1. Overview

   Primary Research Area

• Operations, Services and Analytics

Research Areas

• Refinery maintenance shutdown
• Schedule Optimization
• AI and human interaction

Biography

Mowffq Alsanousi has been a Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Department Graduate Assistant since 05/2019. He has a B.S. in Systems and Industrial Engineering from King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, KSA (2014). He did his master's in industrial engineering at Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA (2023). He is doing a Ph.D. in industrial engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He worked as a Contracts Advisor in Refining Planning and Technical Staff at Saudi Aramco's Central Area Contracting Unit, Riyadh, KSA (2014-2019). He received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Senior Vice President of Aramco as Recognition for outstanding contributions to the 2013 Optimization and Process Improvement Program (2013). He had some published books on self-development.

Education

• M.S. in Industrial Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, USA, 2023.
• B.S. in Systems and Industrial Engineering, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2014.

Academic Positions

• Graduate assistant in Architectural Engineering and Construction Management Department, King Fahad University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia, 2019-present.

2. Publications

Selected articles in journals and conferences

• Presented the paper, “A Deterministic IP Model for Optimizing Bus Scheduling in a Private Transportation System,” at the IEEE conference in December 2015 that has since been published. Authors: Mowffq Al Sanousi and Assistant Professor Mojahid Saeed Osman. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7385645&tag=1 
• Paper “Distance Constrained Location Problems” accepted for oral presentation at the 2nd Global Conference on Engineering and Technology Management 2015 (GCETM 2015) held September 4–5, 2015. Authors: Mowffq Al Sanousi and Assistant Professor Harun Pirim.