A young graduate research university on the Red Sea that has drawn world-class scientists in AI, chemistry, marine science, and engineering to Saudi Arabia's coast.
9 professors and academic leaders celebrated so far, cited on every card. A small, growing selection, not a roster of the faculty. In pursuit of every professor, everywhere.
President
Office of the President
Thank you for bringing a lifetime of leadership at Monash and King's College London to the Red Sea, and for steering a young university toward research that serves both science and the society funding it.
Professor, Computer Science; Director, KAUST AI Initiative
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division
Thank you for the long-short-term-memory line of ideas that helped make modern deep learning possible, and for building an AI research home in Thuwal where students from everywhere work on the field's oldest dream.
Ibn Sina Distinguished Professor, Marine Science
Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering Division
Thank you for nine hundred papers of ocean science and for refusing to accept the death of coral reefs, turning the Red Sea into a working laboratory for how the ocean can help heal the climate.
Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor, Chemistry
Physical Science and Engineering Division
Thank you for made-to-order metal-organic frameworks that pull carbon dioxide from air and water from desert sky, chemistry designed molecule by molecule around what people and the planet actually need.
Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division
Thank you for devoting world-leading communications theory to the people the internet forgot, designing the aerial and satellite networks that can reach rural, remote, and disaster-struck communities.
Professor of Chemistry
Physical Science and Engineering Division
Thank you for supramolecular capsules and porous materials that make separations cleaner and medicines smarter, and for founding WISE so that the next generation of women scientists in the region sees a door already open.
Ibn Alhaytham Distinguished Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Applied Physics; Dean of Physical Science and Engineering
Physical Science and Engineering Division
Thank you for batteries built for harsh climates and local materials, and for six hundred papers and eighty patents that keep pushing energy storage from the lab toward the grid.
Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering Division
Thank you for lasers and photonic devices that carry data through water, air, and fiber alike, and for patents that companies actually build with, proof that careful optics can light up whole industries.
Emeritus Professor, Chemistry
Physical Science and Engineering Division
Thank you for surface organometallic chemistry, which made heterogeneous catalysis predictable, and for discoveries like alkane metathesis and turning polyethylene waste into diesel that show catalysis at its most useful.
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