Dr Ashraf Ahmed Mohamed
Reader in Civil Engineering
Howell Building 248
- Email: ashraf.ahmedmohamed@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 266971
- Civil and Environmental Engineering
- College of Engineering, Design and Physical Sciences
Summary
Ashraf is a fellow member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, chartered Engineer (CEng), chartered Environmentalist (CEnv), and Chartered Water and Environmental Manager of CIWEM (C.WEM). He has a BSc, Meng from Egypt, and PhD from the University of Manchester, all in Civil Engineering. Before joining academia, he worked in the industry for a short period in reinforced concrete design. Ashraf is currently a Reader at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Brunel University London. Before joining Brunel, he was a lecturer at the School of Natural and Built Environment, Queen’s University Belfast. Ashraf has been involved in research grants totalling more than £9 million as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator from EU, EPSRC, Newton, Innovate UK, and other sources. Ashraf is the principal investigator at Brunel for the project WE-ACT (€526,864, January 2023 - December 2026) where he leads a team to build a machine learning model for efficient water management in a transboundary river area at central Asia. This Horizon EU project is funded by UKRI through the UKRI Horizon Europe Funding Guarantee. Current research interests include the use of Artificial intelligence and deep learning in solving Civil Engineering problems, especially problems related to Environmental issues, water flow, and the impact of climate change.
Ashraf is the developer and course director of the MSc in Water& Environmental Engineering. Externally, he serves as a member of CIWEM accreditation panel and is also an assessor of CEng, and CEnv applications.
Newest selected publications
Abd-Elaty, I. and Ahmed, A. (2025) 'Would Mixed Physical Barriers be able to Desalinate Coastal Aquifers from Seawater Intrusion Under Pumping Conditions?'. Groundwater for Sustainable Development, 0 (in press, pre-proof). pp. 1 - 24. ISSN: 2352-801X
Abd-Elaziz, W., Elsaiad, A., Sallam, GAH., Kuriqi, A., Ahmed, AA. and Abd-Elaty, I. (2025) 'Performance of subsurface drainage systems considering groundwater flow directions and network alignment'. Frontiers in Earth Science, 12. pp. 1 - 14.
Ali, AJ., Ahmed, AA. and Abbod, MF. (2024) 'Groundwater level predictions in the Thames Basin, London over extended horizons using Transformers and advanced machine learning models'. Journal of Cleaner Production, 484 (15 December 2024). pp. 1 - 15. ISSN: 0959-6526
Ali, AJ. and Ahmed, AA. (2024) 'Long-term AI prediction of ammonium levels in rivers using transformer and ensemble models'. Cleaner Water, 2. pp. 1 - 17. ISSN: 2950-2632
Kushwaha, NL., Sushanth, K., Patel, A., Kisi, O., Ahmed, A. and Abd-Elaty, I. (2024) 'Beach nourishment for coastal aquifers impacted by climate change and population growth using machine learning approaches'. Journal of Environmental Management, 370. pp. 1 - 14. ISSN: 0301-4797