Advanced Sensing

KAUST CTL team wins second place at the 3rd Saudi Aramco Digital Hackathon

2 min read · Sun, Feb 1 2026

Hackathon Advanced Sensing IoT robotics

A team of PhD students from the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) has won second place at The 3rd Saudi Aramco Digital Hackathon, held in January 2026 as part of the KAUST Winter Enrichment Program (WEP’2026). The team, consisting of Salah Abdeljabar, Hasan Albinsaid, Jose Maria Sosa Gomez, Mohamed Afouene Melki, and Karim Saifullin, competed under the Advanced Sensing, IoT, and Robotics challenge theme. The hackathon brought together graduate students, researchers, and engineers to tackle real industrial challenges proposed by Saudi