جاسم محمد ابراهيم النحاس
Executive Summary:
A highly motivated and results-oriented leader with extensive experience in industrial engineering. Proven success in both academic and administrative roles, including serving as Chair of the Industrial Engineering Department and Deputy Head of International Partnership. Possesses deep expertise in critical areas such as logistics and supply chain management, process mining, and agile project management.
Key Qualifications:
• Department Leadership: Strong track record of leading and managing the Industrial Engineering Department, fostering a culture of academic excellence and innovation.
• International Collaboration: Proven ability to build and maintain strong international partnerships to enhance the department's global reach and impact.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Deep knowledge and experience in logistics & supply chain, process mining, and agile project management.
• Strategic Vision: Skilled in developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve departmental and university goals.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at fostering collaboration across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Seeking a position that leverages leadership expertise and subject matter knowledge to make a significant contribution in the field of industrial engineering.
Professional Experience:
• Associate Professor – University of Tabuk (UT)
College of Engineering – Industrial and System Engineering
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
12/30/2025 – Present
• Deputy Director of Partnerships and International Cooperation Unit (and Manager of International Partnership)
1/11/2023 – 2/27/2025, Responsibilities:
- Organizing regulations for partnerships and international cooperation at the University of Tabuk.
- Leading the communications and holding discussion meetings between the University of Tabuk and foreign universities
- Organizing all procedures related to memorandums of understanding between the University of Tabuk.
- Providing the parties participating in the partnership with the necessary permits to use university facilities, such as laboratories, laboratories, lecture halls, devices and equipment, according to the procedures and regulations followed at the university.
- Informing the agreement liaison officer of any new developments, legislation or regulations issued by the university related to the nature of the partnership or agreement and compliance with the committee’s recommendations.
• Department Chair of Industrial Engineering Department – College of Engineering – University of Tabuk (UT)
15/02/2023 – Present, Responsibilities:
- Designing with colleagues the new curriculum that aligned with the trimester study program.
- Leading a team to renew the accreditation of the bachelor program within the national commission for academic and assessment framework (NCAAA).
- Following up with the colleagues to implement the action plan each term and evaluating the learning loss at the offered courses.
- Following up with the colleagues to implement the action plan related to the accreditation board for engineering and technology (ABET).
- Enhancing the quality of teaching of the Master program (Engineering Management) by adding number of technical skills to the offered courses.
- Creating a program to ensure continuous improvement for the faculty in terms of scientific research and technical skills.
- Expanding the summer training opportunities by increasing the number of partnerships between the firms and department.
- Motivate the department to participate in the social responsibilities for introducing the industrial engineering major to the local and global society.
• Division Head for Skills Development & Community Service Unit – College of Engineering – University of Tabuk (UT)
07/01/2021 – Present, Responsibilities:
- Design a new chapter for training courses at the college of engineering to enrich the skills and qualifications of undergraduate and graduate students.
- Leading a team to establish the program of skills and qualifications for the freshly graduated students.
- Collaborate with the private sector firms for designing a program to sponsor the honor students and fund the research programs for the college of engineering.
- Leading the memorandum of understanding between University of Tabuk and PARSON Co for students training to establish internship program for Senior students, and professional development program (PDP) for the fresh graduated students.
- Participated with Deanship of students affairs for establishing the memorandum of understanding between University of Tabuk and Bechtel Co for students training to establish internship program for Senior students.
- Represent the College of Engineering and the university of Tabuk at Saudi council of engineering to frame the legislation and the regulation of fundamental of engineering exam (FE) for the fresh graduated students.
• Assistant Professor – University of Tabuk (UT)
College of Engineering – Industrial and System Engineering
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
07 / 16 / 2021 – 12/30/2025-, Responsibilities:
- Course Instructor for Undergraduate Courses: (Advance topics in Industrial Engineering “Project Engineering II” and, Advance topics in Engineering Management “Statistical Data Analysis II”, Design of Experiment, Project Management and Supply Chain Management, Engineering Entrepreneurship.
- Course Instructor for Graduate Courses: Logistics and Supply Chain, Engineering Forecasting, and Project Management.
- Supervising students for Senior Project Design for Master and Bachelor Courses.
