During his academic and professional career, Al-Agha has been a Fulbright scholar and the founder of the School of Industrial Engineering at the Islamic University–Gaza, Gaza Strip, where he has been working as a professor. He received his BSc from The American University in Cairo, Egypt and his MSc and PhD from Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.

Al-Agha served as head of the quality of engineering education committee at the Faculty of Engineering at the Islamic University–Gaza. In addition, he is the chair of the ABET accreditation committee at the Faculty of Engineering at the Islamic University–Gaza. His role includes ensuring that the different engineering departments are on the right track and take the proper actions to qualify for the ABET accreditation process.

He also served as an evaluator of several academic programs for the Ministry of Higher Education. His research and teaching interests are in the fields of multi-criteria decision making, operations research, lean practices, discrete simulation and the application of industrial engineering tools in different fields in developing countries, especially in the industrial, agricultural, healthcare and education sectors.

Al-Agha has supervised master’s students in both engineering project management and MBA programs. He has served as a member of many conference organizing committees, in addition to chairing sessions at reputable national and international conferences. He is a reviewer for many national and international journals and serves on the editorial boards of several journals.

Currently, he holds one US patent. Al-Agha has received many creativity and innovation awards. Among the Erasmus+ projects Al-Agha has worked on are “Improving Governance Practices at Palestinian Higher Education Institutions (UniGov)” and “Increasing the Conformance of Academia toward Rehabilitation Engineering (i-CARE).”