School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Yahya Gamalaldin

  • Research Associate (Urban Big Data)

Biography

Yahya Gamal is a Research Associate in the Artificial Intelligence for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) hub, and he is based in the Urban Big Data Centre (UBDC), University of Glasgow (UofG). He initially joined the UBDC in July 2023 as a Research Associate in computational social simulations, particularly agent-based models.

Prior to this, Yahya Gamal did a PhD in the University of Manchester. His PhD focused on simulating market procedures and residential location choices using agent-based models. He was also a Research Assistant between April 2022 and April 2023 in the Tomorrow's Cities project in both University College London and King's College London. He contributed to developing agent-based models to test the effect of road network development for flood resilience on land prices and gentrification.

Yahya Gamal has also been involved in teaching roles in Cairo University, Salford University and the University of Manchester. His teaching involved GIS tools, town planning and decision support systems for urban developers (using agent-based models).

Research interests

Research and Methods

My research interest lies in computational social simulations of geographical urban systems. I am keen to use social simulations to understand urban systems and to comprehend the underlying reasons for different spatial phenomenon.

I am particularly interested in the following topics and methods:

  1. Agent Based Models (ABMs) as tools to simulate decisions that lead to spatial outcomes
  2. AI methods coupled with ABMs, including Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) as ABM emulators
  3. Uncertainty Quantification (UQ) of ABMs spatial outcomes

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 10.

2025

Nocera, Fabrizio, Gamalaldin, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Wang, Chenbo and Cremen, Gemma (2025) Towards inclusive risk-informed infrastructure development in expanding cities. Communications Engineering, 4, 161. (doi: 10.1038/s44172-025-00494-3) (PMID:40897840) (PMCID:PMC12405530)

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437, Strachan, William, Colasanti, Ricardo and Zia, Kashif (2025) An analysis of spatial and temporal uncertainty propagation in agent-based models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 383(2293), 20240229. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2024.0229) (PMID:40172560) (PMCID:PMC12105802)

2024

Feng, Zixin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7539-9917, Xian, Xinyan, Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Zhao, Qunshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-9457 and Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437 (2024) Optimizing the Locations of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Georgia, USA. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '24), Atlanta, GA, USA, 29 Oct - 01 Nov 2024, pp. 733-736. ISBN 9798400711077 (doi: 10.1145/3678717.3700831)

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Elsenbroich, Corinna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1153-4326, Gilbert, Nigel, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437 and Zia, Kashif (2024) A behavioural agent-based model for housing markets: impact of financial shocks in the UK. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 27(4), 5. (doi: 10.18564/jasss.5518)

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Pinto, Nuno and Iossifova, Deljana (2024) The role of procedural utility in land market dynamics in Greater Cairo: an agent based model application. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(4), pp. 954-970. (doi: 10.1177/23998083231207077)

2022

Gama, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 (2022) Land Market Preferences in Formal-informal Contexts: Urban Segregation Emergent Patterns. Dynamic Days Eurpoe 2022, Aberdeen, Scotland, 22-26 Aug 2022.

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 (2022) Land market procedures and market preferences in land use change: the case of Greater Cairo. In: Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (eds.) Urban Infrastructuring:Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series. Springer: Singapore, pp. 81-98. ISBN 9789811683510 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_6)

Iossifova, Deljana, Zavos, Stylianos, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 and Long, Yin (2022) Urban infrastructuring: trajectories of infrastructural entanglement in cities of the Global South. In: Iossifova, Deljana, Zavos, Stylianos, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (eds.) Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series. Springer: Singapore, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9789811683510 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_1)

Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 and Long, Yin (Eds.) (2022) Urban infrastructuring: reconfigurations, transformations and sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series (SDGS). Springer: Singapore. ISBN 9789811683510

Iossifova, D. et al. (2022) Architecture, sanitation and COVID-19: design interventions in limited-resource settings (Accra, Ghana). In: Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (eds.) Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series (SDGS). Springer: Singapore, pp. 277-296. ISBN 9789811683510 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_17)

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Articles

Nocera, Fabrizio, Gamalaldin, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Wang, Chenbo and Cremen, Gemma (2025) Towards inclusive risk-informed infrastructure development in expanding cities. Communications Engineering, 4, 161. (doi: 10.1038/s44172-025-00494-3) (PMID:40897840) (PMCID:PMC12405530)