- Committee member of ABET and NCAA Accreditation.
- Contribute to the department by enhancing the quality of the course and assessing the Master's program for the new graduate students.
- Leading the communication with Fluxion Co. to acquire the full academic license of (Disco, Process mining for professional) software.
- Learning the students for the technical skills in forecasting and training them for business strategy. The students used in this course business strategy game simulations (BSG). They competed with different schools’ groups globally, and successfully earned high ranking (4th) for Master students, (1 st) for Bachelor students.
• Graduate Research Assistant & Graduate Teaching Assistant (Wayne State University)
College of Engineering – Industrial and System Engineering
Detroit, MI
05 / 10 / 2017 – 08 / 31/ 2020, Responsibilities:
- Guide the new graduate student and learn them how to conduct their research.
- Teach the student how to criticize the research articles and enhance their research methodologies.
- Demonstrate to the students to analyze the data and use the best fit probability distribution related to their data.
- Teach the students how to visualize the data and statistical analysis by using R program and Minitab.
- Teach the student the different kinds of ANOVA, and Regression models.
• Teacher Assistant - University of Tabuk (UT)
College of Engineering – Industrial and Electrical Engineering
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
01 / 16 / 2011 – 01 / 05 / 2012, Responsibilities:
- Lecturer (Engineering Economics, Project Engineering, and Electric Measurement and Electric Communication).
- Lab Instructor and tutorial class (Engineering Economics, Electric Measurement, and Electric Communication).
- Contribution to my colleagues to improve the quality and development of the study plan of the department.
Education:
• Ph.D. in Industrial and System Engineering
Wayne State University (WSU)
Detroit, Mi (United States of America)
01/09/2016 – 02/05/2021
Volunteer Activities:
• Saudi Student Club at University of Pittsburgh (2015)
• 3rd Annual Big Data & Business Analytics Symposium at Wayne State University. (2016)
• Saudi Association Club at Wayne State University, President (2019- 2020)
• Guest Speaker in Project Management Course Training, Tabuk Health Cluster 2022
Software knowledge:
• Logical Decision • Disco and Prom ( Process Mining Software)
• Microsoft Project software • Business Strategy Game Simulator
• Visio • SCM Globe
• R, Python , Minitab • Arena Simulation
Professional Certificates:
♦ Lean Six Sigma DIMAC Methodology course at the Green Belt level ♦ Programmable Integrated Circuit (PIC) course training
• Six Sigma IDDOV Methodology course at the Black Belt level • Quality management course training
• PMP 35 Contact Hours • Leadership Development Skills & Personal Strategic Planning course training
Publications:
• Aljasem, M., Ilyas, H., Javed, A., Alnahas, J., & Abouheaf, M. (2026). Phonetic-DeepKANet: a robust audio spoofing detection framework for English and Arabic. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-51950-9
• Alharbi, L. A., Alnahas, J., Javed, A., Alhakamy, A. A., Nawaz, M., Malik, H., ... & Alfaifi, F. (2026). DeepRawNet: empowering deepfake audio detection through dynamic enhancements. PeerJ Computer Science, 12, e3670. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3670
• Khan, S., Singh, R., Choudhary, M., & Alnahas, J. (2026). Driving the Shift of Manufacturing: Modelling Enablers of the Net-Zero Economy. Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41660-026-00706-z
• Al-Shamasneh, A. A. R., Mahmoodzadeh, A., Kewalramani, M., Alghamdi, A., Alnahas, J., Sulaiman, M.,& Albaijan, I. (2025). Hybrid machine learning models for predicting the tensile strength of reinforced concrete incorporating nano-engineered and sustainable supplementary cementitious materials. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 35805. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-19741-w
• Al-Shamasneh, A. A. R., Mahmoodzadeh, A., Karim, F. K., Saidani, T., Alghamdi, A., Alnahas, J., & Sulaiman, M. (2025). Application of machine learning techniques to predict the compressive strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 30674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16516-1
• Alnahas, J. (2025). Faster-PPENet: Advancing Logistic Intelligence for PPE Recognition at Construction Sites. IEEE Access. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11028983
• Alnahas, J., Lakhouit, A., Alnchiwati, M., Albalawi, M., Elrazzaz, A., Alanzi, N., ... & Hijry, H. M. (2025). Enhancing the Properties of Concrete with the Incorporation of Recycled Polypropylene Plastic. Buildings, 15(7), 1055.. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15071055
