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DR HUMOUD ALSABAH

Humoud Alsabah
Public Email
humoud.alsabah@ku.edu.kw
Office Location
S04D2032
College/ Center
College of Engineering and Petroleum
Assistant Professor

Humoud W. Alsabah is an Assistant Professor in the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering Department at Kuwait University. He received his B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Kuwait University in 2012, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Columbia University in 2015 and 2020, respectively. His research interests include financial engineering and applied operations research, with a focus on financial markets and empirical finance, financial technology and alternative finance, and market microstructure and industrial organization. 

Degrees and Certificates
  • B.S. in Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Kuwait University, 2012
  • M.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2015
  • Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, 2020
Research Interests

Financial Engineering & Applied Operations Research – Applying optimization, stochastic modeling, econometrics, and simulation to financial systems including:

  • Market Microstructure & Industrial Organization 
  • Financial Technology & Alternative Finance 
  • Empirical Finance & Asset Pricing 
  • Risk Management & Regulation 
Academic Subjects

Courses Taught:

  • 0600209 - Engineering Economy 
  • 0660312 - Industrial Engineering Labs
  • 0660352 - Production Cost Analysis
  • 0660461 - Operations Research II 
  •  0660561 - Linear Programming and Network Flows
Publications

  • Humoud Alsabah and Khaled Alsabah. Kuwait stock exchange: A re-examination of seasonal anomalies. Emerging Markets Review, 68: 101317, 2025. URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ememar.2025.101317

     

  • Humoud Alsabah and Abdullah Alibrahim. The weekend effect on rewards-based crowdfunding. Journal of Engineering Research, forthcoming, 2025. ISSN 2307-1877. URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jer.2025.04.005

     

  • Humoud Alsabah and Abdullah Alibrahim. Moral hazard in online peer-to-peer lending. Applied Economics, 57(36):5474-5485, 2025. URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2024.2364933

     

  • Khaled Alsabah and Humoud Alsabah. Is democracy costly? The effect of political turmoil on Kuwait’s stock market. Borsa Istanbul Review, 24(5):1006–1018, 2024. ISSN 2214-8450. URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bir.2024.05.009

     

  • Agostino Capponi, Sveinn Olafsson, and Humoud Alsabah. Proof-of-work cryptocurrencies: Does mining technology undermine decentralization? Management Science, 69(11):6455–6481, 2023. URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2023.4840

     

  • Humoud Alsabah, Benjamin Bernard, Agostino Capponi, Garud Iyengar, and Jay Sethuraman. Multiregional oligopoly with capacity constraints. Management Science, 67(8):4789–4808, 2021. URL https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2020.3728

     

  • Humoud Alsabah, Agostino Capponi, Octavio Ruiz Lacedelli, and Matt Stern. Robo-advising: Learning investors’ risk preferences via portfolio choices. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 19(2):369–392, 01 2020. ISSN 1479-8409. URL https://doi.org/10.1093/jjfinec/nbz040

     

  • Humoud Alsabah, Majid M. Aldaihani, and Ali Allahverdi. Assigning patients to rooms in a private hospital in Kuwait. International Journal of Services and Operations Management, 22(3):304–322, 2015. URL https://doi.org/10.1504/IJSOM.2015.072314