News

April 2023

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  They Got Dye With A Little Help From Their Friends

  2 min read · Tue, Apr 18 2023

  News

  An industrial wastewater research problem shared is a problem halved, shows a multiteam project.
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  Single-Atom Catalyst for Cancer Detection

  2 min read · Tue, Apr 11 2023

  News Spotlight

  An electronic sensor based on individual atoms anchored to MXene nanomaterials can detect tumor-specific biomarkers.
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  Semiconductor Photonics Workshop 2023

  1 min read · Thu, Apr 6 2023

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  The Semiconductor Photonics Workshop was successfully held between 11-14 th March at KAUST, bringing together leading international experts in the field of photonics. The workshop featured a range of world-renowned invited speakers, including Prof. Kei May Lau from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Prof. Perry Shum Ping from the Southern University of Science and Technology, Prof. Jianjun He from Zhejiang University, Prof. David Pan from The University of Texas at Austin, Prof. Ho Ho Pui from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Prof. Zhen Gao, Southern University
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  Sweet Success Means Longer Lasting Strawberries

  1 min read · Mon, Apr 3 2023

  News

  An enterprising eye has led to potential new options that could be used to reduce the high levels of food wastage across the supply chain.
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  Simulating a secure future

  1 min read · Mon, Apr 3 2023

  News

  Next-generation silicon chips based on spintronics could improve global cybersecurity.

March 2023

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  Reduced speckle on the horizon

  2 min read · Mon, Mar 20 2023

  News

  A simple modification of a semiconductor laser's shape can improve the quality of its beam. Mar 19, 2023
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  Detecting Tiny Tremors For Big Impact

  3 min read · Wed, Mar 8 2023

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  Islam Ashry recently undertook a field trial in north-western Saudi Arabia that is likely to have implications for the Kingdom’s date industry. Ashry, a research scientist at KAUST, spent a week collecting data from an optical fiber wrapped around many date palms at TADCO farm in Tabuk. The aim was to detect what one Saudi official called a hidden and deadly enemy. The red palm weevil ( Rhynchophorus ferrugineus) arrived in Saudi Arabia from tropical Asia in the 1980s, most likely on a cargo ship. This tiny beetle has had a long reach, spreading to Europe, North Africa, the Caribbean and
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  Double treatment stores salmon and strawberries for later

  2 min read · Tue, Mar 7 2023

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  Combining UV sterilization with vacuum sealing significantly extends the shelf-life of a variety of foods.
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  The KAUST Microelectronics Winter Camp: Inspiring a passion for research

  5 min read · Mon, Mar 6 2023

  News

  The KAUST Microelectronics Winter Camp (MEWC) research program for 2023 has recently concluded, offering technical workshops to undergraduate and master's students worldwide to participate in microelectronics research. Hands-on experience was provided with state-of-the-art on-campus tools, giving participants insights into the exciting world of microelectronics research.

February 2023

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  KAUST alumna Wedyan Babatain named MENA Innovator Under 35

  2 min read · Tue, Feb 21 2023

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  Portrait of KAUST alumna and Saudi native Weydan Babatain (Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, '22), recipient of the MIT Technology Review Arabia's "MENA Innovators Under 35 (IU35)" for 2022. Photo: KAUST

January 2023

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  KAUST researchers win 2022 International Date Palm Innovative Technology Excellence Prize

  3 min read · Tue, Jan 17 2023

  Awards News

  KAUST researchers Dr. Islam Ashry, Dr. Chun Hong Kang and Professor Boon S. Ooi were part of a team that recently won the 2022 International Date Palm Innovative Technology Excellence Prize from the National Center for Palm and Dates (NCPD).
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  Professor Al-Naffouri receives the 2022 Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Arab Researchers Award

  3 min read · Wed, Jan 4 2023

  Awards News

  KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Tareq Al-Naffouri, has been awarded the 2022 Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Arab Researchers Award in the Agriculture and Technology field. The award honors research that significantly contributes to solving local, regional, and global problems.
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  KAUST Ph.D. student Rawan Alghamdi wins second prize in IEEE Competition on NTN 

  3 min read · Sun, Jan 1 2023

  Awards News

  By David Murphy The research work of KAUST Ph.D. student Rawan Alghamdi was announced as the runner-up prize winner in the IEEE Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) Beyond 5G and 6G, as part of the "Connecting the World from the Skies" Forum. The hybrid three-day forum took place simultaneously in Riyadh and online from November 8-10. The event was hosted by the International Telecommunication Union and the Communications, Space & Technology Commission of Saudi Arabia and organized by the IEEE Future Networks Initiative. The forum covered airborne and space-borne communication

