Faculty Profile
Dr. Fahad Mehmood
Assistant Professor
Suleman Dawood School of Business
Dr. Fahad Mehmood is an Assistant Professor in the Suleman Dawood School of Business - (SDSB).
Dr. Mehmood obtained his PhD and MS degree in Industrial Engineering & Management from Politecnico di Torino, Italy in 2015 and 2011 respectively. He is a PhD scholarship winner of a joint collaboration between the Politecnico di Torino and Telecom, Italia, and was an Industrial PhD researcher for 3 years for Telecom, Italia between 2012 and 2014. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National University of Sciences & Technology in 2009.
Dr. Mehmood’s research interests include:
· Logistics & Supply Chain
· Energy Management
· Operations Research
He has presented his research at the 44th Annual Conference of the Italian Operational Research Society (Como); 7th International Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Engineering, Romania; 10th IEEE CPSCom (UK) and EURO 2018 (Spain).
Dr. Mehmood has published in Energy; Energy Policy as well as Facilities.
A graduate of Cadet College, Hasanabdal, Dr. Mehmood has a keen interest in Cricket & Football and likes watching movies in his leisure time
- Refereed Journal Publications
Kazmi, H., Mehmood, F., Tao, Z., Riaz & Riaz, Z. & Driesen, J. (2019). Electricity load-shedding in Pakistan: unintended consequences, opportunities and policy recommendations. Energy Policy, 128, 411-417, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2019.01.017.
Mehmood, F. (In Press 2018). Engineering-out hazards: Digitizing the management of working safely in confined space. Facilities.
Zheng, S., Wang, A., Mehmood, F. & Tariq & Tariq, Y. (2018). An Improved Path Optimum Algorithm for Container Relocation Problems in Port Terminals Worldwide. Journal of Coastal Research, 34 (3), 752-765, doi:https://doi.org/10.2112/JCOASTRES-D-17-00056.1.
Kazmi, H., Mehmood, F., Lodeweyckx, S. & Driesen & Driesen, J. (2018). Gigawatt-hour scale savings on a budget of zero: Deep reinforcement learning based optimal control of hot water systems. Energy, 144, 159-168, doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2017.12.019.
Mehmood, F. (2015). Business Models and Strategies of M-Commerce: A Review. Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 20 (1).
- Presentations
Mehmood, F. (2018). Integration and application of Problem Structuring Methods. EURO2018- 29th European COnference on Operational Reserach, Valencia, Spain.
Mehmood, F. (2016). Analyzing Container Relocation Problem (CRP). 6th Asian Management Research and Case Conference 2017, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Mehmood, F. (2014). Interaction between Problem Structuring Methods (PSM) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA). 44th Annual Conference of the Italian Operational Research Society, Como, Como, Italy.
Mehmood, F. (2013). Location estimation of digital signage. EURO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Rome, Rome, Italy.
- Proceedings
Kazmi, H., Mehmood, F. & Amayri, M. (In Press 2017). Smart home futures: algorithmic opportunities and challenges. Reasoning in Smart Homes Workshop at 10th IEEE CPSCom.
Mehmood, F., Hassannezhad, M., Cantamessa, M. & Montagna & Montagna, F. (2014). Sensitivity analysis of dynamic cell formation problem through meta-heuristic. 7th International Conference Interdisciplinarity in Engineering, Romania.
Mehmood, F., Hassannezhad, M. & Abbas, T. (2014). Analytical investigation of mobile NFC adaption with SWOT-AHP approach: A case of Italian Telecom. 7th International Conference of Interdisciplinarity in Engineering, Romania, 10-11 October 2013.