Tarek Mokhtar

Biography

Dr. Tarek Mokhtar is an Arch-roboticist, Designer, Chairman of the Architectural Engineering Department, and Assistant Professor of Architectural Engineering in the College of Engineering at Alfaisal University. He is the founder and coordinator of the intelligent Design and Art (iDNA) Research Group at the CoE of Alfaisal University. He is a member of the Institute for Intelligent Materials, Systems and Environments (iMSE), Clemson University, USA, and an Executive Editor at the Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology (JAET). Dr. Tarek Mokhtar has sixteen years of teaching experience in KSA (DAU and AU), USA (Clemson U), and Egypt (Ain Shams U). He teaches courses in digital design, architectural design, computation in architecture, interactive architectural systems, digital fabrication, theory of architecture, and construction drawings. Mokhtar earned an interdisciplinary PhD in Planning, Design and the Built Environment [PDBE] from Clemson University, USA, specialized in Architectural Materials + Systems on research stream 7.0: Intelligent Environments – "Architectural Robotics". He had also earned MS and BS in Architectural Engineering from the College of Engineering at Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Tarek Mokhtar's research explores embedding robotics and information technologies in the built environment. His research involves designing, prototyping and evaluating intelligent and interactive systems focusing on: Human-Robotic Interaction, Human-Centered Design, and the Socio-Cultural and Psychological factors affecting human-machine and -space interactions, at all scales of the built environment.

Research Interest

Architectural Engineering