Perovskites used to make efficient artificial retina 1 min read · Wed, Mar 2 2022 News artificial intelligence Computer Vision sensors electrical engineering KAUST researchers have built an artificial electronic retina that mimics the behaviour of the eye’s rod retina cells. Their artificial retina can recognise handwritten numbers.
Learning about robots and coding through play 1 min read · Wed, Feb 16 2022 News robotics coding Decoding learning "Hour of Code,” a worldwide initiative with the scope to teach children the basics of computer science, recently took place at The KAUST School Kindergarten. During Computer Science Education Week, December 5-9, 2021, researchers from the KAUST RISC Lab volunteered to help the children to “demystify” code and grasp their first concepts of robotics.
Blocking microgrid cyberattacks to keep the power flowing 1 min read · Tue, Feb 15 2022 News cybersecurity smart grids resilience Cyber attacks and defenses Power grids have become far more complex in recent decades due to energy demands, environmental regulations and small-scale renewable energy systems that turn businesses and individuals into combined consumer-producers. One way to ensure that power supplies remain resilient is to create small groups of sources and loads called microgrids. Microgrids can operate independently of the main grid when required, such as supporting hospitals during natural disasters, for example. As microgrids grow more complex, they require sophisticated computer networks to coordinate, control and distribute
Smart memory devices that can sense 1 min read · Wed, Jan 26 2022 News In-memory computing sensors nanofabrication electrical engineering In-memory sensing technology will facilitate electronic systems that are faster, smaller and consume less energy.
Professor Atif Shamim named IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer 1 min read · Thu, Dec 16 2021 Awards News Antennas wireless sensors networks KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Atif Shamim has been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) from 2022 to 2024. In his new role, sponsored by the IEEE, Shamim will give lectures to AP-S chapter members on topics of interest and importance to the global AP community.
KAUST-KFUPM collaboration wins top honors at STC AIoT Hackathon 1 min read · Mon, Nov 29 2021 News IoT agriculture artificial intelligence drones A team composed of KAUST and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) students was one of three winning teams of this year’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) AIoT (AI & IoT) Hackathon. The KAUST entry, AgriDoctor, a proposed autonomous, sustainable, intelligent agriculture system, was a standout pick for the competition judges from a pool of 110 project submissions and 350 participants.
KAUST SENTRY team wins 2021 Cybersecurity Games & Conference Embedded Security Challenge 1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021 News resilience cybersecurity The SENTRY Lab team wins the 18th annual CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference’s (CSAW '21) Embedded Security Challenge (ESC).
Professor Ooi appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021 News optics photonics KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boon S. Ooi has been appointed Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters beginning January 1, 2022.
Professor Eltawil officially inducted as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors 1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021 News NAI mobile computing communications wireless sensors networks machine learning Earlier this year, KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Ahmed Eltawil was elected as a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Eltawil was officially inducted as a Senior Member at the recent NAI 10th Annual Meeting held in Florida, U.S.
Connect the internet of bodies 1 min read · Thu, Nov 18 2021 News communications sensors electrical engineering IoT A network of body monitoring devices connected using our own tissue could form the basis for the internet of bodies (IoB).
Professor El-Atab to feature in NEOM “Changemakers” video series 1 min read · Thu, Nov 4 2021 News solar cells memory devices Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to feature in the upcoming NEOM “Changemakers” video series.
Coal product used to create green clean water 1 min read · Wed, Nov 3 2021 News filtration desalination water resources monitoring Compressed blocks of pulverized coal can be used as the basis of sunlight-powered off-grid water purification. The technology is already being progressed by commercial partners toward pilot-scale production of drinking water. Dark-colored materials that strongly soak up sunlight to drive seawater desalination are a long-standing research interest of KAUST's Andrea Fratalocchi. While reading about the economic challenges of ending coal’s use for power generation, Fratalocchi was struck by a novel possible use for coal. “The two ideas clicked together: why don’t we use coal for a new economy in
The KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 #RobotoKAUST 1 min read · Tue, Nov 2 2021 News robotics research conference Building upon our successful online conference in spring 2021, the KAUST Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control Lab (RISC Lab) will host the KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 (#RobotoKAUST2022) from February 28 until March 2, 2022. The conference will address the most recent trends of robotics application in a range of disciplines.
