A team of 8 Professors & 40 researchers including Research Scientists, Post Docs and PhD students strengthens the FLEET Impact.

Program Chairs

Aamir Farooq, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Mani Sarathy, Ph.D.

Chair of Clean Energy Research Platform (CERP), Professor of Chemical Engineering

Program Team

Babar Mallick, Ph.D.

Program Manager
(FLEET POC)
mohammad.mallick@kaust.edu.sa

Kevin Nall

Strategic Business Development Officer

Program Professors

Ibrahim Hoteit, Ph.D.

Professor, Earth Science and Engineering | Director, National Climate Change Center of Excellence

Hong G. Im, Ph.D.

​​​​​Professor of Mechanical Engineering

William L. Roberts, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

James Turner, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Bassam Dally, Ph.D.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering

Thibault Guiberti, Ph.D. - HDR

Assistant Research Professor

Project Researchers

Sreenivasa Rao Gubba, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Computational Combustion, Emission reduction​, Alternative Energy, Inverse Diffusion Flames

Youssef Al Ashkar

​MS/ Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Combustion Reaction Modeling

Touqeer Anwar Kashif

MS/Ph.D. Student

Mohammad Adil

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: Chemical kinetics, Heat Transfer

Xinyang Wang

Ph.D Student

Research Interests: CFR Engine, Spark-Ignition Engine, Hydrogen Fuel, Low-Carbon Fuel, Post-Treatment of Emission

Rafael Menaca

Ms/Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Internal Combustion Engines, computational fluid dynamics, Combustion Modelling, Decarbonization, Computation Fluid Mechanics

Md Zafar Ali Khan

MS | Ph.D. Student

Research Interests: Clean Combustion, Machine learning, Optimization, Decarbonization

Janardhanraj Subburaj, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Experimental fluid dynamics, Shockwave applications, Miniature shock tubes, High-speed flow visualization, Numerical modeling, Detonation dynamics

Hani Ababneh, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Process Design, Process Modeling, CO2 capture, ​Fuels, Thermodynamics, Energy Analysis

Shashank Sakleshpur Nagaraja, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: combustion chemistry, Mechanism Development, Carbon Neutral Fuels

Raghib Shakeel, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests: Numerical combustion, Burner Design, Oxyfuel Combustion, Dual Annulus Swirl Burners, ICEs, RANS, LES

Giovanni Vorraro, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Research Interests: Hybrid Electric Vehicles, Internal Combustion Engines, e-Fuels, Fuel Cells, Numerical Modelling, Experimental Activities

Muralikrishna Khandavilli

Postdoctoral Fellows

Junjun Guo, Ph.D.

Research Scientist

Khalid Aljohani

Ph.D. Student

Chengcheng Zhao

Ph.D Student

Xinlei Liu, Ph.D.

Postdoctoral fellow