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.
Baby steps for transparent electronics 1 min read · Sun, Oct 27 2019 News nanomaterials electrical engineering Stretchy, see-through, silver nanowire sheet combines optical transparency with excellent electrical conductivity.
Latifah Al maghrabi's Master's Thesis Defense 1 min read · Thu, Oct 24 2019 News Study of PA-MBE grown III-nitride nanowires for strain engineering optoelectronics, nano-energy harvesting devices and piezotronics.
Chao Shen awarded a 2017 Young Professional Travel Grant from IEEE Photonics Society 1 min read · Wed, Oct 23 2019 News Chao Shen awarded a 2017 Young Professional Travel Grant from IEEE Photonics Society.
Hybrid integration of materials for ultraviolet detection 1 min read · Sun, Oct 20 2019 News Semiconductors are pervasive in consumer electronics and optoelectronics, and the related optical devices are deemed disruptive that Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 was awarded to the inventors of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which “has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. While AlInGaN-based lasers and LEDs, and silicon-based photodetectors are currently matured, unconventional usage based on the materials has demonstrated their further potential, including solar-hydrogen generation, indoor-horticulture, and high-speed communication. By combining the optical
A cool alternative to air conditioning 1 min read · Wed, Oct 9 2019 News energy security electrical engineering An inexpensive passive cooling technology could be used to cool buildings in cities, reducing energy consumption.
Relishing the ‘McLaren experience’ at the 2019 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix 1 min read · Sun, Sep 29 2019 News student focus sensors Altynay Kaidarova is a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering based in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science & Engineering division.
Aditya Prabaswara's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense 1 min read · Thu, Sep 12 2019 News Study of III-nitride Nanowire Growth and Devices on Unconventional Substrates
Testing the blind spots in artificial intelligence 1 min read · Thu, Aug 29 2019 News machine learning artificial intelligence visual computing electrical engineering Understanding the situations when artificial intelligence can fail is critical for application of future autonomous vehicles and medical diagnostics.
KAUST Research Conference 2019: New Trends in Biosensors and Bioelectronics 1 min read · Tue, Aug 6 2019 News bioelectronics Biosensors nanoelectronics The “KAUST Research Conference on New Trends in Biosensors and Bioelectronics” was held in KAUST between the 25th and 27th of February. This yearly event aims to give an overview of the most recent efforts in bioelectronics that tackle the “interface” problem and overcome the limits of the current technologies by generating new materials/architectures/device components. With its truly interdisciplinary nature, this conference will bring scientists from different disciplines together, including Chemistry, Electrical Engineering, Biology, and Material Science, who are at the top of their
KAUST student wins global sensors and measurement systems competition 1 min read · Mon, Aug 5 2019 News sensing platforms prototyping embedded systems KAUST master's degree student José Ilton de Oliveira Filho recently won first place at the second edition of the IEEE International Sensors and Measurement Systems Student Contest (IEEE IS&M-SC). IEEE IS&M-SC is a global competition directed at teams of advanced undergraduates, master's degree and Ph.D. students and seeks to stimulate creative ideas for sensor and measuring systems applications.
A breath of fresh information to help diagnosis 1 min read · Sun, Aug 4 2019 News communication networks wireless networks energy harvesting cognitive radio systems A communications concept could pinpoint a person infected with a deadly, contagious virus in the middle of a crowded airport.
Democratizing electronics one step at a time 1 min read · Thu, Aug 1 2019 News magnetism transducers sensors CMOS nanoelectronics flexible "You would not believe how many amazingly talented people there are in the world, but they often are just not exposed to opportunities," noted Muhammad Mustafa Hussain, KAUST professor of electrical engineering and currently a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is determined to try and change this—one step at a time.
Fatimah Alhawaj Wins the Top Scientific Paper Award of the SRSI Program 1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019 News Fatimah Alhawaj, a visiting student in the Photonics Lab from the Saudi Research Science Institute (SRSI), won the Top Scientific Paper Award of the SRSI 2019 program for her paper entitled "Group-III Nitride Micro-Photodetector for High-Speed Visible Light Communication Link".
Flat lenses with a twist! 1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019 News optics lenses electrical engineering Overlaying two film layers patterned with a nanoscale array can manipulate the propagation of light to create a powerful ultrathin lens.
ISL has 10+ new visiting students joining this year 1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019 News ISL this year is receiving over 10+ students from all around the world. Students range from Montreal, Canada, to Ile-Ife, Nigeria. These visiting students are all supervised by Dr. Tareq AlNaffouri and working on a variety of topics within the Information Systems Lab. These students are a great asset to the lab, and will further develop their research skills through working with Professor AlNaffouri.
