Wedyan Babatain

About

Wedyan Babatain is a doctoral candidate of MMH Labs in the Electrical Engineering program at KAUST. She has an interdisciplinary background obtaining her bachelor's degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Delaware, USA, in 2017, and her master's degree in Electrical Engineering from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), KSA, in 2019. Her research interests include sensors, actuators, microfluidics, and flexible and soft electronics for healthcare and environmental applications. She was a finalist at the 2022 SXSW Innovation Awards and has presented her research projects prototypes at CES, SXSW, and IDTechEx. She received the King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP) awarded by the Ministry of Education to complete her undergraduate studies in the US and the KAUST Graduate Fellowship for her MS/Ph.D. program. She is a student member of the IEEE, BME society, and the secretary of the Electron Devices society chapter of western Saudi Arabia.