The Recordings of the #RobotoKAUST talks are available 1 min read · Tue, Oct 19 2021 News research conference RobotoKAUST The first KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2021, #RobotoKAUST, brought together leading international and in-Kingdom robotics researchers and government and industry representatives from the robotics industry to discuss robotics and its applications. The recordings of the talks are available online! To watch the talks, please visit our website #RobotoKAUST or our KAUST RISC Lab YouTube Channel.
Nazek El-Atab appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer 1 min read · Mon, Oct 18 2021 News IoT Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
Welcoming composite inks into the fold 1 min read · Thu, Oct 14 2021 News wearables materials science electrical engineering IoT A screen-printing approach to creating foldable circuits could make many functional devices easier and cheaper to mass produce.
Progressive KAUST communications study awarded at the IEEE SusTech 2021 student poster contest 1 min read · Wed, Oct 13 2021 News The progressive telecommunications research of KAUST Ph.D. candidate Maurilio Matracia, supervised by postdoctoral fellow Mustafa Kishk and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mohamed-Slim Alouini, has been recently awarded the second-place prize at the IEEE SusTech 2021 student poster contest.
Meet KAUST new student: Ioannis Zografopoulos 1 min read · Wed, Oct 6 2021 News cyber-physical systems embedded systems cybersecurity Ioannis Zografopoulos is a Ph.D. student who joined KAUST this fall as a Ph.D. candidate and member of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) Lab under the supervision of Professor Charalambos Konstantinou. Zografopoulos believes that KAUST's renowned faculty, global reputation and research infrastructure make the University the ideal environment for him to develop high-quality, impactful research.
Developing the future of digital inclusivity 1 min read · Tue, Oct 5 2021 News 6G Wireless Communications The second edition of the KAUST 6G Summit on "Connecting the Unconnected" was recently held online from Tuesday, September 28 to Thursday, September 30, 2021. As part of “The Decade of Digital Inclusion,” a semester-long master class from the Marconi Society, the summit covered the latest research and technological advancements in 6G global connectivity.
Airborne antennas to address electro-magnetic fields exposure concerns 1 min read · Sun, Oct 3 2021 News communications human health electrical engineering Movable airborne antennas receiving cellphone signals could reduce EMF exposure while offering higher data transmission speed and using less power.
CEMSE New Faculty: Nazek El-Atab, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021 News By David Murphy Nazek El-Atab is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab. The former KAUST MMH Labs research scientist originally joined the University in October 2017, having obtained her B.Sc. in computer and communications engineering ('12) from the Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon, and her M.Sc. in microsystems engineering ('14) and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering ('17) from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE. Her current research focuses on
Full color LEDs cut down to size 1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021 News communications LEDs electrical engineering materials science Tiny light-emitting devices that can create all the colors in the rainbow are essential for the next generation of phones and screens.
Shaping a 6G future 1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021 News wireless networks 6G Wireless Communications global connectivity This coming decade promises to be yet another revolutionary one in how we communicate. In a world that is only beginning to embrace 5G technology, several scientific institutions, governments, telecom companies, and phone manufacturers worldwide are beginning to research the development possibilities of its successor—6G technology.
KAUST Ph.D. student Asrar Damdam named among "Forbes Middle East" 30 Under 30 list of innovators for 2021 1 min read · Tue, Sep 14 2021 News Forbes ME Asrar Damdam, a Ph.d. student based in the KAUST Integrated Circuits and Systems Group (ICS), was recently named amongst the "Forbes Middle East" 30 Under 30 list of innovators for 2021.
Meet KAUST new student: Yurii Tsyban 1 min read · Mon, Sep 6 2021 News Yurii Tsyban is a graduate in metrology and information-measuring technology who joined KAUST in July 2021 from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute."
Meet KAUST new student: Jin Yu 1 min read · Mon, Aug 30 2021 News photovoltaics thermoelectric appliances Jin Yu is a physics graduate who joined KAUST in July 2021 from Nankai University (NKU), China. Before joining KAUST, Jin worked as an intern at Wake Forest University (WFU), North Carolina, U.S. After completing his studies at WFU, Jin served as a volunteer high school teacher at China Volunteer Association for almost a year.
Harnessing the particle-tracking power of the algorithm 1 min read · Wed, Aug 25 2021 News fluid dynamics visual computing algorithms Computer science A simple camera system paired with a sophisticated image-processing algorithm can achieve faster and more accurate reconstructions of particle flow.
