Publications

892 citations · h-index 15 · i10-index 17 (Google Scholar, May 2026).

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Under review

  • Xia, J., Zhu, Y., Abdelrahman, M., & Biljecki, F. Shaping happiness: How transformations of the visual environment influence urban emotions. Under review.
  • Liu, H., Yang, S., Abdelrahman, M., Zhu, Y., Wei, X., & Biljecki, F. Inferring Urban Functions from Google Maps Reviews: A Multi-scale, Multi-modal and Cross-city Approach. Under review.

Journal articles

  1. Abdelrahman, M., Macatulad, E., Lei, B., Quintana, M., Miller, C., & Biljecki, F. (2025). What is a digital twin anyway? Deriving the definition for the built environment from over 15,000 scientific publications. Building and Environment, 112748. DOI
  2. Quintana, M., Gu, Y., Liang, X., Hou, Y., Ito, K., Zhu, Y., Abdelrahman, M., & Biljecki, F. (2025). Global urban visual perception varies across demographics and personalities. Nature Cities. DOI
  3. Quintana, M., Liu, F., Torkko, J., Gu, Y., Liang, X., Hou, Y., Ito, K., Zhu, Y., Abdelrahman, M., & Biljecki, F. (2026). It is not always greener on the other side: Greenery perception across demographics and personalities in multiple cities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 105618. DOI
  4. Ito, K., Zhu, Y., Abdelrahman, M., Quintana, M., Hou, Y., Liang, X., Gu, Y., & Biljecki, F. (2025). ZenSVI: An open-source software for the integrated acquisition, processing and analysis of street view imagery towards scalable urban science. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 102283. DOI
  5. Abdelrahman, M., Chong, A., & Miller, C. (2022). Personal thermal comfort models using digital twins: Preference prediction with BIM-extracted spatial-temporal proximity data from Build2Vec. Building and Environment, 208, 108532. DOI
  6. Abdelrahman, M., & Miller, C. (2022). Targeting occupant feedback using digital twins: Adaptive spatial-temporal thermal preference sampling to optimize personal comfort models. Building and Environment, 218, 109090. DOI
  7. Abdelrahman, M., Zhan, S., Miller, C., & Chong, A. (2021). Data science for building energy efficiency: A comprehensive text-mining driven review of scientific literature. Energy and Buildings, 247, 110885. DOI
  8. Jayathissa, P., Quintana, M., Abdelrahman, M., & Miller, C. (2020). Humans-as-a-sensor for buildings: Intensive longitudinal indoor comfort models. Buildings, 10(10), 174. DOI
  9. Tartarini, F., Schiavon, S., Quintana, M., Abdelrahman, M., Kim, J., & Miller, C. (2022). Personal comfort models based on wearable and environmental data. Indoor Air, 32(10), e13160. DOI
  10. Tarabieh, K., Nassar, K., Abdelrahman, M., & Mashaly, I. (2019). Statics of space syntax: Analysis of daylighting. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 8(3), 364–376. DOI
  11. Abdelrahman, M., Moustafa, W. S., & Farag, O. M. (2017). Modelling of Egyptian low-cost-housing natural ventilation: Integration of geometry, orientation and street width optimization. Urban Climate, 22, 124–141. DOI
  12. Moustafa, W. S., Abdelrahman, M., & Hegazy, I. R. (2017). Building performance assessment of user behaviour as a post occupancy evaluation indicator: Case study on youth housing in Egypt. Building Simulation, 10(6), 835–847. DOI

Conference proceedings

  1. Miller, C., Abdelrahman, M., Chong, A., Biljecki, F., Quintana, M., Frei, M., Romanello, L., & Chew, M. Y. L. (2021). The Internet-of-Buildings (IoB): Digital twin convergence of wearable and IoT data with GIS/BIM. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2042(1), 012041. DOI
  2. Sood, T., Quintana, M., Jayathissa, P., Abdelrahman, M., & Miller, C. (2019). The SDE4 learning trail: Crowdsourcing occupant comfort feedback at a net-zero energy building. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 1343(1), 012141. DOI
  3. Quintana, M., Abdelrahman, M., Frei, M., Tartarini, F., & Miller, C. (2021). Longitudinal personal thermal comfort preference data in the wild. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 406–412. DOI
  4. Abdelrahman, M., Chong, A., & Miller, C. (2020). Build2Vec: Building representation in vector space. Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD). DOI
  5. Abdelrahman, M., Zhan, S., & Chong, A. (2020). A three-tier architecture visual-programming platform for building-lifecycle data management. Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD). DOI

Preprints

  1. Miller, C., Christensen, R., Leong, J. K., Abdelrahman, M., Tartarini, F., Quintana, M., & Chew, M. Y. L. (2022). Smartwatch-based ecological momentary assessments for occupant wellness and privacy in buildings. arXiv preprint. DOI

Software & invention disclosures

  • Abdelrahman, M. (2021). SpaceBrain: Graph neural network platform for spatial indoor environmental quality prediction. Software Invention Disclosure, NUS. Ref. 2021-140.