A clique away from more efficient networks 1 min read · Sun, Jun 14 2020 News networks connectivity applied mathematics electrical engineering An old branch of mathematics finds a fertile new field of application.
Angling for underwater WiFi 1 min read · Wed, Jun 10 2020 News communications Computer science Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service.
Meet KAUST prospective student: Adilya Bakambekova 1 min read · Wed, Jun 3 2020 News electronics electrical engineering She loves watching films not for the plot, but in order to rethink her beliefs. She is 22, she graduates from the School of Engineering in the capital. Adilya Bakambekova may seem ordinary: she loves walking in the park, powerlifting, taking care of her five-year-old wiener dog.
KAUST named among academic winners at the 2020 Ansys Hall of Fame Competition 1 min read · Tue, Jun 2 2020 News electromagnetic simulation antenna arrays Landmine detection research developed by KAUST scientists—Sebastian Celis Sierra, Li Zhang, and Mohamed Farhat—was named among the top three academic winners of the 2020 Ansys Hall of Fame competition. Based in Pennsylvania, U.S., Ansys develop and market multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design.
Iron nanorobots go undercover 1 min read · Wed, May 20 2020 News electrical engineering nanoscience cells Customizable magnetic iron nanowires pinpoint and track the movements of target cells.
6G: The time is now! 1 min read · Sun, May 17 2020 News wireless telecommunication technology 6G While 5G companies and opponents are competing over the deployment of the first 5G platforms, the next generation of wireless telecommunication technology is being concocted right now in laboratories all around the world.
KAUST Ph.D. student receives SPIE 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship 1 min read · Sat, May 16 2020 News Spotlight SPIE nanotechnology LED laser photonics Ronghui Lin, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professor Xiaohang Li, has been awarded an SPIE 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his “potential long-range contribution to optics, photonics, or other related fields.”
Pure red LEDs fulfill a primary goal 1 min read · Wed, May 6 2020 News material science electrical engineering First high-intensity, low-voltage red LEDs made from nitride semiconductors.
Light sensors detect larval pests munching on date palms 1 min read · Mon, May 4 2020 News electrical engineering food security sensors Optical fibers wrapped around date palm trunks could help detect this tree’s most destructive pest early enough to save it.
Exciting New Technology Makes BPA Water Testing More Efficient 1 min read · Fri, May 1 2020 News Water pollution sensors Plastic LSG In today’s world, it should come as no surprise that plastic dominates the products that we rely on each and every day. From our technology devices, to our water bottles, plastic is almost always an integral structural component.
Early warning sensor sniffs out cities' harmful gas 1 min read · Tue, Apr 28 2020 News sensors pollution electrical engineering An integrated detector device could form the basis of a distributed air-quality sensor network.
Sensing a heart attack before it strikes 1 min read · Tue, Apr 14 2020 News human health sensors electrical engineering Nanomaterial-based electronic device monitors a key heart health biomarker.
MMH Labs named 2020 Edison Awards Gold Winner 1 min read · Wed, Apr 8 2020 News wearable technology sensors The KAUST MMH Labs were recently named a 2020 Edison Awards Gold Winner in the Consumer Electronics and Information Technology category for their wearable technology tagging prototype, Bluefin.
Saudi researcher’s magnetic skin research garners widespread attention 1 min read · Tue, Apr 7 2020 News magnetic skin energy harvesting sensors Imagine if there was a revolutionary wearable technology that could enable the user to open doors or operate machinery with a simple wave of their hand or a mere blink of their eye? What people might not realize is that this contact-free human-machine technology already exists—and it has been developed right here in a laboratory at KAUST.
CEMSE Division startups in focus: Albasr 1 min read · Tue, Apr 7 2020 News wearable wireless communication A universal theme that unites parents the world over is a constant concern for their child’s safety. A large number of families have undergone the jarring experience of losing a child in a crowded area.
Taking engineering to the masses 1 min read · Tue, Mar 24 2020 News CMOS KAUST, like many other international research institutions, is no different in its approach to addressing our current need for continuous and uninterrupted distance learning. E-learning has proved effective in theoretical and mathematically-oriented disciplines, where access to a computer locally or over the cloud is all that is required.
The power of light for internet of underwater things 1 min read · Thu, Mar 19 2020 News underwater sensor IoT Light can simultaneously transfer energy and data to underwater devices, but there’s a long way to go before these systems can be deployed.
Providing simple solutions for complex problems 1 min read · Thu, Mar 19 2020 News Winning a group-wide award such as the recent CES Innovation Award 2020 is becoming a regular occurrence for one of KAUST’s most innovative laboratories. Since its inception, the KAUST MMH Labs has acted as a space where some of the leading minds at KAUST come together to create the future of technology today.
