Events
General News
19 February, 2023
The Office of Alumni Affairs is excited to let you know that beginning February 16, 2023, KAUST graduate alumni are welcome to return to KAUST anytime they want!
What you need to know:
• All facilities and services can be accessed by the alumnus and their accompanying dependents, except for KAUST Health (unless is case of an emergency), daycare facilities and The KAUST School.
• To register your visit, you need your former KAUST ID number to complete the VMS form.
• All alumni will need to enter their up-to-date information when requesting a visit to KAUST.
• A maximum of eight dependents are permitted for each visit.
• Alumni and their accompanying dependents can stay for up to seven days.
• Alumni can reserve their stay directly with The Alkhozama Hotel at KAUST.
For queries about visits to KAUST, please visit the website and contact VisitorCenter@KAUST.EDU.SA.
We look forward to welcoming you home.
Alumni in the News
Aniq Ur Rahman gave the interview for Al Ekhbariya TV X channel
Al Ekhbariya TV X channel
KAUST alumni Michael Bogdan Margineanu (MS'15, PhD'19), Postdoctoral Fellow at The Francis Crick Institute in London gave the interview for Al Ekhbariya TV
Al Ekhbariya TV X channel
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