
Publications
Books, journal articles, and conference papers from the lab.
Journal articles
Alaa Khamis. Agentic Ontology-guided Image Generation and Evaluation for Rare-Event Data Augmentation in Safety-Critical Perception. Array, 2026.
Alaa Khamis. Design and Evaluation of an Agentic AI Framework for Personalized Umrah Trip Planning. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, 2026.
Alaa Khamis. Agentic AI Systems: Architecture and Evaluation using a Frictionless Parking Scenario. IEEE Access, 2025.
Alaa Khamis. Smart Mobility Education and Capacity Building for Sustainable Development: A Review and Case Study. Sustainability 17, 7999, 2025.
Alaa Khamis and Partha Goswami. Rethinking Vehicle Architecture Through Softwarization and Servitization. IEEE Access, 2025.
Ahmed Elgazwy, Khalid Elgazzar, and Alaa Khamis. Predicting Pedestrian Crossing Intentions in Adverse Weather with Self-Attention Models. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems (T-ITS), 2025.
Conference papers
Mohammed Alromema, Osamah H. Hussein, Ahmed AlHanbli, Ahmed Azab, and Alaa Khamis. Hybrid Optimization Framework for Crowdsourced Last-Mile Delivery. IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, 2026.
Ahmed Senan, Zead Saleh, Ahmad Al Hanbali, and Alaa Khamis. Adaptive Metaheuristic Optimization for 3PL Vehicle Routing. IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility, 2026.
Rahaf M. Alzahrani, Zead Saleh, and Alaa Khamis. A Comparative Study of Two-Phase Clustering-TSP and DQN-Enhanced Metaheuristic Approaches for CVRP. Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 96, 2026.
Mahmoud Masoud, Amera Mohamed, Alaa Khamis, Mohammed Elhenawy, and Karim Asif Sattar. Vision-based Camel Detection and VMS Alert System for Enhanced Road Safety in KSA. Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 96, 2026.
Md. Aqib Aman, Ashiqur Rahman Ashiq, Alaa Khamis, Ahmad Al-Hanbali, and Ahmed Ghaithan. Deadheading Minimization in Last-Mile Delivery. Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 96, 2026.
Alaa Khamis. Agentic AI for Personalized Trip Planning. 2025 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT), Marrakech, Morocco, 2025.
Ousman Khan and Alaa Khamis. Heuristics-based Resource Allocation in Software-defined Vehicles. 2025 IEEE Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (GCAIoT), Marrakech, Morocco, 2025.
Ziqi Zhou, Jingyue Zhang, Jingyuan Zhang, Boyue Wang, Tianyu Shi, and Alaa Khamis. Human-centric Reward Optimization for Reinforcement Learning-based Automated Driving using Large Language Models. TRB Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., 2026. arXiv:2405.04135.
Haowei Li, Mufeng Wang, Jiarui Zhang, Tianyu Shi, and Alaa Khamis. A Contextual Multi-armed Bandit Approach to Personalized Trip Itinerary Planning. 2024 IEEE International Conference on Smart Mobility (SM), 2024.
Tamas Haidegger, Vincent Mai, Carl Mörch, Dominik B. O. Boesl, An Jacobs, Alaa Khamis, Luca Lach, and Bram Vanderborght. Sustainable Robotics: Translating the UN Sustainable Development Goals to our Domain. 40th Anniversary of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2024.
Knowledge sharing hub
The AI4SM Lab publishes and maintains the AI for Smart Mobility hub on Medium, a collaborative platform dedicated to exploring AI's transformative impact on transportation infrastructure, people mobility, and logistics, featuring diverse use cases supported by code and data. Lab code is released on GitHub.

