



Fares Banjar
M.S./PhD Student
Optical Fiber Communication Systems, Optical Wireless Communication Systems
fares.banjar@kaust.edu.sa

Heming Lin
M.S./PhD Student
Photonics and optoelectronics; Meta-materials
heming.lin@kaust.edu.sa

Talha Ariff
PhD Student
Plant biology & Desert agriculture, Sensors, Photonics & Optoelectronics
talha.ariff@kaust.edu.sa

Wahyu Hendra Gunawan
Postdoctoral Fellow,
Research Interests: Optical Wireless Communication, Optical Fiber Communication Systems, Advanced Modulation Format

Alaaeddine Rjeb
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Interests: Next generation networks, Next generation optical communication and sensing physical layer' devices, specialty devices for high dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

Yanqing Jia
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Large bandgap group-III nitride, Photonics and optoelectronics

Hongliang Chang
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Large bandgap group-III nitride, Photonics and optoelectronics



Yara Banda
PhD Student
Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics
yara.banda@kaust.edu.sa

Ibrahim Alsayoud
PhD Student
Research Interests: Photonics, Optoelectronics
ibrahim.alsayoud@kaust.edu.sa

Paulraj Gnanasekar
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Research Interests: Catalysis, Nanomaterials, Photonics

Boon S. Ooi
Principal Investigator
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST
Fellow of the U.S. National Academy of Inventors (NAI)
Fellow of The Optical Society (OSA) | Fellow of the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) | Fellow of the Institute of Physics (London)
Research Interests: Optoelectronics, Photonics

Tien Khee Ng
Laboratory Manager
Principal Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET) | Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) | Senior Member of IEEE | Senior Member of The Optical Society (OSA)
Research Interests: Photonics, Molecular Beam Epitaxy, Large bandgap group-III nitride

Islam Ashry
Senior Research Scientist
Senior Member of IEEE
Research Interests: Sensors, Nanomaterials, Networks and wireless communications, Photonics, Electromagnetics, Numerical analysis