Nazek El-Atab chosen to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting 1 min read · Thu, Mar 19 2020 News nanoelectronics IoT Nazek El-Atab, a postdoctoral research fellow, based in the KAUST MMH Labs has been chosen to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. After completing a thorough multi-stage application and selection process, El-Atab was selected to participate in the event scheduled to take place from June 28 to July 3, in Lindau, Germany.
Prestigious Innovation Award adds to KAUST alumna’s impressive research output 1 min read · Mon, Mar 16 2020 News flexible electronics KAUST alumna Joanna Nassar recently won the Best Innovation Award in the Tech for a Better World category at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) held in Las Vegas, U.S., from January 7-10. Nassar, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, received the award for her research as part of the KAUST MMH Labs research group’s development of a wearable technology tagging prototype called Bluefin.
KAUST Ph.D. student takes home SPIE Photonics West 2020 Best Student Paper Award 1 min read · Thu, Mar 12 2020 News Spotlight Optical communications The International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) recently awarded KAUST Ph.D. student Jorge Holguín-Lerma with the SPIE Photonics West 2020 Optical Communications Best Student Paper Award.
Professor Shamma awarded International Federation of Automatic Control High Impact Paper Award 1 min read · Wed, Mar 11 2020 Spotlight News robotics intelligent systems KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Jeff Shamma has been awarded The International Federation of Automatic Control Council’s (IFAC) High Impact Paper Award 2020.
Sensor cube helps keep fish farming afloat 1 min read · Thu, Feb 27 2020 News aquaculture food security sensors electrical engineering A self-powered water quality sensor could help fish farmers to monitor pollution in their ponds remotely.
Dynamic early research career leads to distinguished Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellowship 1 min read · Thu, Feb 13 2020 News Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow KAUST postdoctoral fellow Abderrahmen Trichili recently became a Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow after being accepted to a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Programme in Photonics and Applications.
Professor Bagci Elevated to Senior Membership Status of the International Union of Radio Science 1 min read · Tue, Feb 11 2020 News computational electromagnetics optics Hakan Bagci, KAUST Associate Professor of electrical engineering, was recently elevated to Senior Membership of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) for his research achievements in the field of computational electromagnetics, and his long-standing involvement in the URSI, which includes serving on several conference technical program committees and editorial boards of journals.
Internet of underground things to reveal buried vistas 1 min read · Sun, Feb 9 2020 News fuel-resources communications electrical engineering Pinpoint mesh of smart underground objects could give real-time 3D readout of fossil fuel reserves.
Plugging into a 6G future with users at the center 1 min read · Sun, Feb 9 2020 News Wireless Communications 6G For a communications revolution, 6G development needs more human-centric research.
KAUST Professor Boon S. Ooi elected Fellow of U.S. National Academy of Inventors 1 min read · Sun, Feb 2 2020 Spotlight News By Caitlin Clark, KAUST News KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Boon S. Ooi was recently elected as a Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI). Election as a Fellow means a researcher has "demonstrated a highly prolific spirit of innovation in creating or facilitating outstanding inventions that have made a tangible impact on the quality of life, economic development and welfare of society," NAI stated. Outstanding achievements This year, 168 individuals were elected to Fellow status. Six individuals from the 2019 class previously received the U.S. National Medal of
KAUST developed fish wearable technology wins CES Innovation Award 1 min read · Thu, Jan 23 2020 Spotlight News wearable technology A pioneering tagging technology developed at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) won the CES Innovation Award 2020. KAUST professor of electrical engineering Muhammad Mustafa Hussain developed Bluefin, which is a fish wearable technology that can measure water temperature, pressure, depth and pH levels in parts of the ocean where humans cannot reach. The highly competitive CES Award is prestigious and a powerful endorsement to a research project done at the labs of KAUST, which is strategically located on the shores of the Red Sea. "A heavily resourced university like
A pure twist on optical data transfer 1 min read · Thu, Jan 16 2020 News communications electrical engineering bioscience The finding that light can be twisted very precisely may offer fresh options for communications infrastructure.
Faculty Focus: Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati 1 min read · Wed, Jan 15 2020 Spotlight News modeling control systems -By A. Ortega, KAUST News KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati joined the University in 2011 after working as a researcher at INRIA in France. Laleg-Kirati leads the Estimation, Modeling and ANalysis (EMAN) research group at KAUST, and her interests lie in control theory, system modeling and signal applications. She investigates multiple engineering disciplines and develops mathematical models and algorithms that control processes relying on real-time feedback. "My research goals [are the development of] effective estimation methods and algorithms to
Transforming electronics 1 min read · Tue, Jan 14 2020 News flexible electronics stretchable electronics KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Muhammad Mustafa Hussain was recently elected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2020, for his "contributions to flexible and stretchable electronic circuits," IEEE stated.
