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

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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

Aigerim Nurbayeva

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Doha Raik Hamza Mohamed

Introduction ​Doha Raik Hamza Mohamed remained at KAUST as Associate Research Scientist under the supervision of Prof. Je Shamma after graduation of Ph.D. from the CTL group at KAUST in 2014. Education and early career Doha Raik obtained her B.S. in Communications and Electronics Engineering, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt in 2001. Then in 2008, she went to Nile University, Cairo, Egypt to get M.S. in Wireless Communications. After graduation in 2010, she earned a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal. Research