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Research Interests

Civil and Architectural Engineering
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Petroleum and Chemical Engineering
Mechatronics Program

Name	Research Interest
Prof. Khalifa Al-Jabri	Structures, Structural dynamics, Fire engineering, Construction materials
Prof. Amer Al-Rawas	Expansive soils, Soil stabilization, Calcined Pozzolanic materials, Use of by-pass waste materials and oil-contaminated soils
Prof. Awni Shaaban	Environmental Design, Sustainable Architecture, Architecture in Hot-Arid Regions
Prof. Ali Al-Harthy	Structural Mechanics, Reliability and Optimization, Concrete
Dr. Ali Al-Nuaimi	Structural design and analysis
Dr. Abdul Wahid Hago	Pozzolanic materials, Concrete properties. Shear walls, Computer Aided Design
Dr. Yahya Zain	Soil-Structure interaction, Expansive soils, Earthquake engineering & soil dynamics, Finite element analysis
Dr. Hossam Hassan	Pavement materials; mixtures evaluation and design; Recycling of waste and by product materials; Environmental effect on pavement performance; Maintenance and rehabilitation of pavements
Dr. Mohammed Al-Aghbari	Seepage problems in soil and under dams, Bearing capacity of foundations with structural skirts
Dr. Ahmed Sana	Wave boundary layers, Turbulence, Sediment transport, Hydroinformatics, Water resources management
Dr. Abdullah Al-Saidy	Rehabilitation of Structures, Behaviour of RC, PC & Composite Structures, Application of Advanced Fibre Composites in Civil Engineering structures
Dr. Mahad Bawaain	Environmental Engineering, Water and Wastewater Treatment Technologies and Fluid Mechanics
Dr. Ghazi Al-Rawas	Remote sensing and Geographical Information System (GIS), Hydrology
Dr. Sherif El-Gamal	Structural Engineering, Reinforced Concrete Structures, FRP Composite Materials, Structural Health Monitoring
Dr. Ashraf Elazouni	Construction project scheduling and control, Subcontracting construction works, Contractor evaluation and selection, Project financial management
Dr. Issa Al-Harthy	Sound characterization of urban environment, Survey on community noise, Human behaviour in architectural facilities
Dr. Khalid Al-Shamsi	Characterization of bituminous materials. Pavement design and maintenance
Dr. Syed Muhammad Bilal Waris Ali	Structural Dynamics, Fluid-Structure Interaction, Vibration Analysis, Earthquake Engineering
Dr. Mahmoud Abd El-Gelil	Geodesy and Satellite Positioning, Geophysics, Superconducting Gravimeter data analysis
Dr. Mohamed Abdullah Al-Mamun	Renewable Energy, Wastewater treatment, Water quality control and reuse, Environmental Microbiology
Dr. Luminda Hewawasam	Hydrology, Climate change, Land use change, Flood analysis
Dr. Mohammed Seddik Meddah	Materials & Structure, Sustainable and durable Concrete Material, Cement and concrete Technology, Construction Materials, Use of waste/recycled and by-products in concrete and fiber-reinforced concrete
Dr. Mohammed Al-Shahri	Engineering surveying, Photogrammetry, Multi-sensor integration and mapping
Dr. Naima Benkari	Contemporary architecture and Urban Design in Arab and Islamic countries, Built heritage, Architectural education systems
Dr. Saleh Al-Saadi	Energy Conservation & Management in Buildings, HVAC Systems Design, Total Indoor Environmental Quality in Buildings and its impact on Occupants, Renewable & Sustainable Energy Applications in Buildings
Dr. Chaham Alalouch	Sustainable Healthcare Building Design, Health and Built Environment Design, Space Syntax, Environmental Psychology, Design Evaluation and Stakeholder Engagement in the Design Process
Dr. Mohamed Salah-Eldin Saleh	Building Construction Technology, Architectural Design, Architecture and Culture
Dr. Kazi Abu Sohel	Steel-Concrete Composite Structures, Light-Weight Composite Structures, Dynamics of Structures
Dr. Mubarak Al-Alawi	Construction Management
Dr. Hayder Khan	Mechanical and HVAC Systems
Dr. Islam Sallam	Architecture, Urban planning and Urban Design

Current Research Interests for the Faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering:

