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RESEARCH PROJECTS
22
GOVERNMENT PROJECTS
15
INDUSTRY PROJECTS
12

Research Projects

Unraveling the deep overturning circulation of the Red Sea
Collaborators: Opportunity Fund Program (OFP)
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jan 2024 – Dec 2025
Funding: Total budget $200K 		Ultra-high resolution urban weather and climate modeling of KAUST
Collaborators: KAUST Climate and Livability Initiative
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jan 2023 – Dec 2023
Funding: Total budget $100K 		AI-enhanced operational short-term energy predictions at NEOM
Collaborators: Center Partnership Funding – Extreme Computing Research Center
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: O. Knio
Duration: May 2022 – Apr 2024
Funding: Total budget $440K
Arabian Peninsula’s land-based and marine heatwaves: Variability, drivers, trends, and predictability up to sub-seasonal scales
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigators: A. Subramanian D. Giglio (University of Colorado)
Duration: Apr 2022 – Mar 2025
Funding: Total budget $940K Personal share $600K 		Optimizing buildings hybrid renewable energy systems under weather and climate variability
Collaborators: KAUST Climate and Livability Initiative
Principal Investigator: O. Knio (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2021 – Oct 2022
Funding: Total budget $100K Personal share $40K 		KMET: KAUST Meteorology
Collaborators: KAUST Climate and Livability Initiative
Principal Investigator: K. Salama (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2021 – Oct 2023
Funding: Total budget $200K Personal share $75K
Using machine learning to compress scientific data
Collaborators: KAUST AI Initiative
Principal Investigator: P. Kalnis (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jul 2021 – Jun 2022
Funding: Total budget $100K Personal share $80K 		Virtual Red Sea Initiative
Collaborators: KAUST Strategic Initiative Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigators: O. Knio (KAUST) B. Cornuelle (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) J. Anderson (NCAR) D. Raitsos (University of Athens)
Duration: Jul 2021 – Jun 2024
Funding: Total budget $1.5M Personal share $600K 		An efficient framework for downscaling large ensemble forecasts with application to geophysical flows
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: O. Knio (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigators: I. Hoteit E. Titi (Cambridge University)
Duration: Apr 2021 – Mar 2024
Funding: Total budget $1.05M Personal share $225K
A managing environment for sustainability hub
Collaborators: Center of Excellence for NEOM Research at KAUST
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigators: C. Pain (Imperial College) R. Ranasinghe (IHE-Delft) S. Groom (Plymouth Marine Laboratory – PML)
Duration: Oct 2019 – Sep 2021
Funding: Total budget $1.1M Personal share $390K 		MPA design in the Red Sea
Collaborators: KAUST Center Competitive Funding – Red Sea Research Center
Principal Investigator: M. Berumen (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jul 2019 – Jun 2020
Funding: Total budget $450K Personal share $50K 		Arabian Peninsula precipitation variability, extremes, trends, and ultra-fine predictability up to sub-seasonal scales
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: C. Castro (University of Arizona)
Duration: Apr 2019 – Mar 2022
Funding: Total budget $850K Personal share $510K
Detecting, tracking, and forecasting of hazardous spills in the Red Sea
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: O. Knio (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigators: I. Hoteit C. Dawson (UT-Austin)
Duration: Apr 2019 – Mar 2022
Funding: Total budget $1M Personal share $200K 		A new paradigm in precision agriculture: assimilation of ultra-fine resolution data into a crop-yield forecasting model
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: M. McCabe (KAUST)
Co-Principal Investigators: I. Hoteit J. Sheffield (University of Southampton)
Duration: Apr 2018 – Mar 2021
Funding: Total budget $1.05M Personal share $225K 		Control of the Red Sea circulation and stratification by strait hydraulics and internal waves on multiple time scales
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigators: L. Pratt (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) T. Akylas (MIT)
Duration: Apr 2018 – Mar 2021
Funding: Total budget $835K Personal share $500K
Remote sensing harmful algal blooms in the Red Sea
Collaborators: KAUST Center Competitive Funding – Red Sea Research Center
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jul 2017 – Jun 2018
Funding: Total budget $50K 		Virtual Red Sea Initiative
Collaborators: KAUST Strategic Initiative Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigators: O. Knio (KAUST) B. Cornuelle A. Miller (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) T. Platt (Plymouth Marine Laboratory) P. Lermusiaux (MIT)
Duration: May 2017 – Apr 2020
Funding: Total budget $1.8M Personal share $750K 		Ventilation of the deep Red Sea: Formation processes, deep circulation and their variability
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: M. Hendershott (Scripps Institution of Oceanography)
Duration: Apr 2017 – Mar 2019
Funding: Total budget $400K Personal share $240K
Dynamically adaptive data-driven simulation and uncertainty quantification of coastal flows
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: C. Dawson (UT-Austin)
Duration: Mar 2015 – Feb 2018
Funding: Total budget $900K Personal share $570K 		Modeling dispersion of suspended sediments and dissolved contaminants in the Red Sea
Collaborators: Red Sea Research Center Competitive Funding Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: O. Knio (KAUST)
Duration: Jul 2014 – Jun 2017
Funding: Personal share $380K 		Optimization and uncertainty quantification of ocean boundary layers physics
Collaborators: KAUST Competitive Research Grants Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: Charles Jackson (UT-Austin)
Duration: Aug 2012 – Jul 2015
Funding: Total budget $650K Personal share $430K
State-parameter estimation and uncertainty quantification for advanced predictive models of extreme events in the coastal ocean
Collaborators: Academic Excellent Alliance KAUST/UT-Austin Program
Principal Investigator: I. Hoteit
Co-Principal Investigator: C. Dawson (UT-Austin)
Duration: Jul 2011 – Jun 2014
Funding: Total budget $520K Personal share $370K

