Events
General News
15 December, 2024
The Alumni Affairs and Graduate Employment team celebrated our graduating students with a special Alumni Gift Giveaway event!
26 November, 2024
We're incredibly proud to announce that KAUST PhD candidate Hamed Albalawi has been recognized on the prestigious Forbes Middle East 30 under 30 list!
19 November, 2024
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.
07 November, 2024
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.
03 November, 2024
Noha Al-Harthi (PhD '19, MS '13) receives the Arab Woman Award for 2024 for achievements in Sciance and Technology form Arabian Business.
11 October, 2024
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.
Alumni in the News
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.”
CSAIL MIT
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.
Red Sea Global
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.
MBZUAI
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.
Middle East AI News
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.
Arab News
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.
KAUST website