KAUST Ph.D. student wins 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award 1 min read · Tue, Aug 17 2021 News sensors IEEE award microwave sensors Muhammad Akram Karimi, KAUST Ph.D. student and co-founder of the KAUST-supported startup company Saher Flow Solutions, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the Field of Sensors – Early Career. The award honors an individual with “outstanding technical contributions within the scope of the IEEE Sensors Council, as documented by publications and patents. It is based on the general quality and originality of contributions.”
Meet KAUST new student: Zhengying Lou 1 min read · Mon, Aug 16 2021 News Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs Zhengying Lou is a communication engineering graduate who joined KAUST from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Zhengying first came to KAUST in June 2020 as a visiting student and was instantly impressed by the university’s high academic standards and convenient living environment.
Outstanding KAUST research acknowledged by leading photonics journal 1 min read · Sun, Aug 8 2021 News optics photonics photodetector optical engineering Optical wireless communications radio frequency communication KAUST professors Boon Ooi and Osman Bakr and their respective research groups have recently had their collaborative research recognized by one of the major journals for optics and photonics, Light: Science & Applications (LSA). The teams’ paper— titled "High-speed color-converting photodetector with all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals for ultraviolet light communication—" was awarded as an “Outstanding Paper of Light: Science & Applications in 2020.”
Divided attention could ease wireless congestion 1 min read · Sun, Aug 1 2021 News communications artificial intelligence electrical engineering Computer science Predicting wireless traffic using artificial intelligence could improve the reliability of future wireless communications.
Professor Eltawil honored with UCI faculty innovator award 1 min read · Mon, Jul 26 2021 News KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Ahmed Eltawil has recently been honored as the winner of the 8th Annual SSoE Spring Faculty Awards "Innovator of the Year" by the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine (UCI). The award is presented annually to the most innovative, current or former, UCI faculty member who has “demonstrated excellence by developing a breakthrough technology, idea or process and has demonstrated its large potential to create economic value and improve lives.”
Grant award set to boost KAUST student’s efforts to close the digital divide 1 min read · Mon, Jul 26 2021 News NDA architecture interconnectivity A research team featuring KAUST M.S./Ph.D. student Aniq Ur Rahman recently received €5,000 in funding from AlumNode, for their project: “Connecting the Unconnected: A Tool for Digital Inclusion.” Rahman—along with his colleagues Dr. Anish Jindal from the University of Essex, U.K., and Dr. Khac-Hoang Ngo from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden—received the grant for their innovative optimal network deployment architecture (NDA) software aimed at reducing the global digital divide.
KAUST researchers attend 70th Lindau Nobel Meeting 1 min read · Wed, Jul 14 2021 News Each year, young scientists from around the world get the coveted opportunity to learn from Nobel laureates as part of the annual Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings. Traditionally held in the small German town and island of Lindau, this year's 70th edition of the Lindau Meeting is taking place virtually, June 27-July 2, 2021, on account of the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions.
KAUST team power ahead with alternative energy research 1 min read · Sun, Jul 4 2021 News sensors electrical engineering IoT With the continued growth in Internet of Things applications, deployments, and devices, highly connected, sustainable smart cities are no longer mere concepts or fantastical future dreams; many are already active and are expanding apace.
Xiaohang Li promoted to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering 1 min read · Sun, Jul 4 2021 News KAUST faculty member Xiaohang Li was recently promoted from the rank of Assistant Professor to Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Since joining KAUST in January 2016, Li led his Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory (ASL) in making several important contributions in semiconductor research.
KAUST research group win inaugural MCIT Digital Innovation Award 1 min read · Mon, Jun 28 2021 News digital innovation award smart tap artificial intelligence A team of KAUST researchers have won first place in the Digital Research track at the inaugural Digital Innovation Awards held on Sunday, April 25, 2021. Launched by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), the awards aim to “enhance the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in digital research and development” in Saudi Arabia.
Viruses as communication molecules 1 min read · Sun, Jun 27 2021 News Computer science human health pathogens modeling Electrical and computer engineers take on complex modeling questions that can further our understanding of virus spread in small spaces.
Coronavirus testing made quick and easy 1 min read · Mon, Jun 21 2021 News COVID-19 human health Biosensors bioengineering New diagnostic technique could help contain the spread of COVID-19 and other viral outbreaks.
