Pr. Bouras holds a Ph.D., Master's, and Engineer of Operations Research. He is a Professor of Industrial Engineering at Al Faisal University, Riyadh. He was formerly a Professor of Industrial Engineering at Ecole Centrale Casablanca and King Saud University. He worked as an associate professor of operations management and quantitative methods at AUI, and as an assistant professor of production management at the School of Business and Management.

He worked in the industry as an operations research analyst (steel industry), as a modeler-analyst (electricity producer), and finally as a consultant(Aluminum industry, healthcare, …).

He is involved in many types of research published in IEEE, Springer, …. His areas of interest are Industry 4.0,  mathematical modeling, operations research, operations & supply chain management, and intrusion detection systems. He has already reviewed many journal papers, books, Ph.D. and master’s theses.