Keynote Speakers
Day 1
9:30 – 10:00
Conference Opening Ceremony
Keynote: 10:00 – 10:30
Dr. Luis Rabelo
Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Systems
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL, USA
Dr. Luis Rabelo received the BS in Electro-Mechanical Engineer from the Technological University of Panama in 1983, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the Florida Institute of Technology in 1987 Master’s and Doctorate in Engineering Management from the University of Missouri. He was a Postdoc at the University of Missouri in Nuclear Engineering. Dr. Rabelo received a dual MS in Systems and Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has worked for the Advanced Technology Group (Goodrich) and Honeywell Laboratories. Dr. Rabelo was a NASA Fellow from 2002 to 2005, and a Project Manager at NASA from 2009 to 2011. He is currently Professor in the Industrial Engineering and Management Systems Department at UCF. He is also the Undergraduate Coordinator. He has written more than 300 articles and a book in Artificial Intelligence. He has been the principal advisor for 39 Master’s students and 29 PhDs. He received the award for the Best Scientific Article of the Year 2004 from the Society of Automotive Engineers, received the distinction “ONE NASA” in 2006. He was the recipient of the Fulbright Distinction in 2008. In November 2008, he received the honor of the Technological University of Panama (UTP) of being the 2008 Distinguished Alumni. In 2011, he was the Henaac Award Winner in Education. In 2013 and 2018, he received the Forest R. McFarland Award from the Society of Automotive Engineering (SAE). Lately, he received the SAE Russell S. Springer Award for his article on the modeling of space operations systems in 2017.
Keynote: 10:30 – 11:00
Ibrahim Aldakhil
Executive Director, safety & loss prevention
Saudi Electricity Company
Break: 11:00 – 11:30
Keynote: 11:30 – 12:00
Prof. Abdelkabir Maqsoud
Professor
The Research Institute on, Mines and Environment (RIME)
UQAT-Polytechnique
Quebec, Canada
Abdelkabir Maqsoud completed his undergraduate studies in the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Hassan II in Casablanca, Morocco in 1989. He earned his MSc. (1991) and PhD (1996) from university of Sciences and Technologies of Lille, France studying the karst development in Paris Basin. During his postdoctoral training in Canada, he studied water movement under unsaturated conditions and was recruited in 2002, as Research Scientist. Currently, he is a professor in mining hydrogeology in the Research Institute – Mines and Environment of the Quebec University in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), Canada. Gross’ research areas include: mine site reclamation, water movement under unsaturated condition including hysteresis effects, hydrogeology and hydrochemistry of porous and karstic aquifers.
Keynote: 12:00 – 12:30
Hani Wadatullah Alahdal
HR Center of Excellence VP
STC, Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Keynote: 12:30 – 1:00
Hassan AlHazmi
Group CEO
LADUN Investment Company
Day 2
Keynote: 9:30 – 10:00
Keynote: 10:00 – 10:30
Eng. Moath Abuaysha
Leading 3D Printing
NEOM
Keynote: 10:30 – 11:00
Dr. Mumen Hasan Rababah
Chairman, Department of Industrial Engineering
Hashemite University
Zarqa, Jordan
Break: 11:00 – 11:30
Keynote: 11:30 – 12:00
Prof. Khalifa S. Al-Jabri
Professor
Department of Civil Engineering
Sultan Qaboos University
Muscat, Oman
Prof. Khalifa Al-Jabri obtained a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from Sultan Qaboos University in 1991. He received his master’s (1993) and doctorate (2000) degrees from The University of Sheffield, UK. He was prompted to full Professor in 2011. He was appointed the Assistant Dean for Postgraduate Studies and research, 2006-2010 and the Head of the Department of Civil and Architectural engineering, 2011-2017. He served as a member in the State Council from 2011-2015. Prof. Al-Jabri has research interests in Sustainable Construction Materials, Fire Engineering, and earthquake Enginering. He has around 220 scientific papers published in peer-reviewed journals and international conferences. He is Fellow of ICE and ASCE.
Keynote: 12:00 – 12:30
Dr. Semail ÜLGEN
Chair of Industrial Engineering Department
Antalya Bilim University
Antalya, Turkey
Assoc. Prof. Semail Ülgen is the chair of Industrial Engineering Department at Antalya Bilim University where she has been on the faculty since 2012. She received Ph.D. degree in Mathematics at Purdue University in 2005, and B.S. degree at Bilkent University in 1995. In years 2004-2006 she was at University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS as an assistant professor. Then she worked at Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, as an assistant professor for one year in 2006 and later she worked as an assistant professor at Northwestern University for three years starting in 2007. She held visiting assistant professor position at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN as an assistant professor for one year in 2011-1012. Dr. Ülgen was a recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Turkish American Scientists and Scholars Association (USA) in 2006. Her research interests are Finsler Geometry; Noncommutative Geometry, Applications to Mathematical Physics. She is also building research interest in stochastic processes and its applications. She was a researcher in TUBITAK 1001 (the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) research project (#113F311, Title: Einstein metrics in Finsler Geometry) for two years in 2014. She served as the adviser for the Survey Development and Implementation ATSO Pilot Project for Determining the Industrial 4.0 Status of Companies in Antalya in 2017. She was the academic adviser of the TUBITAK Efficiency Challenge Electric Vehicle Competition for mainly engineering undergraduate students during the years 2016, 2017, and 2020 organized by TUBITAK. Her team built two electric cars (got 25th in the competitions) and attended the competitions.
Keynote: 12:00 – 12:30
Dr. Munther Abualkibash
Associate Professor
Eastern Michigan University
Ypsilanti, MI, USA
Day 3
Keynote: 9:30 – 10:00
Keynote: 10:00 – 10:30
Kamran Nazir
Department of Marine Engineering
Military Technological College
Muscat, Oman
Keynote: 10:30 – 11:00
Dr. Kamran Javed
School of Computing
Pak-Austria Fachhochschule
Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology
Pakistan
Break: 11:00 – 11:30
Keynote: 11:30 – 12:00
Prof. Gamal Elnashar
Dean of the College of Engineering
King Salman International University (KSIU)
Egypt
Keynote: 12:00 – 12:30
Eng. Nasser Mohammad Al Osaimi
Operations Executive Director
Rua Al Madinah Holding
Saudi Arabia
Keynote: 12:00 – 12:30
Dr. Ahmed Azab
Professor
Industrial and Systems Engineering Department
King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum & Minerals
Dhahran, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ahmed Azab is an associate professor of Industrial & Manufacturing Systems Engineering and Director of the Production & Operations Management Research Lab. He has a successful record of industrial experience and publications. He has been involved in projects with local industry and has been effective in acquiring funding as sole Principal Investigator and else. He has earned to date funding from both federal and provincial granting agencies and industrial partners in the amount of approximately $0.4 M. He was one of three researchers to receive a $1M CFI-LOF/MEDI-ORF grant supporting research infrastructure. He has been recipient and nominee for a number of international and national research excellence awards. He serves as a reviewer for a number of international journals; he also sits on the editorial board for Industrial Engineering & Management. Dr. Azab was awarded in 2009 the Outstanding Graduate Research Award at University of Windsor, and in 2015 the Faculty of Engineering Medal of Excellence for his role leading the undergraduate Industrial Engineering program’s national accreditation efforts from Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB).