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July 2019

Fatimah Alhawaj Wins the Top Scientific Paper Award of the SRSI Program

1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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KAUST faculty members receive the King Prize for Honoring Inventors and the Gifted

1 min read · Mon, Dec 31 2018

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KAUST Professors Atif Shamim and Osman Bakr received the Custodian of the King Prize for Honoring Inventors and the Gifted, which was organized by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
Paper sensors remove the sting of diabetic testing

1 min read · Thu, Dec 20 2018

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Inkjet-printed device helps monitor a patient’s blood sugar levels without painful needles.
One switch to rule them all

1 min read · Sun, Dec 16 2018

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Inkjet-printed switches make multiple frequency bands easier and cheaper to manage in wireless devices.