Keynote Talks
Please join us each day for the keynote lectures from international speakers in the areas of energy, water, environment, food and health, and the digital domain, all relating to sustainability. More info can be found here.
Scientific Talks
KAUST researchers will present a wide range of scientific talks across our major focus thrusts: Environment, Water, Energy, Food, Health, and the Digital Domain.
A prize will be awarded for the "Best Talk" for our early career researchers.
The complete list of scientific talks can be found below.
Faculty Talk
Auditorium Bldg. 20
16:00 - 16:30 Presenter: Suzana Nunes
Title: Polymeric Membranes for Sustainable Separations
16:30 - 17:00 Presenter: Javier Ruiz Martinez
Title: Unraveling the Structure and Role of Mn and Ce for Selective Catalytic Reduction of NO in
Application-Relevant Catalysts and Conditions
Talk
Auditorium between Bldgs. 2 & 3
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Javier Blanco Sacristán
Title: Assessment of mangrove distribution and potential for afforestation in the Red Sea
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Kasper Johansen
Title: Remote Sensing for Precision Agriculture
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Dario Rangel Shaw
Title: Electro-anammox: A novel anaerobic process for the oxidation of ammonium by anammox bacteria
Auditorium between Bldgs. 4 & 5
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Julie Melissa Sanchez Medina
Title: Disrupting the current municipal wastewater treatment paradigm through anaerobic membrane bioreactor
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Lakshmeesha Upadhyaya
Title: Hollow fiber-based membrane dehumidification using ionic liquid. Sustainable materials to process
Faculty Talk
Auditorium Bldg. 20
16:00 - 16:30 Presenter: Mohamed H. Elhoseiny
Title: How Imaginative and Affective AI can help build sustainable future
16:30 - 17:10 Presenter: Paulo Esteves-Verissimo
Title: The day Facebook went down: a tale of resilience or lack thereof
Talk
Auditorium
between Bldgs. 2 & 3
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Mohamed Shalaby
Title: Drone delivery is not only cost-effective, but also environmentally friendly
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Sameh Abdulah
Title: Large-Scale Geospatial Data Science Using ExaGeoStat
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Rawan Alghamdi
Title: Towards a Sustainable Connectivity Landscape: A Cloud-Enabled High-Altitude-Platform System
Approach
Auditorium between Bldgs. 4 & 5
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Samar Aseeri
Title: A Tool to Visualize Application Mapping onto Shaheen II Nodes
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Ahmed Bader
Title: Mobility Analytics
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Peihao Li
Title: SCSA: A smart digital analysis tool towards sustainable health careFaculty Talk
Auditorium Bldg. 20
16:00 - 16:30 Presenter: Raquel Peixoto
Title: Red Sea Research Center Coral Probiotic Village
16:30 - 17:00 Presenter: Michael Berumen
Title: The KAUST-TRSDC partnership: setting ambitious new standards for sustainability
17:00 - 17:30 Presenter: Russell Brainard
Title: Collaborative Research and Monitoring to Support Science-Informed Regenerative Tourism for The
The Red Sea & AMAALA Projects
Talk
Auditorium between Bldgs. 2 & 3
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Hamed Albalawi
Title: Coral Restoration through 3D Printing and Fabrication
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Arnab Hazra
Title: Estimating high-resolution Red Sea surface temperature hotspots, using a low-rank semiparametric
spatial model
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Malika Kheireddine
Title: What is The Science we need for the ocean we want?
Auditorium between Bldgs. 4 & 5
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Juan Camilo Moreno Beltran
Title: Single gene bioengineering as starting point to produce a new generation of super crops with.
enhanced photosynthetic efficiency, stress tolerance, plant yield, and nutritional content
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Thien Nguyen
Title: Sustainable Porous Polymers for CO2 Capture and Methane Storage
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Natalia Odnoletkova
Title: Impacts of climate change on Saudi Arabia and KAUST
Talk
Auditorium between Bldgs. 2 & 3
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Afnan AlBatati
Title: Nanostructured Electrodes for Efficient Energy Harvesting and Green Hydrogen Production
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Chima Justin Ezekiel
Title: Geothermal Energy for Sustainable Energy Alternative in Saudi Arabia
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Miguel Figueroa Labastida
Title: Experimental and computational studies of methanol and ethanol preignition behind reflected shock
waves
11:00 - 11:20 Presenter: Abaynesh Yihdego Gebreyohannes
Title: Advanced membrane-based air dehumidification system for air conditioning: from material to hollow
fiber module device
Auditorium between Bldgs. 4 & 5
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Rifan Hardian
Title: Machine learning in sustainable materials development
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Hao Huang
Title: Lithium Extraction from Red seawater by a-Si 3J cell
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Luis Lanzetta
Title: Degradation mechanism of hybrid tin perovskite solar cells: reasons for their instability and solutions
towards stable photovoltaics
11:00 - 11:20 Presenter: Diego Mateo
Title: Efficient Visible-Light Driven Photothermal Conversion of CO2 to Methane by Nickel Nanoparticles
Supported on Barium Titanate
Faculty Talk
Auditorium Bldg. 20
16:00 - 16:30 Presenter: Charalambos Konstantinou
Title: Electric Power to the People: Building Secure and Sustainable Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
16:30 - 17:00 Presenter: Mark Tester
Title: Salt-tolerant plants for saltwater agriculture
17:00 - 17:30 Presenter: Rod Wing
Title: The Center for Desert Agriculture - Finding ways to feed the world without destroying our planet!
Talk
Auditorium between Bldgs. 2 & 3
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Yi Lu
Title: Monolithic Integration of Deep Ultraviolet and Visible LEDs for Radiative Sterilization
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Abdulkadir Celik
Title: The Internet of Bodies Towards a Sustainable Healthcare System
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Haoliang Lu
Title: Magnetic Materials for Low Power, Biomedical Applications
Auditorium between Bldgs. 4 & 5
10:00 - 10:20 Presenter: Intikhab Alam
Title: COVID-19 virus Mutation Tracking (CovMT) with special focus on critical variants
10:20 - 10:40 Presenter: Maged Saad
Title: DARWIN21 _Desert rhizosphere microbes for sustainable SMART agriculture
10:40 - 11:00 Presenter: Mani Teja Vijjapu
Title: Self-powered NO2 gas sensors and fully-integrated gas-sensing systems for sustainable
environmental monitoring
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