Profile
Dr Mehdi Khoury
Senior Research Fellow
(Streatham - Shared) 6421 or (Streatham - Shared) 3730
(Shared) 01392 726421 or (Shared) 01392 723730
Overview
From an AI/Machine Learning background, I work in decision support systems, Serious Games , interactive visualizations, and data science. The present application domain is to give policy makers, scientists, engineers, and stakeholders augmented intelligence in the process of collective decision making. These thing are exacting and technically demanding exercises that require participants to go online, poke a complex technical model, and get their act together despite having conflicting priorities and limited resources... The sum of all my experiences, as a “nomad” scientist connecting various disciplines drove me to the following conclusion. You can solve 95 % of a problem with an engineering or a scientific solution, but often, the last 5% of it is about how to convince people to make use of your solution. And this will ultimately decide if the whole exercise was a success or not. This is why I think that using Interactive visualization, Serious Gaming, and Artificial Intelligence to connect technical problems with people is relevant from a research, general impact, and business perspective. Beside AI/Machine Learning, graphics and web programming - elements of psychology, neuroscience, nonlinear dynamic systems, and statistics are also part of my skillset. I am generally happy to use whatever technique works best for the problem at end, and not necessarily one “hammer” for all tasks. Working at the junction between network science, machine learning, visualisation and “Serious Games” offers many opportunities to make a significant impact in society, and can potentially be very exciting and fulfilling.Publications
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2023
- Evans B, Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Chen O, Mustafee N, Chen AS, Djordjevic S, Savic D. (2023) A modelling testbed to demonstrate the circular economy of water, Journal of Cleaner Production, volume 405, pages 137018-137018, article no. 137018, DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137018. [PDF]
- Khoury M, Evans B, Chen O, Chen AS, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Savic DA, Djordjevic S, Bouziotas D, Makropoulos C, Mustafee N. (2023) NEXTGEN: A serious game showcasing circular economy in the urban water cycle, Journal of Cleaner Production, volume 391, pages 136000-136000, article no. 136000, DOI:10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.136000. [PDF]
2021
- Susnik J, Masia S, Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Brouwer F, Riegels N, Domingo X, Lluis E, Evans B, Savic D. (2021) From system concept to serious game: the SIM4NEXUS approach to policy-relevant nexus research, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology, DOI:10.30955/gnc2019.00073.
2020
- Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Chen A, Khoury M, Gibson M, Kostaridis A, Stewart D, Wood M, Djordjevic S, Savic D. (2020) Assessing and visualising hazard impacts to enhance the resilience of Critical Infrastructures to urban flooding, Science of the Total Environment, volume 707, DOI:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.136078.
2019
- MASIA S, SUŠNIK J, KHOURY M, VAMVAKERIDOU-LYROUDIA LS, BROUWER F, RIEGELS N, DOMINGO X, ECHEVERRIA L, EVANS B, SAVIC DA. (2019) FROM SYSTEM CONCEPT TO SERIOUS GAME: THE SIM4NEXUS APPROACH TO POLICY-RELEVANT NEXUS RESEARCH, 38th IAHR World Congress - "Water: Connecting the World", Proceedings of the IAHR World Congress, volume 38, pages 2955-2963, DOI:10.3850/38wc092019-0702.
- Gibson MJ, Chen AS, Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia LS, Stewart D, Wood M, Savić DA, Djordjević S. (2019) Case study of the cascading effects on critical infrastructure in Torbay coastal/pluvial flooding with climate change and 3D visualisation, Journal of Hydroinformatics, volume 22, no. 1, pages 77-92, DOI:10.2166/hydro.2019.032. [PDF]
2018
- Khoury M, Savic D, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Chen A, Djordjevic S. (2018) Using a Particle Based Simulation to Visualize Sub-Catchments Contribution to Localized Flooding, EPiC Series in Engineering, volume 3, pages 1063-1055, DOI:10.29007/4lbl.
- Gibson M, Chen AS, Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Stewart D, Wood M, Savic D, Djordjević S. (2018) Analysing the Cascading Effects on Critical Infrastructure in Torbay Coastal/Pluvial Flooding with Climate Change, EPiC Series in Engineering, volume 3, pages 780-771, DOI:10.29007/cwx1.
- Khoury M, Chen AS, Gibson M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Stewart D, Wood M, Savic D, Djordjevic S. (2018) A Serious Game to Explore Different Flooding Scenarios and their Respective Effects on Infrastructures, EPiC Series in Engineering, volume 3, pages 1055-1046, DOI:10.29007/jg1g.
- Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Gibson MJ, Chen A, Savic D. (2018) A Serious Game Designed to Explore and Understand the Complexities of Flood Mitigation Options in Urban–Rural Catchments, water, volume 10(12), DOI:10.3390/w10121885.
- Chen AS, Khoury M, Vamvakeridou-Lyroudia L, Stewart D, Wood M, Savic D, Djordjevic S. (2018) 3D visualisation tool for improving the resilience to urban and coastal flooding in Torbay, UK, Procedia Engineering, volume 212, pages 809-815, DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2018.01.104.
2017
- Morley MS, Khoury M, Savić DA. (2017) Serious Game Approach to Water Distribution System Design and Rehabilitation Problems, Procedia Engineering, volume 186, pages 76-83, DOI:10.1016/j.proeng.2017.03.213.
2016
- Morley MS, Khoury M, Savic D. (2016) Serious Gaming for Water Systems Planning and Management, Water Distribution Systems Analysis Conference - WDSA 2016, Cartagena, Colombia, 24th Jul - 28th Aug 2016.