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Dr. Alaa Khamis

Associate Professor

Education

  • PhD, Systems Engineering, Charles III University of Madrid, Spain, 2003
  • MSc, Electrical Engineering, Suez Canal University, Egypt, 1998
  • BSc, Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt, 1993

Research Interests

  • Smart mobility
  • Seamless integrated mobility
  • Software-defined vehicles
  • AI-powered observability
  • Causal inference
  • Agentic AI

Selected Publications

  • Alaa Khamis. Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems. Manning Publication, ISBN-13: 978-1633438835, 2024. 2. 2. Alaa Khamis. Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts. Apress (Springer Nature), June 2021.
  • Alaa Khamis and Suzette Malek, “Smart Mobility for Sustainable Development Goals: Enablers and Barriers”, The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, KAUST, 2023 [This paper was selected as best paper in Smart Mobility Governance track].
  • Alaa Khamis and Partha Goswami, “Automated Mobility: A Comparison Between Aviation and Automotive”, The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, KAUST, 2023.
  • Tamas Haidegger, Vincent Mai, Carl Mörch, Dominik BO Boesl, An Jacobs, Alaa Khamis, Luca Lach, Bram Vanderborght, "Sustainable Robotics-Translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals to our Domain," 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024.
  • B. Khaleghi, A. Khamis, F. Karray, S. Razavi, “Multisensor Data Fusion: A Review of the State-of-the-art,” Information Fusion Volume 14, Issue 1, January 2013, Pages 28–44 [on the top most downloaded papers from Information Fusion with 2392 citations].
  • A. Khamis, A. Elmogy and F. Karray, “Market-based Dynamic Task Allocation in Mobile Surveillance Systems”, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Springer, DOI 10.1007/s10846-010-9536-2, 2011.

Awards

  • Recipient of GM Critical Talent Award, 2022-2024.
  • Listed in the 2024 Stanford/Elsevier World's Top 2% most-cited scientists list.
  • My book "Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems" has been on Manning's Top 10 Titles list, making it one of the most popular and best-selling releases in Manning Publications Co. catalog.
  • Inventor of the month for several months at General Motors with total of 72 patents, trade secrets and defensive publications.
  • First author of a Best Paper in Smart Mobility Governance Track of The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility.
  • 2018 recipient of the 2018 IEEE Member and Geographic Activities (MGA) Achievement Award.
Dr. Alaa Khamis

Associate Professor