☏1163 ✉almaraj

Dr. Khaled Al-Shareef
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest: Quality Control, Sequencing & Scheduling, Supply Chain Management, Ergonomics. Office:22/420 ☏2102 ✉khaled

Dr. Mohammad Abdel-Aal
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest​: ​Production & Inventory Control, Supply Chain Modeling & Design, Optimization & OR. O:22/424 ☏4744 ✉mabdelaal

Dr. Mohamed Darghouth
​Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest​: ​Strategies of Inspection & Replacement, Reliability & Maintenance Optimization. Office:​22-235 ☏1086 ✉darghouth

Dr. Mohammad Nabhan
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest: Statistical Modeling, Complex Manufacturing Processes, Machine Learning & Data Science. O:22/232 ☏7107 ✉nabhan

Dr. Mohammed Al-Yaqoub
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest​: ​OR, Network Optimization, Stochastic Optimization, Maintenance Planning. O:22-229 ☏1078 ✉mohyaqoub

Dr. Omar Alsawafy
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interest : Production Planning & Inventory Control, Supply Chain Management, Quality control. O:22-346 ☏2238 ✉alsawafy

Dr. Yasser Almoghathawi
Assistant Professor
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Areas of Interests : Optimization, Mathematical Modeling, Facility location, Sequencing & Scheduling. O:22-350 ☏2773 ✉moghathawi

Ibrahim Alrajeh
Lecturer
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On Study Leave, PhD Student at Penn State University, ✉ibrahim.alrajeh@kfupm.edu.sa

Mohammed Baaoum
Lecturer
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​On Study Leave, PhD Student at Virginia Tech University, ✉mbaaoum@kfupm.edu.sa

Omran Al-Omran
Lecturer
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On Study Leave, PhD Student at Penn State University, ✉omran.alomran@kfupm.edu.sa

Dr. Anis Elgabli

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Areas of Interest: Theoretical and Algorithmic Principles of communication-efficient, distributed, and privacy-preserving machine learning (ML), Optimized video streaming algorithms, efficient algorithms to enable fast and low-cost scheduling and resource allocation in wireless networks by leveraging techniques from artificial intelligence and machine learning AI/ML, Low-complexity signal detection algorithms for wireless MIMO communication. Anis.elgabli@kfupm.edu.sa

Dr. Esam Abdulrahman Alhomaidhi
Assistant Professor
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Area of Interests: Production Systems Designs (Modeling and Optimization); Production Planning, Scheduling, Inventory Control Analysis and Supply Chain Designs; Project Management and Strategic Planning Optimization and Operations Research; Design and Analysis of Exact and Heuristics Optimization Methods