Dr Al-Waked is an associate professor of mechanical engineering who has proven experience as both academic and administrative leader. In September 2013, the Asian education leadership awards has awarded Dr Al-Waked with the outstanding Asian Faculty Award as the best professor in mechanical engineering. Dr Al-Waked has been exposed to multicultural work environment and he considers himself privileged to be working with people of different backgrounds.

Dr Al-Waked has designed, delivered and evaluated engineering courses at the University of New South Wales (UNSW)-Australia, Dhofar University (DU)-Oman, Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University (PMU)-Saudi Arabia and at the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK)-Kuwait. He has been involved in curriculum development and evaluation in addition to delivering short courses and training workshops. Throughout his teaching career, Dr Al-Waked has been involved in interactive, collaborative, project-based teaching styles.  Furthermore, Dr Al-Waked has been a key member of program development and quality assurance teams in charge of developing paperwork required for university accreditation (OAAA, NCAAA, ABET).

Dr Al-Waked has more than 15 years of research and development in fields of energy efficient and sustainable systems, heat exchangers and computational fluid dynamics (CFD). So far, he has published more than 50 articles in well-recognized journals and conference proceedings with co-authors from Australia, USA, NZ, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Malaysia. Dr Al-Waked has established collaborative research projects with colleagues from Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP)-Malaysia. As an expert in Energy and CFD fields, Dr Al-Waked has been an active referee for a number of international journals and research funding organisations.