• Khan, S., Singh, R., Alnahas, J., Abbate, S., & Centobelli, P. (2024). Navigating the smart circular economy: A framework for manufacturing firms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 480, 144007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144007
• Alnahas, Jasim. "Hybrid Model Representation in Process Mining." 2023 3rd International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT). IEEE, 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10273968
• Alnahas, J. (2023). Application of process mining in logistic processes of manufacturing organizations: a systematic review. Sustainability, 15(15), 11783. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511783
• Aljarrah, M., Alnahas, J., & Alhartomi, M. (2023). Liquidus projections and isothermal sections of Mg-Al-Ca system using different geometrical models. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131873
• Aljarrah, M., Alnahas, J., & Alhartomi, M. (2021). Thermodynamic modeling and mechanical properties of Mg-Zn-{Y, Ce} alloys. Crystals, 11(12), 1592. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121592
Memberships:
• Saudi Councils of Engineers (Expert Level)
• Committee Member of Technical Committee for Logistics Innovation at The Saudi Standards, Metrology, and Quality Organization (SASO)
• Head of Committee Member of Technical Committee for Smart Logistics Warehouse at The Saudi Standards, Metrology, and Quality Organization (SASO)
• Committee Member of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) of Innovative Logistics (ISO/TC 344)
• Saudi Supply Chain and Procurement Society (Expert Level)
Awards and Recognitions:
• Recognition from The Rector of University of Tabuk for participating with deanship of human resources, and presenting two days training workshop for project management.
• Recognition from GLO-BUS Software, INC for earning top 10 Global ranking of Business Strategy Game for three semesters (2021, 2022 and 2023).
• Recognition from Tabuk Pharmaceuticals for presenting five days training workshop for project management
A highly motivated and results-oriented leader with extensive experience in industrial engineering. Proven success in both academic and administrative roles, including serving as Chair of the Industrial Engineering Department and Deputy Head of International Partnership. Possesses deep expertise in critical areas such as logistics and supply chain management, process mining, and agile project management.
Key Qualifications:
• Department Leadership: Strong track record of leading and managing the Industrial Engineering Department, fostering a culture of academic excellence and innovation.
• International Collaboration: Proven ability to build and maintain strong international partnerships to enhance the department's global reach and impact.
• Subject Matter Expertise: Deep knowledge and experience in logistics & supply chain, process mining, and agile project management.
• Strategic Vision: Skilled in developing and implementing strategic plans to achieve departmental and university goals.
• Communication & Collaboration: Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, adept at fostering collaboration across diverse teams and stakeholders.
Seeking a position that leverages leadership expertise and subject matter knowledge to make a significant contribution in the field of industrial engineering.
Professional Experience:
• Associate Professor – University of Tabuk (UT)
College of Engineering – Industrial and System Engineering
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
12/30/2025 – Present
• Deputy Director of Partnerships and International Cooperation Unit (and Manager of International Partnership)
1/11/2023 – 2/27/2025, Responsibilities:
- Organizing regulations for partnerships and international cooperation at the University of Tabuk.
- Leading the communications and holding discussion meetings between the University of Tabuk and foreign universities
- Organizing all procedures related to memorandums of understanding between the University of Tabuk.
- Providing the parties participating in the partnership with the necessary permits to use university facilities, such as laboratories, laboratories, lecture halls, devices and equipment, according to the procedures and regulations followed at the university.
- Informing the agreement liaison officer of any new developments, legislation or regulations issued by the university related to the nature of the partnership or agreement and compliance with the committee’s recommendations.
• Department Chair of Industrial Engineering Department – College of Engineering – University of Tabuk (UT)
15/02/2023 – Present, Responsibilities:
- Designing with colleagues the new curriculum that aligned with the trimester study program.
- Leading a team to renew the accreditation of the bachelor program within the national commission for academic and assessment framework (NCAAA).
- Following up with the colleagues to implement the action plan each term and evaluating the learning loss at the offered courses.
