Tareq Yousef Al-Naffouri

Expert in Maritime Communications and Sensor Research

He is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering program at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he leads the Information Science Lab. He holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics and electrical engineering from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, a master's degree from Georgia Tech and a doctorate from Stanford University completed in 2004, and he taught at King Fahd University from 2005 to 2012 before joining KAUST. His research covers inference and statistical learning, wireless communications, localization and smart cities. He was named an IEEE Fellow in 2025 for contributions to adaptive signal processing and its applications in wireless communications, and received the Abdul Hameed Shoman Prize for Innovative Research in the Internet of Things in 2022.