Tel: +966 (013) 860-8641

Fax: +966 (013) 860-2595

Email: skaka@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2145/2212-1

Dr. SanLinn I. Kaka

Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, CPG Student Affairs Office, Department of Geosciences

Dr. SANLINN I. KAKA received his Ph.D. degree in Earth Sciences from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 2006. Currently, he is a faculty member and graduate coordinator in the Department of Geosciences at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals. His research interests are in the areas of engineering seismology, reservoir characterization and monitoring, ground-motions relations and near-surface geophysics. His recent research focuses on applications of microseismic monitoring systems, enhancement, detection and localization of microseismic events as well as understanding fracture growth and the role of pre-existing fractures during multi-stage hydraulic fracture stimulation of shale gas reservoirs

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2006.

Research Interests

Applications of AI in Geophysics
Application of advanced signal processing techniques
Analysis of microseismic data for reservoir monitoring and characterization
Near surface geophysics
Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis & Empirical ground motion relations

Selected Publications

Abdulrahman Al-Fakih, Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah, Nabil A Saraih, Tapan Mukerji, Rayan Kanfar, Abdulmohsen Alali, SanLinn I Kaka, Pix2Geomodel: A next-generation reservoir geomodelling with property-to-property translation, Geoenergy Science and Engineering, Volume 258, 2026, 214342.
A Al-Fakih, A Koeshidayatullah, T Mukerji, SLI Kaka, Enhanced anomaly detection in well log data through the application of ensemble GANs, Applied Computing and Geosciences, volume 2, 2026, 100316.
A Pradipta, M Makkawi, H Sharif, SL Kaka, and A. Al-Shaibani, Earth Systems and Environment, Uncovering climate and human impacts on water storage dynamics in the water-stressed Arabian Basin, Earth Systems and Environment, V. 10, pages 391-405, 2026.
LM Surachman, A. Abduraheem, SI Kaka, A Al-Shuhail, Machine learning-driven acoustic impedance inversion with globally optimized reservoir characterization for reserve estimation in carbonate reservoirs, Results in Engineering, V29, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.108571.
A Al‐Fakih, A Koeshidayatullah, T Mukrtji, S Al-Azani, and S Kaka, Well log data generation and imputation using sequence-based generative adversarial networks, Scientific Report, 15-1100, 2025.
Dawit Kanito, Bobe Dedadi, Samuel Fayissa, Amos Kobo-Bah, and SanLinn Kaka, Spatial assessment of soil erosion for prioritizing efforts on SDG15.3 in Ethiopia, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, V.6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2025.1550331
A Al‐Fakih, A Al-Kuhdafi, A Koeshidayatullah, S Kaka, A Al-Gathe, Forecasting geothermal temperature in western Yemen with Bayesian-optimized machine learning regression models, Geothermal Energy, Accepted, 2025.
A Rachmadan, A Koeshidayatullah, and S Kaka, Developing Ground Motion Prediction Models for West Java: A Machine Learning Approach to Support Indonesia’s Earthquake Early Warning System, Applied Computing and Geosciences, 2025. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590197424000594).
Ben Mansour Dia, Michael Fehler, SanLinn I Kaka, Andrea Scarinci, Umair bin Waheed, Chen Gu, Greedy selection of optimal location of sensors for uncertainty reduction in seismic moment tensor inversion, Journal of Computational Physics, 519: 113431, 2024.
A Al‐Fakih, A Abdulraheem, S Kaka, Application of machine learning and deep learning in geothermal resource development: Trends and perspectives, Deep Underground Science and Engineering, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1002/dug2.12098).
LM Surachman, A Abdulraheem, A Al-Shuhail, S I Kaka, Acoustic impedance prediction based on extended seismic attributes using multilayer perceptron, random forest, and extra tree regressor algorithms, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 1-9, 2024. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-024-01795-7).
M Ayub SLI Kaka, “Enhanced First-Break Picking Using Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 62, pages 1-16, 2024.
A Al-Fakih, S Kaka, AI Koeshidayatullah, “Reservoir Property Prediction in the North Sea Using Machine Learning”, IEEE Access, Volume 11, pages 140148-140160, 2023.
Andrea Scarinci, Umair bin Waheed, Chen Gu, Xiang Ren, Ben Mansour Dia, Sanlinn Kaka, Michael Fehler, Youssef Marzouk. “Robust Bayesian moment tensor inversion with optimal transport misfits: layered medium approximations to the 3-D SEG-EAGE overthrust velocity model”, Geophysical Journal International, Volume 234, Issue 2, Pages 1169–1190, 2023.
A Al-Fakih and S Kaka, “ Application of Artificial Intelligence in static Formation temperature estimation”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 48, pages 16791–16804, 2023.
SanLinn I. Kaka, “Analysis of Microseismic Events to Understand the Fracture Growth During Hydraulic Fracturing: A Case Study of a Shale Gas Reservoir”, SPE-214196-MS, https://doi.org/10.2118/214196-MS, 2023.
Mohammed Ayub and SanLinn Ismail Kaka, “Automated Hyperparameter Optimization of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for First-Break (FB) Arrival Picking “ SPE-214253-MS, https://doi.org/10.2118/214253-MS, 2023.
Konstantinos Chavanidis, Alexandros Stampolidis, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Markos Tranos, Maurizio Fedi, Roman Pasteka, Khalid Al-Ramadan, SanLinn Kaka, Grigorios N Tsokas, Pantelis Soupios., “Gravity Survey on the Oil-Bearing Dammam Dome (Eastern Saudi Arabia) and Its Implications, Remote Sensing 14 (3), 735, 2022.
Ayub, M. and Kaka, S.I., “A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for First-break Arrival Picking”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 12 (1), pp. 493–502, 2021.
I Koutsoupakis, Y Tsompanakis, P Soupios, P Kirmizakis, SL Kaka., “Seismic Risk Assessment of Chania, Greece, Using an Integrated Computational Approach”, Applied Sciences Volume 11 (23), pages 11249, 2021.
PI Edigbue, AA Al-Mashor, A Plougarlis, P. Soubios, M Tranos, SanLinn Kaka, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Mansour Al-Garni, “Geological and geophysical investigations of an engineering site characterization for construction purposes in Western Saudi Arabia, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 188, 104307, 2021.

Extended Publications (+)

S L Kaka, “Stress Mechanism of Microseismic Events During Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation for Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs”, 82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition (1), 1-14, 2020.
Sağır, Ç., Kurtuluş, B., Soupios, P., Ayrancı, K., Düztaş, E., Aksoy, M.E., Avşar, Ö.,Erdem, G., Pekkan, E., Canoğlu, M.C., Kaka, S.I., Razack, M, “Investigating the Structure of a Coastal Karstic Aquifer through the Hydrogeological Characterization of Springs Using Geophysical Methods and Field Investigation, Gökova Bay, SW Turkey” Water 12, 3343, 2020.
Dmitry Alexandrov, Leo Eisner, Umair bin Waheed, SanLinn I. Kaka and Stewart Alan Greenhalgh, “Detection, location and source mechanism determination with large noise variations in surface microseismic monitoring”, Geophysics, 85 (6), 1-37, 2020.
Dmitry Alexandrov, Leo Eisner, SanLinn Kaka, Stewart Greenhalgh and Umair ben Waheed, “Normal faulting activated by hydraulic fracturing: A case study from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA” accepted, the Leading Edge, 39 (3), 204-211. 2020.
RC Sidle, B Jarihani, S L I Kaka, J Koci, A Al-Shaibani, “ Hydrogeomorphic processes affecting dryland gully erosion: Implications for modelling”, Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 43 (1), 46-64, 2019.
RC Sidle, AM Al‐Shaibani, S L I Kaka, “Geomorphic hazards in south‐west Saudi Arabia: The human–environmental nexus”, Area 51 (4), 670-680, 2019.
N Iqbal, B Liu, M Deriche, A Al-Shuhail, S L Kaka, A Zerguine, “Blind noise estimation and denoising filter for recovery of microquake signals”, Exploration Geophysics 50 (5), 502-513, 2019.
M Al‐Marzooq, MS Diallo, V Etienne, T Tonellot, S L I Kaka, “Mitigating the effects of sand dunes on seismic data from the Rub al Khali basin, Saudi Arabia”, Geophysical Prospecting 67 (7), 1825-1837, 2019.
AO Adelu, AA Aderemi, AO Akanji, OA Sanuade, S L I Kaka, O Afolabi, “Application of 3D static modeling for optimal reservoir characterization”, Journal of African Earth Sciences 152, 184-196, 2019.
N Iqbal, A . Zerguine, A. Al-Shuhail and S. Kaka, “Blind noise estimation and denoising filter for recovery of microquake signals”, Exploration Geophysics, 50 (5), 502-531, 2019.
Ashadi A and S. I. Kaka, “Ground-Motion Relations for Subduction-Zone Earthquakes in Java Island, Indonesia”, AJSE, 44 (1), 449-465, 2018.
Iqbal , E. Liu, J.H. McClellan, A. A. Al-Shuhail, S. I. Kaka and A . Zerguine “Detection and Denoising of Microseismic Events using Tensor Decomposition and Time-frequency Representation”, IEEE Access 6, 22993-23006, 2018.

Awards & Honors

Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator (Geosciences) / Head, CPG Student Affairs
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Science and Technology for Exploration and Production Solutions (STEPS)

Tel: +966 (013) 860-8641

Fax: +966 (013) 860-2595

Email: skaka@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2145/2212-1

Dr. SanLinn I. Kaka

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Graduate Coordinator, CPG Student Affairs Office, CPG Student Affairs Office, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Earth Sciences, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, 2006.

Research Interests

Applications of AI in Geophysics
Application of advanced signal processing techniques
Analysis of microseismic data for reservoir monitoring and characterization
Near surface geophysics
Probabilistic seismic hazard analysis & Empirical ground motion relations

