Faculty Profile

Dr. Fahad Mehmood

Adjunct Faculty

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

      • 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., Omair, H. & Riaz, Z. (In Press 2019). It's Just Not Cricket!. Asian Journal of Management Cases.

      • 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. (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.

      • Mehmood, F. (2015). Business Models and Strategies of M-Commerce: A Review. Journal of Internet Banking and Commerce, 20 (1).

      • Zainab, R., Haroon, O. & Fahad, M. (2019). Social Media Application in Construction Industry, Published. Case Research Unit, LUMS, LUMS No. 04-2368-2019-2, Case Research Unit, LUMS.

      • Mehmood, F., Haroon, O. & Riaz, Z. (2019). It's just not Cricket!, Accepted. Asian Journal of Management Cases.

      • 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.

      • 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. & 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.

      • 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.

      • Amjad, F. & Mehmood, F. (2019). Identification and Assessment of Sites for Solar Farms Development Using GIS and Clustering Technique- A Case of Pakistan.

      • Shah, L., Mehmood, F. & Vernadat, F. (2019). Performance Visualization of Manufacturing Systems for Informed Decision Making.

      • Tariq, Y. & Mehmood, F. (2018). Investigating the causal relationship between transport infrastructure, economic growth and transport emissions in Pakistan.

      • Rizvi, A., Haroon, O. & Mehmood, F. (2018). Are Oil Prices Efficient?.