MEM Faculty Biography
Dr. Abdelhakim Abdelhadi
Prof. Abdelhakim Abdelhadi is the director of the Master in Engineering Management program at the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Abdelhadi received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin –Milwaukee, USA, in 2010, his M.S. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Jordan, and his B.Sc. in Civil Engineering from Yarmouk University- Jordan. He has 12 years of industry experience and more than 18 years of academic experience. He is a fellow of the higher education academy, FHEA. Recently, Dr. Abdelhadi published several research studies in engineering education besides the research in his field of interest and authored an introduction to engineering economy book in Arabic. Dr. Abdelhadi's research and teaching interests include group technology, maintenance scheduling, and lean manufacturing. He supervised and co-supervised 6 MSc thesis inside and outside the Kingdom.
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Dr. Kosrow Dehnad
Prof. Dehnad is Chief Data Scientist at Aims Consulting and a DnnAlpha.ai long-short equity fund member. Previously, he was Assistant General Manager and head of Analytic and Quantitative Trading and CoHead of Hedge Fund Investing at Samba Financial Group, where he initiated the use of Big Data and Data Mining to develop trading strategies. Before joining Samba, he was a Managing Director in the Structured Credit Products at CITIGROUP in charge of Exotic Credit Trading. Previously, he was head of Fixed Income Derivatives Structuring and New Products.
Dr. Ibrahim AlHammad
Prof. Ibrahim Alhammad has his BSc in civil engineering from King Fahad University, a master's degree in construction engineering from the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colorado, and his Ph.D. in construction engineering and management from UBC, Vancouver, Canada. He published tens of papers, attended numerous conferences, and was seconded to the Engineering office during his career. Prof Ibrahim supervised many graduate students during his tenure at KSU before moving to PSU in the fall of 2021. While earlier research was in expert systems application in civil engineering, he developed interests in construction engineering contracts and general Engineering law. He became a local authority on the Saudi Procurement system and Saudi Public Works Contracts with around 15 referred publications.
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Dr. Zubair Memeon
Prof. Zubair Ahmed Memon is a faculty member in the Department of Engineering Management, College of Engineering, Prince Sultan University. Dr. Zubair Ahmed Memon obtained his Ph.D. Degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), Skudai, Johor, Malaysia in year 2007. He joined Prince Sultan University (PSU), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 2014 as an Associate Professor and was promoted to Professor in 2017. He has broad experience teaching Civil Engineering and Construction Management courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels and has worked as a Site Engineer for Construction Projects. He has ISI and Scopus publications in the International journals on his title as a single author, first author, and co-author. He has also attended many international conferences and presented his research as a Keynote speaker and guest participant. He was also a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal and has professional membership with PEC and IEP.
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Dr. Ali Matouq
Dr. Ali Matouq is an Associate Professor in the College of Engineering, chair of the institutional curriculum committee, and Leader of the Advanced Operations Research Lab of Prince Sultan University. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees (Hons.) in electrical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, in 2002 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering and a Master's degree in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, in 2014. Visiting scholar at Stanford University Electrical Engineering Department in 2012. He also has eight years of industrial experience as a Process Control and Automation Engineer and is an ISA-certified automation professional. His research interests include process control, convex optimization, operations research, and diabetes management technologies.
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Dr. Hassan Mehboob
Dr. Hassan Mehboob is an Associate Professor in the Production and Manufacturing Program (PMP) within the Department of Engineering Management (E.M.) at Prince Sultan University (PSU), Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hassan received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 from Chung-Ang University, South Korea, his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering in 2009, and his B.S. in Engineering in 2006. He has taught at PSU for four years at PMP and MEM programs. In addition to his role as a faculty member, he has also been serving as curriculum chair at the PMP program. Moreover, Dr. Hassan is a member of the S&M lab at PSU to contribute to research. Since the beginning of his Ph.D. studies, Dr. Hassan has had several publications contributing to the design and manufacturing of implants.
