About Us

Dr. Hadi Jaber is an associate professor at Rabdan Academy in Abu Dhabi. He completed all his undergraduate and graduate studies in France. He received his Ph.D. (Risk Management in Complex Projects) from the University of Paris-Saclay in 2016, his Master in Systems Engineering Specializing in Defense in 2012, and his Master of Science in Industrial Systems and Projects in 2012 with top grades.

His extensive academic experience includes roles at the University of Paris-Saclay, Abu Dhabi University, and the American University of Beirut. His professional experience includes positions as a systems and safety engineer at the French Atomic Energy Commission, a quality engineer at RENAULT in the Quality Management Strategy Department, and a quality engineer at TOTAL in "Management of Procurement Risks in Complex Projects."

He is an expert in using Risk Management and Operations Research techniques for managing and optimizing Complex socio-technical systems. He has twenty-two articles indexed in Scopus, including several in high-impact journals.

2012–2016: Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Management; Université Paris-Saclay, CentraleSupélec, France. (2023 World University Rank: Shanghai: 15)

Dissertation: Modeling and analysis of propagation risks in complex projects: application to the development of new vehicles.




2009-2012: École Nationale Supérieure de Techniques Avancées, France

Master's degree in Systems Engineering Specializing in Defense. Three-year Multidisciplinary Engineering Program, provided by the French Ministry of Armed Forces.




2011-2012: Université d'Angers, France

Master of Science in Industrial Systems and Projects (Dynamic Systems)




2007-2009: Lycée Masséna, Nice, France

Two-year undergraduate intensive course for the nationally competitive examination for admission to the French "Grandes Écoles."

• Complex Project Management
• Operations Research I (Optimization)
• Operations Research II (Stochastic Modeling) 
• Environmental & Safety Engineering
• Risk, Crisis, and Resilience Management
• Ergonomics and Work Measurement (Human Factors)
• Engineering Data Analysis
• Quality Engineering
• Advanced Engineering Economics
• Operations & Supply Chain Management
• Facilities Planning and Asset Management
• Production Planning & Inventory Control 

• Complex socio-technical systems
• Project and risk management
• Collaborative intelligence
• Operations Research/Optimization




With their applications in:

• Critical infrastructures
• Defence
• Energy

• A Cyber-Physical System Architecture based on lean principles for Managing Industry 4.0 Setups. Amr Nounou, Hadi Jaber, and Ridvan Aydin. International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing 2022. DOI: 10.1080/0951192X.2022.2027016
• A Framework to Evaluate Project Complexity Using the Fuzzy TOPSIS Method. Hadi Jaber, Franck Marle, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal, Ilkan Sarigol, and Lionel Didiez. Sustainability, Vol. 13(6), pp. 3020, 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13063020
• Organizing Project Actors for Collective Decision-Making about Interdependent Risks. Franck Marle, Hadi Jaber, and Catherine Pointurier. Complexity Journal, March 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8059372
• Criticality and Propagation Analysis of Impacts between Project Deliverables. Hadi Jaber, Franck Marle, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal and Lionel Didiez. Journal of Research in Engineering Design, Vol. 29 (1), pp 87–106, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00163-017-0254-7
• Improving Collaborative Decision Making in New Product Development Projects using Clustering Algorithms. IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, Vol.62 (4), pp.475–483, 2015. Hadi Jaber, Franck Marle and Marija Jankovic. Impact factor: 8.702. DOI: 10.1109/TEM.2015.2458332
• An investigation on coupling fuel cell, wind turbine and pv as Green to Green system. Ahmad Haddad, Hadi Jaber, Mohamad Ramadan, Mahmoud Khaled, and Raafat Al Afif. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 2022. Impact factor: 7.139. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2022.06.107
• Mitigating effects of partial shading on PV system's performance through PV array reconfiguration: A review. Khaled Osmani; Ahmad Haddad; Hadi Jaber; Mohamad Ramadan, Thierry Lemenand, and Bruno Castanier. Thermal Science and Engineering Progress, March 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsep.2022.101280
• Investigation of a ground-cooled organic Rankine cycle for waste heat recovery. Montaser Mahmoud, Sumsun Naher, Mohamad Ramadan, Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem, Hadi Jaber, Abdul-Ghani Olabi. International Journal of Thermofluids. April 2023. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijft.2023.100348
• An overview of smart irrigation systems using IoT. Khaled Obaideen, Bashria AA Yousef, Maryam Nooman AlMallahi, Yong Chai Tan, Montaser Mahmoud, Hadi Jaber, and Mohamad Ramadan. Energy Nexus, 2022. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nexus.2022.100124
• Parametric analysis of temperature gradient across thermoelectric power generators. Chahine, K., Ramadan, M., Merhi, Z., Jaber, H., Khaled, M. 2016, Journal of Electrical Systems, Vol. 12 (3), pp. 623–632, August 2016.
• Managing a Complex Project using a Risk-Risk Multiple Domain Matrix. Franck Marle, Catherine Pointurier and Hadi Jaber. Journal of Modern Project Management, Vol. 3, pp.32–37, 2015.
• Optimization of Sink Locations in Carbon Integration Networks. Sabla Y. Alnouri, Ilkan Sarigol, Dhabia Al-Mohannadi, and Hadi Jaber. Proceeding of the 32nd European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering ESCAPE32 2022.
• Industry 4.0 Smart Predictive Maintenance in the Oil Industry to Enable Near-Zero Downtime in Operations. Wejdan Al-Subaiei, Esraa Al-Herz, Wadhha Al-Marri, Rawan Al-Otaibi, Hessah Ashyan, and Hadi Jaber., Proceedings of the 11th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, March 7-11, 2021, Singapore.
• Managing Project Delays: Simulation-Based Methodology for Project Scheduling. Anfal Malak, Maha AlRashedi, Omniah Ahmad, Reem ShamsAlDeen, Ruqayah AlSaad, and Hadi Jaber., Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management, March 10-12, 2020, Dubai, UAE.
• Design by Clustering Project Actors. Khoriaty, A., Jaber, H., Yassine, A., 2018 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, August 26-29, 2018, Quebec City, Canada.
• Organization and Coordination of Project Actors to Manage Impact Propagation between Deliverables. Hadi Jaber, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal, Franck Marle and Lionel Didiez. 19th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, September 2017, Helsinki, Finland.
• Information Exchange Efficiency in Different Project Team Architectures. Ali Yassine and Hadi Jaber. 19th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, September 2017, Helsinki, Finland.
• Reciprocal enrichment of two multi-domain matrices to improve accuracy of vehicle development project interdependencies modeling and analysis. Hadi Jaber, Franck Marle, Ludovic-Alexandre Vidal and Lionel Didiez. 16th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM'14, Paris, France.
• Managing a Complex Project using a Risk-Risk Multiple Domain Matrix. Catherine Pointurier, Franck Marle, and Hadi Jaber. 16th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM'14, Paris, France.
• Reshuffling collaborative decision-making organization using a Decision-Decision MDM. Franck Marle, Marija Jankovic, and Hadi Jaber. 16th International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM'14, Paris, France.
• Model driven safety assessment of robotic systems. Nataliya Yakymets, Saadia Dhouib, Hadi Jaber and Agnès Lanusse. IROS 2013, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Tokyo, Japan.
• Model-based system engineering for fault tree generation and analysis. Nataliya Yakymets, Hadi Jaber and Agnès Lanusse. MODELSWARD 2012, International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, Barcelona, Spain.