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

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