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Saud AlKhaled, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Kuwait University and Acting Vice Dean for Admissions and Graduate Affairs. His work focuses on urban climatology, environmental design, and geospatial analytics, with particular emphasis on extreme heat and spatial inequalities in rapidly urbanizing desert environments.
His research investigates interactions between urban morphology, land cover, and thermal environments using field measurements, remote sensing, GIS, urban climate modeling, and explainable machine learning. He has led interdisciplinary projects combining urban climate analysis, spatial data science, and design research to support heat mitigation, climate resilience, and evidence-based urban decision-making.
Dr. AlKhaled has published in Urban Climate, Building and Environment, Sustainable Cities and Society, and the International Journal of Climatology. Recent work includes studies on intra-urban heating in Kuwait using explainable machine learning, canopy-layer urban heat island dynamics, and WebMRT, an online platform for estimating summertime mean radiant temperature in outdoor urban environments.
Before academia, he practiced as an architect in Chicago and Kuwait, and held research appointments at Arizona State University’s SHaDE Lab and MIT’s Sustainable Design Lab. He has collaborated internationally on urban climate resilience, environmental health, and GeoAI applications, and currently serves as Middle East regional contact for the International Association for Urban Climate.
His teaching integrates climate mitigation and adaptation into architectural design studios, and he has supervised graduate and undergraduate research on sustainable urbanism, thermal comfort, and climate-responsive architecture. He also serves by ministerial decree as Kuwait University’s representative on the Committee for Sustainable Greening in Residential Areas.
Dr. AlKhaled holds a Ph.D. and Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from Arizona State University, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Kuwait University.
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