December 2022

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  KAUST ECE researcher Asmaa Abdallah named 'Innovator Under 35' by MIT Technology Review Arabia

  3 min read · Mon, Dec 26 2022

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  Asmaa Abdallah, a postdoctoral research fellow at KAUST Communication and Computing Systems Lab (CCSL), has been named a Leading Innovator under 35 in the MENA region by MIT Technology Review Arabia.
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  A catalyst for innovation and discovery  

  4 min read · Wed, Dec 14 2022

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  The KAUST ECCS workshop brought together a host of international, in-Kingdom and University experts to exchange their expertise. Workshop speakers covered future challenges in designing embedded and cyber-connected systems that can scale efficiently and operate securely and resiliently.
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  KAUST Professor Boon S. Ooi named Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow

  2 min read · Wed, Dec 7 2022

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  KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boon S. Ooi was recently named as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2023. Professor Ooi was elected for his "contributions to broadband light emitters and visible light communications," the IEEE stated.
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  Simple hardware to defend microgrid attacks

  2 min read · Mon, Dec 5 2022

  News

  cybersecurity hardware security

  An inexpensive piece of hardware integrated with solar panel controllers can protect isolated power networks from cyberattacks.
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  KAUST postdoctoral fellow receives Best Poster Award at the Abu Dhabi 6G Summit

  3 min read · Thu, Dec 1 2022

  Awards News

  Nour Kouzayha, a postdoctoral research fellow based in the KAUST Information Science Lab (ISL), recently won the Best Poster Award at the Technology Innovation Institute’s (TII) Abu Dhabi 6G Summit 2022. Dr. Kouzayha received the award for her poster titled "Coverage and Mobility Analysis of Aerial Users in Integrated HAPS-Ground Wireless Networks."

November 2022

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  Professor Kazuhiro Ohkawa receives JSAP Outstanding Paper Award

  3 min read · Mon, Nov 28 2022

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  KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Kazuhiro Ohkawa recently received the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) Outstanding Paper Award 2022. He will officially receive his award at the JSAP’s annual Spring Meeting in Tokyo in March 2023.
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  KAUST SENTRY team wins prestigious CSAW'22 embedded system hacking competition

  3 min read · Sun, Nov 20 2022

  Awards News

  KAUST Ph.D. students from the KAUST Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) Lab recently won the CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference’s (CSAW'22) "Hack My Robot Challenge (HMR)."
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  Professor Wan receives 2022 Rising Stars of Light Award

  3 min read · Sun, Nov 6 2022

  Awards News

  KAUST Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Yating Wan recently received the 2022 Rising Stars of Light Faculty & Postdoc Track - Popescu Winner Award from Light: Science & Applications (LSA).

October 2022

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  KAUST student Zhiyuan Liu wins best poster award at IWN 2022

  2 min read · Mon, Oct 31 2022

  Awards News

  Zhiyuan Liu, a M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory (ASL) under the supervision of Professor Xiaohang Li, was named a best poster award winner at last month’s International Workshop on Nitride Semiconductors (IWN) 2022.
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  Becoming a powerhouse of semiconductor expertise

  5 min read · Tue, Oct 25 2022

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  advanced semiconductors

  KAUST Compound Semiconductor Weekend brought together a diverse group of experts to discuss the most important research areas of semiconductor technology and the substantial compound semiconductor work done in Saudi Arabia and India.
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  Professor Feron receives two best paper awards at DASC 2022

  4 min read · Tue, Oct 11 2022

  Awards News

  KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Eric Feron received two best paper awards at this year’s 41st American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)/Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) Digital Avionics Systems Conference (DASC 2022).
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  KAUST M.S./Ph.D. student receives the IEEE Communications Society’s 2022 Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award

  3 min read · Sun, Oct 2 2022

  Awards News Spotlight

  Jia Ye, a M.S./Ph.D. student in the KAUST Communication Theory Lab (CTL) receives the 2022 Andrea Goldsmith Young Scholars Award from the IEEE Communications Society in recognition of her high level of research aptitude in communication theory and engagement in the professional community.

August 2022

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  KAUST students' research wins first place at IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022

  2 min read · Mon, Aug 22 2022

  Awards News

  RFICs sensors Antennas

  Hanguang Liao and Yiming Yang from the KAUST IMPACT Lab won first place in the 2022 IEEE AP-S Student Design Contest at the 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC-URSI Radio Science Meeting (IEEE AP-S/URSI 2022), held in July in Denver.

