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Nabeel Koshak
Nabeel Koshak is an Assistant Professor and the Founder and Director of the Design and Planning Support Systems Research Unit, Department of Urban and Engineering Research, Hajj Research Institute, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Saudi Arabia. Koshak teaches at the Department of Islamic Architecture, College of Engineering and Islamic Architecture, Umm Al-Qura University.

His research and teaching interests focuses on computing in architecture and urban design/planning, including Computer Aided Design (CAD) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Koshak received a Bachelor of Architectural Engineering from Umm Al-Qura University in 1993, a Master of Architecture from the University of Colorado (Sundance Lab for Computing in Design and Planning) in 1997, and a PhD in Computational Design from the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University in 2002. He joined Umm Al-Qura's faculty in May 2002.

See also:

http://www.MadinahGIS.net
http://www.MakkahGIS.net
http://www.HajjGIS.net
http://www.HajjMaps.net
http://www.HajjHousing.net
http://www.ArabGIS.net
http://www.cad-gis.com
Nabeel Koshak

last updated 5.20.2005 by Nabeel Koshak

2002
Object-Oriented Data Modeling and Warehousing to Support Urban Design (The City of Makkah as a Case Study) - html - pdf
Nabeel Koshak
Ph.D. dissertation, Computational Design, School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University May

1998
3D Modeling of Historic Makkah - pdf
Nabeel Koshak and Mark D Gross
CAADRIA proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 1998)