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

Data assimilation, Uncertainty quantification, Inverse Problems, Ocean modeling

Research Staff

Alexander Ukhov

Research Scientist

Climate variability and change, Aerosols, Numerical methods, Air quality

Daquan Guo

Research Scientist

Physical oceanography

George Krokos

Research Scientist

Physical oceanography

Hari Prasad Dasari

Research Scientist

Atmospheric modeling, Atmospheric dynamics, Air pollution dispersion, Renewable energy

Junchuan Sun

Research Scientist

Modeling, Climate Extremes, Ocean forecasting

Matteo Zampieri

Research Scientist

Sateesh Masabathini

Research Scientist

Ocean forecasting, Data assimilation, Air pollution dispersion

Shehzad Afzal

Research Scientist

Visual analytics, Information visualization, Data-driven decision making

Siva Reddy Sanikommu

Research Scientist

Data assimilation, Ocean modeling, Ocean forecasting

Thang Luong

Research Scientist

Atmospheric modeling, Atmospheric physics, Extreme value statistics, Machine learning

Yanhui Zhang

Research Scientist

Reservoir simulation, Optimization, Uncertainty quantification, History matching

Postdoctoral Fellow

Charls Antony

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ocean forecasting, Modeling

Harikishan Gandham

Postdoctoral Fellow

Remote sensing, dust-climate interaction, Atmospheric dynamics

Hongxing Cui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Atmospheric, Ocean, Deep Learning

Ioannis Hatzonikolakis

Postdoctoral Fellow

Air Pollution, Climate Extremes

Jingyi Ma

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ocean modeling, Physical oceanography, Internal tide, Red Sea Coral Protection

Jithendra Raju Nadimpalli

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ocean modeling, Remote sensing, Marine heatwaves, Physical oceanography

Koteswararao Vankayalapati

Postdoctoral Fellow

Remote sensing, Oil spill modeling, Mapping

Md Saquib Saharwardi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Modeling, Information visualization, Drought, Climate, Atmospheric modeling

Naila Raboudi

Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation, Ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF), Ocean forecasting

Panagiotis Vasou

Postdoctoral Fellow

Physical oceanography, Ocean modeling, Arabian Gulf

Rajadurai P. Elamurugu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Remote sensing, Harmful algal blooms, Coral reef bleaching

Rama Krishna Karumuri

Postdoctoral Fellow

Atmospheric Chemistry Modelling, Aerosols

Samah El Mohtar

Postdoctoral Fellow

Oil spill modeling, Remote sensing, Data assimilation, Uncertainty quantification

Wenqiang Cui

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate

Yiling Zheng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate Dynamics, Extreme events, Atmospheric

Yixin Wang

Postdoctoral Fellow

Ecosystem modeling, Ocean circulation, Ecosystem functioning, Red Sea

Graduate Students

Cristhian Andres Valladares Portilla

M.Sc. Student

Ocean waves, Machine learning, Climate Extremes, Data Science, Red Sea

Elissar Al Aawar

PhD Student

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

Hatem Jebari

M.Sc. Student

AI-enhanced marine oil spill detection, Oil Spill Detection

Juan Felipe Mendez Espinosa

PhD Student

Air pollution dispersion, Climate, Atmospheric modeling, Arabian Peninsula

Marianthi Pateraki

PhD Student

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

Nikolaos Papagiannopoulos

PhD Student

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

Paschalis Garouniatis

PhD Student

Ocean modeling, Oil spill modeling, Costal Protection, Ocean circulation, Arabian Gulf

Rihab Fath Larayedh

PhD Student

Red Sea Coral Protection, Safeguard Marine Ecosystem, Acustics, Modeling

Salma M. Alsinan

PhD Student

AI-aided reservoir characterization

Sofien Resifi

PhD Student

AI Weather, AI Climate Downscaling Prediction

Operations

Elena Lopez

Climate Change Center Manager

Lin Ding

Business Administrator

Mir Ali

High Performance EP Support Technician

Abdulilah Alduwais

ALUMNI PhD Student

Atmospheric modeling, Remote sensing, Air Pollution

Adil Siripatana

Assistant Professor of Mathematics, CMKL University, Thailand/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Ocean modeling, Data assimilation, Uncertainty quantification

Aditya Kartadikaria

Assistant Professor, Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation

Ahmed EL-Sheikh

Faculty at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation

Ali Al-Dawood

Geophysist at ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Seismic imaging, Inverse Problems

Ana Carrasco

Data Engineer, GE Aviation, Mexico/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Ashok Karumuri

ALUMNI Research Scientist

Modeling, Climate, Atmospheric modeling, Monsoon dynamics

Aurore Boutin

Data Processor, Fugro Germany Marine GmbH/ ALUMNI Intern

Data assimilation

Bashair Aman

ARAMCO, Research Engineer, KSA/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Bo Liu