July 2022

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  KAUST New Faculty: Yating Wan, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  3 min read · Tue, Jul 19 2022

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  photonics Optical Wireless Communication Biosensors energy harvesting quantum information processing

  Yating Wan, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, joins KAUST as a member of the KAUST Photonics Laboratory from her most recent position as a postdoctoral research associate at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), U.S.

June 2022

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  Bone formation comes down to the nanowire

  1 min read · Thu, Jun 30 2022

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  human health

  Jasmeen Merzaban, Jürgen Kosel and colleagues from their labs developed nanotechnology that accelerates the transition of stem cells into bone and could advance regenerative medicine.
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  KAUST ECE alumnus wins Design Automation Conference Under-40 Innovators Award

  2 min read · Thu, Jun 30 2022

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  automation microelectronics

  Former KAUST Sensors Lab researcher Hesham Omran (Ph.D. ’15) has been named as one of the four winners of the Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2022 Under-40 Innovators Award. The award recognizes the top young innovators who have made a significant impact in the field of design and automation of electronics.
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  The 20-year dash: Celebrating the accomplishments of our inspiring in-Kingdom and international female scientists

  6 min read · Mon, Jun 27 2022

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  The presence of women in scientific disciplines in the Kingdom has risen from almost zero to 32 percent in just 20 years. KAUST has contributed greatly to the positive trend as a platform for women from Saudi Arabia and all over the world to study and develop their ideas in a modern campus and research environment.
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  Professor Park receives O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award at the 2022 American Control Conference

  3 min read · Sun, Jun 26 2022

  News

  robotics intelligent systems

  Professor Shinkyu Park has been awarded the 2022 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award (Theory) from the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) for his paper investigating a new mathematical framework to study decision making in multi-agent systems.

May 2022

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  Ditching sensors for streamlined control of microdevices

  1 min read · Wed, May 25 2022

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  sensors nanofabrication electrical engineering

  Hossein Fariborzi's team has developed a novel miniature microelectromechanical device that avoids the need to use sensors and has significant potential for use in industrial or medical applications.
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  Fiber glow brings more go for underwater communications

  1 min read · Tue, May 24 2022

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  communications material science flexible electronics electrical engineering

  KAUST scientists have developed an optical-based wireless network system that has significant potential for faster underwater optical communications.

March 2022

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  KAUST research wins Radar Challenge at the IEEE Radar Conference

  2 min read · Sun, Mar 6 2022

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  KAUST M.S. Graduate Rudi Coppola, KAUST Research Scientist Dr. Sajid Ahmed, and KAUST Distinguished Professor Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini won first prize at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Radar Challenge 2021. Their work titled "Road Users Classification Based on Bi-Frame Micro-Doppler with 24-GHz FMCW Radar," presents a case study for a 24 Gigahertz (GHz) frequency modulated continuous wave radar module.
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  Perovskites used to make efficient artificial retina

  1 min read · Wed, Mar 2 2022

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  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.

February 2022

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  Learning about robots and coding through play

  1 min read · Wed, Feb 16 2022

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  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.
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  Blocking microgrid cyberattacks to keep the power flowing

  1 min read · Tue, Feb 15 2022

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  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

January 2022

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  Smart memory devices that can sense

  1 min read · Wed, Jan 26 2022

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  In-memory computing sensors nanofabrication electrical engineering

  In-memory sensing technology will facilitate electronic systems that are faster, smaller and consume less energy.

December 2021

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  Professor Atif Shamim named IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer

  2 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.

November 2021

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  KAUST-KFUPM collaboration wins top honors at STC AIoT Hackathon

  3 min read · Mon, Nov 29 2021

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  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.
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  KAUST SENTRY team wins 2021 Cybersecurity Games & Conference Embedded Security Challenge

  3 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021

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  resilience cybersecurity

  The SENTRY Lab team wins the 18th annual CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference’s (CSAW '21) Embedded Security Challenge (ESC).
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  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.
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  Professor El-Atab to feature in NEOM “Changemakers” video series

  1 min read · Thu, Nov 4 2021

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  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.
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  Coal product used to create green clean water

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 3 2021

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  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
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  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.

October 2021

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  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.
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  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.
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  Welcoming composite inks into the fold

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 14 2021

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  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.
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  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.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Ioannis Zografopoulos

  2 min read · Wed, Oct 6 2021

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  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.