Selected Publications

Abdulrahman Al-Fakih, Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah, Nabil A Saraih, Tapan Mukerji, Rayan Kanfar, Abdulmohsen Alali, SanLinn I Kaka, Pix2Geomodel: A next-generation reservoir geomodelling with property-to-property translation, Geoenergy Science and Engineering, Volume 258, 2026, 214342.
A Al-Fakih, A Koeshidayatullah, T Mukerji, SLI Kaka, Enhanced anomaly detection in well log data through the application of ensemble GANs, Applied Computing and Geosciences, volume 2, 2026, 100316.
A Pradipta, M Makkawi, H Sharif, SL Kaka, and A. Al-Shaibani, Earth Systems and Environment, Uncovering climate and human impacts on water storage dynamics in the water-stressed Arabian Basin, Earth Systems and Environment, V. 10, pages 391-405, 2026.
LM Surachman, A. Abduraheem, SI Kaka, A Al-Shuhail, Machine learning-driven acoustic impedance inversion with globally optimized reservoir characterization for reserve estimation in carbonate reservoirs, Results in Engineering, V29, 2026, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rineng.2025.108571.
A Al‐Fakih, A Koeshidayatullah, T Mukrtji, S Al-Azani, and S Kaka, Well log data generation and imputation using sequence-based generative adversarial networks, Scientific Report, 15-1100, 2025.
Dawit Kanito, Bobe Dedadi, Samuel Fayissa, Amos Kobo-Bah, and SanLinn Kaka, Spatial assessment of soil erosion for prioritizing efforts on SDG15.3 in Ethiopia, Frontiers in Remote Sensing, V.6, 2025 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2025.1550331
A Al‐Fakih, A Al-Kuhdafi, A Koeshidayatullah, S Kaka, A Al-Gathe, Forecasting geothermal temperature in western Yemen with Bayesian-optimized machine learning regression models, Geothermal Energy, Accepted, 2025.
A Rachmadan, A Koeshidayatullah, and S Kaka, Developing Ground Motion Prediction Models for West Java: A Machine Learning Approach to Support Indonesia’s Earthquake Early Warning System, Applied Computing and Geosciences, 2025. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590197424000594).
Ben Mansour Dia, Michael Fehler, SanLinn I Kaka, Andrea Scarinci, Umair bin Waheed, Chen Gu, Greedy selection of optimal location of sensors for uncertainty reduction in seismic moment tensor inversion, Journal of Computational Physics, 519: 113431, 2024.
A Al‐Fakih, A Abdulraheem, S Kaka, Application of machine learning and deep learning in geothermal resource development: Trends and perspectives, Deep Underground Science and Engineering, 2024 (https://doi.org/10.1002/dug2.12098).
LM Surachman, A Abdulraheem, A Al-Shuhail, S I Kaka, Acoustic impedance prediction based on extended seismic attributes using multilayer perceptron, random forest, and extra tree regressor algorithms, Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology, 1-9, 2024. (https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13202-024-01795-7).
M Ayub SLI Kaka, “Enhanced First-Break Picking Using Hybrid Convolutional Neural Network and Recurrent Neural Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Volume 62, pages 1-16, 2024.
A Al-Fakih, S Kaka, AI Koeshidayatullah, “Reservoir Property Prediction in the North Sea Using Machine Learning”, IEEE Access, Volume 11, pages 140148-140160, 2023.
Andrea Scarinci, Umair bin Waheed, Chen Gu, Xiang Ren, Ben Mansour Dia, Sanlinn Kaka, Michael Fehler, Youssef Marzouk. “Robust Bayesian moment tensor inversion with optimal transport misfits: layered medium approximations to the 3-D SEG-EAGE overthrust velocity model”, Geophysical Journal International, Volume 234, Issue 2, Pages 1169–1190, 2023.
A Al-Fakih and S Kaka, “ Application of Artificial Intelligence in static Formation temperature estimation”, Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Volume 48, pages 16791–16804, 2023.
SanLinn I. Kaka, “Analysis of Microseismic Events to Understand the Fracture Growth During Hydraulic Fracturing: A Case Study of a Shale Gas Reservoir”, SPE-214196-MS, https://doi.org/10.2118/214196-MS, 2023.
Mohammed Ayub and SanLinn Ismail Kaka, “Automated Hyperparameter Optimization of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) for First-Break (FB) Arrival Picking “ SPE-214253-MS, https://doi.org/10.2118/214253-MS, 2023.
Konstantinos Chavanidis, Alexandros Stampolidis, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Markos Tranos, Maurizio Fedi, Roman Pasteka, Khalid Al-Ramadan, SanLinn Kaka, Grigorios N Tsokas, Pantelis Soupios., “Gravity Survey on the Oil-Bearing Dammam Dome (Eastern Saudi Arabia) and Its Implications, Remote Sensing 14 (3), 735, 2022.
Ayub, M. and Kaka, S.I., “A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for First-break Arrival Picking”, International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 12 (1), pp. 493–502, 2021.
I Koutsoupakis, Y Tsompanakis, P Soupios, P Kirmizakis, SL Kaka., “Seismic Risk Assessment of Chania, Greece, Using an Integrated Computational Approach”, Applied Sciences Volume 11 (23), pages 11249, 2021.
PI Edigbue, AA Al-Mashor, A Plougarlis, P. Soubios, M Tranos, SanLinn Kaka, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Mansour Al-Garni, “Geological and geophysical investigations of an engineering site characterization for construction purposes in Western Saudi Arabia, Journal of Applied Geophysics, 188, 104307, 2021.

Extended Publications (+)

S L Kaka, “Stress Mechanism of Microseismic Events During Hydraulic Fracture Stimulation for Unconventional Hydrocarbon Reservoirs”, 82nd EAGE Annual Conference & Exhibition (1), 1-14, 2020.
Sağır, Ç., Kurtuluş, B., Soupios, P., Ayrancı, K., Düztaş, E., Aksoy, M.E., Avşar, Ö.,Erdem, G., Pekkan, E., Canoğlu, M.C., Kaka, S.I., Razack, M, “Investigating the Structure of a Coastal Karstic Aquifer through the Hydrogeological Characterization of Springs Using Geophysical Methods and Field Investigation, Gökova Bay, SW Turkey” Water 12, 3343, 2020.
Dmitry Alexandrov, Leo Eisner, Umair bin Waheed, SanLinn I. Kaka and Stewart Alan Greenhalgh, “Detection, location and source mechanism determination with large noise variations in surface microseismic monitoring”, Geophysics, 85 (6), 1-37, 2020.
Dmitry Alexandrov, Leo Eisner, SanLinn Kaka, Stewart Greenhalgh and Umair ben Waheed, “Normal faulting activated by hydraulic fracturing: A case study from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA” accepted, the Leading Edge, 39 (3), 204-211. 2020.
RC Sidle, B Jarihani, S L I Kaka, J Koci, A Al-Shaibani, “ Hydrogeomorphic processes affecting dryland gully erosion: Implications for modelling”, Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment 43 (1), 46-64, 2019.
RC Sidle, AM Al‐Shaibani, S L I Kaka, “Geomorphic hazards in south‐west Saudi Arabia: The human–environmental nexus”, Area 51 (4), 670-680, 2019.
N Iqbal, B Liu, M Deriche, A Al-Shuhail, S L Kaka, A Zerguine, “Blind noise estimation and denoising filter for recovery of microquake signals”, Exploration Geophysics 50 (5), 502-513, 2019.
M Al‐Marzooq, MS Diallo, V Etienne, T Tonellot, S L I Kaka, “Mitigating the effects of sand dunes on seismic data from the Rub al Khali basin, Saudi Arabia”, Geophysical Prospecting 67 (7), 1825-1837, 2019.
AO Adelu, AA Aderemi, AO Akanji, OA Sanuade, S L I Kaka, O Afolabi, “Application of 3D static modeling for optimal reservoir characterization”, Journal of African Earth Sciences 152, 184-196, 2019.
N Iqbal, A . Zerguine, A. Al-Shuhail and S. Kaka, “Blind noise estimation and denoising filter for recovery of microquake signals”, Exploration Geophysics, 50 (5), 502-531, 2019.
Ashadi A and S. I. Kaka, “Ground-Motion Relations for Subduction-Zone Earthquakes in Java Island, Indonesia”, AJSE, 44 (1), 449-465, 2018.
Iqbal , E. Liu, J.H. McClellan, A. A. Al-Shuhail, S. I. Kaka and A . Zerguine “Detection and Denoising of Microseismic Events using Tensor Decomposition and Time-frequency Representation”, IEEE Access 6, 22993-23006, 2018.

Awards & Honors

Associate Professor/Graduate Coordinator (Geosciences) / Head, CPG Student Affairs
Scientific Advisory Board Member, Science and Technology for Exploration and Production Solutions (STEPS)

Tel: +966 (013) 860-7643 / 8317

Fax: +966 (013) 860-2595

Email: bassamst@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2131

Dr. Bassam S. Tawabini

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

Dr. Bassam has been an associate professor at Geosciences Department at CPG, KFUPM since 2007 in addition to his incumbency as an Acting Director, Environment and Sustainability Section, Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Dept. KFUPM since 2014. From 1987 till 2005 he had assumed the role of Senior Research Engineer, Center for Environment and Water (CEW), Research Institute, KFUPM. Between 2005 – 07 he was appointed as Manager of Central Analytical Laboratory (CAL), Center for Environment and Water (CEW), Research Institute, KFUPM.

Research Profile – Google Scholar

Citations 1033
h-index 15
i10-index 22

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ixanLJ4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6508032548

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-2723

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Water Resources & Environmental Engineering), KFUPM, KSA, 2002.
High Diploma, “Sustainable Development” Middle East University at Boston College, Boston, USA, 2001.
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, KFUPM, KSA, 1987.
B.Sc., (Hons.), Civil Engineering. KFUPM, KSA, 1984.

Research Interests

Investigating the fate of pollutants in the water, wastewater, marine, air, and soil
Assessment, monitoring, and treatment of water, soils, and air contaminated with hazardous pollutants.
Developing innovative treatment technologies for industrial wastewater using electrochemical –based treatment technologies.
Developing advanced oxidation and photocatalytic technologies for the ex-situ and in-situ remediation of groundwater contaminated with trace metals and hydrocarbons using the combination of UV, H₂O₂, TiO₂, Cl_2, and O₃.
Developing novel nano-based synthetic adsorbents (i.e. Graphene, CNTs, CNFs, TiO₂…etc.) and natural adsorbents (i.e. fly ash, sewage sludge) for the removal of pollutants from the environment.
Developing advanced technologies for remediation of contaminated sites with hydrocarbons and trace metals using bio-treatment and phytoremediation technologies
Developing novel for the removal of trace metals and hydrocarbons from contaminated environment.
Assessing the fate of the Disinfection By-products (DBPs) formation using chlorine (Cl₂), ozone (O₃), and chlorine dioxide (ClO₂).
Assessing the spatial distribution of air pollutants (NOx, SOx, PMs, VOCs…etc.) and soil pollutants (heavy/trace metals) in the Arabian Gulf region.
Developing best practices and methods for the management of municipal, industrial and hazardous wastes.
Assessing the sustainable utilization of natural resources (i.e. water, soil, energy, minerals, and biota)

Selected Publications

Tawabini, Bassam, Alshahrani, Fawaz, Saleh, Tawfik, Alrayaan, Muhammad, Alaama, Subhi, Nasser, Rayan, Soupios, Pantelis, Kirmizakis, Panagiotis, Mahmoud, Mohamed. A Laboratory Study to Assess the Use of Biochar-Based Liquid Activated Carbon for the Removal of MTBE and Benzene from Contaminated Groundwater (2024). Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation J. Pages 19 – 21.
Adamu Kimayim Gaduwang, Bassam Tawabini, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Ahmed Al-Yaseri. Assessing hydrogen production potential from carbonate and shale source rocks: Assessing hydrogen production potential from carbonate and shale source rocks: A geochemical investigation. Fuel 378 (2024) 132923.
Abid Khogali; Konstantinos Chavanidis; Alexandros Stampolidis; Panagiotis Kirmizakis; Mohamed Yassin; Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz; Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani; Pantelis Soupios; Bassam Tawabini. Subsurface complexity controls the aquifer heterogeneity: a case study from the Al-Hassa Oasis, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 27(101322). DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2024.101322
Barra Bokhari, Bassam Tawabini and Husam Baalousha (2024). A Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP)-GIS Approach to Flood Susceptibility Mapping in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. Frontiers in Water-Water Resource Management. Volume 6 – 2024 https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1388003.
Mohammed Benaafi, Ahmed M. Al-Areeq, Bassam Tawabini, Abdullah A. Basaleh, Abdullah Bafaqeer, John D. Humphrey & Isam H. Aljundi (2024). Combined Effects of Seawater Intrusion and Heavy Metal Pollution on the Groundwater Resources of Tarout Island, Saudi Arabia. Arab J Sci Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-024-09184-2. (ISI, Q2, IF 2.6).
Jawad Rafiq, Israa S Abu-Mahfouz, Pantelis Soupios, John D Humphrey, Bassam S Tawabini (2024). Hydrochemical Characterization, Geothermometry, and Origin of Ain Al-Harrah Hot Spring and Its Relationship to Al-Lith Geothermal System, Saudi Arabia. ACS Omega 2024 9 (23), 24807-24818. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c01343
Mohamed Al-Harbi, Bassam Tawabini*, Mohammed Al-Farhan, Pantelis Soupios, Mohammed Farooqui, Abdullah Basaleh (2024). Mapping of uncontrolled dumpsites in arid regions through remote sensing and image processing. Waste Management & Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X241257098. June 2024. (ISI, Q1, IF 3.7).
Sinatrya D Prayudi, Bassam S Tawabini, Asmaa Korin, Michael A Kaminski (2024). Morphological deformities in benthic foraminiferal assemblages from shallow marine and lagoonal environments of the western Arabian Gulf. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. vol. 54, issue 3, pp. 290-308.
Sinatrya D Prayudi, Bassam S Tawabini, Abduljamiu O Amao, Asmaa Korin, Hafiz M Gull, Daffa Arrofi, Michael A Kaminski (2024). Survival of biocalcifying shallow-marine benthic organisms in the coastal areas of the Arabian Gulf under conditions of global warming: Is there a limit to their resilience?. Journal of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. August 2024, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112423.
SI Abba, Mohamed A Yassin, Mahmud M Jibril, Bassam Tawabini, Pantelis Soupios, Abid Khogali, Syed Muzzamil Hussain Shah, Jamilu Usman, Isam H Aljundi. Nitrate concentrations tracking from multi-aquifer groundwater vulnerability zones: Insight from machine learning and spatial mapping. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. Volume 184, April 2024, Pages 1143-1157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2024.02.041.
Mohammed Benaafi, Arya Pradipta, Bassam Tawabini, Ahmed M Al-Areeq, Abdullah Bafaqeer, John D Humphrey, Mazen K Nazal, Isam H Aljundi (2024). Suitability of treated wastewater for irrigation and its impact on groundwater resources in arid coastal regions: Insights for water resources sustainability. Heliyon 10 (8), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29320.
Mohammed Benaafi, S.I. Abba, Bassam Tawabini, Ismail Abdulazeez, Billel Salhi, Jamilu Usman, Isam H. Aljundi. Integrated clustering analysis for delineating seawater intrusion and heavy metals in Arabian Gulf Coastal groundwater of Saudi Arabia. Heliyon, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19784. (ISI, IF = 4, Q2).