- Following up with the colleagues to implement the action plan related to the accreditation board for engineering and technology (ABET).
- Enhancing the quality of teaching of the Master program (Engineering Management) by adding number of technical skills to the offered courses.
- Creating a program to ensure continuous improvement for the faculty in terms of scientific research and technical skills.
- Expanding the summer training opportunities by increasing the number of partnerships between the firms and department.
- Motivate the department to participate in the social responsibilities for introducing the industrial engineering major to the local and global society.
• Division Head for Skills Development & Community Service Unit – College of Engineering – University of Tabuk (UT)
07/01/2021 – Present, Responsibilities:
- Design a new chapter for training courses at the college of engineering to enrich the skills and qualifications of undergraduate and graduate students.
- Leading a team to establish the program of skills and qualifications for the freshly graduated students.
- Collaborate with the private sector firms for designing a program to sponsor the honor students and fund the research programs for the college of engineering.
- Leading the memorandum of understanding between University of Tabuk and PARSON Co for students training to establish internship program for Senior students, and professional development program (PDP) for the fresh graduated students.
- Participated with Deanship of students affairs for establishing the memorandum of understanding between University of Tabuk and Bechtel Co for students training to establish internship program for Senior students.
- Represent the College of Engineering and the university of Tabuk at Saudi council of engineering to frame the legislation and the regulation of fundamental of engineering exam (FE) for the fresh graduated students.
• Assistant Professor – University of Tabuk (UT)
College of Engineering – Industrial and System Engineering
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
07 / 16 / 2021 – 12/30/2025-, Responsibilities:
- Course Instructor for Undergraduate Courses: (Advance topics in Industrial Engineering “Project Engineering II” and, Advance topics in Engineering Management “Statistical Data Analysis II”, Design of Experiment, Project Management and Supply Chain Management, Engineering Entrepreneurship.
- Course Instructor for Graduate Courses: Logistics and Supply Chain, Engineering Forecasting, and Project Management.
- Supervising students for Senior Project Design for Master and Bachelor Courses.
- Committee member of ABET and NCAA Accreditation.
- Contribute to the department by enhancing the quality of the course and assessing the Master's program for the new graduate students.
- Leading the communication with Fluxion Co. to acquire the full academic license of (Disco, Process mining for professional) software.
- Learning the students for the technical skills in forecasting and training them for business strategy. The students used in this course business strategy game simulations (BSG). They competed with different schools’ groups globally, and successfully earned high ranking (4th) for Master students, (1 st) for Bachelor students.
• Graduate Research Assistant & Graduate Teaching Assistant (Wayne State University)
College of Engineering – Industrial and System Engineering
Detroit, MI
05 / 10 / 2017 – 08 / 31/ 2020, Responsibilities:
- Guide the new graduate student and learn them how to conduct their research.
- Teach the student how to criticize the research articles and enhance their research methodologies.
- Demonstrate to the students to analyze the data and use the best fit probability distribution related to their data.
- Teach the students how to visualize the data and statistical analysis by using R program and Minitab.
- Teach the student the different kinds of ANOVA, and Regression models.
• Teacher Assistant - University of Tabuk (UT)
College of Engineering – Industrial and Electrical Engineering
Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
01 / 16 / 2011 – 01 / 05 / 2012, Responsibilities:
- Lecturer (Engineering Economics, Project Engineering, and Electric Measurement and Electric Communication).
- Lab Instructor and tutorial class (Engineering Economics, Electric Measurement, and Electric Communication).
- Contribution to my colleagues to improve the quality and development of the study plan of the department.