System Engineer, Texas Instruments, USA/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Estimation Theory, Control theory

Boujemaa Ait El Fquih

ALUMNI Research Scientist

Data assimilation, Inverse Problems, Bayesian inference, Sequential Bayesian algorithms

Denis Dreano

Jr. Manager at Suisse-Re, SW/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Data assimilation, Statistical modeling, Extreme events, Red sea chlorophyll

Dionysios Raitsos

Assistant Professor, University of Athens, Greece / ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Marine microbiology, Climate Change Effect on Biology, Marine ecology

Eyas Al-Fares

Research Associate, Center of Excellence for Aeronautics and Astronautics, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Data assimilation

Fabio Ravanelli

Managing Director, Terra Nostra LLC, USA/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

History matching, Time-Lapse Data, Saturation Modeling

Fanglou Liao

Associate Professor, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Fengchao Yao

Associate Professor, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China/ ALUMNI Research Scientist

Physical oceanography, Ocean modeling

Furrukh Sana

Research Fellow, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Bayesian estimation, Compressive sensing

Habib Toye Mahamadou Kele

ALUMNI PhD Student

Hassan Al Ismail

Lead Geophysicist at Planning & Strategy Group, ARAMCO, KSA/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Ihab Sraj

Realtor, USA/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation

Jieshuo Xie

Associate Professor, South China Sea Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation

John Gittings

Postdoc Living Planet Fellowship from the European Space Agency (ESA), University of Athens, Greece/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Biological oceanography, Ocean colour remote sensing, Phytoplankton phenology, Marine ecology

Klemens Katterbauer

AI Hydrogen Robotics Advisor, ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia/ ALUMNI PhD Student

History matching, 4D seismic, EM

Lautaro Rayo

Lead Petroleum Engineer at AI-Lab, ARAMCO, Saudi Arabia​/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

History matching

Lily Genevier

ALUMNI PhD Student

Marine ecology, Fisheries, Marine heatwaves, Global change biology

Matteo Giuseppe Ziliani

Senior Data Scientist, Hydrosat, Luxembourg/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Environment modeling, Agricultural monitoring, Remote sensing, Crop forecasting

Mohamad El Gharamti

Scientist II at NCAR, Boulder, CO, USA/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Subsurface flow and transport modeling, Inverse Problems, Data assimilation

Mohammad Abed El-Rahman Hammoud

Postdoc, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA/ ALUMNI PhD Student

Ocean modeling, Uncertainty quantification, Statistical inference

P.T. Rakesh

Research Scientist, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Tamil Nadu, India/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Peng Zhan

Assistant Professor at SUSTech, China / ALUMNI Research Scientist

Physical oceanography, Data assimilation

Rabih Ghostine

Assistant Professor, Kuwait College of Science and Technology, Kuwait/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Flood Modeling, PDEs, Numerical methods

Raju Attada

Assistant Professor, IISER, Mohali, India/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Climate modelling, Climate variability and change, Monsoon dynamics, Data assimilation

Raju Pathak

ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Uncertainty quantification, Climate, Monsoon dynamics

Ravi Kumar

Faculty at IIT-Delhi, India/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation

Sabique Langodan

Environmental Scientist ARAMCO/ ALUMNI Research Scientist

Ocean waves, Coastal processes, Climate

Santiago Arango

Solution Manager, McKinsey & Company, London, UK/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Sarah Zedler

Teaching at University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Physical oceanography, Ocean modeling, Inverse Problems

Sergey Charnyi

Software Engineer, Siemens Digital Industries/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Mathematical Sciences

Sumit Dandapat

Research Scientist, National University of Singapore, Singapore/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Ocean modeling, Physical oceanography

Tao Zhang

Associate Professor, China University of Petroleum, Beijing, China/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Thomas Hollt

Assistant professor, TU Delft, Netherlands/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

PDEs, Inverse Problems, Seismic imaging, Fluid mechanics

Umer Altaf

Research Scientist at TU Delft, Netherlands​​/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Inverse Problems, Order Reduction

Xiaodong Luo

Research Scientist, International Research Institute of Stavanger (IRIS), Bergen, Norway/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Data assimilation, History matching, Inverse Problems

Xing Yi

Postdoctoral Fellow, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, Germany/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Physical oceanography, Ocean modeling

Yesubabu Viswanadhapalli

Research Scientist, National Atmospheric Research Laboratory, Andhra Pradesh, India/ ALUMNI Postdoctoral Fellow

Atmospheric modeling

Zaid Sawlan

Assistant Professor, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Saudi Arabia/ ALUMNI M.Sc. Student

Data assimilation

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