Dr. Alaa Khamis works as an Associate Professor and Director of the AI for Smart Mobility Lab in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the IRC for Smart Mobility and Logistics at KFUPM. Prior to joining KFUPM, he worked as the AI & Smart Mobility Technical Leader at General Motors Canada. I was also an Adjunct Faculty member, teaching graduate courses at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Smart Mobility: Exploring Foundational Technologies and Wider Impacts and Optimization Algorithms: AI techniques for design, planning, and control problems. Additionally, he serves as an Adjunct Professor at Ontario Tech University and Nile University, and as an Affiliate Member of the Center for Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (CPAMI) at the University of Waterloo. My research addresses a wide range of problems, including seamless integrated mobility, SDV observability, combining reasoning and action, contextual causal inference, and design, planning, and control problems related to people mobility, logistics, and transportation infrastructure. He has published five books and over 200 scientific papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Additionally, he has filed 72 US patents, trade secrets, and defensive publications. For more information, please visit: https://alaakhamis.org/.