Education:
• Ph.D. in Industrial and System Engineering
Wayne State University (WSU)
Detroit, Mi (United States of America)
01/09/2016 – 02/05/2021
Volunteer Activities:
• Saudi Student Club at University of Pittsburgh (2015)
• 3rd Annual Big Data & Business Analytics Symposium at Wayne State University. (2016)
• Saudi Association Club at Wayne State University, President (2019- 2020)
• Guest Speaker in Project Management Course Training, Tabuk Health Cluster 2022
Software knowledge:
• Logical Decision • Disco and Prom ( Process Mining Software)
• Microsoft Project software • Business Strategy Game Simulator
• Visio • SCM Globe
• R, Python , Minitab • Arena Simulation
Professional Certificates:
♦ Lean Six Sigma DIMAC Methodology course at the Green Belt level ♦ Programmable Integrated Circuit (PIC) course training
• Six Sigma IDDOV Methodology course at the Black Belt level • Quality management course training
• PMP 35 Contact Hours • Leadership Development Skills & Personal Strategic Planning course training
Publications:
• Aljasem, M., Ilyas, H., Javed, A., Alnahas, J., & Abouheaf, M. (2026). Phonetic-DeepKANet: a robust audio spoofing detection framework for English and Arabic. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-51950-9
• Alharbi, L. A., Alnahas, J., Javed, A., Alhakamy, A. A., Nawaz, M., Malik, H., ... & Alfaifi, F. (2026). DeepRawNet: empowering deepfake audio detection through dynamic enhancements. PeerJ Computer Science, 12, e3670. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.3670
• Khan, S., Singh, R., Choudhary, M., & Alnahas, J. (2026). Driving the Shift of Manufacturing: Modelling Enablers of the Net-Zero Economy. Process Integration and Optimization for Sustainability, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41660-026-00706-z
• Al-Shamasneh, A. A. R., Mahmoodzadeh, A., Kewalramani, M., Alghamdi, A., Alnahas, J., Sulaiman, M.,& Albaijan, I. (2025). Hybrid machine learning models for predicting the tensile strength of reinforced concrete incorporating nano-engineered and sustainable supplementary cementitious materials. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 35805. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-19741-w
• Al-Shamasneh, A. A. R., Mahmoodzadeh, A., Karim, F. K., Saidani, T., Alghamdi, A., Alnahas, J., & Sulaiman, M. (2025). Application of machine learning techniques to predict the compressive strength of steel fiber reinforced concrete. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 30674. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-16516-1
• Alnahas, J. (2025). Faster-PPENet: Advancing Logistic Intelligence for PPE Recognition at Construction Sites. IEEE Access. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/11028983
• Alnahas, J., Lakhouit, A., Alnchiwati, M., Albalawi, M., Elrazzaz, A., Alanzi, N., ... & Hijry, H. M. (2025). Enhancing the Properties of Concrete with the Incorporation of Recycled Polypropylene Plastic. Buildings, 15(7), 1055.. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings15071055
• Khan, S., Singh, R., Alnahas, J., Abbate, S., & Centobelli, P. (2024). Navigating the smart circular economy: A framework for manufacturing firms. Journal of Cleaner Production, 480, 144007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.144007
• Alnahas, Jasim. "Hybrid Model Representation in Process Mining." 2023 3rd International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (ICCIT). IEEE, 2023. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10273968
• Alnahas, J. (2023). Application of process mining in logistic processes of manufacturing organizations: a systematic review. Sustainability, 15(15), 11783. https://doi.org/10.3390/su151511783
• Aljarrah, M., Alnahas, J., & Alhartomi, M. (2023). Liquidus projections and isothermal sections of Mg-Al-Ca system using different geometrical models. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131873
• Aljarrah, M., Alnahas, J., & Alhartomi, M. (2021). Thermodynamic modeling and mechanical properties of Mg-Zn-{Y, Ce} alloys. Crystals, 11(12), 1592. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryst11121592
Memberships:
• Saudi Councils of Engineers (Expert Level)
• Committee Member of Technical Committee for Logistics Innovation at The Saudi Standards, Metrology, and Quality Organization (SASO)
• Head of Committee Member of Technical Committee for Smart Logistics Warehouse at The Saudi Standards, Metrology, and Quality Organization (SASO)
• Committee Member of International Organization for Standardization (ISO) of Innovative Logistics (ISO/TC 344)
• Saudi Supply Chain and Procurement Society (Expert Level)
Awards and Recognitions:
• Recognition from The Rector of University of Tabuk for participating with deanship of human resources, and presenting two days training workshop for project management.
• Recognition from GLO-BUS Software, INC for earning top 10 Global ranking of Business Strategy Game for three semesters (2021, 2022 and 2023).
• Recognition from Tabuk Pharmaceuticals for presenting five days training workshop for project management