Plant probes make sense for sustainable farming 1 min read · Sun, Jun 20 2021 News plant science Biosensors agriculture electrical engineering Ultrathin needles for probing plants could help keep crop health in check.
KAUST postdoctoral fellow wins URSI Young Scientist Award 1 min read · Tue, Jun 15 2021 News electromagnetic waves electromagnetic fields KAUST Postdoctoral Fellow Rui Chen has been awarded a Young Scientist (YS) Award by the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio Scientifique Internationale-URSI) for his “innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves.”
Chun Hong Kang receives SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship 1 min read · Thu, Jun 3 2021 News optics photonics Chun Hong Kang, a Ph.D. student in the KAUST Photonics Laboratory, has been awarded a 2021 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship by SPIE for his “potential contributions to the field of optics and photonics.”
KAUST VCC research scientist appointed as Associate Editor of leading IEEE journal 1 min read · Thu, Jun 3 2021 News Laurent Condat, a research scientist based in the KAUST Visual Computing Center, has recently been appointed as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing (TSP). The peer-reviewed journal covers novel theory, algorithms, performance analyses, and applications of techniques for the processing, understanding, learning, retrieval, mining, and extraction of information from signals.
KAUST Prof. Mohamed Slim Alouini and Prof. Ibrahim Hoteit have been awarded the 2020 Kuwait prize 1 min read · Thu, May 27 2021 News Dr Hoteit is recognized for his pioneering research in ocean modelling, remote sensing, Red Sea eddy dynamics, and the development of new techniques in data assimilation and modelling that have environmental applications of global significance. In the Field of Applied Sciences (area of Engineering Sciences), the Prize is awarded to Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini, Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at King Abdulla University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia, for his groundbreaking research in the area of wireless , optical and vehicular communications, including low-power communications for the internet of things, as well as his valuable contribution to the development of the 3G, 4G and satellite systems.
The KAUST Photonics Lab wins HSE Laboratory Safety Recognition Award 1 min read · Sun, May 23 2021 News The KAUST Photonics Laboratory, led by Professor Boon Ooi, has been awarded the KAUST Health, Safety and Environment (HSE) Department’s Safety Culture Award in recognition of the Lab's tremendous growth in terms of safety throughout the year with a focus on collaboration, working as a team, caring for others and motivating others to be safe.
Making the shift from blue to red for better LEDs 1 min read · Sun, May 9 2021 News materials science semiconductors electrical engineering Pure red-light micrometer-scale emitting devices made from a nitride semiconductor reaches excellent efficiency.
NASA’s helicopter Ingenuity flies on Mars: the challenges behind the exploration of other planets 1 min read · Mon, May 3 2021 News On April 19, 2021, NASA flew the first helicopter in history on Mars. Ingenuity – the small, unmanned solar helicopter - rose 3 m over the ground and hovered in the thin Martian air for about 40 seconds. Ingenuity landed on Mars attached to the underside of the Perseverance rover on February 18, 2021. Before Ingenuity, the first flight on a planet beyond Earth was an unpowered balloon carried on Venus by the Soviet probe Vega 1, in 1985.
KAUST Ph.D. candidate wins first place at IEEE SSD’21 PhD Students Contest 1 min read · Sun, Apr 25 2021 News electrical engineering Information Technology KAUST Ph.D. candidate Mohamed Abdelwaheb Bahloul recently won first place at the IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals and Devices 2021 (SSD’21) PhD Students Contest. The contest provided a showcase for students’ original work related to electrical engineering and information technology.
Brain-on-a-chip would need little training 1 min read · Tue, Apr 20 2021 News machine learning artificial intelligence computation electrical engineering A neural network that mimics the biology of the brain can be loaded onto a microchip for faster and more efficient artificial intelligence.
KAUST-led research set to revolutionize communications privacy 1 min read · Wed, Apr 14 2021 News CMOS-compatible silicon chip communications privacy In our modern information-saturated society, data protection is a significant and ongoing challenge for both individuals and organizations. Every day we share public and business data over unsecured information channels, computer systems, and networks, be it through video calls, emails and text messaging. At any moment, the transmission of this sensitive, private communication can be intercepted and hacked to commit fraudulent acts such as stealing passwords, identity theft, and gaining access to bank accounts.
