Profiles

Mohammed is currently a PhD student in Electrical and Computer Engineering program (ECE) at KAUST. He received his Master degree in Advanced Control and Systems Engineering with Distinction from UOM, Manchester. He has experience in academia working as Lecturer and worked as Head of the committee of the Engineering Training Program. He also worked as Project Engineer in Saudi Electrical Company in the power plant project PP13 carried by SEC.

His research interests span various topics in systems and control engineering, Robotics, and fault detection and diagnosis.

Mritunjay Kumar is a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, under the supervision of Prof. Xiaohang Li. Before joining KAUST, he earned his Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Dhanbad. His research focuses on developing advanced wide-bandgap semiconductor devices for extreme-temperature power electronics applications, addressing challenges such as threshold voltage instability and high gate leakage currents in GaN HEMTs through innovative materials and gate design techniques.

Mritunjay has made significant contributions to the field of power electronics for extreme temperature, as evidenced by publications in reputed journals such as Applied Physics Letters (APL) and Japanese Journal of Applied Physics (JJAP). His achievements include the development of a high-threshold voltage (7.4 V) enhancement-mode GaN HEMT and the implementation of bi-layer gate stacks for stable operation at temperatures up to 450°C. His work also explores heterogeneous integration, such as combining GaN HEMTs with indium oxide-based driver circuits and gallium oxide transistors, demonstrating stable operation in harsh environments.

Mritunjay’s research interest includes Optoelectronics, and III-Nitrides Power semiconductor devices.

I am  a dedicated Saudi female researcher with a strong background in numerical analysis. My academic journey began with a Bachelor of Mathematics from King Faisal University, where I graduated with honors. Supported by the prestigious King Abdullah Scholarship Program (KASP), I pursued my Master's in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Old Dominion University, USA, followed by a graduate certificate in modeling and simulation.

Currently, I am a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), supervised by Professor Daniele Boffi. I am honored to have received a full governmental scholarship from the Royal Commission of Jubail and Yanbu. I have achieved recognition on the dean's list of top students in the CEMSE Division at KAUST. Alongside my studies, I am actively involved as president of the SIAM Student Chapter at KAUST.

I am interested in researching the numerical approximation of partial differential equations, specifically

in relation to fluid dynamics and interface problems such as fluid-structure interactions. My expertise

lies in finite element methods and mixed finite elements.

Neil is a MS/Ph.D student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at KAUST. He holds a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering with a specialization in Microelectronics and Embedded Systems at the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines. He has experience both in academia, with publications involving areas in Brain-Computer Interfaces and Embedded AI Applications, and in industry having interned for companies like Western Digital and Ateneo Innovation Center.

His research interests and areas of expertise involve Computer Architecture, Cyber-Physical Systems, Sensors and Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence, FPGA, and Software Engineering

Olga Krestinskaya received her M.Sc. and B.S. degrees from Nazarbayev University in 2016 and 2018. Olga was working as a Teaching Assistant (2017-2018) and Research Assistant (2016-2019) and was involved in several projects connected to hardware implementation of neuromorphic architectures. In 2018, Olga was undergoing a research internship under the Erasmus Student Mobility Program in  FCT/UNL NOVA University in Portugal. In 2017 and 2019, Olga was an intern in Kaust under the supervision of Prof. Khaled Salama.

Olga is the recipient of the 2019 IEEE CASS Pre-doctoral award. She has published several high quality works in the area of analog memristive neural network designs including CNN, LSTM, BNN and HTM. She is a reviewer and author to several top IEEE journals and conferences.

I am a PhD student of computer science in Bio-Ontology Research Group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf interested in mathematical and programming applications to natural sciences. In 2023 I graduated from Moscow State University, Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Department of Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms. In 2021 I acquired a second degree in the field of algorithmic bioinformatics. From 2020 to 2023 I worked as a research assistant in Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences; my research there was related to ECG signal classification with deep learning techniques and ECG delineation.

My current research interests are related to the development of ontology embedding methods and knowledge-enhanced learning with application to natural sciences.

 AI, IoT, Wireless Communications.

Control systems and power systems engineering. Modeling, simulation, analysis and design of solutions applied to power system stability and control. Optimal and data-driven approaches to the integration of renewable energy resources.