Registration & Refreshments
08:15 AM

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08:45 AM

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Tony Chan

President, KAUST

Pierre Magistretti

Vice President for Research, KAUST

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09:00 AM

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Quarraisha Abdool Karim

Associate Scientific Director of CAPRISA; Professor of Clinical Epidemiology, Columbia University and Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of KwaZulu-Natal

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10:00 AM

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10:30 AM

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Moderator: Husam Alshareef

Derya Baran

Associate Professor, Material Sceince and Engineering, KAUST

Atif Saeed AlZahrani

Professor of Materials Science and Engineering,KFUPM

Bassam Dally

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a member of CCRC, KAUST

Nicolas Calvet

Senior Manager in Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Innovation in the Flexibility team, Energy Division, ENOWA

Murali Venkatraman

Head of AI & Data Analytics, ENOWA

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12:00 PM

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Moderator: Atif Shamim

Chen Zhao

Research Scientist of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, KAUST

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01:00 PM

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Moderator: Cafer T. Yavuz

Abdulwahab A. Al-Ghamdi

Director, KAUST Upstream Research Center, Aramco

Zhiping Lai

Professor, Chemistry, KAUST

Dalal Alezi

Assistant Professor of Chemistry, King Abdulaziz University

Xu Lu

Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering, KAUST

Javeed Mahmood

Research Scientist, Advanced Membranes & Porous Materials RC, KAUST

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02:30 PM

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02:45 PM

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Moderator: Jasmeen Merzaban

Antonio Adamo

Associate Professor of Bioscience,KAUST

Samir H. Hamdan

Associate Vice President, Research & COO, KAUST

Sahika Inal

Associate Professor of Bioengineering, KAUST

Bruno Reversade

Professor Bioscience, KAUST

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Fueling the Future
09:00 AM

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Kuo-Wei Huang

Associate Vice President, Professor of Chemistry, KAUST

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10:00 AM

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10:30 AM

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Moderator: Sara Durini

Gary Amy

Dean’s Distinguished Professor in the College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Science, Clemson University

Mustafa O. Mousa

Founder, Interim Chief Executive Officer Sadeem International Company, KSA

Peiying Hong

Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering|Chair of the Environmental Science and Engineering, KAUST

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12:00 PM

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Moderator: Di Wang

Francesco Orabona

Associate Professor CEMSE division, KAUST

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01:00 PM

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Moderator: Ahmed Eltawil

David Keys

Senior Associate to the President, KAUST

Marc Dacier

Professor of Computer Science (CS) and the associate director of the Resilience Computing and Cybersecurity research Center (RC3), KAUST

Paula Moraga

Assistant Professor, Statistics, KAUST

Basem Shihada

Professor, Computer Science, KAUST

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02:30 PM
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02:45 PM

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Moderator: Salim Al-Babili

Simon Krattinger

Associate Professor of Plant Science,KAUST

Rahmah Jrais

Director of Prince Sultan Bin AbdulAziz for Environmental research and Natural resource Sustainbulity, KKU

Maged Saad

Senior Research Scientist in the Center for Desert Agriculture, KAUST

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Keynote Speech - KAUST and Beyond: An Alumni’s Journey
08:30 AM

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Qurrat-Ul-Ain Nadeem

Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering, New York University (NYU) Abu Dhabi, UAE

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09:15 AM

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09:30 AM

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Moderator: Cafer Yavuz

Nawaf M. Alghamdi

Research and Development Engineer, Saudi Aramco

Mram Alyami

Scientist, Oil and gas treatment,Research and Development center, Aramco

Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz

Assistant Professor, Department of Geosciences, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences, KFUPM, Dhahran, KSA

John Majoris

Assistant Professor of Marine Biology,Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi (TAMUCC)

Vanessa Robitzch

Program Manager ,Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring

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10:45 AM

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Moderator: Hakan Bagcl

Abdullah Almansouri

Assistent professor & EE chairman at University of Jeddah, and co-founder of & CTO at TRYSL Tech

Konstantin Mishchenko

Research Scientist, Samsung

Sultangali Arzykulov

Assistant Professor, Nazarbayev University

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12:00 PM

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Moderator: Sahika Inal

Ardemis Boghossian

Professor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC) of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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