Dr. Firas Muin Al-Hindawi

Assistant Professor

• Office: 22-350
• Phone: 966-13-860-2894
• Email: firas.hindawi@kfupm.edu.sa
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Affiliation: Interdisciplinary Research Center for Smart Mobility and Logistics

Education

• PhD, Data Science, Analytics and Engineering, Arizona State University, 2024
• MSc, Industrial Engineering, Arizona State University, 2021
• BSc, Industrial Engineering, University of Jordan, 2013

Teaching

• ISE 291: Introduction to Data Science
• ISE 315: Engineering Statistics
• ISE 411: Senior Design Project I
• ISE 412: Senior Design Project II

Research Interests

• AI for Healthcare and Cognitive Assessment
• Domain Adaptation in Computer Vision
• AI for Industry and Thermal Engineering
• Biomedical Time Series

Selected Publications

• Al-Hindawi, F., Siddiquee, M. M. R., Patharkar, A., et al. (2026). "SequenceSync-GAN: sequence-aware domain translation for generalizable boiling crisis detection." Signal, Image and Video Processing.
• Al-Hindawi, F., Wu, T., Wen, Y., et al. (2026). "Leveraging Naturalistic Driving Digital Biomarkers for Early Mild Cognitive Impairment Detection: Deep Learning Strategies." JMIR Medical Informatics.
• Al-Hindawi, F., Serhan, P., Geda, Y. E., et al. (2025). "LiveDrive AI: A pilot study of a machine learning-powered diagnostic system for real-time, non-invasive detection of mild cognitive impairment." Bioengineering.
• Patharkar, A., Al-Hindawi, F., and Wu, T. (2025). "Healthy bio-core: A framework for selection of homogeneous healthy biomedical multivariate time series employing classification performance." IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
• Al-Hindawi, F., Siddiquee, M. M. R., Wu, T., et al. (2024). "Domain-knowledge Inspired Pseudo Supervision (DIPS) for Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation Models to Support Cross-Domain Classification." Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
• Patharkar, A., Cai, F., Al-Hindawi, F., and Wu, T. (2024). "Predictive modeling of biomedical temporal data in healthcare applications: Review and future directions." Frontiers in Physiology.
• Serhan, P., Victor, S., Osorio Perez, O., Abi Karam, K., Elghoul, A., Ransdell, M., Al-Hindawi, F., Geda, Y., Chahal, G., Eagan, D., et al. (2024). "Smart driving technology for non-invasive detection of age-related cognitive decline." Sensors.
• Al-Hindawi, F., Soori, T., Hu, H., et al. (2023). "A framework for generalizing critical heat flux detection models using unsupervised image-to-image translation." Expert Systems with Applications.
• Li, T., Xu, Y., Wu, T., Charlton, J. R., Bennett, K. M., and Al-Hindawi, F. (2023). "BlobCUT: a contrastive learning method to support small blob detection in medical imaging." Bioengineering.
• Al-Hindawi, F., Siddiquee, M. M. R., Wu, T., et al. (2023). "Pseudo Supervised Metrics: Evaluating Unsupervised Image to Image Translation Models In Unsupervised Cross-Domain Classification Frameworks." CoRR.
• Rassoulinejad-Mousavi, S. M., Al-Hindawi, F., Soori, T., et al. (2021). "Deep learning strategies for critical heat flux detection in pool boiling." Applied Thermal Engineering.
• Altarazi, S., Allaf, R., and Al-Hindawi, F. (2019). "Machine learning models for predicting and classifying the tensile strength of polymeric films fabricated via different production processes." Materials.
• Al-Hindawi, F., and Altarazi, S. (2018). "Predicting the tensile strength of extrusion-blown high density polyethylene film using machine learning algorithms." IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM).

Awards

• Outstanding PhD Student Award, School of Computing & Augmented Intelligence. 2025
• SCAI Doctoral Fellowship Award, School of Computing & Augmented Intelligence. 2022
• Fulton Fellowship Award, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. 2021-2022
• Engineering Graduate Fellowship Award, Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering. 2021
• Graduate Research Assistantship, ASU-Mayo Clinic Center for Innovative Imaging (AMCII) lab. 2019 - 2024
• Fulbright Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Award 2019 - 2021