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

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

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

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

Amine Elleuch

M.Sc. Student

Research Interests: AI, Modeling Methods, Physical Systems

Sofien Resifi

PhD Student

Research Interests: AI Weather, AI Climate Downscaling Prediction

Qi Chen

PhD Student

Research Interests: Climate Dynamics, Ocean, Data assimilation

Yiguo Li

PhD Student

Research Interests: Climate Prediction, Simulation, Data assimilation, Parameterization

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