CHAIRMAN
Mubashir Aziz (Associate Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 2010
Area of Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering
Research Interests: Sustainable materials and methods for soil improvement, Time-dependent behavior of geomaterials, Advanced laboratory tests on soils, Geotechnical risk assessment, In-situ ground characterization and geo mapping. Office Hours
- Office: Building 3 Room 211
- Phone: +966-13-860 2550
- Email: mubashir.aziz@kfupm.edu.sa
PROFESSORS
Husain Jubran Al-Gahtani (Professor)
Ph.D. Mechanics, Michigan State University, 1992Area of Specialization: StructuresResearch Interests: Computational mechanics, boundary element methods, mesh reduction methods
- Office: Building 3 Room 111
- Phone: +966-13-860 2769
- Email: hqahtani@kfupm.edu.sa
Mesfer Al-Zahrani (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, 1995
Area of Specialization: StructuresResearch Interests: Structures Concrete Durability, Concrete Materials, Corrosion of Steel Reinforcement, Use of Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) in concrete
Research Profile
Office Hours
- Office: Building 3 Room 217-2
- Phone: +966-13-860 1200
- Email: mesferma@kfupm.edu.sa
- Website: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/CE/mesferma
Mohammed Al-Osta (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, KFUPM, 2013
Area of Specialization: Structures and Materials
Research Interests: Sustainable Materials, Molecular Modeling, Mechanics of Nano-structures, Composite structures, Non-Linear Finite Element Analysis, Computation Modeling
- Office: Building 3 Room 222-4
- Phone: +966-13-860 2713
- Email: malosta@kfupm.edu.sa
Mohammed Al-Suwaiyan (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, 1993
Area of Specialization: Groundwater
Research Interests: Environmental Flow and Contaminant Transport in Porous Media Groundwater Modeling
- Office: Building 3 Room 110
- Phone: +966-13-860 4745
- Email: msaleh@kfupm.edu.sa
Muhammad Vohra (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park, 1998
Area of Specialization: Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Adsorption onto Metal Oxides, Advanced Oxidation Processes, Industrial Wastewater Treatment, Photocatalysis, Surface Speciation Modeling
- Office: Building 3 Room 106
- Phone: +966-13-860 2854
- Email: Vohra@kfupm.edu.sa
- Website: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/CE/vohra
Naser Al-Shayea (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Michigan, 1994
Area of Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering
Research Interests: Geotechnical, Geotechnical Engineering, Soil Mechanics
Research Profile
- Office: Building 3 Room 216-2
- Phone: +966-13-860 7122
- Email: nshayea@kfupm.edu.sa
Nedal Ratrout (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1989
Area of Specialization: Transportation
Research Interests: Transportation Traffic Engineering and Operation, Optimization of urban traffic flow, environmental impact of transportation projects.
- Office: Building 21 Room 701
- Phone: +966-13-860 2300
- Email: nratrout@kfupm.edu.sa
Salah Al-Dulaijan (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA 1996
Area of Specialization: Structures and Materials
Research Interests: Construction Materials & Corrosion
Research Profile
Office Hours
Office: Building 3 Room 223
Phone: +966-13-860 2850
- Email: sud@kfupm.edu.sa
- Website: http://faculty.kfupm.edu.sa/CE/sud
Shakhawat Chowdhury (Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering,Queen's University, Canada,2009
Area of Specialization: Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Disinfection Byproducts, Risk Analysis, Modeling, Water Quality, Multicriteria decision making, Effects of climate change
- Office: Building 3 Room 219-3
- Phone: +966-13-860 2560
- Email: schowdhury@kfupm.edu.sa
Research Interests: Advanced Civil Engineering Materials; Durability of Concrete Structures; and Applications of Optimization Techniques
ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS
Faisal Mukhtar (Associate Professor)
PhD Civil Engineering, KFUPM, 2015
Area of Specialization: Structures
Research Interests: Computational Mechanics, Finite Element & Meshless-based Modeling, Plates & Shells, Rheology & Modeling of Concrete Materials
Office Hours
- Office: Building 3 Room 209
- Phone: +966-13-860 7432
- Email: faisalmu@kfupm.edu.sa
Hasan Al-Ahmadi (Associate Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Michigan State University, 1990
Research Interests: Transportation, Transportation Planning, Traffic Operations and Safety.
- Office: Building 3 Room 206-1
- Phone: +966-13-860 4269
- Email: ahmadi@kfupm.edu.sa
Kong Fah Tee (Associate Professor)
PhD Civil Engineering, National University of Singapore, 2004
Area of Specialization: Structures and Materials
Research Interests: Structural Health Monitoring, Reliability and Maintenance, Sustainable Construction Materials, Structural Dynamics, Fracture Mechanics
- Building 3 Room 103
- Phone: +966-13-860 4530
- Email: tee.fah@kfupm.edu.sa
Md Abdullah Al-Mamun (Associate Professor)
PhD National University of Singapore, 2011
Area of Specialization: Environmental and Climate Engineering
Research Interests: Development and field testing of Microbial Electrochemical Technology, Air pollution mitigation strategies, Coastal pollution mitigation, Environmental impact assessments, and Climate Engineering.
