Principal Investigator

Ibrahim Hoteit, Prof.

Professor, Earth Sciences and Engineering / Professor, Applied Mathematics & Computational Science​​​​​​​​ / Director, Climate Change Center / Director, Saudi Aramco Marine Environment Research Center at KAUST

Research Interests: Data assimilation, Uncertainty quantification, Inverse Problems, Ocean modeling

Research Staff

Shehzad Afzal

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Visual analytics, Information visualization, Data-driven decision making

Hari Prasad Dasari

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Atmospheric modeling, Atmospheric dynamics, Air pollution dispersion, Renewable energy

Daquan Guo

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Physical oceanography

George Krokos

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Physical oceanography

Thang Luong

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Atmospheric modeling, Atmospheric physics, Extreme value statistics, Machine learning

Siva Reddy Sanikommu

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Data assimilation, Ocean modeling, Ocean forecasting

Yanhui Zhang

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Reservoir simulation, Optimization, Uncertainty quantification, History matching

Fakhar Ud-Din Siddiqui

Research Specialist

Prajeesh Athippatta Gopinathan

Research Specialist

Muhammad Yousaf

Research Technician

Matteo Zampieri

Research Scientist

Ramakrishna Phani Pammi

Research Specialist

Junchuan Sun

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Modeling, Climate Extremes, Ocean forecasting

Alexander Ukhov

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Climate variability and change, Aerosols, Numerical methods, Air quality

Sateesh Masabathini

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Ocean forecasting, Data assimilation, Air pollution dispersion

Postdoctoral Fellow

Samah El Mohtar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Oil spill modeling, Remote sensing, Data assimilation, Uncertainty quantification

Rama Krishna Karumuri

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling, Aerosols

Jingyi Ma

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ocean modeling, Physical oceanography, Internal tide, Red Sea Coral Protection

Rajadurai P. Elamurugu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Remote sensing, Harmful algal blooms, Coral reef bleaching

Naila Raboudi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Data assimilation, Ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF), Ocean forecasting

Panagiotis Vasou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Physical oceanography, Ocean modeling, Arabian Gulf

Yixin Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ecosystem modeling, Ocean circulation, Ecosystem functioning, Red Sea

Jithendra Raju Nadimpalli

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ocean modeling, Remote sensing, Marine heatwaves, Physical oceanography

Charls Antony

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Ocean forecasting, Modeling

Harikishan Gandham

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Remote sensing, dust-climate interaction, Atmospheric dynamics

Wenqiang Cui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Climate

Yiling Zheng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Climate Dynamics, Extreme events, Atmospheric

Hongxing Cui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Atmospheric, Ocean, Deep Learning

Ioannis Hatzonikolakis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Air Pollution, Climate Extremes

Koteswararao Vankayalapati

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Remote sensing, Oil spill modeling, Mapping

Md Saquib Saharwardi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Modeling, Information visualization, Drought, Climate, Atmospheric modeling

Graduate Students

Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos

PhD Student

Research Interests: Biological oceanography, Ocean colour remote sensing, Phytoplankton phenology, Marine ecology, Remote sensing

Paschalis Garouniatis

PhD Student

Research Interests: Ocean modeling, Oil spill modeling, Costal Protection, Ocean circulation, Arabian Gulf

Salma M. Alsinan

PhD Student

Research Interests: AI-aided reservoir characterization

Hatem Jebari

M.Sc. Student

Research Interests: AI-enhanced marine oil spill detection, Oil Spill Detection

Juan Felipe Mendez Espinosa

PhD Student

Research Interests: Air pollution dispersion, Climate, Atmospheric modeling, Arabian Peninsula

Rihab Fath Larayedh

PhD Student

Research Interests: Red Sea Coral Protection, Safeguard Marine Ecosystem, Acustics, Modeling

Sofien Resifi

PhD Student

Research Interests: AI Weather, AI Climate Downscaling Prediction

Cristhian Andres Valladares Portilla

M.Sc. Student

Research Interests: Ocean waves, Machine learning, Climate Extremes, Data Science, Red Sea

Elissar Al Aawar

PhD Student

Research Interests: Atmospheric modeling, Inverse Problems, Bayesian inference, Uncertainty quantification, Renewable energy, Air Pollution, Urban Scale Modeling

Marianthi Pateraki

PhD Student

Research Interests: Physical oceanography, Ocean colour remote sensing, Ecosystem modeling, Physics-Biology Interactions, Red Sea

Operations

Elena Lopez

Climate Change Center Manager

Mir Ali

High Performance EP Support Technician

Lin Ding

Business Administrator

Sandra Fischer

Projects Specialist