US Patents:

10,843,940. T Laoui, FA Olabemiwo, B Tawabini, M Khaled. Contaminant removal from water using polyelectrolyte coated fly ash.
10167212. Jamal Amana and Bassam S. Tawabini. Continuous flow decontamination of an MTBE-contaminated aqueous liquid.
10160675. Jamal Amana and Bassam S. Tawabini. Process for filtering and treating an MTBE-contaminated aqueous liquid.
10125038. Jamal Amana and Bassam S. Tawabini. Treatment of Water Contaminated with MTBE Using UV/Chlorine Advanced Oxidation Process.
10596546. Bassam S. Tawabini, Mutaz. A. Atieh, Faraj A. Abuilaiwi and Segun B. Adebayo. Doped silver nanoparticles on carbon fly ash for adsorption of methyl tertiary butyl ether.
11305255 B2. B. S. Tawabini, M. A. Atieh, F. A. Olabemiwo, S. B . Adebayo. MTBE-Removal Composition with Acid-Treated Fly Ash Particles.
11446632 B2 . Bassam S. Tawabini, Mutaz. A. Atieh, Faraj A. Abuilaiwi and Segun B. Adebayo. Silver Oxide Nanoparticle-Containing Fly Ash Adsorbent.

Extended Publications (+)

Sami Al-Rasheedi, Bassam Tawabini, Mazen Nazal, and Amjad B. Khalil. Application of Thermophilic Bacteria for the Treatment of Municipal Wastewaters. Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering. AJSE 47, 6881-6888 (2022).
Bassam Tawabini, Mohammed A. Yassin, Mohammed Benaafi, J. A. Adetoro, Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, S.I. Abba. Spatiotemporal variability assessment of trace metals based on Subsurface Water Quality Impact Integrated with Artificial Intelligence-Based Modeling. Sustainability, 2022, 14 (4), https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042192.
Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Bassam Tawabini, Omer Muhammad Siddiq, Dimitrios Kalderis, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Pantelis Soupios. Adsorption of Arsenic on Fe-modified Biochar and Monitoring Using Spectral Induced Polarization. Water 2022, 14(4), 563; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14040563.
Arya Pradipta, Pantelis Soupios, Nektarios Kourgialas, Maria Doula, Zoi Dokou, Mohammad Makkawi, Mohammed Alfarhan, Bassam Tawabini, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Mohamed Yassin. Remote Sensing, Geophysics, and Modeling to Support Precision Agriculture –Part 1: Soil Applications. Water. 1595020. Water 2022, 14, 1158. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071158.
Arya Pradipta, Pantelis Soupios, Nektarios Kourgialas, Maria Doula, Zoi Dokou, Mohammad Makkawi, Mohammed Alfarhan, Bassam Tawabini, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Mohamed Yassin. Remote Sensing, Geophysics, and Modeling to Support Precision Agriculture –Part 2: Irrigation Management Water 2022, 14, 1157. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071157.
Mohamed Yassin, Bassam Tawabini, A. Adetoro, Mohammed Benaafi, Ahmed Al-Areeq, Abdullahi Garba Usman, S.I. Abba. Geochemical and Spatial Distribution Topsoil HMs Coupled with Modeling of Cr Using Chemometrics Intelligent Techniques: Case Study from Dammam Area, Saudi Arabia. Molecules 2022, 27(13), 4220.
Rami W. Mansouri, Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, Mohammed Makkawi, Bassam Tawabini. Groundwater Quality Assessment of Northern Harrat Rahat Aquifer, Saudi Arabia. Hydrogeology Journal. 30(8), pp. 2433-2457.
Mohammed Benaafi *, Bassam Tawabini, S.I. Abba *, John D. Humphrey, Ahmed AL-Areeq, Saad A. Alhulaibi, Abdullahi Garba Usman, Isam H. Aljundi. Integrated Hydrogeological, Hydrochemical, and Isotopic Assessment of Seawater Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers in Al-Qatif Area, Eastern Saudi Arabia. J. Molecules. Volume 27 Issue 20 3390/molecules27206841.
Amjad Khalil, Shahad Shaikh and Bassam Tawabini. Removal of heavy metals from contaminated water by thermophilic bacteria isolated from hot springs in Saudi Arabia (2022). J. of Bacteriology & Mycology. Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2022: pp. 60-64.
Alshahrani, B. Tawabini*, T. Saleh, M. Alrayaan, S. Alaama, R. Nasser, P. Soupios, P. Kirmizakis, M. Mahmoud, T. Oyehan & E. Safi (2022). Removal of benzene, MTBE and toluene from contaminated waters using biochar-based liquid activated carbon. Scientific Reports, (2022) 12:19651, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24283-6.
Ahmed A. Hassan, Bassam Tawabini. Physicochemical Parameters of Tap Water in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Assessment (2022). International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering Vol:16, No:9, 2022.
I. Abba, Mohammed Benaafi, A.G.Usman, Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, Bassam Tawabini, Isam H.Aljundiaf. Mapping of groundwater salinization and modelling using meta-heuristic algorithms for the coastal aquifer of eastern Saudi Arabia (2023). Science of the Total Environment. Volume 858, Part 2 Feb. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159697. (Q1)
Bassam Tawabini, Mubarak Al-Enazi, Mansour A. Alghamdi, Ashraf Farahat, Ahsan M. Shemsi, Marwan Y. Al Sharif and Mamdouh I. Khoder. Potentially Harmful Elements Associated with Dust of Mosques: Pollution Status, Sources, and Human Health Risks (2023). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2687; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032687. (Q2 in JCR-2022)
Bassam Tawabini (2023). A Chemometrics-Based Approach for the Chemical Prediction of Lead (Pb) Levels in Surface Soil, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. J. of Cogent Engineering. Vol. 10, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2023.2199967. 13 pages. (ISI, Q2)

Awards & Honors

Best Teaching Award. College of Petroleum Eng. & Geosciences, KFUPM. 2024.
Best Teaching Award. College of Sciences, KFUPM. 2011.
KFUPM Awards for obtaining several US Patents
Long Services Award, 10 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 1994.
Long Services Award, 20 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2004.
Long Services Award, 30 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2014.
Long Services Award, 35 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2019.
Long Services Award, 40 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2024.
Top 5 contributions in photoenergy for my paper titled “Simultaneous Removal of MTBE and Benzene from Contaminated Groundwater Using Ultraviolet-Based Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide”. International Journal of Photoenergy.
The 1^st place at the 5th Saudi Water Arabia conference held between 17-19 of October, 2017 in Saudi Arabia. The paper titled’ Assessment of Polyelectrolyte Coated Fly Ash for Cadmium Removal in Polluted Water”.

Tel: +966 (013) 860-7643 / 8317

Fax: +966 (013) 860-2595

Email: bassamst@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2131

Dr. Bassam S. Tawabini

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

Research Profile – Google Scholar

Citations 1033
h-index 15
i10-index 22

Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ixanLJ4AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6508032548

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0096-2723

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Civil Engineering (Water Resources & Environmental Engineering), KFUPM, KSA, 2002.
High Diploma, “Sustainable Development” Middle East University at Boston College, Boston, USA, 2001.
M.Sc., Civil Engineering, KFUPM, KSA, 1987.
B.Sc., (Hons.), Civil Engineering. KFUPM, KSA, 1984.

Research Interests

Investigating the fate of pollutants in the water, wastewater, marine, air, and soil
Assessment, monitoring, and treatment of water, soils, and air contaminated with hazardous pollutants.
Developing innovative treatment technologies for industrial wastewater using electrochemical –based treatment technologies.
Developing advanced oxidation and photocatalytic technologies for the ex-situ and in-situ remediation of groundwater contaminated with trace metals and hydrocarbons using the combination of UV, H₂O₂, TiO₂, Cl_2, and O₃.
Developing novel nano-based synthetic adsorbents (i.e. Graphene, CNTs, CNFs, TiO₂…etc.) and natural adsorbents (i.e. fly ash, sewage sludge) for the removal of pollutants from the environment.
Developing advanced technologies for remediation of contaminated sites with hydrocarbons and trace metals using bio-treatment and phytoremediation technologies
Developing novel for the removal of trace metals and hydrocarbons from contaminated environment.
Assessing the fate of the Disinfection By-products (DBPs) formation using chlorine (Cl₂), ozone (O₃), and chlorine dioxide (ClO₂).
Assessing the spatial distribution of air pollutants (NOx, SOx, PMs, VOCs…etc.) and soil pollutants (heavy/trace metals) in the Arabian Gulf region.
Developing best practices and methods for the management of municipal, industrial and hazardous wastes.
Assessing the sustainable utilization of natural resources (i.e. water, soil, energy, minerals, and biota)

Selected Publications

Tawabini, Bassam, Alshahrani, Fawaz, Saleh, Tawfik, Alrayaan, Muhammad, Alaama, Subhi, Nasser, Rayan, Soupios, Pantelis, Kirmizakis, Panagiotis, Mahmoud, Mohamed. A Laboratory Study to Assess the Use of Biochar-Based Liquid Activated Carbon for the Removal of MTBE and Benzene from Contaminated Groundwater (2024). Advances in Science, Technology and Innovation J. Pages 19 – 21.
Adamu Kimayim Gaduwang, Bassam Tawabini, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Ahmed Al-Yaseri. Assessing hydrogen production potential from carbonate and shale source rocks: Assessing hydrogen production potential from carbonate and shale source rocks: A geochemical investigation. Fuel 378 (2024) 132923.
Abid Khogali; Konstantinos Chavanidis; Alexandros Stampolidis; Panagiotis Kirmizakis; Mohamed Yassin; Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz; Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani; Pantelis Soupios; Bassam Tawabini. Subsurface complexity controls the aquifer heterogeneity: a case study from the Al-Hassa Oasis, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Groundwater for Sustainable Development. 27(101322). DOI: 10.1016/j.gsd.2024.101322
Barra Bokhari, Bassam Tawabini and Husam Baalousha (2024). A Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (FAHP)-GIS Approach to Flood Susceptibility Mapping in NEOM, Saudi Arabia. Frontiers in Water-Water Resource Management. Volume 6 – 2024 https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2024.1388003.
Mohammed Benaafi, Ahmed M. Al-Areeq, Bassam Tawabini, Abdullah A. Basaleh, Abdullah Bafaqeer, John D. Humphrey & Isam H. Aljundi (2024). Combined Effects of Seawater Intrusion and Heavy Metal Pollution on the Groundwater Resources of Tarout Island, Saudi Arabia. Arab J Sci Eng (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-024-09184-2. (ISI, Q2, IF 2.6).
Jawad Rafiq, Israa S Abu-Mahfouz, Pantelis Soupios, John D Humphrey, Bassam S Tawabini (2024). Hydrochemical Characterization, Geothermometry, and Origin of Ain Al-Harrah Hot Spring and Its Relationship to Al-Lith Geothermal System, Saudi Arabia. ACS Omega 2024 9 (23), 24807-24818. DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c01343
Mohamed Al-Harbi, Bassam Tawabini*, Mohammed Al-Farhan, Pantelis Soupios, Mohammed Farooqui, Abdullah Basaleh (2024). Mapping of uncontrolled dumpsites in arid regions through remote sensing and image processing. Waste Management & Research. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X241257098. June 2024. (ISI, Q1, IF 3.7).
Sinatrya D Prayudi, Bassam S Tawabini, Asmaa Korin, Michael A Kaminski (2024). Morphological deformities in benthic foraminiferal assemblages from shallow marine and lagoonal environments of the western Arabian Gulf. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. vol. 54, issue 3, pp. 290-308.
Sinatrya D Prayudi, Bassam S Tawabini, Abduljamiu O Amao, Asmaa Korin, Hafiz M Gull, Daffa Arrofi, Michael A Kaminski (2024). Survival of biocalcifying shallow-marine benthic organisms in the coastal areas of the Arabian Gulf under conditions of global warming: Is there a limit to their resilience?. Journal of Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology. August 2024, doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2024.112423.
SI Abba, Mohamed A Yassin, Mahmud M Jibril, Bassam Tawabini, Pantelis Soupios, Abid Khogali, Syed Muzzamil Hussain Shah, Jamilu Usman, Isam H Aljundi. Nitrate concentrations tracking from multi-aquifer groundwater vulnerability zones: Insight from machine learning and spatial mapping. Process Safety and Environmental Protection. Volume 184, April 2024, Pages 1143-1157. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psep.2024.02.041.
Mohammed Benaafi, Arya Pradipta, Bassam Tawabini, Ahmed M Al-Areeq, Abdullah Bafaqeer, John D Humphrey, Mazen K Nazal, Isam H Aljundi (2024). Suitability of treated wastewater for irrigation and its impact on groundwater resources in arid coastal regions: Insights for water resources sustainability. Heliyon 10 (8), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e29320.
Mohammed Benaafi, S.I. Abba, Bassam Tawabini, Ismail Abdulazeez, Billel Salhi, Jamilu Usman, Isam H. Aljundi. Integrated clustering analysis for delineating seawater intrusion and heavy metals in Arabian Gulf Coastal groundwater of Saudi Arabia. Heliyon, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e19784. (ISI, IF = 4, Q2).

US Patents:

10,843,940. T Laoui, FA Olabemiwo, B Tawabini, M Khaled. Contaminant removal from water using polyelectrolyte coated fly ash.
10167212. Jamal Amana and Bassam S. Tawabini. Continuous flow decontamination of an MTBE-contaminated aqueous liquid.
10160675. Jamal Amana and Bassam S. Tawabini. Process for filtering and treating an MTBE-contaminated aqueous liquid.
10125038. Jamal Amana and Bassam S. Tawabini. Treatment of Water Contaminated with MTBE Using UV/Chlorine Advanced Oxidation Process.
10596546. Bassam S. Tawabini, Mutaz. A. Atieh, Faraj A. Abuilaiwi and Segun B. Adebayo. Doped silver nanoparticles on carbon fly ash for adsorption of methyl tertiary butyl ether.
11305255 B2. B. S. Tawabini, M. A. Atieh, F. A. Olabemiwo, S. B . Adebayo. MTBE-Removal Composition with Acid-Treated Fly Ash Particles.
11446632 B2 . Bassam S. Tawabini, Mutaz. A. Atieh, Faraj A. Abuilaiwi and Segun B. Adebayo. Silver Oxide Nanoparticle-Containing Fly Ash Adsorbent.

Extended Publications (+)

Sami Al-Rasheedi, Bassam Tawabini, Mazen Nazal, and Amjad B. Khalil. Application of Thermophilic Bacteria for the Treatment of Municipal Wastewaters. Arabian Journal of Science and Engineering. AJSE 47, 6881-6888 (2022).
Bassam Tawabini, Mohammed A. Yassin, Mohammed Benaafi, J. A. Adetoro, Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, S.I. Abba. Spatiotemporal variability assessment of trace metals based on Subsurface Water Quality Impact Integrated with Artificial Intelligence-Based Modeling. Sustainability, 2022, 14 (4), https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042192.
Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Bassam Tawabini, Omer Muhammad Siddiq, Dimitrios Kalderis, Dimitrios Ntarlagiannis, Pantelis Soupios. Adsorption of Arsenic on Fe-modified Biochar and Monitoring Using Spectral Induced Polarization. Water 2022, 14(4), 563; https://doi.org/10.3390/w14040563.
Arya Pradipta, Pantelis Soupios, Nektarios Kourgialas, Maria Doula, Zoi Dokou, Mohammad Makkawi, Mohammed Alfarhan, Bassam Tawabini, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Mohamed Yassin. Remote Sensing, Geophysics, and Modeling to Support Precision Agriculture –Part 1: Soil Applications. Water. 1595020. Water 2022, 14, 1158. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071158.
Arya Pradipta, Pantelis Soupios, Nektarios Kourgialas, Maria Doula, Zoi Dokou, Mohammad Makkawi, Mohammed Alfarhan, Bassam Tawabini, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Mohamed Yassin. Remote Sensing, Geophysics, and Modeling to Support Precision Agriculture –Part 2: Irrigation Management Water 2022, 14, 1157. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14071157.
Mohamed Yassin, Bassam Tawabini, A. Adetoro, Mohammed Benaafi, Ahmed Al-Areeq, Abdullahi Garba Usman, S.I. Abba. Geochemical and Spatial Distribution Topsoil HMs Coupled with Modeling of Cr Using Chemometrics Intelligent Techniques: Case Study from Dammam Area, Saudi Arabia. Molecules 2022, 27(13), 4220.
Rami W. Mansouri, Abdulaziz Al-Shaibani, Mohammed Makkawi, Bassam Tawabini. Groundwater Quality Assessment of Northern Harrat Rahat Aquifer, Saudi Arabia. Hydrogeology Journal. 30(8), pp. 2433-2457.
Mohammed Benaafi *, Bassam Tawabini, S.I. Abba *, John D. Humphrey, Ahmed AL-Areeq, Saad A. Alhulaibi, Abdullahi Garba Usman, Isam H. Aljundi. Integrated Hydrogeological, Hydrochemical, and Isotopic Assessment of Seawater Intrusion into Coastal Aquifers in Al-Qatif Area, Eastern Saudi Arabia. J. Molecules. Volume 27 Issue 20 3390/molecules27206841.
Amjad Khalil, Shahad Shaikh and Bassam Tawabini. Removal of heavy metals from contaminated water by thermophilic bacteria isolated from hot springs in Saudi Arabia (2022). J. of Bacteriology & Mycology. Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2022: pp. 60-64.
Alshahrani, B. Tawabini*, T. Saleh, M. Alrayaan, S. Alaama, R. Nasser, P. Soupios, P. Kirmizakis, M. Mahmoud, T. Oyehan & E. Safi (2022). Removal of benzene, MTBE and toluene from contaminated waters using biochar-based liquid activated carbon. Scientific Reports, (2022) 12:19651, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24283-6.
Ahmed A. Hassan, Bassam Tawabini. Physicochemical Parameters of Tap Water in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia: An Empirical Assessment (2022). International Journal of Environmental and Ecological Engineering Vol:16, No:9, 2022.
I. Abba, Mohammed Benaafi, A.G.Usman, Dilber Uzun Ozsahin, Bassam Tawabini, Isam H.Aljundiaf. Mapping of groundwater salinization and modelling using meta-heuristic algorithms for the coastal aquifer of eastern Saudi Arabia (2023). Science of the Total Environment. Volume 858, Part 2 Feb. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159697. (Q1)
Bassam Tawabini, Mubarak Al-Enazi, Mansour A. Alghamdi, Ashraf Farahat, Ahsan M. Shemsi, Marwan Y. Al Sharif and Mamdouh I. Khoder. Potentially Harmful Elements Associated with Dust of Mosques: Pollution Status, Sources, and Human Health Risks (2023). Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2023, 20(3), 2687; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20032687. (Q2 in JCR-2022)
Bassam Tawabini (2023). A Chemometrics-Based Approach for the Chemical Prediction of Lead (Pb) Levels in Surface Soil, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. J. of Cogent Engineering. Vol. 10, Issue 1. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2023.2199967. 13 pages. (ISI, Q2)

Awards & Honors

Best Teaching Award. College of Petroleum Eng. & Geosciences, KFUPM. 2024.
Best Teaching Award. College of Sciences, KFUPM. 2011.
KFUPM Awards for obtaining several US Patents
Long Services Award, 10 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 1994.
Long Services Award, 20 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2004.
Long Services Award, 30 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2014.
Long Services Award, 35 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2019.
Long Services Award, 40 Years KFUPM. Dhahran, KSA. 2024.
Top 5 contributions in photoenergy for my paper titled “Simultaneous Removal of MTBE and Benzene from Contaminated Groundwater Using Ultraviolet-Based Ozone and Hydrogen Peroxide”. International Journal of Photoenergy.
The 1^st place at the 5th Saudi Water Arabia conference held between 17-19 of October, 2017 in Saudi Arabia. The paper titled’ Assessment of Polyelectrolyte Coated Fly Ash for Cadmium Removal in Polluted Water”.

Tel: +966 (013) 860-3765

Email: sherif.mahmoud@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2127

Dr. Sherif M. H. Mahmoud

Associate Professor, Program Leader – Geophysics, Department of Geosciences

Dr. Sherif M. Hanafy is currently a visiting associate professor at KFUPM. He was a senior research scientist at KAUST from 2009 until July 2018. During this time, he was the founder and in charge of the geophysical field program (Seismology Lab). His research interests include geophysical field methods, seismic interferometry, traveltime tomography, early arrival tomography, seismic modeling, seismic inversion and migration, data interpolation/extrapolation, and shallow application of resistivity and GPR methods. In the last year, he has become more involved in machine learning, especially in the processing and interpretation of seismic and GPR data.

Educational Qualification

Ph.D. in Geophysics (Kiel University, Germany – Cairo University, Egypt), 2002.
M.S. in Geophysics – Seismic (Cairo University, Egypt), 1996.
B.S. In Geophysics (Cairo University, Egypt), 1993.

Research Interests

Geophysical field methods
Seismic interferometry
Traveltime tomography
Seismic modeling, seismic inversion, and migration
Data interpolation/extrapolation
Shallow application of resistivity and GPR methods
Machine learning

Selected Publications

Zehra Fatima, Mohammed Benaafi, Bassam Tawabini, and Sherif Hanafy, 2026. Experimental-based assessment of managed aquifer recharge with treated wastewater in arid coastal regions. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 144, 104602, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2026.104602.
Ayman Al-Lehyani, Hassan A. Eltom, Ammar El-Husseiny, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Sherif Hanafy, Michael Kaminski, Mohamed Mahmoud and Paul Edigbue, 2026. Assessing the effect of sample size on laboratory acoustic velocity measurements of bioturbated carbonate rocks of Hanifa Formation, Saudi Arabia. Carbonates Evaporites 41, 88 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-026-01286-2.
Yazeed M. Alqahtani and Sherif M. Hanafy, 2026. Surface-Wave Inversion and Seismic Refraction Analysis for Near-Surface Characterization in Khamis Mushait, Southwestern Saudi Arabia. Accepted for publication at JURI.
Mohammed Alamoudi and Sherif M. Hanafy, 2026. Evaluation of GPR Processing Workflows for Fracture Detection in Limestone of the Rus Formation, KFUPM Campus, Saudi Arabia. Accepted for publication at JURI.
Kellal, Sara, Ammar ElHusseiny, Nandito Davy, Amjed Mohamed, Sherif Hanafy, 2026. Machine Learning-Driven Permeability Prediction in Carbonates and Sandstones Using NMR Relaxation Data. Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, 7 (1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiig.2026.100193.
Hanafy, S. M., 2026. Extrapolation of seismic land streamer data using interferometry. Scientific Reports, 16, 5531 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-35328-5
Eleslambouly, Ahmed, Mohammed Y. Ali, Fateh Bouchaala, Ammar El-Husseiny, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Sherif M. Hanafy, and Jun Matsushima, 2025. Seismic Characterization of Inland and Coastal Sabkhas Using VP, VS, Seismic Anisotropy, and Attenuation. Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, Article number: 44623 (2025
Ahmad, Naveed, Sikandar Khan, Gulzar Alam, and Sherif Hanafy, 2025. Data Quality Aware Deep Learning for Reliable Seismic Event Detection. IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3637726.
Hanafy, S. M., 2025. Integrated Seismic and Resistivity Imaging Reassesses the Existence of the Qadimah Fault Near the Red Sea Shoreline. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-025-10696-8.
Jing Li, Rong Hu, Chunyu Ding, Hui Liu, Jianqing Feng, and Sherif Hanafy, 2025. Shallow multi‐layered structures within the lunar regolith observed by the Chang’e‐5 radar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2024JE008509. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008509
Eleslambouly, A., M. Y. Ali, A. El-Husseiny, A. A. Al-Shuhail, F. Bouchalaa, S. M. Hanafy, and J. Matsushima, 2025. Seismic Properties of Coastal and Inland Sabkhas: Implications for Static Corrections. Earth and Space Science, 12,e2024EA003813. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003813.
Schuster, Gerard T., Sherif Hanafy, Brian McPherson, and Shihang Feng, 2025. Efficient CO2 Monitoring by Parsimonious Refraction Interferometry. Geophysics, 90 (5), https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2024-0473.1.
Kalinichenko, O., L. Eisner, F. Stanek, U. Bin Waheed, S. Hanafy, and Z. Jechumtálová, 2025. Signal-to-Noise Ratio Models for Shallow Borehole Seismic Monitoring, Seismol. Res. Lett. XX, 1–13, doi: 10.1785/0220250030.
Simeonova G., L. Eisner, U. bin Waheed, A. Savvaidis, S. Hanafy, 2025. S-wave velocity model of Texas based on joint inversion of interferometry and P-wave receiver functions. Geophysical Prospecting, DOI:10.1111/1365-2478.70035.
Edigbue, P., A. Al Shuhail, and S. Hanafy, 2025. Seismic Event Detection and First Arrival Picking using Continuous Wavelet Transform and Machine Learning Techniques. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), 51, 1913-1926, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-025-10121-0.
Makki, K. Y., P. Edigbue, A. Al-Shuhail, and S. Hanafy, 2025. Investigation of the tilted transverse isotropy of P-wave velocity in dunes in eastern Saudi Arabia. Geophysics, 90 (3), https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2024-0136.1.
Alfuraidan, M. R., A. A. Al-Shuhail, S. M. Hanafy, and I. O. Sarumi, 2025. Enhancing the Accuracy of Seismic Velocity in Near-surface Layers through Laplacian Spectra Analysis of Weighted Graphs. Accepted at Scientific Reports.
Muhammad, A., Edigbue, P., Hanafy, S. et al. Accurate velocity estimation from surface-consistent residual statics. Sci Rep 15, 34916 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18730-3

Extended Publications (+)

Edigbue, P. I., Hammed Oyekan, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, and Sherif Hanafy, 2024. Hybrid Optimization for DC Resistivity Imaging via Intelligible-in-time Logic and the Interior Point Method. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-78744-1 .
Yu, H., Li, J., Hanafy, S., and Liu, L., 2024. A collocated inversion of sources and early arrival waveforms for credible tomograms: Synthetic and field data examples. Near Surface Geophysics, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12312
Hanafy, S. M. and M. Benaafi, 2024. Investigating seawater intrusion and salinization using the integration of hydrochemical and geoelectrical techniques. Geophysics, 89, Issue 5.
Qiao, H., Y. Zhou, S. M. Hanafy, C. Liu, 2024. Iterative Interferometric Denoising Filter for Traveltime Picking. Applied Sciences, 14 (2), 733
Li, Jing, Chang Zhang, Sherif Hanafy, Han Yu, and Lige Bai, 2024. Joint wave-equation inversion of Rayleigh and Love dispersion curves. Geophysics, 89: R155-R167, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2023-0070.1.
Zhou, W. and S. M. Hanafy, 2024. Acoustic full waveform inversion on land surveys: A case study on the Qademah fault, Saudi Arabia. Geophysics, 89,
Awais, Muhammad, Sherif Hanafy, Saifullah Shafiq, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, and Umair Waheed, 2023. First Break Traveltime Picking Using Unsupervised Machine Learning and Super-virtual Refraction Interferometry. Earth and Space Science, 10 (12), https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003014.
Yicheng Zhou and Sherif Hanafy, 2023. Waveform Parsimonious Refraction Interferometry. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 61, 2023 5921110.
Saraih Nabil A., Hassan A. Eltom, Robert H. Goldstein, Scott A. Whattam, Ammar El-Husseiny, Sherif Hanafy, John Humphrey, 2023. Bioturbated strata in the Upper Cretaceous Aruma Formation, central Saudi Arabia: An analog for aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs with large burrows. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 157, 106489, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106489.
Li, Huijian, Bo Liu , Xu Liu , Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail , Sherif M. H. Mahmoud, and Yangkang Chen, 2023. Frequency-Independent Centroid Frequency Shift Method for Signal Attenuation Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), Vol. 61, 4504212, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3293645.
Edigbue, P., Irfan Akca, Ismail Demirci, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Hamdan Ali Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, Pantelis Soupios, 2023. Testing different stochastic methods to model direct current resistivity and seismic refraction geophysical data using a combined local and global optimization algorithm. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 48, P. 7925–7938, DOI: 10.1007/s13369-023-07690-3.
Alfuraidan, M. R., A. Al-Shuhail, S. M. Hanafy, and I. O. Sarumi, 2023. Approximation of Seismic Velocities from the Spectrum of Weighted Graphs. GEM – International Journal on Geomathematics, Vol. 14, DOI: 10.1007/s13137-023-00214-z.
Hanafy, S.M., 2022. President’s Page: The geophysical landscape in the Middle East. The Leading Edge, 41(5), https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41050292.1
Hanafy, S.M., Al-Mashhor, A., and Al-Shuhail, A.A., 2022. Removal of Intra-Array Statics in Seismic Arrays Due to Variable Topography and Positioning Errors. Applied Sciences 2022, 12, 12810. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412810
Paul Edigbue, Ismail Demirci, Irfan Akca, Hamdan Ali Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Pantelis Soupios, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, 2022. A comprehensive study of local, global, and combined optimization methods on synthetic seismic refraction and direct current resistivity data. Applied Sciences, 12, 11589. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122211589.
Paul Edigbue, Ismail Demirci, Irfan Akca, Hamdan Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Pantelis Soupios, Markos Tranos, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, 2022. Application of combined local and global optimization algorithms in the inversion of Direct Current Resistivity and Seismic Refraction data: a case study of Dammam Dome, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Sensors 2022, 22, 9337. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239337
Yu, H., S. M. Hanafy, and L. Liu, 2022. A Weighted Closure-Phase Statics Correction Method: Synthetic and Field Data Examples. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), Vol. 60, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3169519.
Hanafy S. M., 2022. Land-Streamer vs. Conventional Seismic Data for High-Resolution Near-Surface Surveys. Applied Sciences, 12, 584., p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020584.
Ramdani, A., P. Khanna, G. Gairola, S. Hanafy, and V. Vahrenkamp, 2022. Assessing and Processing 3D Photogrammetry, Sedimentology and Geophysical Data to Build High-fidelity Reservoir Models Based on Carbonate Outcrop Analogs. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (10), pp. 1975–2011, https://doi.org/10.1306/05152221092.

Awards & Honors

2020 – 2023 Elected “Director at Large” member at the board of directors, SEG
2019 – 2020: District 10 representative at the SEG
2017: The SEG Honorary Lecturer in the Middle East and Africa.
2015 – Present: Associate editor at the SEG (Geophysics).
2013 – Present: Member of the “Continuing Education Committee” at the SEG.
2013 – 2015: Special editor at the SEG.
2013 & 2015: Member of the organizing committee of the 1st (2013) and 2nd (2015) SEG/DGS workshop at Bahrain “Near Surface Modeling and Imaging”.
2012 – 2016: Key contact of the “Seismic Theory” sessions at the SEG annual meetings.
2010: Co-founder of the CSIM, KAUST.
2005: Founder and Advisor (until 2007) of the SEG Cairo University Student Chapter.
2004 – 2005: Fulbright scholarship.
2004: Best paper at the 2004 EGS meeting (Abdelhady, Morsy, and Hanafy).
2004: Best presentation at the 2004 EGS meeting (Abdelhady, Hanafy, and Morsy).
1999 – 2002: Ph.D. scholarship, DAAD, Germany.

Tel: +966 (013) 860-3765

Email: sherif.mahmoud@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2127

Dr. Sherif M. H. Mahmoud

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Program Leader – Geophysics, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

Educational Qualification

Ph.D. in Geophysics (Kiel University, Germany – Cairo University, Egypt), 2002.
M.S. in Geophysics – Seismic (Cairo University, Egypt), 1996.
B.S. In Geophysics (Cairo University, Egypt), 1993.

