Itzel Alcalá Rivas

Biography

Itzel Alcalá Rivas is a Ph.D. student in the FASTER group at KAUST. Her research interests include biomedical and environmental sensing, lasers, waveguides, and microelectronics. Her assigned work concerns on-chip waveguides for absorption spectroscopy.

She holds an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from KAUST and a B.Sc. in Nanotechnology from UNAM, Mexico. Her master’s research developed adaptive UAV sampling for nearshore turbidity mapping in the Red Sea.

Research projects

• On-chip waveguide for laser absorption spectroscopy

Education

MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering (KAUST, Thuwal, KSA), BSc in Nanotechnology (UNAM, Mexico)