Zaid Alajlan

Assistant Professor

Zaid Alajlan has been an Assistant Professor at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University in Al-Kharj since January 2025, after serving as a lecturer at the university from 2021 to 2024. Between 2020 and 2024 he was a research assistant at Case Western Reserve University in the United States, and earlier he worked as a teaching assistant at the University of Dayton and at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University. From 2015 to 2016 he was a consulting engineer with Yard Consulting Engineers in Saudi Arabia. His published work covers pavement engineering, geosynthetics, remote sensing and sustainable ground engineering. In 2024 he co-authored a study in the journal Geosciences with Yusheng Jiang, Claudia Zapata and Xiong (Bill) Yu that simulates how wicking geotextiles reduce frost heave in cold-region pavements. His other work includes a 2025 paper in AI in Civil Engineering on the data-driven prediction and optimisation of 3D concrete printing mixtures, a 2023 conference paper on remote-sensing-based risk assessment of coastal erosion for offshore communities, and a 2026 conference paper on sustainable soil erosion control using fungi.