Saud AlKhaled, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Kuwait University. His research focuses on urban climate in hot desert cities, with emphasis on urban heat mitigation, outdoor thermal comfort, and the performance of the built environment. He holds a professional Bachelor of Architecture degree from Kuwait University, a Master of Urban and Environmental Planning from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Design, Environments, and the Arts from Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.

Before joining academia, Dr. AlKhaled trained as a Trainee Architect at Teng & Associates (now EXP) in Chicago, then practiced as a Junior Architect at KAYAN Office, and later as a Project Architect at KFH Real Estate (now KFH Capital) in Kuwait. He has also held research appointments at Arizona State University’s SHaDE Lab and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sustainable Design Lab, contributing to solutions-oriented projects on urban building energy modeling and desert climate resilience.

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