Mohanad Saad

Mohanad Saad is a Senior Research Associate at the Centre of Operational Research and Decision Analysis within the School of Mathematics & Physics in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Portsmouth. His work spans operational research, logistics, and optimization frameworks.

• Research Focus: Developing advanced routing algorithms, multi-criteria decision-making models, and stochastic scheduling systems for diverse applications including renewable energy maintenance and emergency medical services.
• Key Contributions: Published 14 research outputs (including 5 articles and 9 conference abstracts) over the past seven years, with recent 2025 work on unmanned vehicle coordination and 2024 studies on MCDM for freight hubs and multi-objective EMS location problems.
• Thesis: Completed a doctoral thesis in 2018 on robust dynamic scheduling in manufacturing environments, supervised by Professors D. Ouelhadj and D. Jones.
• Technical Expertise: Specializes in multi-echelon location routing, UAV swarm scheduling, and emergency resource allocation using algorithmic optimization.
• Contact: Mohanad.Al-Behadili1@port.ac.uk