KAUST Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi elected Fellow of the Optical Society 1 min read · Thu, Jan 2 2020 News photonics energy harvesting Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering division, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) at the society's Board of Directors meeting in September.
Flexible thinking on silicon solar cells 1 min read · Sun, Dec 22 2019 News solar cells electrical engineering Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency.
Patterned optical chips keep secrets perfectly safe 1 min read · Sun, Dec 22 2019 News communications data security electrical engineering Chaos could help put cyberhackers out of business with a patterned silicon chip that will be uncrackable even in the future.
ActivityNet is featured in the 2019 Artificial Intelligence Index 1 min read · Sun, Dec 15 2019 News artificial intelligence Video Understanding ActivityNet is featured in the AI Index as the benchmark for the algorithms that can recognize human actions and activities from videos.
Drones deliver on internet connectivity 1 min read · Thu, Dec 12 2019 News communications electrical engineering IoT Hovering airborne vehicles could connect smart sensors to the internet of things.
Professor Hussain elected IEEE Fellow 1 min read · Mon, Dec 2 2019 Spotlight News CMOS nanoelectronics Muhammad Mustafa Hussain, KAUST professor of electrical engineering, was recently elected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2020, for his “contributions to flexible and stretchable electronic circuits.
Using electronics to solve common biological problems 1 min read · Sun, Dec 1 2019 News bioelectronics bioscience What do an electrical engineer, an organic chemist, a materials scientist and a cell biologist all have in common? They invent and improve applications at the interface of biology and electronics.
CEMSE New Faculty: Eric Feron, Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering 1 min read · Wed, Nov 27 2019 News control systems aerospace software system Eric Feron is a professor of aerospace software engineering who recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Andrea Fratalocchi Elected OSA Fellow for Pioneering Innovations 1 min read · Mon, Nov 25 2019 Spotlight News photonics energy harvesting Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, was recently elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society of America (OSA) at the Society’s Board of Directors meeting in September.
Professor Kosel Appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council 1 min read · Mon, Nov 25 2019 Spotlight News sensors transducers Jürgen Kosel, associate professor of electrical engineering in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council for the period of 2020-2022.
Student Focus: Abdullah Hamdi 1 min read · Thu, Nov 21 2019 Spotlight student focus KAUST Ph.D. student Abdullah Hamdi began his university studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, where he specialized in electrical engineering. After graduating from KFUPM in 2016, he moved to KAUST for his master's degree ('18) and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning and computer vision. At KAUST, Hamdi is part of Associate Professor Bernard Ghanem's Image and Video Understanding Lab. Ghanem, a member of the University's Visual Computing Center, seeks to teach machines to
Malleswararao Tangi Awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 1 min read · Wed, Nov 20 2019 News Malleswararao Tangi Receives the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.
Ronghui Won Oxford Instruments SEM Micrograph Competition! 1 min read · Thu, Nov 14 2019 News Congratulations to Ronghui for winning Oxford Instruments SEM Micrograph Competition.
Magnetic skin ensures the force is with you 1 min read · Tue, Nov 12 2019 News sensors electrical engineering A magnetic skin that is safe and comfortable to wear could open the door to a wide range of wireless, remotely controlled applications.
Nasir Alfaraj's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense 1 min read · Mon, Nov 11 2019 News Study on Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by the Hybrid Integration of Next-Generation Semiconductors and Emerging Device Platforms
CEMSE New Faculty: Ahmed Eltawil, Professor, Electrical Engineering 1 min read · Mon, Nov 11 2019 News Signal processing mobile systems low power digital circuit Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ahmed Eltawil, recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division from the University of California (UCI), Irvine, where he had worked for 14 years prior. At UCI, Eltawil worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and was also the founder and director of the university’s Wireless Systems and Circuits Laboratory. As an expert in system integration for wireless systems, he joins KAUST with an established pedigree of university-industry collaboration, and he continues to act as an advisor in the development of wireless systems for leading international companies.
Flexing for success from Saudi Arabia to Silicon Valley 1 min read · Tue, Oct 29 2019 News wearable electronics electrical engineering Asrar Damdam is setting up her own biotech company in Silicon Valley while pursuing a Ph.D. at KAUST
Pitching a winning business idea in Silicon Valley 1 min read · Tue, Oct 29 2019 Awards News Spotlight ultraviolet wavelengths food pathogens UV LED KAUST Ph.D. student Asrar Damdam's business idea wins first place at pitching competition in Silicon Valley.
