Hakan Bagci

January 2026

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  Professor Hakan Bagci named an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow

  2 min read · Thu, Jan 1 2026

  Awards News

  IEEE

  KAUST Professor Hakan Bagci has been named an IEEE Fellow, the organization’s highest distinction, in recognition of his contributions to computational electromagnetics.

August 2023

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  KAUST ECE students selected among top 10 finalists in the 2023 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition

  2 min read · Mon, Aug 14 2023

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  KAUST Ph.D. students Sebastian Celis Sierra and Zere Iman were selected among the top 10 finalists in the recent 2023 IEEE AP-S Student Paper Competition.

October 2022

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  Saudi Pipeline International Conference and Exhibition

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 16 2022

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  pipeline artificial intelligence High Performance Computing

  Guang An Ooi attended the first Saudi Pipeline International Conference and Exhibition (SPICONX) 2022 held on 3 – 6 October in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He presented his work Hybrid Neural Network Cluster for Metallic Pipeline Inspection: A Big Data Approach, under the invaluable guidance of Professor Shehab Ahmed and Professor Hakan Bagci, as well as the cooperation of Dr. Moutazbellah Khater, Dr. Tarek Mostafa, and Dr. Mehmet Burak Ozakin. He had also the honor to be selected as one of the panelists to discuss pipeline inspection and modelling techniques and the applications of artificial
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  2022 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition

  3 min read · Mon, Oct 10 2022

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  wellbore casing inspection electromagnetics magnetic sensors machine learning pipeline

  Moutazbellah Khater and Tarek Mostafa participated in SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) from 3-5 October 2022 in Houston, Texas. This flagship event is the highest caliber technical event for E&P professionals from around the globe. It was a great opportunity for Moutazbellah & Tarek to present their latest research papers where they pushed the limits of well-integrity and pipelines inspection to a new level. Moutazbellah presented his paper entitled “Remote Field Eddy Current System Using Three Axis Fluxgate Magnetometer for Corrosion Inspection” while Tarek presented two

March 2022

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  Extreme Bandwidth Communication (XBCom): From mmWave, THz to optical bands

  1 min read · Sun, Mar 13 2022

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  About the Conference The technological evolution has led to the current high-performing wireless communication systems that we use on a daily basis. However, coping with the increasing demand is becoming more and more challenging, especially since we are approaching the limits of what can be done with the available resources. One of these resources is bandwidth. This spectrum scarcity problem has motivated researchers to explore new frequencies for wireless communications. Due to this reason, the upper radio-frequency (RF) spectrum, from mmWave and THz to optical bands, is being pursued, which

December 2021

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  Hybrid neural networks for real-time electromagnetic wellbore casing inspection

  2 min read · Sun, Dec 12 2021

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  machine learning supercomputing electromagnetics wellbore casing inspection

  A cluster of hybrid neural networks enables the precise characterization of metal loss on concentric wellbore casings.

June 2021

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  KAUST postdoctoral fellow wins URSI Young Scientist Award

  2 min read · Tue, Jun 15 2021

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  electromagnetic waves electromagnetic fields

  KAUST Postdoctoral Fellow Rui Chen has been awarded a Young Scientist (YS) Award by the International Union of Radio Science (Union Radio Scientifique Internationale-URSI) for his “innovative contributions and discoveries in multidiscipline research related to electromagnetic fields and waves.”

March 2021

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  Professor Bagci elevated to ACES Fellow

  3 min read · Thu, Mar 25 2021

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  Hakan Bagci, KAUST associate professor of electrical engineering, was recently elevated as an Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society (ACES) Fellow for his “exceptional achievements in computational electromagnetics, including ACES publications, and extensive service to ACES.”

June 2020

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  KAUST scientists win prestigious Gauss Award for supercomputing excellence

  2 min read · Fri, Jun 26 2020

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  HPC supercomputing numerical linear algebra parallel computing

  KAUST Ph.D. graduate Dr. Noha Al-Harthi and doctoral student Rabab Alomairy, have won the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) Award for original research that best advances high-performance computing. This makes KAUST the first Middle Eastern institution to receive this prestigious award.

February 2020

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  Professor Bagci Elevated to Senior Membership Status of the International Union of Radio Science

  3 min read · Tue, Feb 11 2020

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  computational electromagnetics optics

  Hakan Bagci, KAUST Associate Professor of electrical engineering, was recently elevated to Senior Membership of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) for his research achievements in the field of computational electromagnetics, and his long-standing involvement in the URSI, which includes serving on several conference technical program committees and editorial boards of journals.

February 2019

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  Dr Agamyrat is in the house

  1 min read · Mon, Feb 25 2019

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  fractional order capacitors

  It is with great pleasure to share that, Agamyrat Agambayev earned a couple of letters, Dr, in front of his name :) He successfully defended his PhD thesis titled "Design, fabrication and application of a fractional order capacitor". Agamyrat proposed a generic strategy for fractional-order capacitor fabrication that integrates layers of conductive, semiconductor and ferroelectric polymer materials to create a composite with significantly improved constant phase angle, constant phase zone, and phase angle variation performance. To prove the viability of this method, we have successfully

January 2019

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  A broader bandwidth for electrical devices

  1 min read · Tue, Jan 22 2019

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  A simple fractional-order capacitor has been developed by a team from KAUST. Made from a single component, this device expands the range of frequencies that can be achieved by these devices, making them better at energy storage. Traditional analogue components are resistors, capacitors, and inductors. More recently, fractional-order components have gained attention due to their unconventional properties that enable increased flexibility. For example, fractional-order capacitors can temporarily store the signal in a manner that is similar to the behavior of neurons, thus imitating the

September 2017

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  Bringing signals into phase

  1 min read · Mon, Sep 25 2017

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  electricity electrical engineering material science

  A novel type of electronic component made from a blend of polymer materials could enable more effective circuitry.

June 2015

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  Perfect absorption graphene style

  1 min read · Sat, Jun 27 2015

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  nanotechnology electrical engineering material science and engineering

  A tiny device broadens the bandwith to enable absorption with wide-reaching potential for electrical engineering.

September 2014

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  Prof. Hakan Bagci Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE

  1 min read · Wed, Sep 24 2014

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  computational electromagnetics time-domain integral-equations optics

  Prof. Hakan Bagci has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE. This is considered an important honor since only 8% of nearly 400,000 IEEE members are Senior Members because of their superior professional achievements.

April 2014

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  Sadeed B. Sayed and Ismail E. Uysal ranked in the student paper competition at the ACES Conference

  2 min read · Thu, Apr 3 2014

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  numerical analysis wave propagation integral equations

  Ph.D. students Sadeed B. Sayed and Ismail E. Uysal working in the Computational Electromagnetics Group led by Prof. Hakan Bagci ranked 3rd and 5th in the student paper competition at the 30th International Conference