Events
Alumni Affairs & Graduate Employment Office is hosting Graduate Employment Days
General News
21 February, 2025
Sandra Medina shared her entrepreneurship experience with students.
09 February, 2025
This past week, we had the pleasure of hosting the China Alumni Chapter members at KAUST for an insightful and dynamic series of meetings, knowledge exchange, and collaboration opportunities
09 February, 2025
We were delighted to host two interactive and insightful sessions during our Graduate Employment Days – Consulting Theme.
30 January, 2025
We were delighted to host Hong Kong Talent Engagement (HKTE) for an insightful session on working and living in Hong Kong!
20 January, 2025
Luca Fortunato, a KAUST alumnus, has been awarded the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his pioneering research project, Advancing Membrane Filtration (AMF).
01 January, 2025
Kaust alumnae Asrar Damdam and Maha AlJuhani selected as the winners of Innovators Under 35 MENA award for 2024
Alumni in the News
Haleema Alamri, Director of the Innovation and Technology Observatory at the Ministry of Energy, embodies King Abdullah University of Science and Technology’s (KAUST) commitment to the Kingdom’s sustainable energy future. Her work supports a domestic skilled-leadership pipeline, advancing the Ministry’s energy localization goals.
KAUST official
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