Emeritus Professor "Smart Systems, Sustainability, Civil Engineering · Creator of ALMA · 40+ years of PhD supervision, research leadership, and academic excellence.
Professor Shahrour is a Emeritus Professor "Smart Systems, Sustainability, Civil Engineering with over 40 years of experience spanning fundamental research, applied engineering, doctoral supervision, and the digital transformation of higher education.
Throughout his career at University of Lille, France, he has supervised numerous PhD students across multiple disciplines, developing deep expertise in research methodology, scientific rigour, and doctoral mentorship — the intellectual backbone of ALMA.
Recognising that talented PhD students often struggle not from lack of ability but from lack of structured guidance, he created ALMA — encoding decades of supervision wisdom into an AI-powered platform accessible to every doctoral student worldwide, in English, French, and Arabic.
After decades of supervising PhD students, a recurring pattern emerged: talented researchers struggling not due to intellectual shortcomings, but due to structural challenges — unclear expectations, fragmented feedback, isolation, and lack of systematic guidance.
ALMA encodes the answers: a work package framework that structures the PhD as a professional project, AI-powered writing assistance trained on academic standards, 29-criteria compliance analysis, and a supervisor dashboard for efficient oversight.
40+ years of PhD supervision expertise, encoded into an AI-powered platform.
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