Research Profile
- Building 3 Room 110
- Phone: +966-13-860 5091
- Email: mdabdullah.mamun@kfupm.edu.sa
Saheed Adekunle (Associate Professor)
PhD Civil Engineering, KFUPM
Area of Specialization: Structures
Research Interests: Structural engineering, Computational engineering, Concrete science and engineering, Finite element methods, Meshless and hybrid numerical methods, Software development for engineering analyses, Corrosion of steel reinforcement.
- Office: Building 3 Room 213
- Phone: +966-13-860 2236
- Email: saheedka@kfupm.edu.sa
Syed Masiur Rahman (Associate Professor)
Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, 2010
Area of Specialization: Transportation
Research Interests: Transportation Planning and Engineering, Applications of Machine Learning (ML), Quantum ML, Generative Artificial Intelligence, Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management, and Environmental Assessment
Research Profile
Office: Building 3, Room 204
Phone: +966-13-860 2991
Email: smrahman@kfupm.edu.sa
Website: https://pure.kfupm.edu.sa/en/persons/syed-masiur-rahman
ASSISTANT PROFESSORS
Abbas Ahmed Albu Shaqraa (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2022.
Area of Specialization: Structures and Materials.
Research Interests: Nanotechnology, CarbonCure and alkali activated materials.
- Office: Building 3 Room 213
- Phone: 966-13-860 8556
- Email: albushaqraa@kfupm.edu.sa
Ahmed Al-Areeq (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, KFUPM, 2021.
Area of Specialization: Water Resources.
Research Interests: Flood analysis and Forecasting, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modeling, Environmental Application of Geographic Information System, Hydrometeorology and Remote Sensing.
- Office: Building 3 Room 219-2
- Phone: 966-13-860 5074
- Email: ahmed.areeq@kfupm.edu.sa
Amin Al-Fakih (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Petronas University of Technology, Malaysia, 2020
Area of Specialization: Materials and Structures
Research Interests: Masonry and Concrete Structures, Masonry mortars, Engineered Cementitious Composite Materials, Supplementary Cementitious Materials, Nanomaterials in Cement-based Materials, Recycling of Waste Materials, Smart and Sustainable Materials (e.g. Alkali Activated and self-healing materials).
Office: Building 3 Room 209Phone: 966-13-860 8427
Email: aminali.fakih@kfupm.edu.sa
Ammar Mohammed Alshammari (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Geological Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, 2022
Area of Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering.
Research Interests: Engineering Properties of Soils, Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Engineering.
Office: Building 3 Room 219-1Phone: 966-13-860 2556
Email: ashammari@kfupm.edu.sa
Asad Hanif (Assistant Professor)
PhD Civil Engineering,The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, 2017
Area of Specialization: Structures & Materials
Research Interests: Lightweight cementitious composites; Ferrocement and thin laminated composites; Fracture and fatigue of composites; Nano-materials in cementitious composites; 'Green' multi-functional construction materials; Wind energy harvesting; Recycled aggregate concrete
- Office: Building 3 Room 208
- Phone: +966-13-860 3630
- Email: asad.hanif@kfupm.edu.sa
Fahad Fardan Alqahtani (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, Purdue University, 2025
Area of Specialization: Transportation
Research Interests: Fahad’s research focuses on smart cities and digital twins,data-driven transportation modeling, and multimodal mobility. He applies machine learning, simulation, and crowdsourced data to improve planning, safety, and operations, with an emphasis on sustainable, resilient, and human-centered transportation systems.
Research Profile
- Office: Building 3 Room 207
- Phone: +966-13-860 XXXX
- Email: fahadfardan@kfupm.edu.sa
Ph.D. Environmental Engineering, University of Alberta, 2018
Area of Specialization: Environmental Engineering
Research Interests: Climate Resilient Infrastructure, Wastewater Engineering, Physicochemical Treatment Processes.
- Office: Building 3 Room 219-2
- Phone: +966-13-860 2220
- Email: haitham.elnakar@kfupm.edu.sa
Muhammad Abdullah (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering,The University of Tokyo
Area of Specialization: Transportation Engineering
Research Interests: Traffic signal design, mode choice modeling, travel behavior, transportation network analysis, transportation data analysis, pedestrian behavior, micromobility.
- Office: Building 3 Room 205
- Phone: +966-13-860 5534
Syed Umair Naqvi (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Area of Specialization: Geotechnical Engineering
Research Interests: Discrete Element Modelling for granular materials and use of capillary forces in DEM, Soil Arching, Ground Improvement Techniques, Geomechanics
- Office: Building 3 Room 210
- Phone: +966-13-860 4980
- Email: syed.naqvi@kfupm.edu.sa
Zaher Mundher Yaseen (Assistant Professor)
Ph.D. Civil Engineering, The national University of Malaysia, Bangi, Malaysia, 2017
Area of Specialization: Water resources engineering
Research Interests: Hydrology, Environmental engineering, knowledge-based system development, Climate, Applications of artificial intelligence models.
- Office: Building 3 Room 212
- Phone: +966-13-860 4735
- Email: z.yaseen@kfupm.edu.sa
LECTURERS
Mirza Ghouse Baig (Lecturer)
M.S. Civil Engineering, KFUPM
Research Interests: Highway Engineering, Polymer modification, Superpave mix designs, Highway & Airport Materials, design and optimization.Research Profile
- Office: Building 3 Room 204
- Phone: +966-13-860 7463
- Email: ghouse@kfupm.edu.sa