Research Interests

Geophysical field methods
Seismic interferometry
Traveltime tomography
Seismic modeling, seismic inversion, and migration
Data interpolation/extrapolation
Shallow application of resistivity and GPR methods
Machine learning

Selected Publications

Zehra Fatima, Mohammed Benaafi, Bassam Tawabini, and Sherif Hanafy, 2026. Experimental-based assessment of managed aquifer recharge with treated wastewater in arid coastal regions. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 144, 104602, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pce.2026.104602.
Ayman Al-Lehyani, Hassan A. Eltom, Ammar El-Husseiny, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Sherif Hanafy, Michael Kaminski, Mohamed Mahmoud and Paul Edigbue, 2026. Assessing the effect of sample size on laboratory acoustic velocity measurements of bioturbated carbonate rocks of Hanifa Formation, Saudi Arabia. Carbonates Evaporites 41, 88 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13146-026-01286-2.
Yazeed M. Alqahtani and Sherif M. Hanafy, 2026. Surface-Wave Inversion and Seismic Refraction Analysis for Near-Surface Characterization in Khamis Mushait, Southwestern Saudi Arabia. Accepted for publication at JURI.
Mohammed Alamoudi and Sherif M. Hanafy, 2026. Evaluation of GPR Processing Workflows for Fracture Detection in Limestone of the Rus Formation, KFUPM Campus, Saudi Arabia. Accepted for publication at JURI.
Kellal, Sara, Ammar ElHusseiny, Nandito Davy, Amjed Mohamed, Sherif Hanafy, 2026. Machine Learning-Driven Permeability Prediction in Carbonates and Sandstones Using NMR Relaxation Data. Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, 7 (1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aiig.2026.100193.
Hanafy, S. M., 2026. Extrapolation of seismic land streamer data using interferometry. Scientific Reports, 16, 5531 (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-35328-5
Eleslambouly, Ahmed, Mohammed Y. Ali, Fateh Bouchaala, Ammar El-Husseiny, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Sherif M. Hanafy, and Jun Matsushima, 2025. Seismic Characterization of Inland and Coastal Sabkhas Using VP, VS, Seismic Anisotropy, and Attenuation. Scientific Reports, Vol. 15, Article number: 44623 (2025
Ahmad, Naveed, Sikandar Khan, Gulzar Alam, and Sherif Hanafy, 2025. Data Quality Aware Deep Learning for Reliable Seismic Event Detection. IEEE Access, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2025.3637726.
Hanafy, S. M., 2025. Integrated Seismic and Resistivity Imaging Reassesses the Existence of the Qadimah Fault Near the Red Sea Shoreline. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-025-10696-8.
Jing Li, Rong Hu, Chunyu Ding, Hui Liu, Jianqing Feng, and Sherif Hanafy, 2025. Shallow multi‐layered structures within the lunar regolith observed by the Chang’e‐5 radar. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130, e2024JE008509. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024JE008509
Eleslambouly, A., M. Y. Ali, A. El-Husseiny, A. A. Al-Shuhail, F. Bouchalaa, S. M. Hanafy, and J. Matsushima, 2025. Seismic Properties of Coastal and Inland Sabkhas: Implications for Static Corrections. Earth and Space Science, 12,e2024EA003813. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EA003813.
Schuster, Gerard T., Sherif Hanafy, Brian McPherson, and Shihang Feng, 2025. Efficient CO2 Monitoring by Parsimonious Refraction Interferometry. Geophysics, 90 (5), https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2024-0473.1.
Kalinichenko, O., L. Eisner, F. Stanek, U. Bin Waheed, S. Hanafy, and Z. Jechumtálová, 2025. Signal-to-Noise Ratio Models for Shallow Borehole Seismic Monitoring, Seismol. Res. Lett. XX, 1–13, doi: 10.1785/0220250030.
Simeonova G., L. Eisner, U. bin Waheed, A. Savvaidis, S. Hanafy, 2025. S-wave velocity model of Texas based on joint inversion of interferometry and P-wave receiver functions. Geophysical Prospecting, DOI:10.1111/1365-2478.70035.
Edigbue, P., A. Al Shuhail, and S. Hanafy, 2025. Seismic Event Detection and First Arrival Picking using Continuous Wavelet Transform and Machine Learning Techniques. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering (AJSE), 51, 1913-1926, https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-025-10121-0.
Makki, K. Y., P. Edigbue, A. Al-Shuhail, and S. Hanafy, 2025. Investigation of the tilted transverse isotropy of P-wave velocity in dunes in eastern Saudi Arabia. Geophysics, 90 (3), https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2024-0136.1.
Alfuraidan, M. R., A. A. Al-Shuhail, S. M. Hanafy, and I. O. Sarumi, 2025. Enhancing the Accuracy of Seismic Velocity in Near-surface Layers through Laplacian Spectra Analysis of Weighted Graphs. Accepted at Scientific Reports.
Muhammad, A., Edigbue, P., Hanafy, S. et al. Accurate velocity estimation from surface-consistent residual statics. Sci Rep 15, 34916 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-18730-3

Extended Publications (+)

Edigbue, P. I., Hammed Oyekan, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, and Sherif Hanafy, 2024. Hybrid Optimization for DC Resistivity Imaging via Intelligible-in-time Logic and the Interior Point Method. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-78744-1 .
Yu, H., Li, J., Hanafy, S., and Liu, L., 2024. A collocated inversion of sources and early arrival waveforms for credible tomograms: Synthetic and field data examples. Near Surface Geophysics, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1002/nsg.12312
Hanafy, S. M. and M. Benaafi, 2024. Investigating seawater intrusion and salinization using the integration of hydrochemical and geoelectrical techniques. Geophysics, 89, Issue 5.
Qiao, H., Y. Zhou, S. M. Hanafy, C. Liu, 2024. Iterative Interferometric Denoising Filter for Traveltime Picking. Applied Sciences, 14 (2), 733
Li, Jing, Chang Zhang, Sherif Hanafy, Han Yu, and Lige Bai, 2024. Joint wave-equation inversion of Rayleigh and Love dispersion curves. Geophysics, 89: R155-R167, https://doi.org/10.1190/geo2023-0070.1.
Zhou, W. and S. M. Hanafy, 2024. Acoustic full waveform inversion on land surveys: A case study on the Qademah fault, Saudi Arabia. Geophysics, 89,
Awais, Muhammad, Sherif Hanafy, Saifullah Shafiq, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, and Umair Waheed, 2023. First Break Traveltime Picking Using Unsupervised Machine Learning and Super-virtual Refraction Interferometry. Earth and Space Science, 10 (12), https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EA003014.
Yicheng Zhou and Sherif Hanafy, 2023. Waveform Parsimonious Refraction Interferometry. IEEE Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol. 61, 2023 5921110.
Saraih Nabil A., Hassan A. Eltom, Robert H. Goldstein, Scott A. Whattam, Ammar El-Husseiny, Sherif Hanafy, John Humphrey, 2023. Bioturbated strata in the Upper Cretaceous Aruma Formation, central Saudi Arabia: An analog for aquifers and hydrocarbon reservoirs with large burrows. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 157, 106489, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2023.106489.
Li, Huijian, Bo Liu , Xu Liu , Abdullatif A. Al-Shuhail , Sherif M. H. Mahmoud, and Yangkang Chen, 2023. Frequency-Independent Centroid Frequency Shift Method for Signal Attenuation Estimation. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), Vol. 61, 4504212, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2023.3293645.
Edigbue, P., Irfan Akca, Ismail Demirci, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, Hamdan Ali Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, Pantelis Soupios, 2023. Testing different stochastic methods to model direct current resistivity and seismic refraction geophysical data using a combined local and global optimization algorithm. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering, Vol. 48, P. 7925–7938, DOI: 10.1007/s13369-023-07690-3.
Alfuraidan, M. R., A. Al-Shuhail, S. M. Hanafy, and I. O. Sarumi, 2023. Approximation of Seismic Velocities from the Spectrum of Weighted Graphs. GEM – International Journal on Geomathematics, Vol. 14, DOI: 10.1007/s13137-023-00214-z.
Hanafy, S.M., 2022. President’s Page: The geophysical landscape in the Middle East. The Leading Edge, 41(5), https://doi.org/10.1190/tle41050292.1
Hanafy, S.M., Al-Mashhor, A., and Al-Shuhail, A.A., 2022. Removal of Intra-Array Statics in Seismic Arrays Due to Variable Topography and Positioning Errors. Applied Sciences 2022, 12, 12810. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122412810
Paul Edigbue, Ismail Demirci, Irfan Akca, Hamdan Ali Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Pantelis Soupios, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, 2022. A comprehensive study of local, global, and combined optimization methods on synthetic seismic refraction and direct current resistivity data. Applied Sciences, 12, 11589. https://doi.org/10.3390/app122211589.
Paul Edigbue, Ismail Demirci, Irfan Akca, Hamdan Hamdan, Panagiotis Kirmizakis, Pantelis Soupios, Markos Tranos, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Emin Candansayar, Sherif Hanafy, Abdullatif Al-Shuhail, 2022. Application of combined local and global optimization algorithms in the inversion of Direct Current Resistivity and Seismic Refraction data: a case study of Dammam Dome, Eastern Saudi Arabia. Sensors 2022, 22, 9337. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22239337
Yu, H., S. M. Hanafy, and L. Liu, 2022. A Weighted Closure-Phase Statics Correction Method: Synthetic and Field Data Examples. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS), Vol. 60, DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3169519.
Hanafy S. M., 2022. Land-Streamer vs. Conventional Seismic Data for High-Resolution Near-Surface Surveys. Applied Sciences, 12, 584., p. 1-15, https://doi.org/10.3390/app12020584.
Ramdani, A., P. Khanna, G. Gairola, S. Hanafy, and V. Vahrenkamp, 2022. Assessing and Processing 3D Photogrammetry, Sedimentology and Geophysical Data to Build High-fidelity Reservoir Models Based on Carbonate Outcrop Analogs. AAPG Bulletin, 106 (10), pp. 1975–2011, https://doi.org/10.1306/05152221092.

Awards & Honors

2020 – 2023 Elected “Director at Large” member at the board of directors, SEG
2019 – 2020: District 10 representative at the SEG
2017: The SEG Honorary Lecturer in the Middle East and Africa.
2015 – Present: Associate editor at the SEG (Geophysics).
2013 – Present: Member of the “Continuing Education Committee” at the SEG.
2013 – 2015: Special editor at the SEG.
2013 & 2015: Member of the organizing committee of the 1st (2013) and 2nd (2015) SEG/DGS workshop at Bahrain “Near Surface Modeling and Imaging”.
2012 – 2016: Key contact of the “Seismic Theory” sessions at the SEG annual meetings.
2010: Co-founder of the CSIM, KAUST.
2005: Founder and Advisor (until 2007) of the SEG Cairo University Student Chapter.
2004 – 2005: Fulbright scholarship.
2004: Best paper at the 2004 EGS meeting (Abdelhady, Morsy, and Hanafy).
2004: Best presentation at the 2004 EGS meeting (Abdelhady, Hanafy, and Morsy).
1999 – 2002: Ph.D. scholarship, DAAD, Germany.

Tel: +966 (013) 860-2297

Fax: +966 (013) 860-2595

Email: umair.waheed@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 1254

Dr. Umair bin Waheed

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

Umair bin Waheed is an Assistant Professor of Geophysics at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM). His research interests are broadly in the area of computational geosciences. Specifically, he is interested in automating and improving workflows through the use of smart algorithms for enhanced decision-making in subsurface energy systems. Umair graduated from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology with a Ph.D. in Earth Science & Engineering in 2015. Prior to joining KFUPM in 2017, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, and a Writing in Science and Engineering fellow at the Princeton Writing Program.