Davide Priante's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense 1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019 News Ultraviolet (UV) group III-Nitride-based light emitters have been used in various applications such as water purification, medicine, lighting, and chemical detection. Despite attractive properties such as bandgap tunability in the whole UV range (UV-C to UV-A), high chemical stability and relative low cost, the low quantum efficiency hamper the full utilization. In fact, external quantum efficiencies of UV devices are below 10 % for emission wavelength shorter than 350 nm.
ISL Students place 4th at Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition 2017 1 min read · Mon, Jul 29 2019 News Accurate indoor positioning has the potential to transform the way people navigate indoors similar to the way the GPS transformed outdoor navigation. Over the last 20 years, many indoor positioning technologies have been proposed and experimented by both academia and industry. We developed an accurate acoustic 3D positioning system, which consists of one mobile device (MD) and four base stations (BSs) with known locations. The MD transmits a series of ultrasound and RF sequences, named Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences, at the same time. The propagation time of the RF signal is negligible compared to
Single-electrode material streamlines functions into a tiny chip 1 min read · Sun, Jul 28 2019 News sensors energy storage material science and engineering IoT Ruthenium oxide is used to integrate energy-storing microsupercapacitors and thin-film electronics at the transistor level.
ISL Student Osama Bushnaq does an Delft Internship 1 min read · Sun, Jul 28 2019 News IoT Summary of Delft internship : Advanced sensor networks are needed in order to meet the increasing needs of IoT applications, such as automated surveillance, environmental monitoring, smart cities, and so on. Optimal sensor placement, i.e., to select the best subset of sensing locations out of a large set of available locations, keeping in mind the network infrastructure and the inference task, forms an important sensor network design task. In this internship, the offline sensor selection for source estimation is improved by considering different practical issues such as observation accuracy
ISL PhD Student Osama Bushnaq does Internship at UBC 1 min read · Sun, Jul 28 2019 News UAV IoT ISL PhD Student Osama Bushnaq did an internship at the University of British Coloumbia in Canada. His internship was focused on UAV-IoT. Every year, an average of 2.5 million hectares (ha) is burnt only in Canadian forests, which costs around 500 million to 1 billion Canadian dollars per year. The current forest fire detection methods such as satellite imaging and infrared cameras are not reliable. In order to detect forest fires before getting out of control, a new fire detection method based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Internet of Things (UAV-IoT) network was studied during this internship. A
KAUST hosts International Graduate School on Control event 1 min read · Mon, Jul 15 2019 News intelligent systems robotics control systems KAUST recently acted as a host campus for the European Embedded Control Institute's International Graduate School on Control (IGSC). The IGSC is an annual series of 27 one-week graduate modules focusing on different topics of networked and embedded control and is taught to eligible attendees at different locations worldwide. The series is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society and the International Federation of Automatic Control.
Teamwork pays off at startup Insyab 1 min read · Mon, Jul 8 2019 News robot drones wireless connectivity algorithm Energy-efficient wireless multihop networks Cross-layer protocol design Insyab, a technology startup specializing in smart solutions allowing robots and drones to collaborate on the execution of common tasks, resulted from three years of its founders' dedicated research at KAUST.
KAUST Ph.D. student wins Three Minute Thesis competition 1 min read · Wed, Jul 3 2019 News sensors integrated circuits Muhammad Akram Karimi, a fourth-year KAUST Ph.D. student working in the Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas & Circuits Technology (IMPACT) Lab headed by Associate Professor Atif Shamim, won the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition held during the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society's International Microwave Symposium (IMS2019) in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S, in early June. IEEE IMS has been taking place for 60 years, and it is the flagship conference for microwave engineers and scientists.
Alumni Focus: Ronell Sicat 1 min read · Thu, Jun 20 2019 News immersive analytics computer graphics large-scale data visualization As the volume and complexity of data captured around the world continues to grow exponentially, new ways of exploring and visualizing this data are required. Today, society has moved beyond the traditional desktop computer with tools such as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) at the forefront of immersive data visualization and analysis.