Name	Research Interests
Dr. Mohammad Al-Badi	Renewable Energy integration in Power Systems, Power systems planning and operation, Demand Response, Power Quality, Electricity Markets.
Prof. Hadj Bourdoucen	Communication & Networking, Instrumentation and Measurement, Integrated Electronic Systems, RE systems, Electronic Hardware Design, ICT, FOSS deployment
Prof. Abdullah Al Badi	Distributed generation, Power quality, Power system analysis, Power electronics and drives, and Renewable Energy.
Prof. Afaq Ahmad	Computer Engineering, FPGA, VLSI Testing, Mathematical Morphology, Information Theory: Security, Coding, Reliability and Fault Tolerant Computing Systems’ Design
Prof. Abdulnasir Y. Hossen	Digital Signal Processing
Prof. Ibrahim Metwally	High Voltage Engineering, Measurements of Impulse Voltages and Currents, Flow Electrification, Line Insulators, Surge Arresters, Gas-Insulated Switchgear and Lines, and Fault Current Limiters.
Dr. Joseph Jervase	Microwave Antennas and Propagation
Dr. Arif Saeed Malik	Power System Economics, Reliability and Planning
Dr. Tariq Jamil	Computer Architecture, Parallel Processing, Computer Arithmetic, Data Encryption, Digital Systems
Dr. Zia Nadir	Electronics, Electromagnetics, Electromagnetic Compatibility
Dr. Lazhar Khriji	Digital Signal and Image Processing, Machine Learning
Dr. Faysal Mnif	Control Systems and Robotics, and Industrial Electronics
Dr. Hasan Yousef	Control Systems applications
Dr. Muhammad Shafiq	Control Systems Engineering
Dr. Hisham Soliman	Electrical Engineering/Automatic Control
Dr. Mostefa Mesbah	Control Systems and Signal Processing
Dr. Ahmed Chiheb Ammari	Embedded Real Time Systems, Inductive wireless Data and Power Transfer, Hybrid Electric Energy Storage Systems, System Level Modeling and Optimizations
Dr. Nasser Hosseinzadeh	Electrical Power Systems, Intelligent Control applied to Power Systems, Engineering Education
Dr. Mohammed BeitSuweilem	Antennas and Applied Electromagnetics, Metamaterials and Wearable Sensors
Dr. Medhat Hussein Awadalla	Computer Engineering
Dr. Amer Al Hinai	Power System Operation & Control, Renewable Energy Integration, Distributed Generation & Microgrid
Dr. Dawood Al-Abri	Computer Networking, Social Networks, Network Security
Dr. Ahmed Al-Maashari	Embedded Vision Systems, Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Reconfigurable Hardware & FPGAs, Computer Architecture
Dr. Amir Arshad Abdulghani	Wireless Communication and Signal Processing
Dr. Rashid Al-Abri	Power Electronics, Power System Quality
Dr. Hassan Al Lawati	CP Antennas, Applied Electromagnetism and AMC surfaces
Dr. Ashraf Saleem	Control systems applications, Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Modelling and control of Pneumatic Systems
Dr. Mahmoud Masoud	Electrical Machines Drives, Power Electronics, Renewable Energy
Dr. Nasser Tarhuni	Wireless Radio Resource Management, Optical CDMA, DSP Applications to Power Systems
Dr. Abdelsalam Elhaffar	Power system protection, Distributed generation, smart grids, and fault location in power systems
Dr. Razzaqul Ahshan	Renewable Energy Systems and their Integration, Microgrids, Modelling and Control of Renewable Energy Systems, Wind Energy, Bio-energy, Electrical Drives, Application of Signal Processing Techniques to Power Systems.
Dr. Osman Elgawi	Low-Power Integrated Circuits and System Design
Dr. Firdous Kausar	Network and Information Security, Wireless Sensor Networks.
Dr. Jawher Ghommam	Guidance, Navigation and Cooperative Control of Multi-Autonomous Vehicles
Sayyid Dr. Samir Al Busaidi	Communications and Signal Processing
Salem Al-Hinai	Power Systems
Said Al-Abri	Control Engineering
Taha Mubarak Al-Saadi	Control Engineering

Current research interests for the faculty at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering :

Name	Research Interests
Dr. Mahmoud Al Kindi	Risk Analysis, Six Sigma , Decision Making under Uncertainties, and Production Planning
Dr. Majid Al Maharbi	Materials Science and Engineering, Corrosion, Severe Plastic Deformation of Metallic Materials, Crystallographic Texture and Microstructure Engineering
Prof. Tasneem Pervez	Computational Modeling, Multiscale Modeling, Composite Materials, Applied Mechanics, Finite Element Analysis, Expandable Tubular and Swelling Elastomers in Oil Well Drilling and Delivery, Engineering Education
Dr. Nabeel Z. Al-Rawahi	Fluid Mechanics, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Multiphase Flow, Water Desalination, Renewable Energy
Dr. Amur S. Al Yahmedi	Modeling and Simulation, Multibody Dynamics, and Robotics & Control
Dr. Khalid Alzebdeh	Micromechanics of Composites, Stochastic Modelling, Advanced Materials, Bio-composites, Manufacturing, Project Management & Economics
Dr. Sayyad Zahid Qamar	Applied Materials and Manufacturing, Engineering Design, Failure Analysis and Reliability
Dr. Abdullah Al Shabibi	Applied Mechanics, Finite Element Modeling of Engineering Problems, Modeling of Contact Problems, Thermoelastic Instability
Dr. Hassen M. Ouakad	Computational Mechanics, Linear/Nonlinear Dynamics, Vibrations and System Control, Micro and Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems Modeling and Characterization (MEMS and NEMS), Smart Devices for Clean Energy Harvesting.
Dr. Nasser Al Azri	Weather Data for Energy Analysis, Solar Thermal Analysis, Process Integration and Optimization
Dr. Riadh Zaier	Mechatronics Systems, Automation, Robotics and Nonlinear Control
Dr. Hakan Gultekin	Applied Operations Research, Decision Support Systems, Flexible Manufacturing Systems, Energy Systems Optimization, Production Scheduling, Discrete Optimization, Multi-Criteria Optimization, Heuristics.
Dr. Sujan Piya	Production Planning And Control, Supply Chain And Logistics Management, Process Optimization
Dr. Nasr Al-Hinai	Operations Research, Production Scheduling, Operations Management, Product Design and Project Management
Dr. Afzal Husain	Computational Fluid Engineering, Microfluidics, Micromixing, Artery Blood Flow, Micro-Scale Heat Transport, Electronics Cooling, Enhanced Heat Transfer, Jet Impingements, Renewable Energy, and Design Optimization
Dr. Issam Bahadur	Micro/Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Biomedical Instrumentation, Industrial Automation, Smart Materials and Vibration
Dr. Khurshid Alam	Orthopaedics, Bone Mechanics, FE modeling, Material Characterization, Material Modeling, Fracture Mechanics
Dr. Emad Summad	Agent-Based Modelling for Orchestrating Innovation Ecosystems, New Perspectives on Adoption and Diffusion of Innovations, Policy Issues for Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Knowledge-Based Economy.
Dr. Abdullah Al-Janabi	Renewable Energy Technologies, Energy & Environment, Electrical Vehicles, Fouling Mitigation Techniques.
Dr. Musaab Zarog	MEMS, Mechatronics, and Finite Element Modeling
Dr. Morteza Mohammadzaheri	Intelligent Control. System Identification, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Farooq Al-Jahwari	Finite Element Analysis and Design; Processing, Analysis and Characterization of Polymers and Composites; Molecular Dynamics; Impact Mechanics; Smart Materials; Cellular Structures; Design and Fabrication of High Damping Materials for Impact Attenuation.
Dr. Nasra Al-Maskari	Mechanical Engineering Design, Product Design, Bioinspired Design, Biomemetic, Bionispired Material Design, Design of Turbodrill for Oil and Gas Industry
Dr. Sulaiman Al-Obaidani	Membrane Technology, Desalination, Membrane Distillation, Water treatment, Heat Transfer.
Mohamed Al-Lawati	Mechatronics Engineering
Dr. Niyazi O Bakir	Decision and Risk Analysis, Reliability Engineering, Homeland Security, Value of Information, OR in Sports
Dr. Ftwi Hagos	Flare to useful energy, energy recovery, renewable energy, energy storage, biofuels, heat transfer fluids for solar thermal application, phase change material for energy storage, Solar thermal for waste to energy conversion
Dr. Omar Al-Abri	Applied Mechanics; Processing, Analysis and Characterization of Steel; Finite Element Analysis; CPFEM; Materials Characterization (SEM, EDS, EBSD, In-Situ SEM Material Testing); Multi-phase Steel; Multi-scale Materials Modeling
Dr. Moosa Al-Kharusi	Finite element analysis, Mechanics of nano-composites, Mutli-scale Modeling using computational mechanics, Design and modeling of rubber seals used for oil well application, Nano and micro mechanics of Carbon nanotube based nan-composite materials, Energy methods, Continuum mechanics, Mechanical characterization of graphene materials