Personal Page: umairbinwaheed.com

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Earth Sciences & Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, 2015
M.S., Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy & Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 2010
B.E., Electronic Engineering, NED University of Engineering and Technology, Pakistan, 2008

Research Interests

Physics- and data-driven machine learning
Geophysical modeling
Inverse problems
Induced seismicity
Geothermal exploration

Selected Publications

Alexandrov, D., U. Waheed, and L. Eisner. Microseismic location error due to eikonal traveltime calculation .” Applied Sciences, 11.3 (2021), doi.org/10.3390/app11030982
Song, C., T. Alkhalifah, and U. Waheed. Solving the frequency-domain acoustic VTI wave equation using physics-informed neural networks.” Geophysical Journal International, 225.2 (2021), doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab010
Ketcheson, D., H. Ranocha, M. Parsani, U. Waheed, and Y. Hadjimichael. NodePy: A package for the analysis of numerical ODE solvers.” Journal of Open Source Software, 55.5 (2020): 2515, doi.org/10.21105/joss.02515
Waheed, U. A fast marching algorithm for the tilted transversely isotropic media.” Geophysics, 85.6 (2020): S385-S393, doi.org/10.1190/geo2019-0799.1
Stovas, A., T. Alkhalifah, and U. Waheed. Pure P-and S-wave equations in transversely isotropic media.” Geophysical Prospecting, 68.9 (2020): 2762-2769, doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.13026
Alexandrov, D., L. Eisner, U. Waheed, S. Kaka, and S. Greenhalgh. Detection, location, and source mechanism determination with large noise variations in surface microseismic monitoring.” Geophysics, 85.6 (2020), KS197-KS205, doi.org/10.1190/geo2019-0841.1
Alexandrov, D., L. Eisner, U. Waheed, S. Kaka, and S. Greenhalgh. Normal faulting activated by hydraulic fracturing: A case study from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas, USA.” The Leading Edge, 39.3 (2020), 204-211, doi.org/10.1190/tle39030204.1
Hao, Q., U. Waheed, and T. Alkhalifah. P-wave complex-valued traveltimes in homogeneous attenuating transversely isotropic media.” Geophysical Prospecting, 67.9 (2019): 2402-2413, doi.org/10.1111/1365-2478.12869

Extended Publications (+)

Waheed, U., & Alkhalifah, T. (2017). A fast sweeping algorithm for accurate solution of the tilted transversely isotropic eikonal equation using factorization. Geophysics, 82(6), WB1-WB8.
Waheed, U., Stovas, A., & Alkhalifah, T. (2016). Anisotropy parameter inversion in vertical axis of symmetry media using diffractions. Geophysical Prospecting, 65(1), 194-203.
Waheed, U., Flagg, G., & Yarman, C. E. (2016). First-arrival traveltime tomography for anisotropic media using the adjoint-state method. Geophysics, 81(4), R147-R155.
Waheed, U., & Alkhalifah, T. (2016). Effective ellipsoidal models for wavefield extrapolation in tilted orthorhombic media. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 60(3), 349-369.
Waheed, U., Yarman, C. E., & Flagg, G. (2015). An iterative, fast-sweeping-based eikonal solver for 3D tilted anisotropic media. Geophysics, 80(3), C49-C58.
Waheed, U., & Alkhalifah, T. (2015). An efficient wave extrapolation method for anisotropic media with tilt. Geophysical Prospecting, 63(5), 1126-1141.
Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T., & Wang, H. (2015). Efficient traveltime solutions of the acoustic TI eikonal equation. Journal of Computational Physics, 282, 62-76.
Ketcheson, D., & Waheed, U. (2014). A comparison of high-order explicit Runge–Kutta, extrapolation, and deferred correction methods in serial and parallel. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 9(2), 175-200.
Ibanez-Jacome, W., Alkhalifah, T., & Waheed, U. (2014). Effective orthorhombic anisotropic models for wavefield extrapolation. Geophysical Journal International, 198(3), 1653-1661.
Waheed, U., Pšenčík, I., Červený, V., Iversen, E., & Alkhalifah, T. (2013). Two-point paraxial traveltime formula for inhomogeneous isotropic and anisotropic media: Tests of accuracy. Geophysics, 78(5), WC65-WC80.
Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T., & Stovas, A. (2013). Diffraction traveltime approximation for TI media with an inhomogeneous background. Geophysics, 78(5), WC103-WC111.

Journal Papers

[30] Guo, G., Lan, H., Zhou, X., Liu, Y., Waheed, U., Chen, J. (2021). Topography-dependent eikonal tomography based on the fast sweeping scheme and the adjoint-state technique. Geophysics, 87(2), 1-51.
[29] Alkhalifah, T., Song, C., Waheed, U., Hao, Q. (2021). Wavefield solutions from machine learned functions. Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences, 2, 11-19.
[28] Song, C., Alkhalifah, T., Waheed, U. (2021). A versatile framework to solve the Helmholtz equation using physics-informed neural networks. Geophysical Journal International, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3054071.
[27] Wang, H., Alkhalifah, T., Waheed, U., Birnie, C. (2021). Data-driven microseismic event localization: Application to the Oklahoma Arkoma Basin hydraulic fracturing data. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.3120546.
[26] Ayranci, K., Yildrim, I., Waheed, U., MacEachern, J. (2021). Deep learning applications in Geosciences: Insights into ichnological analysis. Applied Sciences, 11(16), 7736,
[25] Waheed, U., Haghighat, E., Alkhalifah, T., Song, C., Hao, Q. (2021). PINNeik: Eikonal solution using physics-informed neural networks. Computers and Geosciences, 155, 104833.
[24] Tariq, Z., Hassan, A.,Waheed, U., Mahmoud, M., Al-Shehri, D., Abdulraheem, A., Mokheimer, E. M. (2021). A data-driven machine learning approach to predict the natural gas density of pure and mixed hydrocarbons. Journal of Energy Resources Technology, 143(9), 092801.
[23] Zhou, X., Lan, H., Chen, L., Guo, G., Lei, Y., Waheed, U., Shulin, P. (2021). An iterative, factored topography dependent eikonal solver for anisotropic media. Geophysics, 86(5), 1-58.
[22] Almadani, M., Waheed, U., Masood, M., Chen, Y. (2021). Dictionary learning with convolutional structure for seismic data denoising and interpolation. Geophysics, 86(5), 1-102.
[21] Song, C., Alkhalifah, T., Waheed, U. (2021). Solving the frequency-domain acoustic VTI wave equation using physics-informed neural networks. Geophysical Journal International, 225(2), 846-859.
[20] Othman, A., Iqbal, N., Hanafy, S. M., Waheed, U. (2021). Automated event detection and denoising method for passive seismic data using residual deep convolutional neural networks. IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, doi: 10.1109/TGRS.2021.30540 1.
[19] Alsamadony, K. L., Yildirim, E. U., Glatz, G., Waheed, U., Hanafy, S. M. (2021). Deep learning driven noise reduction for reduced flux computed tomography. Sensors, 21(5), 1921.
[18] Alexandrov, D., Waheed, U., Eisner, L. (2021). Microseismic location error due to eikonal traveltime calculation. Applied Sciences, 11(3), 982.
[17] Ketcheson, D. I., Ranocha, H., Parsani, M., Waheed, U., Hadjimichael, Y. (2020). NodePy: A package for the analysis of numerical ODE solvers. Journal of Open Source Software, 5(55), 2515.
[16] Waheed, U. (2020). A fast-marching eikonal solver for tilted transversely isotropic media. Geophysics, 85(6), S385-S393.
[15] Alexandrov, D., Eisner, L., Waheed, U., Kaka, S. I., Greenhalgh, S. A. (2020). Detection, location, and source mechanism determination with large noise variations in surface microseismic monitoring. Geophysics, 85(6), KS197-KS206.
[14] Stovas, A., Alkhalifah, T., Waheed, U. (2020). Pure P-and S-wave equations in transversely isotropic media. Geophysical Prospecting, 68(9), 2762-2769.
[13] Alexandrov, D., Eisner, L., Waheed, U., Kaka, S. I., Greenhalgh, S. A. (2020). Normal faulting activated by hydraulic fracturing: A case study from the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin. The Leading Edge, 39(3), 204-211.
[12] Hao, Q., Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T. (2019). P-wave complex-valued traveltimes in homogeneous attenuating transversely isotropic media. Geophysical prospecting, 67(9), 2402-2413.
[11] Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T. (2017). A fast sweeping algorithm for accurate solution of the tilted transversely isotropic eikonal equation using factorization. Geophysics, 82(6), WB1-WB8.
[10] Waheed, U., Stovas, A., Alkhalifah, T. (2017). Anisotropy parameter inversion in vertical axis of symmetry media using diffractions. Geophysical Prospecting, 65(1), 194-203.
[9] Waheed, U., Flagg, G., Yarman, C. E. (2016). First arrival traveltime tomography for anisotropic media using the adjoint-state method. Geophysics, 81(4), R147-R155.
[8] Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T. (2016). Effective ellipsoidal models for wavefield extrapolation in tilted orthorhombic media. Studia Geophysica et Geodaetica, 60(3), 349-369.
[7] Waheed, U., Yarman, C. E., Flagg, G. (2015). An iterative, fast-sweeping-based eikonal solver for 3D tilted anisotropic media. Geophysics, 80(3), C49-C58.
[6] Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T. (2015). An efficient wave extrapolation method for anisotropic media with tilt. Geophysical Prospecting, 63(5), 1126-1141.
[5] Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T., Wang, H. (2015). Efficient traveltime solutions of the acoustic TI eikonal equation. Journal of Computational Physics, 282, 62-76.
[4] Ketcheson, D., Waheed, U. (2014). A comparison of high-order explicit Runge-Kutta, extrapolation, and deferred correction methods in serial and parallel. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, 9(2), 175-200.
[3] Ibanez-Jacome, W., Alkhalifah, T., Waheed, U. (2014). Effective orthorhombic anisotropic models for wavefield extrapolation. Geophysical Journal International, 198(3), 1653-1661.
[2] Waheed, U., Psencik, I., Cerveny, V., Iversen, E., Alkhalifah, T. (2013). Two-point paraxial traveltime formula for inhomogeneous isotropic and anisotropic media: Tests of accuracy. Geophysics, 78(5), WC65-WC80.
[1] Waheed, U., Alkhalifah, T., Stovas, A. (2013). Diffraction traveltime approximation for TI media with an inhomogeneous background. Geophysics, 78(5), WC103-WC111.

Awards & Honors

SEG continuing education course instructor
Writing in Science and Engineering Fellowship, Princeton University, 2016-2017
Best student poster award, EAGE student and YP forum, 2014
Runners up, EAGE Geo-creativity prize competition, 2014
Third place, SIAM ‘Math Matters, Apply It!’ competition, 2013

Tel: + 966 (013) 860-5332

Email: nikolai.pedenchuk@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2217

Dr. Nikolai Pedenchuk

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

Dr. Nikolai Pedentchouk is an organic geoscientist with expertise in molecular and stable isotope organic geochemistry, with a primary focus on petroleum systems. His research integrates biomarker and isotopic methodologies to address fundamental and applied questions in hydrocarbon exploration, oil-source correlation, biodegradation processes, and paleoenvironmental reconstruction. Dr. Pedentchouk holds a PhD in Geosciences from Pennsylvania State University (USA) and has extensive international research experience spanning academic and applied geosciences settings.

At KFUPM, Dr. Pedentchouk contributes to advancing petroleum geochemistry through research and teaching. He serves as Associate Editor for Organic Geochemistry and Frontiers in Geochemistry and is a frequent reviewer for leading journals including Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, Organic Geochemistry, Applied Geochemistry, and Science of the Total Environment. His publication record includes over 40 peer-reviewed articles, and his work is widely cited in the fields of organic geochemistry and isotopic analysis. He is actively involved in graduate supervision, international collaborations, and the development of novel geochemical proxies for subsurface and surface processes relevant to the energy sector

Educational Qualification

Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Practice, University of East Anglia, UK, 2013
Ph.D., Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, USA, 2004
M.S., Geology, Auburn University, USA, 1996
B.S., Geology, Moscow State University, Russia, 1991

Research Interests

The use of biomarkers and their stable isotope composition in petroleum exploration
Investigation of carbon cycling in the terrestrial biosphere
Research on carbon cycling in the Arctic
Development of biomarker proxies for ice extent and thickness in the Arctic and Antarctica
Identification and source apportionment of organic pollutants in the environment
The use of stable isotopes (carbon, hydrogen, oxygen) in plant ecophysiology

