combustion chemistry

Aamir Farooq

Professor, Mechanical Engineering

combustion chemistry laser diagnostics

Aamir Farooq is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering, affiliated with the Clean Combustion Research Center (CCRC) at KAUST. Professor Farooq’s group focuses on high-precision spectroscopy, laser-based sensors and fuel chemistry. Miniaturized semiconductor lasers are used to design highly sensitive and selective sensors that are portable and can be applied in industrial settings. They apply ML/AI methods to predict physical and chemical properties of fuels from molecular spectroscopic data. They have also used ML/AI to do spectral denoising and multi-species sensing. Professor Farooq’s group also develops laser-based sensors for biomedical and environment–monitoring applications.