Dr. Hamad Al Jassmi is the Director of Emirates Center for Mobility Research (ECMR) at UAE University. He is an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at UAE University, and a Research Fellow of University of New South Wales, Sydney. Apart from academia, Dr. Al Jassmi acted as Project Director, Project Manager or Project Lead at numerous consultancy projects related to traffic safety, mobility policy making and planning. Dr. Al Jassmi obtained his PhD in Construction Engineering & Management from the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UNSW in Australia (43th - QS World University Ranking 2020). In his thesis, he developed mathematical methods that serve for analysing the complex generative mechanisms of defects in construction. Before his PhD studies, He obtained his Bachelors and Masters degrees from the United Kingdom at the University of Greenwich, and the University of Cardiff. His research interests include expert systems and machine learning for the buildings and infrastructure sector. He published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles, several which appeared in top ranked international journals. He has 2 major inventions, one for which he was granted a US patent, and another for which he received UAEU Chancellor’s innovation 1st place award.