Selected Publications

Watts, H.D., Kubicki, J.D., Pedentchouk, N., Freeman, K.H. (2024) Position-specific ²H/H equilibrium isotopic fractionation factors in alkane, alkene, and aromatic molecules: A density functional theory approach. ACS Earth and Space Chemistry, 8, 21-35, org/10.1021/acsearthspacechem.3c00072
Pedentchouk, N., Bennett, B, Larter, S. (2021) d¹³C and dD values of n-alkanes from in-reservoir biodegraded oils: Implications for understanding the mechanisms of biodegradation and for petroleum exploration. Geosciences 11, doi.org/10.3390/geosciences11090365
Zheng, Y., Lin, H., Wang, X., Li, M., Liu, Y., Yu, M., Zhao, M., Xin, Y., Yu, M., Pedentchouk, N., Lea-Smith, D.J., Todd, J.D., Zhang, W.-J., Zong, H., Yao, P., Zhang, C., Tian, J., Zhang, X.-H. (2019) Proliferation of hydrocarbon degrading microbes at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Microbiome, org/10.1186/s40168-019-0652-3
Pedentchouk, N. and Zhou, Y. (2018) Factors controlling carbon and hydrogen isotope fractionation during biosynthesis of lipids by phototrophic organisms. In: Wilkes, H. (ed) Handbook of Hydrocarbon and Lipid Microbiology Series. Hydrocarbons, Oils and Lipids: Diversity, Origin, Chemistry and Fate. Springer Publishing.
Pedentchouk, N. and Turich, C. (2018) Carbon and hydrogen isotopic compositions of n-alkanes as a tool in petroleum exploration. In: Lawson, M., Formolo, M.J. & Eiler, J.M. (eds) From Source to Seep: Geochemical Applications in Hydrocarbon Systems. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 468, 105-125.
Pedentchouk, N., Sumner, W., Tipple, B., and Pagani, M. (2008) δ¹³C and δD compositions of n-alkanes from modern angiosperm and conifers: An experimental set-up in central Washington State, USA. Organic Geochemistry 39, 1066.
Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Pagani, M., Woltering, M., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Dickens, G. R., Huber, M., Reichart, G.-J., Stein, R., Matthiessen, J., Lourens, L. J., Pedentchouk, N., Backman, J., Moran, K. and the Expedition 302 Scientists (2006) Subtropical Arctic Ocean temperatures during the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 441, 610.
Pagani, M., Pedentchouk, N., Huber, M., Sluijs, A., Schouten, S., Brinkhuis, H., Sinninghe Damsté, J. S., Dickens, R., and the IODP Expedition 302 Expedition Scientists (2006) Arctic’s hydrology during global warming at the Palaeocene-Eocene thermal maximum. Nature 442, 671.
Pedentchouk, N., Freeman, K.H., and Harris, N.B. (2006) Different response of δD values of n-alkanes, isoprenoids and kerogen during thermal maturation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70, 2063.

Awards & Honors

Outstanding Reviewer Status awarded by Organic Geochemistry journal, April 2014
Research Funding from Leverhulme Trust, UK (2019); Swedish Research Council, Sweden (2017); DEFRA, UK (2015); Earth and Life Systems Alliance, UK (2010-2013); British Geological Survey, UK (2013); LAPBIAT grant, EU (2009); The Royal Society UK International Joint Project, UK (2009); RCUK Fellowship (2007).

Tel: + 966 (013) 860-2848

Email: a.koeshidayatullah@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2239

Dr. Ardiansyah Ibnu Koeshidayatullah

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

Dr. Ardiansyah Koeshidayatullah is an Associate Professor in the Geosciences Department, College of Petroleum Engineering and Geosciences (CPG), KFUPM. He leads the PREDICT group and his primary research interests focus on (i) Integrated and Quantitative Carbonate Reservoir Characterization and (ii) Artificial Intelligence in Geosciences. He was a Presidential Doctoral Scholar at the University of Manchester, UK and a visiting research student at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Miami, USA. Before joining KFUPM, he was a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University, USA from 2019 to 2021. He is currently serving as the Associate Editor for Sedimentology and Journal of Geophysical Research: Machine Learning and Computation.

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Basin and Petroleum Geosciences, University of Manchester, UK (2019)
M.S., Earth Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (2015)
B.S., Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia (2011)

Research Interests

Integrated outcrop and stratigraphic forward modeling
Isotope geochemistry and quantitative geochemical modelling
Structurally-controlled diagenesis and dolomitization
Machine learning for visual recognition in geosciences
From Machine learning to Explainable AI in geosciences

Selected Publications

Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Fakih, A. and Kaka, S.I., 2026. Toward basin-agnostic well log imputation and anomaly detection via a pre-trained time-series foundation model. Energy Geoscience, p.100536.
Abdullahi, M., Khan, T., Aljurf, S., Suleymanov, V., Herlambang, A., Morsilli, M., Al-Ramadan, K. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Assessing Milankovitch forcing during and in the aftermath of the early Eocene climate optimum: Dammam formation, Saudi Arabia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.113298.
Muñoz-López, D., Koeshidayatullah, A., Bover-Arnal, T., Herlambang, A., Martín-Martín, J.D., Salas, R., Humphrey, J.D. and Al-Ramadan, K., 2025. Isotope record of Aptian third-order sea-level trends in platform margin carbonates: implications for sequence stratigraphic analysis. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 95(2), pp.417-433.
Li, K., Gao, Y., Ma, Y., Li, C., Ye, J., Yu, H., Xu, Y., Zheng, D. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Weakly supervised semantic segmentation of microscopic carbonates on marginal devices. Computers & Geosciences, p.106059.
Qudsi, I., Corlett, H. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Leveraging Generative AI and Hyperspectral Drill-Core Imaging for Fully Automated Mineral Mapping of Unconventional Reservoir. Applied Computing and Geosciences, p.100298.
Atolagbe, J. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Towards User-Guided Seismic Facies Interpretation with a Pre-trained Large Vision Model. IEEE Access.
Muñoz-López, D., Lu, C., Li, W., Corlett, H., Hollis, C., Swart, P.K. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2024. What is the source of magnesium in hydrothermal dolomites? New insights from coupling δ26Mg-∆ 47 isotopes. Earth and planetary science letters, 638, p.118760.
Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Azani, S., Baraboshkin, E.E. and Alfarraj, M., 2022. FaciesViT: Vision transformer for an improved core lithofacies prediction. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, p.992442.

Extended Publications (+)

Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Swart, P.K., Boyce, A. and Hollis, C., 2020. Origin and evolution of fault-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization fronts: A new insight. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541, p.116291.B
Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Swart, P.K., Boyce, A., Robertson, H., Whitaker, F. and Hollis, C., 2020. Evaluating new fault‐controlled hydrothermal dolomitization models: Insights from the Cambrian Dolomite, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Sedimentology, 67(6), pp.2945-2973.
Al-Ramadan, K., Koeshidayatullah, A., Cantrell, D. and Swart, P.K., 2020. Impact of basin architecture on diagenesis and dolomitization in a fault-bounded carbonate platform: outcrop analogue of a pre-salt carbonate reservoir, Red Sea rift, NW Saudi Arabia. Petroleum Geoscience, 26(3), pp.448-461.
Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Ramadan, K., Collier, R. and Hughes, G.W., 2016. Variations in architecture and cyclicity in fault-bounded carbonate platforms: Early Miocene Red Sea Rift, NW Saudi Arabia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 70, pp.77-92

Awards & Honors

Presidential Doctoral Scholar (2016-2019)
1^ST place in Middle East and 3^rd place in global competition, AAPG Imperial Barrel Awards (2015)
Best Graduate Student, KFUPM (2014)
Dean’s List award (2008-2011)

Tel: + 966 (013) 860-2848

Email: a.koeshidayatullah@kfupm.edu.sa

Location: Bldg. 76, Rm. 2239

Dr. Ardiansyah Ibnu Koeshidayatullah

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

Educational Qualification

Ph.D., Basin and Petroleum Geosciences, University of Manchester, UK (2019)
M.S., Earth Sciences, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia (2015)
B.S., Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia (2011)

Research Interests

Integrated outcrop and stratigraphic forward modeling
Isotope geochemistry and quantitative geochemical modelling
Structurally-controlled diagenesis and dolomitization
Machine learning for visual recognition in geosciences
From Machine learning to Explainable AI in geosciences

Selected Publications

Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Fakih, A. and Kaka, S.I., 2026. Toward basin-agnostic well log imputation and anomaly detection via a pre-trained time-series foundation model. Energy Geoscience, p.100536.
Abdullahi, M., Khan, T., Aljurf, S., Suleymanov, V., Herlambang, A., Morsilli, M., Al-Ramadan, K. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Assessing Milankovitch forcing during and in the aftermath of the early Eocene climate optimum: Dammam formation, Saudi Arabia. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, p.113298.
Muñoz-López, D., Koeshidayatullah, A., Bover-Arnal, T., Herlambang, A., Martín-Martín, J.D., Salas, R., Humphrey, J.D. and Al-Ramadan, K., 2025. Isotope record of Aptian third-order sea-level trends in platform margin carbonates: implications for sequence stratigraphic analysis. Journal of Sedimentary Research, 95(2), pp.417-433.
Li, K., Gao, Y., Ma, Y., Li, C., Ye, J., Yu, H., Xu, Y., Zheng, D. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Weakly supervised semantic segmentation of microscopic carbonates on marginal devices. Computers & Geosciences, p.106059.
Qudsi, I., Corlett, H. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Leveraging Generative AI and Hyperspectral Drill-Core Imaging for Fully Automated Mineral Mapping of Unconventional Reservoir. Applied Computing and Geosciences, p.100298.
Atolagbe, J. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2025. Towards User-Guided Seismic Facies Interpretation with a Pre-trained Large Vision Model. IEEE Access.
Muñoz-López, D., Lu, C., Li, W., Corlett, H., Hollis, C., Swart, P.K. and Koeshidayatullah, A., 2024. What is the source of magnesium in hydrothermal dolomites? New insights from coupling δ26Mg-∆ 47 isotopes. Earth and planetary science letters, 638, p.118760.
Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Azani, S., Baraboshkin, E.E. and Alfarraj, M., 2022. FaciesViT: Vision transformer for an improved core lithofacies prediction. Frontiers in Earth Science, 10, p.992442.

Extended Publications (+)

Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Swart, P.K., Boyce, A. and Hollis, C., 2020. Origin and evolution of fault-controlled hydrothermal dolomitization fronts: A new insight. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 541, p.116291.B
Koeshidayatullah, A., Corlett, H., Stacey, J., Swart, P.K., Boyce, A., Robertson, H., Whitaker, F. and Hollis, C., 2020. Evaluating new fault‐controlled hydrothermal dolomitization models: Insights from the Cambrian Dolomite, Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin. Sedimentology, 67(6), pp.2945-2973.
Al-Ramadan, K., Koeshidayatullah, A., Cantrell, D. and Swart, P.K., 2020. Impact of basin architecture on diagenesis and dolomitization in a fault-bounded carbonate platform: outcrop analogue of a pre-salt carbonate reservoir, Red Sea rift, NW Saudi Arabia. Petroleum Geoscience, 26(3), pp.448-461.
Koeshidayatullah, A., Al-Ramadan, K., Collier, R. and Hughes, G.W., 2016. Variations in architecture and cyclicity in fault-bounded carbonate platforms: Early Miocene Red Sea Rift, NW Saudi Arabia. Marine and Petroleum Geology, 70, pp.77-92

Awards & Honors

Presidential Doctoral Scholar (2016-2019)
1^ST place in Middle East and 3^rd place in global competition, AAPG Imperial Barrel Awards (2015)
Best Graduate Student, KFUPM (2014)
Dean’s List award (2008-2011)

Dr. SanLinn I. Kaka

Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, CPG Student Affairs Office, Department of Geosciences

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Dr. SanLinn I. Kaka

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Graduate Coordinator, Graduate Coordinator, CPG Student Affairs Office, CPG Student Affairs Office, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

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Dr. Bassam S. Tawabini

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

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Dr. Bassam S. Tawabini

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

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Dr. Sherif M. H. Mahmoud

Associate Professor, Program Leader – Geophysics, Department of Geosciences

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Dr. Sherif M. H. Mahmoud

Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Program Leader – Geophysics, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

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Dr. Umair bin Waheed

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

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Dr. Nikolai Pedenchuk

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

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Dr. Ardiansyah Ibnu Koeshidayatullah

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences

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Dr. Ardiansyah Ibnu Koeshidayatullah

Associate Professor, Department of Geosciences, Geosciences Department

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