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

Janardhanraj Subburaj, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Future Fuels, Machine Learning

Khalil Djebbi

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Laser Sensors

Zyad Mohammad

Prototype Engineer (Research Specialist)

Postdoctoral Fellows

Dapeng Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Mohamed Sy, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Touqeer Anwar Kashif, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Fuels and combustion

Viacheslav Meshcherinov, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

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

Mohamed Farhat Benkaroui

M.Sc | Ph.D. Student

Mohammad Adil

Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Chemical Kinetics, Heat Transfer

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

 

Visiting Students

Jennifer Schurr,
Aalto University, Finland

Super adiabatic combustion of H2/N20 and NH3/N2O

Jose F Mar Tapia,
Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Mexico
Laser Fencing project
Michael Vogl,
OTH Regensburg University, Germany
CFD
Nafi Farzana,
Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
 Speciation analysis of fluorinated refrigerants
Shaker Alshehri,
Duke University, USA
Open-path Multi-species Leak Detection Using Cavity-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy