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 Scientist

Research Interests: Laser Sensors

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dapeng Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mohamed Sy

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Waleed Ahmad, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: ​Heterogeneous Catalysts

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

Bilal Rinchi

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Fakhrianda Aswin Luthfia Zufar

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Jiuzhou Zhao (Adam)

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

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 Farhat Benkaroui

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Mohammad Adil

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Heat Transfer

Mohammed Almomtan

Ph.D. Student​​

Research Interests: Machine Learning, Numerical Optimization

Muhammad Shoaib Ijaz

Ph.D. Student

Rayya Bedran

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Sanskar Maddi

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

 

Visiting Students

Alejandro Rodríguez Montes,
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia

Breath sensor using laser spectroscopy

Darwish Bin Moktar,
University College London, United Kingdom
Investigations of lube oil effect on hydrogen ignition in RCM.

Iven Marc Dolman,
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

3-Phase water cut meter.

Michael Vogl,
OTH Regensburg University, Germany
CFD
Shaker Alshehri,
Duke University, USA
Open-path Multi-species Leak Detection Using Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy