- AI for Smart Mobility Lab team won first place in the Sustainable Solutions for Pilgrims Challenge – Umrah Challenge, part of the Umrah and Ziyarah Forum (UZF) organized by the Ministry of Hajj and Umrah in Al-Madinah from April 14–16, 2025. The competition featured 153 participants from 21 countries across two tracks: ideas and startups. Our patent-pending solution enables natural interaction, personalized end-to-end planning, and over-the-air updatable service bundles for local and international Umrah performers.
- Our paper with Ahmed Elgazwy and Khalid Elgazzar titled "Predicting Pedestrian Crossing Intentions in Adverse Weather with Self-Attention Models" has been accepted to be published in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2025.
- Professor Hesham Rakha of Virginia Tech and I are co-editing a special issue of Sustainability (Impact Factor: 3.3; CiteScore: 6.8) titled "Smart Mobility for Sustainable Development.
- Two Post-doctoral fellow positions are available to join AI for Smart Mobility Lab at KFUPM. These positions focus on Agentic AI for Seamless Integrated Mobility and Contextual Observability of Software-Defined Vehicles. Learn more here.
- The processdings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility (SM'24) is now available on IEEE Xplore.
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