KAUST Professor Kazuhiro Ohkawa elected Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics 1 min read · Tue, Jun 18 2019 Spotlight News semiconductors nitride photocatalyst artificial photosynthesis Laser Diodes By David Murphy, KAUST News KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Kazuhiro Ohkawa was recently elected as a Fellow of the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP). The JSAP was established in 1930 as a voluntary forum for applied physics researchers in the country. Ohkawa's JSAP peers recognized him for his exceptional contributions to the progression of applied physics and his specific contribution to the "development of wide bandgap semiconductor epitaxial growth and optical devices," JSAP stated. "It is a great honor for me to be elected as a Fellow of the JSAP," Ohkawa noted. "The
KAUST Ph.D student, Jorge A. Holguin-Lerma, awarded 2019 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship 1 min read · Tue, Jun 11 2019 Awards News Spotlight Visible light communications Photonic IC Laser Diodes III-Nitride Optoelectronics SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, recently awarded KAUST Ph.D. student Jorge Holguín-Lerma a 2019 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his potential research contributions to optics, photonics or other related fields. Holguín-Lerma joined KAUST in August 2016 and is a member of Professor Boon S. Ooi's Photonics Laboratory.
KAUST Associate Professor Jr-Hau He wins Nano Energy Award 2019 1 min read · Sun, Jun 9 2019 Awards Spotlight News nanomaterials hydrogen energy optoelectronics nanotechnology The Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems of the Chinese Academy of Sciences recently announced that KAUST Associate Professor Jr-Hau He is one of three selected scholars who will receive the Nano Energy Awards 2019.
Compound Semiconductor features “Narrowing the linewidth of the green laser” 1 min read · Sat, Jun 1 2019 News Narrowing the linewidth of the green laser was featured in the June issue Compound Semiconductor Magazine.
Measurement Selection: A Random Matrix Theory Approach 1 min read · Thu, May 30 2019 News Random Matrix Theory Measurement Wireless Communications Khalil Elkhalil , Student Member, IEEE, Abla Kammoun, Member, IEEE, Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri, Member, IEEE, and Mohamed-Slim Alouini , Fellow, IEEE Abstract This paper considers the problem of selecting a set of k measurements from n available sensor observations. The selected measurements should minimize a certain error function assessing the error in estimating a certain m dimensional parameter vector. The exhaustive search inspecting each of the (n) possible choices would require very high computational k complexity and as such is not practical for large n and k. Alternative methods with low
Alumni Focus: Faisal Nawab 1 min read · Wed, May 29 2019 News Spotlight KAUST alumnus Faisal Nawab received his master's degree in computer science from the University in 2011. His M.S. thesis work, which focused on how to build wireless network infrastructure, was supervised by KAUST Associate Professor Basem Shihada.
Ph.D. student's innovative research wins awards 1 min read · Sun, May 26 2019 Awards News Spotlight student award KAUST Ph.D. student Khalil Youssef Moussi recently had his innovative research recognized at the 14th Annual IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems (NEMS). At the event, which was held in Bangkok, Thailand, from April 11 to 14, the electrical engineering student was a finalist of the Best Student Paper Award and a finalist of the Best Conference Paper Award.
KAUST robotics team wins honors at European Robotics League event 1 min read · Tue, May 21 2019 Awards News Spotlight honor A team of researchers from the KAUST Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control (RISC) lab won both the "Best Air Team" special award and the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency special prize during the recent European Robotics League (ERL) Emergency Robots Challenge in Sevilla, Spain. From February 18 to 23, the KAUST RISC team competed with several international university robotics teams from Croatia, France and Poland to complete a set of diverse aerial robotic challenges.
KAUST Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi’s research leads to Institute of Physics Fellowship 1 min read · Sun, May 12 2019 Awards Spotlight News photonics cybersecurity Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) division, was recently granted a Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) by the Institute of Physics (IOP). Fratalocchi was awarded the IOP's highest level of membership in recognition of his outstanding accomplishments in physics.
Smart pill bottle keeps drugs safe 1 min read · Sun, May 5 2019 News drug safety sensors electrical engineering Low-cost, stretchy sensors can be assembled inside the lid of a drug container to help monitor patient safety.
Semiconductor Today features “Distributed feed-back gratings for indium gallium nitride laser diodes” 1 min read · Fri, May 3 2019 News Distributed feedback gratings for indium gallium nitride laser diodes” was featured in the May issue of Semiconductor Today Magazine.
Electronics conference gives a positive charge 1 min read · Thu, May 2 2019 News Electronic devices piezoelectric nanosystem Highlighting sustainability and the work of female researchers was a strong focus of the international KAUST-US NSF electronics conference.
The darkest black 1 min read · Tue, Apr 30 2019 News gold nanosphere nanorods insects light Metallic nanostructures absorb light better than any other known structures.
