Dr. Yasser Almoghathawi

Associate Professor

• Office: 22/350
• Phone: 966-13-860-2773
• Email:    moghathawi(at)kfupm.edu.sa 
• Personal Website
• Google Scholar profile
• ResearchGate profile

Education

• Ph.D., Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Oklahoma, OK, USA, 2018
• M.S., Industrial & Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2012
• B.S., Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2005

Teaching

• ISE 303 – Operations Research I
• ISE 304 – Principles of Industrial Costing
• ISE 307 – Engineering Economic Analysis
• ISE 324 – Work and Process Improvements
• ISE 391 – Industrial Engineering Design
• ISE 412 – Senior Design Project II
• ISE 422 – Facility Layout and Location
• ISE 440 – Engineering Project Management
• ISE 508 – Advanced Production Systems & Inventory Control
• EM 550 – Engineering Project Management

Research Interests

• Resilience
• Interdependent networks
• Optimization
• Network vulnerability and recoverability
• Facility location
• Sequencing and scheduling

Selected Publications

1. Hamid, A., Almoghathawi, Y., Alghazi, A., & Saleh, H. (2025). Enhancing resilience in UAV swarms: A literature review. Journal of Safety Science and Resilience, 100268.
2. Masrur, H., Al-Awami, A. T., & Almoghathawi, Y. (2025). Modeling and Operation of Water-Energy Microgrids considering Resilience Assessment. Energy Nexus, 100590.
3. Saleh, H., Sayad, M., Alghazi, A., & Almoghathawi, Y. (2025). A Scenario-Based Approach to the Implementation of Refueling Stations in Drone-Based non-Emergency of Blood Supply Transportation. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 50(14), 11167-11194.
4. Karrar, Q., Almoghathawi, Y., Saleh, H., & Alghazi, A. (2025). Resilience-based Machine Learning Models for Restoring Interdependent Infrastructure Networks: Nodes Assessment Strategy for Post-Disruption Restoration: Q. Karrar et al. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 1-14.
5. Bin Obaid, H.S., Almoghathawi, Y., & Algafri, M. (2025). Max-Min Fair Restoration of Infrastructure Networks. Mathematics, 13(19), 3112.
6. Alhomaidi, E., Hudaifah, H., Saleh, H., Alghazi, A., Almoghathawi, Y., & Al-Shareef, K. (2025). Integrating the Learning Rate Curve into Production Line Design: A Cost-Effective Heuristic Approach for Enhanced Line Balancing. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 1-14.
7. Almoghathawi, Y., Obaid, H. B., & Selim, S. (2024). Optimal location of base stations for cellular mobile network considering changes in users locations. Journal of Engineering Research.
8. Saleh, H., Sayad, M., Almoghathawi, Y., Alghazi, A., & Al-Shareef, K. (2024). A drone-based logistics network for blood supplies: a genetic algorithm based on greedy search. Soft Computing, 28(23), 13349-13369.
9. Algafri, M., Alghazi, A., Almoghathawi, Y., Saleh, H., & Al-Shareef, K. (2024). Smart City Charging Station allocation for electric vehicles using analytic hierarchy process and multiobjective goal-programming. Applied Energy, 372, 123775.
10. Almoghathawi, Y. (2024). Optimal resilience-based restoration plan for disrupted interdependent infrastructure networks under uncertainty. Journal of Engineering Research.