IoT

Advancing Security Red-Teaming in Cyber-Physical Systems via AI-Driven Side-Channel Analysis

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B9 L3 R3223

This talk will systematically reveal security and privacy vulnerabilities in cyber-physical systems by characterizing contactless side-channel attacks on various components and proposing effective defense methods using hardware-software co-design and AI-driven techniques, while also outlining future research directions for developing secure and privacy-preserving CPS platforms.
KAUST-CEMSE-ECE-Omar-Khalifa-Winner-Of-Non-Terrestrial-Networks-for-6G-(NTNYS'24

KAUST ECE students achieve high honors in Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G (NTNYS'24)

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KAUST Ph.D. candidate Omar Khalifa earned an impressive second place in the global Competition on Non-Terrestrial Networks for 6G (NTNYS'24). The IEEE Future Networks Initiative organized the competition as part of the "Connecting the World from the Skies Global Forum," which took place last November in Riyadh. Second place, and a prize of $10,000, was awarded to Khalifa based on his work titled "Supplying Data for Digital Twins in Green Smart Cities: A Non-Invasive NTN-IoT Approach." The international forum, which focused on the theme “Shaping the Future of Converged Connectivity,” was hosted
Sustainable solutions in water conservation

KAUST-Engineered tool drives sustainable solutions in water conservation

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KAUST’s startup EcoStream cuts water waste by 50% while promoting affordability and sustainability, winning the 2024 StartSmart prize.
Montserrat Ramirez de Angel receiving the Best Pitch Award at IEEE 2024 Sensors Conference

A voice to the voiceless: Montserrat Ramirez De Angel takes “Best Pitch” award at IEEE 2024 Sensors Conference

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Montserrat Ramirez de Angel wins the Best Pitch Award at IEEE 2024 Sensors Conference for her innovative work in biosensors and sensor technology.

Mohamed Ads

Visiting Student, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Syed Abidullah Fareed

Syed Abidullah Fareed

Visiting Student (former), Information Science Lab

Ahsan Mehmood

Intern (former), Information Science Lab
Visiting student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Advanced MTJ Sensory Devices for Industrial and Healthcare Applications

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B3 L5 R5209

Magnetic sensors are deployed in many applications such as automotive, consumer electronics, navigation and data storage devices. Their market’s growth is driven by demands of higher performance and more integration; primarily to assist in the advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) and smart systems.

5G IoT Networks: from Massive access to URLLC

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B1 L3 R3119

Connected smart objects, platforms and environments have been identified as the next big technology development, enabling significant society changes and economic growth. The entire physical world will be connected to the Internet. The intelligent network for automatic interaction and processing between objects and environments, referred to as the Machine to Machine Communications (M2M) for Internet of Things (IoT), will become an inherent part of areas such as electricity, transportation, industrial control, utilities management, healthcare, water resources management and mining. Wireless networks are one of the key enabling technologies of the IoT. They are likely to be universally used for last mile connectivity due to their flexibility, scalability and cost effectiveness.

Physical Layer Security of Wireless-powered NOMA-based Cognitive Radio Networks: Fundamentals & Challenges

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B1 L2 R2202

Abstract In the last decade, with the emergence of the internet of things (IoT) as well as machine-to-machine (M2M) paradigms, future wireless networks are targeting new critical services such as remote healthcare, surveillance, transportation, etc. In this regard, with the massive expected number of connected IoT and M2M devices, several requirements have been imposed by the regulatory bodies onto the deployment of 5G network. These requirements include, but not limited to, higher connectivity, reduced latency, as well as increased spectral and energy efficiency. Interestingly, the

Integration Strategy for Standalone Compliant Interactive Systems for Add-on Electronics

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B9 L3 R3125

Physically compliant electronics are scientifically intriguing, mechanically complex, ‎technologically ‎challenging but with huge socio-economical potential. Until now the target applications ‎for ‎flexible electronics have been limited to displays, solar cells, printed batteries, wearables, and ‎implantable. However, with the emergence and growth of Internet of Things (IoT) devices ‎worldwide ‎from nearly 27 billion in 2017 to 125 billion in 2030, in this PhD research, expanding the ‎horizon of ‎applications for flexible electronics toward existing “things” will be explored. Low-cost sustainable materials as active electronic materials and a ‎Do-It-Yourself (DIY) integration strategy is used to build “Add-on” standalone sensory system which can be ‎attached to any ‎existing things like a decal. Such electronics can also be embedded in newly minted ‎devices specially ‎using additive methods.

Practical Cryptographic Framework to Manage Security and Privacy for IoT Endpoint devices

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B1 L4 R4214

In this talk, the speaker will provide a high-level introduction to his recent research on IoT endpoint security. Firstly, he will introduce requirements followed by a discussion on cryptographic algorithm implementation. He will mainly focus on an overview of efficient cryptography for IoT endpoints and system privacy issues. Then he will discuss security management approaches, positives, negatives and challenges to resolve, linking to the endpoint device security section with regards to realistic device needs/capabilities.

Nanomaterials and Nanostructure Based Energy Efficient Edge and Fluidic Computing for Internet of Things Applications

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B9 L2 H1

In this talk, I will address these questions with a focus on smart and multifunctional nanomaterial-based memory devices than can sense different physical qualities of the environment (Memsors) in addition to pressure-driven microfluidic logic gates which can process and analyze non-electronic media in an attempt to explore, enable and empower a wider range of IoT applications.

Paving the Way for Next Generation Wireless Networks

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B9 L2 H1 R2322

In this talk, I will introduce several ongoing projects at the networking lab in KAUST. I will start by highlighting our research profile along with our mission. Then, I will walk you through our projects and contributions in the domains of the internet of things, visible light communication, underwater communication, and future 6G networks. I will focus on the challenges facing each project, highlight our solution methodology, and discuss some performance evaluation results. I will focus on our work on Aqua-Fi, which aims at bringing the Internet into the underwater environment. I will also focus on our recent project on the communication via breath.

Sensing, Localization, and Communications to Enable Future IoT Systems

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KAUST

In this talk, Tareq will present his research contributions and future directions to advance some critical IoT-enabling technologies: sensing, localization, and communications. He will demonstrate how we take advantage of structure in sensed-data and sensor arrays. This structure can help mitigate sensing uncertainties, improve localization accuracy, and enhance the performance of communication systems, all while reducing the computational overhead. The Internet of Things (IoT) has ushered a new era in many fields including retail, medicine, agriculture, and the automotive industry. In fact, it is projected that by 2025, one trillion IoT devices will be deployed worldwide: the equivalent of 1000 devices per person. To reach such a scale, major advancements are needed in various IoT-enabling technologies.

IoT via 5G and Beyond 5G Satellite Systems

Prof. Giovanni Giambene, Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy

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KAUST

One of the key drivers for next-generation mobile communications is the support of the Internet of Things (IoT), with billions of objects connected to the Internet and very low latency. The 5G technology will support the realization of smart cities, smart environments, and big data applications.

Bridging the Gap between the Academia and Industry by Extending High-Quality Research to Practical Business Needs

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B9 L2 R2322 H1

This seminar focuses on providing the audience with the context and scope of our internship program. The program is for the young and talented graduate students with an active interest in solving real-world problems. Some of the projects that will be presented in the seminar are actively developed in Elm and include domains such as computer vision, robotics and automation, healthcare, IoT, video analytics, and NLP. The seminar will serve as a launch pad to allow students to discuss their future interests and aspirations with the speaker. It will also enable them to develop a better awareness of domains more relevant to their future research aspirations.

Scheduling tasks in energy harvesting IoT

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B4 L5 R5209

Internet of Things (IoT) applications can exploit energy harvesting systems to guarantee virtually uninterrupted operations. However, the use of energy harvesting poses issues concerning the optimization of the utility of the application while guaranteeing energy neutrality of the devices.

Towards Transparency of IoT Device Presence

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B9 L2 H2 H2

As many types of IoT devices worm their way into numerous settings and many aspects of our daily lives, awareness of their presence and functionality becomes a source of major concern. Hidden IoT devices can snoop (via sensing) on nearby unsuspecting users, and impact the environment where unaware users are present, via actuation.

Flash Microfluidics, rapid Lab on a Chip fabrication method for cost- effective in situ production.

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From DNA sequencing to environment monitoring, microfluidics devices have been broadly employed, but their production is more and more time-consuming and expensive. Researchers from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, have developed an innovative prototyping method for Lab on a Chip (LOC) production to plummet costs while augmenting performances.

Plant Wearables and Airdropped Sensors Could Sow Big Data Seeds

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Stretchable plant wearables and smart tags dropped by drones aim to help give farming a big data makeover. The relatively cheap technologies for mass monitoring of individual plants across large greenhouses or crop fields could get field tests in three countries starting in 2019. The idea came from researchers at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia with expertise in flexible electronics. After talking with colleagues who were cultivating genetically engineered plants in greenhouses, they recognized the need for inexpensive sensors that could be deployed

3D-printed cube dials into energy harvesting

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Ambient energy emitted by cellular phones and modems can be captured and converted into electricity using unusually shaped technology.

ISL Student Osama Bushnaq does an Delft Internship

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IoT

Summary of Delft internship : Advanced sensor networks are needed in order to meet the increasing needs of IoT applications, such as automated surveillance, environmental monitoring, smart cities, and so on. Optimal sensor placement, i.e., to select the best subset of sensing locations out of a large set of available locations, keeping in mind the network infrastructure and the inference task, forms an important sensor network design task. In this internship, the offline sensor selection for source estimation is improved by considering different practical issues such as observation accuracy

Single-electrode material streamlines functions into a tiny chip

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Ruthenium oxide is used to integrate energy-storing microsupercapacitors and thin-film electronics at the transistor level.

ISL PhD Student Osama Bushnaq does Internship at UBC

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UAV IoT

ISL PhD Student Osama Bushnaq did an internship at the University of British Coloumbia in Canada. His internship was focused on UAV-IoT. Every year, an average of 2.5 million hectares (ha) is burnt only in Canadian forests, which costs around 500 million to 1 billion Canadian dollars per year. The current forest fire detection methods such as satellite imaging and infrared cameras are not reliable. In order to detect forest fires before getting out of control, a new fire detection method based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Internet of Things (UAV-IoT) network was studied during this internship. A

Drones deliver on internet connectivity

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Hovering airborne vehicles could connect smart sensors to the internet of things.

The power of light for internet of underwater things

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Light can simultaneously transfer energy and data to underwater devices, but there’s a long way to go before these systems can be deployed.

Nazek El-Atab chosen to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

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Nazek El-Atab, a postdoctoral research fellow, based in the KAUST MMH Labs has been chosen to attend the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. After completing a thorough multi-stage application and selection process, El-Atab was selected to participate in the event scheduled to take place from June 28 to July 3, in Lindau, Germany.

KAUST Prospective Student: Siyuan Chen

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Siyuan Chen is a 22-year-old graduate who comes to KAUST from the School of Communication and Information Engineering, UESTC, China. Chen will join the University in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Structural and Functional Bioinformatics research group under the supervision of Professor Xin Gao.

Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Asaad AlGhamdi

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Asaad AlGhamdi is a 24-year-old graduate who will join KAUST in the fall from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Asaad will join the University as a M.S. candidate and member of the Machine Intelligence and kNowledge Engineering research group under the supervision of Professor Xiangliang Zhang.

Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Xinge Yang

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Xinge Yang is a 22-year-old graduate who will join KAUST from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Yang will join the University in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Computational Imaging Group under the supervision of Professor Wolfgang Heidrich.

To Boldly Go Where No Sensor Has Gone Before: The Movement to Place IoT in Radical New Spaces

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The rapid growth of the world’s population demands more natural resources, food, and space. World renowned physicist Stephan Hawking has argued that soon we will require another world to live on because we are running out of space and natural resources. This ever-increasing demand for resources and space needs novel technologies to explore natural resources, produce more crops, and explore outer space. Internet of X-things (X-IoT) is an enabling technology to overcome all of the above issues. The framework of X-IoT consists of three major categories as shown in Figure 1. The first one is the

KAUST alumni receive SPE 2020 Regional Awards

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KAUST alumni Dr. Chinthaka Gooneratne and Dr. Bodong Li both recently received Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) 2020 Regional Awards for the Middle East and North Africa Region. Gooneratne won the Regional Drilling Engineering Award, while Li was awarded the Regional Formation Evaluation Award.

KAUST team power ahead with alternative energy research

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With the continued growth in Internet of Things applications, deployments, and devices, highly connected, sustainable smart cities are no longer mere concepts or fantastical future dreams; many are already active and are expanding apace.

Welcoming composite inks into the fold

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A screen-printing approach to creating foldable circuits could make many functional devices easier and cheaper to mass produce.

Nazek El-Atab appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

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IoT

Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Electron Devices Society.

Connect the internet of bodies

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A network of body monitoring devices connected using our own tissue could form the basis for the internet of bodies (IoB).

KAUST-KFUPM collaboration wins top honors at STC AIoT Hackathon

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A team composed of KAUST and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) students was one of three winning teams of this year’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) AIoT (AI & IoT) Hackathon. The KAUST entry, AgriDoctor, a proposed autonomous, sustainable, intelligent agriculture system, was a standout pick for the competition judges from a pool of 110 project submissions and 350 participants.

Yousof A. Mashraei

Yousof Mashraei received the M.S. degree from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in 2014. He joined King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology and was involved in smart grid and renewable energy since 2012. He joined KAUST as a PhD student in 2014 and specialized in microfabrication and sensors. His research focus on magnetic sensors, integration and hybrid system for health and industrial applications.

Wiem Abderrahim

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Networking Research Lab
Wiem Abderrahim is a Postdoctoral Fellow under the supervision of Prof. Mohamed Slim Alouini and Prof. Basem Shihada at the Communication Theory Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Wiem Abderrahim accomplished her engineering studies in telecommunications with honors at the Higher School of Communications of Tunis, Carthage University in Tunisia in 2013. In 2017, she received her Doctoral Degree in Information and Communications Technologies from the same university. Before joining KAUST, she worked as an adjunct professor at the Higher

Sutanu Ghosh

Sutanu Ghosh is a visiting research scholar under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini at the Computer, Electrical, and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Sutanu Ghosh obtained his Master Degree from Jadavpur University, India and Ph.D Degree from Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, India. Research Interest Sutanu Ghosh is focusing his research in the area of Device-to-Device Communication, optical wireless communication, Energy harvesting, Internet-of

Sherjeel Khan

Sherjeel Khan did his Bachelors in Mechatronics Engineering from National University of Sciences and ‎Technology (NUST) Islamabad, Pakistan in 2013. After graduation, he worked as a Design Engineer in a ‎Pakistan-US based startup Cowlar©. He then availed his Master’s degree in electrical engineering from ‎Georgia Institute of Technology, USA in 2016 under Fulbright Scholarship. He has been a PhD student with Professor Muhammad Mustafa Hussain at KAUST since 2016. His research work is focused on making low-cost eco-friendly sensing solutions for healthcare based applications.

Raphael Bridi

Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering ,King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Osama Bushnaq

Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Omar Khalifa

PhD student in the Electrical Engineering Department, CEMSE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) ,working under the supervision of Prof. Tareq Al-Naffouri.

Nour Kouzayha

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research Scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

Mohammed Abdullah Hussaini

Senior Embedded System Engineer at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Mohammed Ahmed

Postdoctoral Research Fellow (former), Information Science Lab
post-doctoral fellow at L'École de technologie supérieure (ETS) de Montréal (Mtl) where he started on February 2014. he works with Prof. Georges Kaddoum.

Mohamed Saadeldin

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sensors
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Sensors Lab at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Assistant Professor, University College Dublin .

Mamdouh AlJoud

Intern (former), Information Science Lab
Research Intern at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUS)

Jikang Deng

Jikang Deng is an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Jikang Deng obtained his bachelor's degree in Network Engineering from University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2023. He was a summer intern in 2022 before joining KAUST. Research Interest Jikang Deng is focusing in the area of wireless communication and Internet of Things (IoT). Education Profile M.S. in King Abdullah University of Science and

Hao Lin

KAUST provides the best environment for us to develop. At KAUST, there are many excellent Professors and friends who can study and do research together. Communication Engineering is an interesting subject that is a key tech for the future. Communication Theory is highly worthy of our in-depth research.

Hakim Ghazzai

Senior Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Hakim is a researcher focusing on designing multi-disciplinary innovative solutions for diverse smart city applications and services.

Hajar El Hammouti

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Publications dblp Scopus LinkedIn Education Profile Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Computer Science, National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (INPT), Rabat, Morocco, Jan. 2013- May. 2017. 3rd year of engineering studies at ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France, 2011-2012. Engineering studies at INPT, Rabat, Morocco, 2009 - 2011. Awards and Distinctions Best Paper Award, UNet 2018. Best Student Paper Award, WINCOM 2015. Best Student Paper Award, NETYS 2015.

Ganghui Lin

Ganghui is an MS student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Ganghui obtained his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC) in 2022. He was a visiting student at CTL (July 2021 – July 2022) before joining KAUST. Research Interest Ganghui is focusing on the area of the next generation of wireless communication, the Internet of Things (IoT), and deep learning. Honors and

Erick Rodrigues E Silva

Education Erick pursued his education in Control and Automation Engineering at CEFET-RJ, where he was awarded a Motion of Praise for his victory in a national robotics championship. He authored a thesis titled "Platform for Simulation and Generation of Synthetic Data for Autonomous Inspections by UAVS in Solar Plants." Experience During the thesis composition, Erick made a significant contribution to the paper "Virtual Reality Simulation of Autonomous Solar Plant Inspections with Unmanned Aerial Systems." This paper was published at ICUAS, a conference held in Dubrovnik, Croatia in 2021. After

Enas Ahmad

Enas Ahmad obtained her Master's degree in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor Basem Shihada at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Research Interests Enas' research interests included the area of computer networking and systems, specifically software-defined networking, data centers, the internet of things, and participatory sensing. Thesis title: " Energy Efficient Smartphones: Minimizing the Energy Consumption of Smartphone's GPU using DVFS Governors". Education Profile M.sc. in Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Cian Leo Blake

Cian is an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Cian obtained BSc in Physics with a Computer Science minor from New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) in 2023. Alongside his studies, Cian founded an autotech startup called Genius Autos (www.genius-autos.com) that aims to optimize the global used auto parts supply chain in the age of artificial intelligence. Research Interest Cian is focusing in the area of wireless communication

Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou

Professor Konstantinou is an expert in critical infrastructure security and resilience, focusing on smart grid technology, renewable energy integration and real-time simulation.

Asma Abdullah Sarouji

Visiting Student (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering
Research intern at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Prof.Tareq Al-Naffouri on health project that has a significant impact on people’s lives.

Asaad S. Alghamdi

Anas Saleh Mohammed

Visiting Student (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering
Visiting student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Abdallah Al-Moubayed

MS Degree , Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering ,King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) .Now Abdallah is Visiting Student to (KAUST)