Mahmoud Owais |Transportation
Academician/Research Scholar
Mahmoud Owais is an Associate Professor in Transportation Planning and traffic engineering in the
Civil Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Assiut University. He was born on 1/10/1987,
El-Mansoura, Egypt. He graduated from Assiut University – Faculty of Engineering in 2009.
Professional Profiles:
Education:
- He obtained his M.S. in Transportation Planning from the University of Assiut in 2011.
- He undertook his Ph.D. in Transit Planning from the same University in 2014
Academic Posts
- > Faculty of Engineering, Assiut Univ., Egypt Associate Professor 2020 – until now FT.
> College of Engineering, Sphinx Univ., New Assiut, Egypt Associate Professor 2022 – until now PT/on leave.
Main Research Interest areas
Public Transportation – Transportation data modeling and simulation – Traffic Accidents
analysis – Statistics and theory of probability – Combinatorial Optimization – Heuristics
and Meta-heuristics – Artificial Intelligence& Machine Learning – Neural Networks and
Deep Learning – Traffic Engineering Operation Management & Control – Pavement Design and Traffic Micro-Simulation.
Research Significance
Dr. Owais’s citation record, “more than 500 citations to date; hindex=14 & iindex=18,” indicates that he has had a major influence on other scholars’ understanding of topics such as
solving transit network design problems, optimizing traffic estimation results, and achieving
dynamic traffic assignment.
publications