KAUST


Farooq's group for Advanced Sensing Technology & Energy Research 
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Principal Investigator

Aamir Farooq, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator, Professor, Mechanical Engineering​​​​

Research Interests: Fuels and combustion, Laser Sensors, Spectroscopy, Catalysis, Chemical Kinetics, Clean Energy, Dual Comb Spectroscopy

Research Group Staff

Hassnain Abbas Khan, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Heterogeneous Catalysis

Janardhanraj Subburaj, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Future Fuels, Machine Learning

Khalil Djebbi

Research and Technical Support Engineer

Research Interests: Laser Sensors

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dapeng Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jiabiao Zou, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Combustion and Atmospheric Chemistry, Laser diagnostics, Theoretical Calculations, Clean Energy

Tajammul Syed, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Laser diagnostics, mmW and RoF generation, Dual Comb Spectroscopy

Zhenhai Wang, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Laser Sensors, Spectroscopy, Laser Sensing

PhD Students

Ahmad Alsewailem

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Fuels, Clean Energy, Laser Sensors

Ihsan Farouki

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Sensors, Fuels and combustion

Md Zafar Ali Khan

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Clean Combustion, Machine Learning, Optimization, Decarbonization

Mohamad Abou Daher

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: ​Heterogeneous Catalysts, Clean Fuels, Chemical Kinetics

Mohamed Sy

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Laser Sensing, Laser diagnostics, Laser Absorption Spectroscopy

Mohammad Adil

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Heat Transfer

Mohammed Almomtan

Ph.D. Student​​

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Numerical Optimization

Rayya Bedran

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Sk Aman Ali

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Laser Sensors, Clean Energy

Touqeer Anwar Kashif

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Fuels and combustion

Yada Leo Li

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Fuels, Spectroscopy, Laser Sensors

 

 

Visiting Students

 

 

Congjie Hong,
Xi'an Jiaotong University, China 

Jet fuel ignition under engine-relevant condition.

Emmanuel Busillo,
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy 
Methane pyrolysis and soot formation.

Mohamed Farhat Benkaroui,
École Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia

AI & Laser based sensor for medical diagnostics.

Shuyao Chen,
University of Science and Technology of China, China
Organic hydroperoxides kinetics.

Sirine Naguez,
École Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunisia

Spectral domain adaptation of Fuelprop package beyond ATR-FTIR.

Xin Zhang,
Xi’an Jiaotong University, China    

Flame speed measurement and cavity-enhanced absorption spectroscopy in Shock Tube.