Government Projects

Harnessing coral connectivity for an effective management and enhancement of Red Sea coral reefs in Saudi Arabia
Collaborators: NEOM Ocean Science and Solutions Applied Research Institute (OSSARI)
PI: F. Benzoni
Co-PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Feb 2024 – Jan 2026
Funding: Total budget $920K | Personal share $80K 		NEOM Climate Change Program Phase-II: Marine ecological climate risk and resilience for the NEOM region and wider Red Sea
Collaborators: NEOM Environment Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Co-PI: W. Le Quesne (CEFAS, UK)
Duration: Nov 2023 – Oct 2025
Funding: Total budget $1.06M | Personal share $260K 		Modelling the Red Sea biogeochemistry with applications to seascape genetics
Collaborators: NEOM Ocean Science and Solutions Applied Research Institute (OSSARI)
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Aug 2023 – Jul 2024
Funding: Total budget $123K
NEOM Climate Change Program Phase-I: Atmospheric and ocean modeling under climate change for the NEOM region
Collaborators: NEOM Environment Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: May 2023 – Apr 2025
Funding: Total budget $3.13M | Personal share $1.6M 		Urban impact of the new great lake in Riyadh on the surrounding area
Collaborators: Public Investment Fund
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: May 2023 – Jun 2023
Funding: Total budget $60K 		Developing a 20-year reanalysis for the Arabian Gulf
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Dec 2022 – Jun 2026
Funding: Total budget $527K
A tidal elevation prediction system for the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Dec 2022 – Nov 2023
Funding: Total budget $127K 		Real time monitoring and forecasting oil spill around Aramco facilities in the Arabian Gulf
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Dec 2022 – Jun 2026
Funding: Total budget $1.225M 		Sea level rise and extremes in the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Dec 2022 – Nov 2025
Funding: Total budget $322K
Climate Change Center
Collaborators: Saudi Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA)
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Sep 2022 – Mar 2026
Funding: Total budget $17.8M 		Weather informed profiling for solar and wind energy harvesting across NEOM
Collaborators: NEOM Energy Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Feb 2022 – Jan 2024
Funding: Total budget $170K 		AI-aided probabilistic reservoir characterization using ensemble history matching with big data
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2020 – Oct 2023
Funding: Total budget $516K
An intelligent early-warning oil spill detection and prediction system for the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2020 – Oct 2023
Funding: Total budget $490K 		Developing operational ocean-atmosphere-wave forecasting systems for the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Feb 2020 – Jan 2023
Funding: Total budget $2.7M 		Developing pre-operational ocean-atmosphere-wave forecasting systems for the Red Sea and Arabian Gulf
Collaborators: ARAMCO
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Dec 2018 – Nov 2019
Funding: Total budget $440K

Industry Projects

Investigating rainfall variability and IDF curves over NEOM
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Feb 2023 – Jun 2023
Budget: Total budget $93K 		Analysis of weather variability, weather extremes, and demand in support of ENOWA’s power generation sector
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA Energy Sector
PI: Omar Knio
Co-PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2023 – Oct 2025
Budget: Total budget $950K
Personal share: $576K 		KAUST data use and dashboard
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA Energy Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2023 – Oct 2025
Budget: Total budget $1.05M
NEOM E&W: Design envelope for desalination plan
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA Energy Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2023 – Dec 2023
Budget: Total budget $40K 		NEOM emerging offshore energy technologies
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA Energy Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2023 – Jun 2024
Budget: Total budget $180K 		CO2 emissions and variability over NEOM
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA Energy Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Nov 2022 – Oct 2024
Budget: Total budget $315K
Estimation of emission, spread and evolution of CO2 across NEOM region using computational models and satellite measurements
Collaborators: NEOM-ENOWA Energy Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Oct 2022 – Sep 2024
Budget: Total budget $350K 		Dispersion modelling for the new NEOM selective desalination plant
Collaborators: NEOM Water Sector
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jul 2022 – Dec 2022
Budget: Total budget $90K 		Wave and storm surge assessment under climate change scenarios at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC)
Collaborators: KAEC funded project
PI: I. Hoteit
Co-PI: O. Knio (KAUST)
Duration: Dec 2017 – Feb 2018
Budget: Total budget $85K
Environmental impact assessment of the Red Sea and NEOM projects
Collaborators: Saudi Public Investment Fund + Beacon Development Company
PI: Abdulaziz Al-Suwailem
Co-PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Jul 2017 – Jun 2019
Budget: Personal share $600K 		Wave and tide assessment at King Abdullah Economic City (KAEC)
Collaborators: KAEC funded project
PI: I. Hoteit
Co-PI: O. Knio (KAUST)
Duration: Dec 2016 – Feb 2017
Budget: Total budget $60K 		High resolution modeling and forecasting of Duba circulation
Collaborators: CGG – Geoscience company
PI: I. Hoteit
Duration: Oct 2015 – Dec 2015
Budget: Total budget $55K
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