Optical wireless communications

Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini named a Fellow of SPIE and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Photonics Society

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Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini earns SPIE Fellow and IEEE Distinguished Lecturer titles, highlighting his influential contributions to optical wireless communications.

Post-doctoral research fellow Dr. Abderrahmen Trichili participation in the 69th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting (#LINO19)

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Meeting Nobel laureates The 2019 event provided an opportunity for science's next generation to interact with 39 Nobel laureates, including Donna Strickland and Gérard Mourou, 2018 laureates in physics. Among the 580 young scientists from 89 countries in attendance were four young researchers from the University: postdoctoral fellow Abderrahmen Trichili; KAUST Ph.D. graduate Ibrahim Dursun; and students Abdullah Almansouri (Ph.D. student) and Latifah Al Maghrabi (M.S. student). Participants took part in lectures, forum-style talks, science walks, dinner events and open exchanges. The

Meet KAUST prospective student: Yingquan Li

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Yingquan Li, 21, is an electrical engineering graduate who will join KAUST in the fall of 2020. He will join KAUST as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Communication Theory Lab under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini. An initial reference from a supervisor spurred his interest in joining KAUST, which resulted in a visiting student opportunity at KAUST. During his internship, Li was amazed by the facilities and research standard found on campus. It was this combination of impressive factors that inspired him to continue his academic career at the University.

Rui Chen

Visiting Student, Photonics Laboratory
Rui Chen was a ​Visiting Student at the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) and Photonics Laboratory at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) from the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student at the University of Cambridge, UK. Education Profile M.S. in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University Of Glasgow, UK (September 2015 – September 2016). B.Eng. in Electronic Engineering, University Of Electronic Science And Technology Of China, Chengdu, Sichuan, China (September 2011 - Ju1y 2015). Selected Publications Gao, D., Pan, L., Liu, R., Chen, R., & Xie, M

Ming-Cheng Tsai

Ph.D. Degree in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Mehdi Amhoud

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Mehdi Amhoud is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Communication Theory Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Slim Alouini. Education and Early Career Mehdi received the Ph.D. degree in communications & electronic from Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France, in 2017. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering at KAUST University, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia. His current domain of research includes modeling and performance analysis of MIMO free space optical systems. Scientific