People

Visiting Professors / Scholars

  • Assistant Professor at the University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia​
    Research Interests: Photonics, GaN, Optoelectronics, Photonics and optoelectronics, Solar Energy, Electromagnetics and optoelectronics
  • Professor of Photonics | KFUPM | Webpage
    Research Interests: Photonics

Research Scientists

  • "Currently a Professor at Institute of Semiconductors​ (IOS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. Previously a Research Scientist at RWTH Aachen/Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany. He is a Senior Member of IEEE"​​​​
    Research Interests: III-V semiconductors, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Electron Microscopy
  • Senior Member of IEEE​
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Large bandgap group-III nitride
  • "Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Oxford, United Kingdom"​
    Research Interests: GaN, Light sources, Numerical analysis, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • "Currently an entrepreneur of a spin-off company from the Photonics Laboratory. He is a ​Senior Member of IEEE."​
    Research Interests: Sensors, Photonics, Networks and wireless communications, Photonics and optoelectronics

Postdoctoral Research Fellows

  • "Currently an Associate Professor at UAE University, United Arab Emerates. Previously, he was a Researcher at NT​T​, Japan"​
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics
  • Currently an Assistant Professor at University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates.
    Research Interests: Solar Energy, Photonics, Nanomaterials, Sensors
  • "Currently, a Postdoctoral research scientist at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics​, Germany.​
    Previously, a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Minnesota, USA"​​​
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Large bandgap group-III nitride, Molecular Beam Epitaxy
  • "Currently works at ​Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, California, USA"​
    Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Solar Energy, GaN, Photonics and optoelectronics, Large bandgap group-III nitride
  • ​"Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemical Kinetics and Laser Sensors Laboratory at KAUST, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Light sources, GaN, Large bandgap group-III nitride
  • "Currently an Assistant Professor at the Effat University, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics
  • "Currently a Scientist at KAUST, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: GaN
  • "Currently a Scientist at KAUST, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Photonics, Meta-materials
  • Research Interests: Bioinformatics, Biological networks and interactions, Environment modeling, Genomics, Plant biology & Desert agriculture, Light sources

PhD Students

  • Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics, Nanomaterials
  • ​​"Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Linköping University​, Sweden"​​​
    Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics
  • Ahmad Aljabr
    "​Currently an Assistant Professor at the Jubail Industrial College, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics
  • "Currently an Engineer at Institut Photovoltaïque d'Ile-de-France (IPVF). Previously with TOTAL, and Agricool, Paris."
    Research Interests: Nanomaterials, GaN, Optoelectronics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy
  • "Currently a Postdoc at KAUST, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Biological networks and interactions, Genomics, Plant biology & Desert agriculture
  • "Currently a Postdoc at the University of Toronto, Canada"
    Research Interests: Photonics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Large bandgap group-III nitride, Light sources
  • "Consultant at KAUST, with KAUST Innovation and Economic Development."​​​​
    Research Interests: Nanomaterials, GaN, Large bandgap group-III nitride, Photonics and optoelectronics
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  • Damian
    "Currently an Engineer at Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Materials modeling, Transformation Optics, Photonics, Meta-materials, Electromagnetics
  • ​"Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at The University of New Mexico​, United States of America"
    Research Interests: Large bandgap group-III nitride, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • "Dr. Edgars Stegenburgs is currently with DenseLight Semiconductors, Singapore, as a Senior Design Engineer." 
    Research Interests: GaN, Light sources, Photonics and optoelectronics, Numerical analysis, Nanomaterials
  • "Currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: GaN, Sensors, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Networks and wireless communications, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • ​​"Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Yale University, USA"​​
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics
  • "Dr. Kuang-Hui Li is currently with TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company), Taiwan, as Epitaxy Research Engineer.​"​
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy
  • Mohammed Zahed
    "Currently an Assistant Professor at KFUPM, Saudi Arabia; and previously a SABIC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship recipient at KAUST"
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Electromagnetics and optoelectronics, Light sources
  • ​​"Currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Toronto​, USA"​
    Research Interests: GaN, Photonics and optoelectronics, Large bandgap group-III nitride
  • "Currently a Postdoc at National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan"
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, GaN, Light sources
  • "Currently a Postdoc at Yale University, USA"
    Research Interests: Electromagnetics and optoelectronics, Solar Energy, Light sources, Photonics, GaN
  • Senior Engineer, Huawei​​, China (Graduated in May 2020)​​
    Research Interests: Networks and wireless communications, Photonics, Optoelectronics

Masters Students

  • "Currently a Research Associate at KAPSARC, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: GaN, Nanomaterials, Solar Energy
  • "Currently a PhD Student at UT Austin, USA"
    Research Interests: Photonics, GaN
  • Kazi
    "Currently an Employer Services Specialist at NYU Abu Dhabi, UAE"
    Research Interests: Photonics
  • Research Interests: Photonics
  • "Currently a PhD Student at UC Berkeley, USA"
    Research Interests: Electromagnetics and optoelectronics, Nanomaterials, Solar Energy

International Visiting Researchers

  • Senior Lecturer at the Multimedia University, Malaysia
    Research Interests: Networks and wireless communications, Light sources, Photonics
  • Senior Lecturer at the University of Malaya, Malaysia
    Research Interests: Materials modeling, Nanomaterials, Photonics, Meta-materials

Visiting Researchers

  • "Currently a PhD Student at UC Santa Barbara, USA"​
    Research Interests: GaN, Photonics
  • KACST Researcher​
    Research Interests: Nanomaterials, GaN
  • KACST Researcher​
    Research Interests: Nanomaterials, GaN

In-Kingdom Visiting Students

  • Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics, Networks and wireless communications
  • Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Large bandgap group-III nitride, Electromagnetics
  • From the Effat Univers​ity​​
    Research Interests: Photonics
  • Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics, Electromagnetics
  • Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics
  • From the Effat University​
    Research Interests:  -
  • From the Effat University​​
    Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics

International Visiting Students

  • Research Interests: Sensors, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • From the University of Pisa, Italy
    Research Interests: Electromagnetics and optoelectronics, Photonics, Nanomaterials
  • From the University of Pisa, Italy
    Research Interests: Photonics, Nanomaterials
  • Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Photonics, Sensors
  • Research Interests: Sensors, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Large bandgap group-III nitride, Photonics and optoelectronics
  • From the Universiti Teknologi Petronas​, Malaysia
    Research Interests: Photonics
  • Research Interests: Photonics
  • Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Photonics and optoelectronics, Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Meta-materials
  • From the Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy​
    Research Interests: Optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Photonics, Nanomaterials, Sensors
  • From Nanjing University, China
    Research Interests: Networks and wireless communications
  • "Currently a PhD Student at the University at Buffalo, USA"
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics, Nanomaterials, Solar Energy
  • Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Photonics, Light sources, Underwater Optical Communications
  • Research Interests: Catalysis, Nanomaterials, Solar Energy, Photonics, GaN, Molecular Beam Epitaxy
  • Research Interests: Photonics, GaN
  • Research Interests: Underwater Optical Communications, Networks and wireless communications, Numerical analysis
  • Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics, Large bandgap group-III nitride
  • Research Interests: Photonics, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Light sources, Optoelectronics, Photonics, Large bandgap group-III nitride
  • "Currently a Scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA."
    Previously from the Tyndall National Institute within the Nitrides Materials Group.
    Research Interests: Spectroscopic and Microscopic imaging system, GaN
  • Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Solar Energy, Photonics
  • "Currently a PhD Student at the University of Cambridge, UK";
    Previously from the University of Glasgow, United Kingdom.
    Research Interests: Photonics, Networks and wireless communications
  • Research Interests: GaN, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics
  • From the University of Pisa, Italy
    Research Interests: Electromagnetics and optoelectronics, Photonics, Materials modeling, Nanomaterials
  • "Currently a PhD Student at the University of Sydney, Australia"​
    Research Interests: Sensors, Photonics, Optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Underwater Optical Communications, Optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Materials modeling, Networks and wireless communications, GaN

SRSI Students

  • SRSI Student​​​​
    Research Interests: Photonics, Light sources
  • Farzan Ghodsi
    "Currently an Undergraduate at the University of Washington, USA"
    Research Interests: Photonics, Nanomaterials, Light sources
  • Research Interests: Optoelectronics
  • SRSI Student​​​​
    Research Interests: Photonics, Light sources
  • "Currently a BSc Student at the Pennsylvania State University, USA"
    Research Interests: Photonics
  • Research Interests: Underwater Optical Communications, Solar Energy

KAUST Directed Research Students

  • Research Interests: Photonics, GaN, Optoelectronics
  • Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Sensors
  • "Currently a PhD Student at KAUST, Saudi Arabia"
    Research Interests: Light sources, Solar Energy, Plant biology & Desert agriculture
  • Research Interests: Solar Energy, Nanomaterials, Optoelectronics, Photonics
  • From KAUST, Saudi Arabia
    Research Interests: Photonics
  • "Currently a Research Assistant at The American University in Cairo, Egypt"​
    Research Interests: Photonics and optoelectronics