The list of students supervised can be found here.
1. Jiahao Hu, in progress, KAUST EE, MS/Ph.D., start date: fall 2021, Expected graduation: 2025. Project: Contributions to graph neural networks for the classification of biomedical signals.
2. Yasmine Marani in progress, Ph.D., start date: fall 2021, Expected graduation: 2024. Project: Contribution to
observer design for nonlinear dynamical systems.
3. Fahad Aljehani, in progress, start date: fall 2019, Expected graduation: 2024. Project: Control and monitoring for
smart aquaculture.
4. Peihao Li, graduated, 2018-2022. Project: Pulse Shaped Waveform Characterization using the Schrödinger Operator’s
Spectrum. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/686102. (2 J, 2 C, 2 S and 1 P). Currently
creating a startup.
5. Asem Al-Alwan, graduated, 2016- 2021. Project: Control Design for Alignment Problem in Optical Wireless Communication.
https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/675957. (4 J and 1 C). Currently researcher
in National Lab of Robotics center at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).
6. Lilia Ghaffour, graduated, 2016- 2021. Project: Control and Estimation for Partial Differential Equations and Extension
to Fractional Systems. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/673862. (2J and 2C). Currently
postdoctoral researcher Institut National des Sciences Appliquées Centre Val de Loire.
7. Mohamed Bahloul, graduated, 2017-2022. Project: Contributions to Data-driven and Fractional-order Model-based
Approaches for Arterial Haemodynamics Characterization and Aortic Stiffness Estimation. https://repository.
kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/676615. (1B, 5 J, 10C, 2 S and 1 P, Best papers award EMBC2018). currently
assistant Professor Alfaisal University.
8. Abderazak Chahid, graduated, 2016- 2020. Project: Pre-processing and Feature Extraction Methods for Smart
Biomedical Signal Monitoring : Algorithms and Applications. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/
666137. (5J, 6C, 4S, 2P, best paper award EMBC2020). Currently postdoctoral Researcher, Ontario Tech University
9. Zehor Belkhatir, graduated, 2013- 2018, Project:Estimation Methods for Infinite-Dimensional Systems Applied to the
Hemodynamic Response in the Brain. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/124545/discover?
query=Zehor+Belkhatir&submit=. (1B, 5J, 6C). next postdoctoral fellow at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer
Center in NewYork and currently senior lecturer in southampton university, UK.
10. Usman Mohammed Majeed, graduated, 2013- 2017. Project: Iterative Observer-based Estimation Algorithms for
Steady-State Elliptic Partial Differential Equation Systems. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/
625240. (7C, Best paper award IEEECEIT2015). Currently Compliance and Integration Manager Innowi Inc.
Santa Clara.
11. Shahrazed Elmetennani, graduated, 2012 - 2017. Project: Control of Hyperbolic Heat Transfer Mechanisms Application
to the Distributed Concentrated Solar Collectors. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/
623455. (3J, 7C, 1P). Next postdoc at UT Austin.
12. Sharafa Asiri, graduated, 2013 - 2017. Project: An Inverse Source Problem for a One-dimensional Wave Equation:
An Observer-Based Approach. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/292839. (3J, 5C). Currently
assistant professor at King Abdulaziz University Jeddah, KSA .
13. Ayman Karam, graduated, start date: 2012-2016. Project: Reduced-Order Dynamic Modeling, Fouling Detection,
and Optimal Control of Solar-Powered Direct Contact Membrane Distillation. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/
handle/10754/621961. (4J, 3C, 3P). Currently working with DaamInno company.
14. Abeer Aldoghaither, graduated, 2011- 2015, Project: Methods and Algorithms for Solving Inverse Problems for Fractional
Advection-Dispersion Equations. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/582312. (3J, 3C).
next assistant professor at Dar-Elhikma University, currently president of the university.
15. Fadi Eleiwi, graduated, 2012-2015, Project: Dynamic Modeling and Control of Distributed Heat Transfer Mechanisms:
Application to a Membrane Distillation Module. https://repository.kaust.edu.sa/handle/10754/583277. (3J,
6C, 2P). currently research Electrical Engineer, Research Product Development Innovations, currently business
System Analyst II, Aramco.
Ph.D. students co-advising (50%)
1. Zineb Kaisserli, graduated, Mostaganem University, 2012- 2015, Project: Image reconstruction
and denoising using squared eigenfunctions of the Schrodinger operator. While having
been formally enrolled and having defended Ph.D. thesis at Mostaganem University in Algeria,
this student spent extended periods at KAUST. https://www.theses-algerie.com/
2841404718632012/these-de-doctorat/universite-abdelhamid-ibn-badis-mostaganem/
decomposition-du-potentiel-de-loperateur-de-schrodinger-semiclassique-bidimensionnel-application-a-la-representation-dimages(1J, 4C, 1P). currently assistant professor at Mostaganem University in Algeria.