Current research interests for PCED faculty members are shown in the following table:

Name	Research Interests
Prof. Rashid Al-Maamari	Enhanced oil recovery, Treatment and utilization of oilfield produced Water
Dr. Ali Al-Bemani	Enhanced oil recovery, Well testing
Prof. Farouk S. Mjalli	Desulfurization of fuels, Green engineering
Prof. Gholamreza Vakili-Nejad	Nanothermodynamics, Nanofluids
Dr. Adel Al-Ajmi	Petroleum Rock mechanics, Geostatistics
Dr. Ala’a Al-Muhtaseb	Wastewater treatment, Biofuel and Biomass
Dr. Hasan Abdellatif Hasan	Desalination, Biofuel and biogas
Dr. Yahya Al-Wahaibi	Enhanced oil recovery, Reservoir simulation
Dr. Khashayar Nasrifar	Multiphase Flow, Hydrates, Thermodynamic and Phase Equilibria
Dr. Ashish M Gujarathi	Process optimization, Process Design and Simulation, Evolutionary Computation
Dr. Ghulam Murshid	CO2 capture, Reactive absorption and adsorption
Dr. Hamoud Al-Hadrami	Formation damage, Geological modeling
Dr. Jamil Naser	Environmentally friendly solvents, Phase Change Materials
Dr. Khalid Al-Rawahy	Mineral resources-geology, genesis, use and forecasting
Dr. Majid Al-Wadhahi	Reservoir simulation, Artificial neural network
Dr. Mohammed Al-Abri	Desalination, Nanotechnology
Dr. Rashid Al-Hajri	Catalytic reaction engineering, Chemical/Thermal enhanced oil Recovery
Dr. Mohammed Rashid Usman	Catalysis, Reaction Engineering
Dr. Belal Abu Tarboush	Energy, Membranes and Adsorbents
Ms. Suaad Al-Zakwani	Chemical and Process Engineering

Current research interests for the faculty members at the Mechatronics Program:

Name	Research interest
Dr. Mahmood Al-Kindi	Risk Analysis, Six Sigma , Decision making under uncertainties, and Production Planning
Dr. Mohammed Al-Badi	Renewable Energy integration in Power Systems, Power systems planning and operation, Demand Response, Power Quality, Electricity Markets.
Dr. Zaier Riadh	Mechatronics Systems, Automation, Robotics and Nonlinear Control
Dr. Issam Bahadur	Micro/Nano-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Biomedical Instrumentation, Industrial Automation, Smart Materials and Vibration
Dr. Faïçal Mnif	Control Systems and Robotics, and Industrial Electronics
Dr. Amur Al Yahmedi	Modeling and Simulation, Multibody Dynamics, and Robotics & Control
Dr. Mojtaba Ghodsi	Mechatronics, Non-Destructive Evaluation, Smart Materials and Structures, Actuators, Motors and Transducers, Energy Harvesters
Dr. Lazhar Khriji	Digital Signal and Image Processing, Machine Learning
Dr. Mohammed Shafiq	Control Systems Engineering
Dr. Ashraf Saleem	Control systems applications, Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Modelling and control of Pneumatic Systems
Dr. Ahmed Al Maashri	Embedded Vision Systems, Unmanned Vehicle Systems, Reconfigurable Hardware & FPGAs, Computer Architecture
Dr. Nasra Al-Maskari	Mechanical Engineering Design, Product Design, Bioinspired Design, Biomemetic, Bionispired Material Design, Design of Turbodrill for Oil and Gas Industry
Mohammed Al-Lawati	Mechatronics Engineering