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437, Strachan, William, Colasanti, Ricardo and Zia, Kashif (2025) An analysis of spatial and temporal uncertainty propagation in agent-based models. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 383(2293), 20240229. (doi: 10.1098/rsta.2024.0229) (PMID:40172560) (PMCID:PMC12105802)

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Elsenbroich, Corinna ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1153-4326, Gilbert, Nigel, Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437 and Zia, Kashif (2024) A behavioural agent-based model for housing markets: impact of financial shocks in the UK. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 27(4), 5. (doi: 10.18564/jasss.5518)

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Pinto, Nuno and Iossifova, Deljana (2024) The role of procedural utility in land market dynamics in Greater Cairo: an agent based model application. Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science, 51(4), pp. 954-970. (doi: 10.1177/23998083231207077)

Book Sections

Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 (2022) Land market procedures and market preferences in land use change: the case of Greater Cairo. In: Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (eds.) Urban Infrastructuring:Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series. Springer: Singapore, pp. 81-98. ISBN 9789811683510 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_6)

Iossifova, Deljana, Zavos, Stylianos, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 and Long, Yin (2022) Urban infrastructuring: trajectories of infrastructural entanglement in cities of the Global South. In: Iossifova, Deljana, Zavos, Stylianos, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (eds.) Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series. Springer: Singapore, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9789811683510 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_1)

Iossifova, D. et al. (2022) Architecture, sanitation and COVID-19: design interventions in limited-resource settings (Accra, Ghana). In: Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya and Long, Yin (eds.) Urban Infrastructuring: Reconfigurations, Transformations and Sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series (SDGS). Springer: Singapore, pp. 277-296. ISBN 9789811683510 (doi: 10.1007/978-981-16-8352-7_17)

Edited Books

Iossifova, Deljana, Gasparatos, Alexandros, Zavos, Stylianos, Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 and Long, Yin (Eds.) (2022) Urban infrastructuring: reconfigurations, transformations and sustainability in the Global South. Series: Sustainable development goals series (SDGS). Springer: Singapore. ISBN 9789811683510

Conference or Workshop Item

Gama, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172 (2022) Land Market Preferences in Formal-informal Contexts: Urban Segregation Emergent Patterns. Dynamic Days Eurpoe 2022, Aberdeen, Scotland, 22-26 Aug 2022.

Conference Proceedings

Feng, Zixin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7539-9917, Xian, Xinyan, Gamal, Yahya ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2370-6172, Zhao, Qunshan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-9457 and Heppenstall, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0663-3437 (2024) Optimizing the Locations of Electric Vehicle Charging Stations in Georgia, USA. In: 32nd ACM International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '24), Atlanta, GA, USA, 29 Oct - 01 Nov 2024, pp. 733-736. ISBN 9798400711077 (doi: 10.1145/3678717.3700831)

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Grants

2026-2029 EPSRC Doctoral Studentship Supervisor-Led Project 'Using ML and individual-based modelling to create resilient urban mobility'. Role: co-supervision

The PhD project extends on work applied in the AI for Collective Intelligence (AI4CI) - AI Hub led from the University of Bristol. Funded by EPSRC for 5 years. The project focuses on developing an agent-based modelling framework integrateing synthetic  population generation, activity-based demand modelling, and multi-modal routing (walking, cycling, car, and bus) on realistic transport networks. Crucially, it introduces dynamic schedule adaptation.

Supervision

  • Daniel Konioukhov: Exploring the uptake of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) and the impacts of their networks on transport and mobility systems

Teaching

URBAN5160 Advanced Topics for Urban Analytics: Module focusing on agent-based modelling methods. Includes critically analysing and building agent-based models

PUBPOL4044 - Big Data, Policy & Power: Guest lectures focusing on smart cities and urban simulations

Professional activities & recognition

Selected international presentations

  • 2025: Social Simulation Conference (Delft, Netherlands)
  • 2025: CUPUM (London, UK)
  • 2022: Dynamic Days Europe 2022 (Aberdeen, UK)
  • 2021: ECTQG (Manchester, UK)
  • 2019: AESOP 18th Meeting: Games for Cities (Lisbon, Portugal)

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