David Murphy

KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boon S. Ooi has been elected an American Physical Society (APS) Fellow. Ooi was recognized by the Division of Laser Science (DLS) Fellowship—a division within APS that promotes laser science interests—for his "leading contributions to semiconductor photonics integration technology and low-coherence emitters and lasers."

KAUST Professor Paulo Esteves-Veríssimo has been awarded the prestigious IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Technical Committee on Homeland Security (TCHS) Outstanding Leadership Award in recognition of his significant contributions to the fields of cybersecurity and resilience.

An interdisciplinary research team from KAUST has been named a finalist for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modelling by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Awards Committee for developing a groundbreaking exascale climate emulator.

Wrote and edited numerous KAUST CEMSE researcher bios and profiles.

The San Antonio Chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) has selected Al-Khawarizmi Distinguished Professor of Statistics Marc Genton as the recipient of the prestigious 2024 Don Owen Award.

Professor Rolf Krause is an experienced researcher and educator who thrives in environments that are the “culmination point of innovation and competencies.” And, by the shores of the Red Sea, the applied mathematician believes he has found a place that excels in both areas.

“Strive for excellence.” These three succinct words convey the guiding principle of one of KAUST’s newest faculty members, Professor Maurizio Filippone. The associate professor of statistics, who joined KAUST earlier this year, believes excellence in research is attainable through constant collaboration and the continual reimagining of one’s work.

KAUST research scientist Dr. Abdulkadir Çelik received IEEE Communications Society’s 2023 Runner-Up Outstanding Young Researcher Award for the Europe, Middle-East, Africa (EMEA) region. Çelik, a researcher in the Communication and Computing Systems Lab (CCSL) at KAUST led by Professor Ahmed Eltawil, received the award for his “research activities for the benefit of the Society.”

Jian Weng’s journey to becoming a researcher began two decades ago when his family acquired their first computer. KAUST’s newest assistant professor of computer science was instantly fascinated by this seemingly “magical device” and quickly became driven by a desire to understand its inner workings.

Competing in this year’s CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference (CSAW'23) proved to be a rewarding experience for two of KAUST’s research groups: a joint KAUST team comprising students from the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) Lab, the
Distributed Systems and Autonomy (DSA) Group and the Cyber Resilience Research (CybeResil) Group won the "Hack My Robot Challenge (HMR)."

Pavel Kirilenko receives the JSAP Young Scientist Presentation Award
KAUST alumnus Pavel Kirilenko recently won the Japan Society of Applied Physics (JSAP) Young Scientist Presentation Award for a first-authored paper on novel micro-light-emitting diodes (LEDs) published in Applied Physics Express.

Virtually all aspects of human life have been affected by internet and communication technology (ICT)—an umbrella term for the use of computing and telecommunication technologies, systems and tools to facilitate how information is created, collected, processed, transmitted and stored.

Zhiyuan Liu, a Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory (ASL) under the supervision of Professor Xiaohang Li, received a Best Student Award at the 14th International Conference on Nitride Semiconductors (ICNS-14).

KAUST Ph.D. candidate Yaqing Shen has been selected as a 2023 IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) Ph.D. Student Fellowship recipient. The Material Science and Engineering (MSE) Program student will formally receive her award at the IEEE EDS Awards Ceremony. The event will take place on Sunday, December 10, 2023, in San Francisco, U.S.