Mr. Omran Al-Omran

Assistant Professor

• Office: 22-346
• Email: omran.alomran@kfupm.edu.sa

Education

• Ph.D, Dual-title in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Penn State University, PA, USA
• M.S, Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Southern California, CA, USA
• B.S., Systems Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Saudi Arabia

Teaching

• ISE 307 – Engineering Economic Analysis
• ISE 291– Introduction to Data Science

Research Interests

• Healthcare Systems Engineering.
• Robotics & Autonomous Systems
• Multi-Robot Coordination.
• Motion Planning & Human-Aware Navigation.
• Stochastic Optimization & Decision Support.

Selected Publications

• Alomran, O., & Yang, H. (2025). Smart Automation and Robotics in Healthcare: Transforming Hospital Material Handling Systems. In Constrained Control and Machine Learning: Emerging Methodologies and Applications (pp. 291-309). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
• Alomran, O., & Yang, H. (2025, August). Risk-Averse Autonomous Material Handling in Healthcare Systems. In 2025 IEEE 21st International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE). IEEE.