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Dr. Ihab Katar
Dr. Ihab Katar is an assistant professor of Building Technology in the Department of Engineering Management (E.M.), College of Engineering (C.E.) at Prince Sultan University (PSU), KSA, since 2014. He has an extended market and academic experience of 36 years in building construction. As a chair of the Quality Assurance Committee (QAC), he led the Construction Management Program (CMP) team to get full national accreditation (NCAAA) in the last years. Also, he is chairing the QAC of the Master of Engineering Management program (MEM). Likewise, he is working with the MEM team to get NCAAA accreditation in the coming years. For education, he has been a certified fellow of ADVANCE (formerly the Higher Education Academy-UK (HEA) since 2015. Finally, he has journal publications in sustainability, construction materials, management, and engineering education, besides authoring books in "Advanced Materials in Construction," Eliva bookstore & Amazon, and "Fundamentals of Civil Engineering."
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Dr. Basel Sultan
Dr. Sultan is an Associate Professor qualified Engineer who gained his BSc and MPhil degrees in civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in the United Kingdom. He was awarded his Doctorate in Construction Management from Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Dr Sultan is a fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA. He has been a senior faculty member in the engineering college at Prince Sultan University since 2014, a PSU engineering accreditation team member, and the college research director. He has over 30 years of experience in academic teaching and spent these years in the construction industry, working independently for the private and public sectors. Later, he focused on individual consultancy and engineering management services for local companies. He has developed professional skills in cost Estimating, Planning, and putting forward commercial and technical proposals for various engineering, EPC, and oil & gas projects. He participated in key local projects, such as the Asset Management project for the port city of Aden. Dr. Sultan Has a broad knowledge of Sustainable Development. Besides his academic teaching, he is also involved in research publications, has authored three books, and has designed and delivered several training courses in project management.
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Dr. Ahmed Khaleefah
Dr. Al-Khalifa is an assistant professor in the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University. He has spent thirty years in the educational, managerial, training, and consulting sectors By the end of October 2023. During which he held governmental, educational, and commercial positions, beginning as an assistant professor in industrial engineering. Then, he moved on to executive positions in some military and security factories and headed to the Ministry's deputy assistant for the electricity sector in KSA. As for the academic sector specifically, he taught some core industrial engineering courses, namely industrial innovation, supply chains, factory planning, production management, quality control, finance, and professional behavior for engineers, most of which were for the undergrad and a few of which were for the master's level. When talking about consulting and training (sides of the same coin), he provided several consultations in business development, technology supply, and feasibility studies, which helped him provide developmental or scientific training programs to government agencies, chambers of commerce, and educational institutions.
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Dr. Khaled Akkad
Dr. Khaled Akkad is an Assistant Professor in the College of Engineering at Prince Sultan University (PSU), where he teaches courses in the Production and Manufacturing Engineering Program (PMP), as well as the Master in Engineering Management Program (MEM). He received his PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (2020) and his M.S. in Industrial Engineering (2016) from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), USA. He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering (2013) from King Abdulaziz University (KAU), KSA. Dr. Khaled is also the Technical Director of the Consulting Studies and Business Development Unit at PSU. In addition, he is a Senior Scientist in the Structures and Materials (S&M) Lab at PSU. Dr. Khaled's research interests include machine health diagnosis and prognosis, statistical process modeling and control, signal processing, machine learning, and deep learning algorithms.
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Dr. Rakan Alyamani
Dr. Rakan Alyamani is an Assistant Professor in the Production and Manufacturing Program (PMP) within the Department of Engineering Management (E.M.) at Prince Sultan University (PSU), Saudi Arabia. Dr. Rakan received his PhD in Engineering Management in 2020, M.S. in Engineering Management in 2016, and B.S. in Engineering Management in 2013 from Missouri University of Science and Technology (MS&T), USA. In addition to his role as a faculty member, he has also been serving as the Managing Director for the Consulting Studies and Business Development Unit (CSBDU) at PSU. Moreover, Dr. Rakan has recently joined the Renewable Energy Lab (REL) at PSU to contribute to Renewable Energy and Sustainable Development research. Since the beginning of his PhD studies, Dr. Rakan has also had several publications contributing to sustainable development, project management, and multi-criteria decision-making analysis.
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