Faculty Research Profile

College of Design and Built Environment

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

 

Faculty Research Profile Bulletin

 

Name:

Syed Masiur Rahman

 

Rank:

Associate Professor

 

Specialization:

Structural Engineering
Transportation Engineering
Construction Materials Water Resources Engineering
Geotechnical Engineering Environmental Engineering
  

 

PhD:

Institution: King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Year: 2010
Dissertation Title: Application of AI Models in Traffic Flow Prediction and Time-of-Day Breakpoints Determination

 

Selected Research Projects: 

1. Prediction of Traffic Crash Severity – A Solution by International Data and Deep Learning Models
2. Application of Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Road Traffic Crash Severity Prediction
3. National Greenhouse Gas Emission Study for the Biennial Transparency Report of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
4. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Analytics for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
5. Studies for the National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory and Climate Change Mitigation
6. National Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia for 2016
7. National Inventory of Anthropogenic Emissions by Sources and Removal by Sinks of Greenhouse Gases for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
8. Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) of Saudi Arabia
9. Energy to Kingdom (E2K) Potential Contributions to the Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
10. Development of a Database Management System for Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Carbon Market Strategies and Policies in Saudi Arabia
11. Environmental Monitoring for Drilling Operations in LUKSAR Contract Area, North Rub Al-Khali Desert, Saudi Arabia
12. Environmental Monitoring for Exploratory Drilling Operations in EniRepSa Contract Area, North Rub Al-Khali Desert, Saudi Arabia
13. Distributional Robust Optimization for Power-to-Hydrogen and Carbon Capture System with High-Level Renewable Energy Integration
14. Development of an Appropriate Protocol for Sustainable Management of Drilling Wastes Using Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP)
 

 

Selected Patents: 

1. System and Method for Simulating Stakeholder Behavior in Mega Event Mobility Scenarios using  Human-Centric Artificial Intelligence
2. Method of predicting gas composition

 

Research Publications:

Scopus Link:

https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=57219219577

Google Scholar Link:

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_6ep-j8AAAAJ&hl=en

 

Selected Graduate Thesis Supervised: 

1. An Explainable AI Approach to Travel Mode Choice Modeling: Evidence from London Data
2. An Interpretable and Explainable Machine Learning Framework for Driver Behavior Classification
3. Coastal Water Quality Modelling using Integrated Remote Sensing with Computational Intelligence Models
4. Crash Severity Prediction and Reporting by Integrating Explainable Agentic AI
5. Machine Learning and Hybrid Quantum models for Crash Severity Prediction.

 

Research Interests (as per CEE Strategic Research Goals): 

Develop Structural Health Monitoring Systems
Renewable Energy
Rehabilitation Materials and Techniques
Sustainable Environment
Carbon Utilization
Climate Change Adaptation
Cycling of Waste Materials Automation / Process Intensification
Develop Smart and Sustainable Materials Novel Physical-Chemical Processes
Novel Modeling / Testing Methods Exposure and Risk Analysis
Natural Resources Management Smart Mobility Systems