Events

Commencement Alumni Gathering with Gifts Giveaway
  • 02:00 PM – 05:00 PM

Alumni Affairs & Graduate Employment office will organize a gathering with our alumni, class of 2024, participating at Commencement 2024.

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General News

19 November, 2024

Taiba Alamoudi wins L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science

Congratulations to our brilliant Saudi P.h.D student and MS alumna Taiba Alamoudi for receiving the prestigious L'Oréal-UNESCO Award For Women in Science.

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17 November, 2024

KAUST SPE Alumni Talks Series - Toward Net Zero

In collaboration with the KAUST Society of Petroleum Engineers, we were honored to host Khalid Hazazi, Ph.D., a KAUST alumni who shared invaluable insights on achieving Net Zero Emissions.

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07 November, 2024

Alumni meeting with KAUST'S President in Riyadh

In the heart of Riyadh, KAUST alumni gathered for an exclusive networking event to welcome the University's new president, Professor Sir Edward Byrne AC.

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03 November, 2024

Noha Alharthi receives Arab Woman Award for 2024

Noha Al-Harthi (PhD '19, MS '13) receives the Arab Woman Award for 2024 for achievements in Sciance and Technology form Arabian Business.

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24 October, 2024

Aramco Graduate Employment Days

Alumni Affairs & Graduate Employment Office in collaboration with Aramco hosted 2-days Graduate employment days for students and alumni.

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11 October, 2024

KAUST UK Alumni Reception

Last night, we had the pleasure of hosting a lively KAUST Alumni Networking Reception in the heart of London! Our esteemed University President, Professor Sir Edward Byrne, warmly welcomed alumni from across the Kingdom.

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Archived News

 

Alumni in the News

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KAUST alumna and MIT CSAIL postdoc Rabab Alomairy (PhD '22, MS '13) et al. named finalists for 2024 Gordon Bell Prize

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) GBP Award Committee has named a group of researchers including MIT CSAIL postdoc Rabab Alomairy as finalists for the Gordon Bell Prize for their paper, “Toward Capturing Genetic Epistasis From Multivariate Genome-Wide Association Studies Using Mixed-Precision Kernel Ridge Regression.”

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Dr. Lina Eyouni Appointed Saudi Arabia's First Representative in Group of Experts on Capacity Development

On August 13, 2024, KAUST alumna Dr. Lina Eyouni (PhD '21), from the Environmental Quality and Monitoring at Red Sea Global, was appointed as Saudi Arabia’s first representative in UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) Group of Experts on Capacity Development.

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Orchestrated efficiency: A new technique to increase model efficiency during training

KAUST Alumni Samuel Horvath ( MS '18, PhD '22), currently working as Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI) in Abu Dhabi, UAE, identifies a paradox that challenges scientists’ efforts to advance machine learning.

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Saudi AI model to advance radiology diagnosis

Three KAUST alumni - Rawan Al Yahya (MS '20), Jun Chen (MS '19, PhD '23) and Deyao Zhu (PhD '23) together with the KAUST professor Mohamed Elhoseiny, in collaboration with SDAIA prepared a new Saudi AI model to advance rediology diagnosis.

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KAUST alumni's startup is using AI to boost the efficiency and uptake of solar energy

KAUST alumni Abdulelah Habib (MS '11), the owner and CEO of startup company OptimalPV explains for Arab News how is he using AI in solar energy sector.

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Alumna unveils new insights through ancient DNA

Hanin Ahmed's (PhD '22, MS '18) current research project focuses on sequencing the whole genomes of over 1000 horse samples, comprising both modern and ancient horses from diverse regions across four continents. Through this project, she aims to investigate the genomic structure of horse populations, shedding light on the source and timing of admixture within these populations. As part of her project, she plans to collect samples in the Kingdom as well.

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