Dr. Mansur Arief

Assistant Professor

• Office: 22-219
• Phone: +966-013-860-2988
• Email: mansur.arief@kfupm.edu.sa
• LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mansurarief
• Google Scholar profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VbJC_9kAAAAJ

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Education

• BE: ndustrial Engineering, Sepuluh Nopember Institute of Technology, Surabaya, Indonesia
• MSE: Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
• PhD: Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA

Teaching

• ISE 315 Engineering Statistics

Research Interests

• AI Verification & Validation
• Rare-event Simulation and Optimization
• Intelligent Energy & Critical Minerals Supply Chains

Selected Publications

• Arief, M., Huang, Z., Lam, H., Zhao, D. (2021). Deep probabilistic accelerated evaluation: A robust certifiable rare-event simulation methodology for black-box safety-critical systems. In International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (pp. 595-603). PMLR.
• Arief, M., Timmerman, M., Li, J., Isele, D., & Kochenderfer, M. J. (2024). Importance sampling-guided meta-training for intelligent agents in highly interactive environments. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10(2), 1098-1105.
• Ding, W., Xu, C., Arief, M., Lin, H., Li, B., & Zhao, D. (2023). A survey on safety-critical driving scenario generation-A methodological perspective. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 24(7), 6971-6988.