Profiles

Former Members

Biography

Yue Wang is a Ph.D. candidate at the Photonics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the mentorship of Prof. Boon S. Ooi. She earned her B.Eng. in Electronic Science and Technology from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2020. She received her master's degree in Electrical Engineering from KAUST in 2021.

Yue Wang's research focuses on semiconductor optoelectronics, high-speed color-converting luminescent devices, and optical wireless communication. She specializes in characterizing color-converting materials, designing and fabricating luminescent optoelectronic devices, and developing optical wireless communication systems.

Research Interests

Yue Wang has explored emerging luminescent materials such as perovskites, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), and organic fluorophores, enabling Gb/s visible light communication and wavelength-division multiplexing with enhanced channel capacity. To relieve the stringent requirements of pointing, acquisition, and tracking in underwater optical wireless communication channels, she employed scintillating fibers and luminescent solar concentrators for wide field-of-view, high-speed photodetection. Her work also extends to optical amplification, where she has developed a high-gain visible-light amplifier based on perovskite quantum dots, potentially addressing the optical loss during long-distance optical data transmission.

Education
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Electronic Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), China, 2020

Consultants

Visiting Scholars

Research Interests
  • Wireless communication.
  • Signal processing.
  • Biomedical signal processing.
  • Indoor localization .
  • Machine learning 
Education
Master of Engineering (MEng)
Electrical Engineering, University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, 2023
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Electrical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia, 2021
Research Interests
  • Python.
  • Machine Learning.
  • Data Analysis.
  • Artificial Intelligence.
Education
Master of Science (M.S.)
Computer Science, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), Saudi Arabia, 2019
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States, 2018
Biography

Haoyang Li is a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) supervised by Prof. Xin Gao. His research focuses on developing AI-driven methods to integrate multimodal biomedical data, spanning spatial multi-omics, histopathology, and single-cell genomics, with the goal of decoding spatial heterogeneity in diseases and advancing diagnosis, prognosis, and biomarker discovery for personalized therapies. His research has been published in prestigious journals and conferences such as Nature Machine Intelligence, Nature Communications, Science Advances, Bioinformatics, IEEE TMI, and MICCAI. One of his first-authored papers in Nature Communications is recognized as Editor’s Highlight and the 50 best papers in 'Biotechnology and methods'. In addition, Haoyang had two internships at Yale University and Stanford University as visiting student researcher in 2023 and 2024. He has served as a teaching assistant and guest lecturer for the Ministry of Interior in Saudi Arabia, Saudi Aramco, and KAUST. Currently, he serves as an editorial board member and a guest editor for Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics and Biomedical Informatics.

Research Interests

Haoyang has a broad interest in developing AI models to address biological and healthcare problems. Recently, his research has focused on developing AI models for spatial biology, including spatial multi-omics, spatiotemporal omics, and pathological imaging, aimed at translational and clinical research.

Research Interests
  • Indoor localization.
  • Wireless monitoring.
  • Ultrasound.
Education
Master of Engineering (MEng)
Management, Arizona State University, United States, 2023
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.)
Electronics and Communications Engineering, King AbdulAziz University, Saudi Arabia, 2019