Omar Alharbi is a Graduate Assistant in the Petroleum Engineering Department, KFUPM. He was working with Saudi Aramco prior joining KFUPM in 2021.

Mr. Haidar Al-Majed is a graduate assistant at the Department of Petroleum Engineering, KFUPM. He worked as a managed pressure drilling engineer at Halliburton Energy Services in Saudi Arabia prior to his joining to KFUPM in 2022. His research interests focus on applications of geomechanics and matrix acidizing in the field of petroleum engineering.

Mohammed Almutawa is a Graduate Assistant in the Petroleum Engineering Department, KFUPM. He graduated from KFUPM in 2023, and rejoined KFUPM in the same year as a Graduate Assistant.

Nasir Abbas is a Laboratory Engineer in the Department of Mining Engineering at the College of Petroleum and Geosciences (CPG), King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Mining Engineering, with research focused on rock mechanics, underground mine stability, and laboratory-based geomechanical testing.
Before joining KFUPM, he gained hands-on experience in establishing and managing mining engineering laboratories, preparing technical specifications for equipment, supervising installation and commissioning, and developing laboratory manuals and training modules.
His professional interests include mining geomechanics, laboratory development, mineral processing, and safety in mining operations. He is also engaged in research collaboration and has contributed to international publications in the field of rock mechanics.
Nasir aims to support the growth of the new Mining Engineering program at CPG by strengthening laboratory capabilities, enhancing student training, and contributing to high-quality research and academic development.

Dr. Doaa Shaker joined KFUPM as an Instructor in the Petroleum Engineering Department at CPG in 2025. She has over 10 years of combined experience in academia and the oil and gas industry. She completed Ph.D. in Petroleum Engineering from Suez University in 2023, M.Sc. degree from Cairo University in 2018, and a B.Sc. degree in Petroleum Engineering in 2014.

Prior to her role at KFUPM, Dr. Shaker worked as a Senior Reservoir Engineer at North Bahariya Petroleum Company in Egypt for Six years. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Teaching Assistant at both Cairo University (credit hour system) and Future University in Egypt (FUE) for four years.

On September 2021 Assad was hired by the Petroleum Engineering Dept. as a Lecturer assisting the professors with the routine teaching and research assignments.

Formerly, he spent eight years for White Nile Petroleum Operating Co. – one of Sudan’s biggest oil companies, with a role responsible for scheduling service and testing required for oil wells. After that he joint petroleum department at KFUPM as technical research assistant on September 2012 to conduct his mater degree. Then he joined the petroleum department as technical researcher on June 2015. He was part of many research teams.

Currently working as a Petroleum Engineering Software Engineer at CPG’s Department of Petroleum Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, KSA. Previously, worked as a teaching assistant at the petroleum engineering department, University of Khartoum, Sudan. During master degree, I was involved as a research and teaching assistant. I was also an executive member of the Students’ Society of Petroleum Engineers (SSPE) and University of Khartoum Petroleum Engineering Alumni (UoKPEA).

Currently working as a Petroleum Engineering Software Engineer at Department of Petroleum Engineering, CPG, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, KSA. Previously, worked as a workover assistant driller on an offshore SOCAR Azneft “Neft Dashlari” (Oil Rocks) oilfield in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Currently working as a PETE Petroleum Software Engineer at CPG’s Department of Petroleum Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, Dhahran, KSA. Previously, working as a Startup Executive, LB, and RA at KFUPM.

Nashief M. Macud Serves as sole breed winner of the family. He completed his diploma in Computer Engineering at Iligan Computer Institute, Mindanao Philippines in the year 2010. He worked in AL ASRY ELECTRIC LTD in Second Industrial City Dammam K.S.A from the year 2012 up to 2018 as an Administrative Secretary

He started working at the Petroleum Engineering Department in the College of Petroleum and Geoscience, KFUPM, Al Khobar K.S.A Since Feb 2020.

Some of his duties are maintaining files, Processing expenses, and Reimbursement, answering phone calls, sending Emails to professors whenever there is a memo, and by simply assisting the Chairman and faculties of the Department of Petroleum Engineering. Accordingly, he is now experiencing an awesome but challenging role of becoming as Administrative Assistant.