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Khaled Nabil Salama

Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Principal Investigator, Sensors

Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division

Program Affiliations

Biography

Professor Salama received his B.S. (Hons.) degree from Cairo University, Egypt, in 1997. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, U.S., in 2000 and 2005, respectively.

The principal investigator of the KAUST Sensors Lab, Salama joined the University in 2009. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the founding program chair for Electrical Engineering at KAUST. Before joining KAUST, he worked as an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S., from 2005 to 2009.

Dr. Salama—a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)—has authored 360 articles and holds 50 patents on low-power mixed-signal circuits for intelligent, fully integrated sensors and nonlinear electronics, particularly memristor devices.

His work on complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) sensors for molecular detection has been funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He is also the co-founder of Ultrawave Labs, a biomedical imaging company.

Salama received the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators Challenge Award in Biological Science.

Research Interests

Professor Salama’s research interests cover various interdisciplinary aspects of electronic circuit design and semiconductor fabrication. He is actively engaged in developing devices, circuits, systems and algorithms to enable inexpensive analytical platforms for a variety of industrial, environmental and biomedical applications.

Salama’s most recent research has focused on developing neuromorphic circuits for brain emulation.

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Education Profile

  • Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States, 2005

  • M.S. Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, U.S., 2000

  • B.S. Cairo University, Egypt, 1997

Awards and Recognitions

  • Stanford-Berkeley Innovators Challenge Award in biological sciences , 2024

Publications

  • Y. Lei, W. Zhao, Y. Zhang, Q. Jiang, J. H. He, A. J. Baeumner, O. Wolfbeis, Z. L. Wang, K. N. Salama, H. N. Alshareef, "A MXene-Based Wearable Biosensor System for High-Performance In Vitro Perspiration Analysis," Small 1901190 (2019).

  • Eloïse Bihar, Shofarul Wustoni, Anna Maria Pappa, Khaled N. Salama, Derya Baran and Sahika Inal, A fully inkjet-printed disposable glucose sensor on paper, npj Flexible Electronics, 2, 1, (2018). 10.1038/s41528-018-0044-y

  • Rafiq Ahmad⁠, Otto S. Wolfbeis⁠, Yoon-Bong Hahn⁠, Husam N. Alshareef⁠, Luisa Torsi⁠ and Khaled N. Salama⁠ "Deposition of nanomaterials: A crucial step in biosensor fabrication," Materials Today Communications, Vol. 17, pp. 289-321, 2018. doi:10.1016/j.mtcomm.2018.09.024

  • Saurabh Kumar, Yongjiu Lei, Niman H. Alshareef, M.A. Quevedo-Lopez, Khaled N. Salama "Biofunctionalized Two-Dimensional Ti3C2 MXenes for Ultrasensitive Detection of Cancer Biomarker", Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Vol 121, pp 243-249, 2018 DOI: 10.1016/j.bios.2018.08.076

  • Rafiq Ahmad, Tutku Bedük, Sanjit Manohar Majhi and Khaled Nabil Salama, One-step synthesis and gold nanoparticle decoration of nickel oxide nanosheets for hydrazine sensing application, Sensors & Actuators: B. Chemical, Vol. 286, pp139-147, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2019.01.132

  • Sandeep G.Surya, Harshil N.Raval, RafiqAhmad, PrashantSonar, Khaled N.Salama, V.Ramgopal Rao, Organic field effect transistors (OFETs) in environmental sensing and health monitoring: A review, Trends in Analytical Chemistry, vol 111, pp 27-36, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2018.11.027

  • Mohamed Tchalala, Prashant Bhatt, Karumbaiah Chappanda, Sérgio Tavares, Karim Adil, Youssef Belmabkhout, Aleksander Shkurenko, Amandine Cadiau, Nicolas Heymans, Guy Deweireld, Guillaume Maurin, Khaled Nabil Salama, and Mohamed Eddaoudi, "Fluorinated MOF platform for selective removal and sensing of SO2 from flue gas and air" Nature Communications, vol10, no. 1328, 2019

  • Zhengyuan Zhou, Tiantian Kong, Hend Mkaouar, Khaled N.Salama and Jia Ming Zhang "A hybrid modular microfluidic device for emulsion generation," Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, volume 280, pp 422-428, 2018 doi:10.1016/j.sna.2018.08.005

Research Areas

  • Electrical and Computer Engineering

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