An Assistant Adjunct Professor in the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design, Mohamed has served on faculty since 2011 and was the director of the Summer Programs from 2017 through 2019.

He teaches in both undergraduate and graduate design and comprehensive integrative design studios. In advanced graduate design topic studios, his focus has been on novel and ancient passive and active cooling construction technologies and their aesthetic and formal effects. As an active critic, Mohamed’s essays and reviews have appeared in journals and periodicals, including 306090, arq, Constructs, JAE, and Log. A recent essay on the work of artist Soo Kim’s work features in a catalog for a 2018 exhibition at the Getty Center. He served on the editorial board of arq (Cambridge University Press) from 2006 to 2016; and on the advisory board of the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design from 2004 to 2009, where he was also President from 2007 to 2009.

With over twenty years of experience, Mohamed has completed projects in many sectors with both his practice Sharif, Lynch: Architecture, and previously with award-winning firms, including Koning Eizenberg Architecture and mOrphosis.

He holds a Bachelor of Science (Honors) in Architecture and a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Studies from the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen, Scotland.; and spent his third year of undergraduate study at the Illinois Institute of Technology as an exchange student. His master’s design thesis earned the James B. Johnston Thesis Prize, and his undergraduate dissertation “On Venturi and Scott Brown” garnered a RIBA Butterworth-Heinemann prize. In 1993, the RIBA retained the dissertation in its permanent collection.