David Murphy

“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.

Professor Mario Lanza is a man who cares passionately about his work, his colleagues and his students. He truly enjoys navigating the storm and stress of achieving excellence in his chosen field of materials science and engineering.

Many disciplines, including health, the environment and climate, rely heavily on statistics and data science. From measuring human lifespans to the impact of distributed solar photovoltaics on electrical grid operations, data science and statistics significantly affect a wide range of fields.

Professor Suhaib Fahmy joined KAUST in late 2020 at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the prospect of building a team of highly motivated researchers with sufficient resources that convinced him to come to the University.

In the heart of the Arabian desert, where ambitious visions of futuristic smart cities like NEOM are taking shape, a significant challenge arises: urban air pollution. As Saudi cities bristle with innovation, technological advancements and unparalleled connectivity, ensuring clean air is crucial to their continued progression.

The Communications and Computing Systems Lab (CCSL) at KAUST, led by Professor Ahmed Eltawil, has received two awards in the International Telecommunication Union AI for Good Machine Learning Challenge, tinyML Hackathon Challenge 2023: Pedestrian Detection.

KAUST Ph.D. student Cristina Queirós da Silva recently won a best poster prize at the 15th edition of the biannual congress of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies (EFCATS), EuropaCat 2023.

As climate change impacts and greenhouse gas emissions grow worldwide, the need for sustainable energy solutions has become increasingly important. Now more than ever, the work of the world’s leading scientists is crucial as we attempt to reverse the negative impact our actions have on the environment.