Category: Science & Technology

Arab Space Scientist : Diana AlSindy

Diana AlSindy – Rocket Scientist. Propulsion Development Engineer.

Designs propulsion pressurant systems for rockets at private space agency Virgin Orbit.

Founder – @TheArabianStargazer ‘The Arabian StarGazer’

Promotes STEM to Arab youth from all over the world. Bi-lingual.

pix: brookeowensfellowship.org

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American / Iraqi-American

Moncef Slaoui appointed by US President Trump to Lead Covid-19 Vaccine Team : May 2020

Moncef Slaoui (aka) Moncef Mohamed Slaoui, immunology expert, has been appointed by U.S. President Donald Trump to head up the U.S. Government’s development of vaccine to treat coronavirus disease in ‘ Operation Warp Speed ‘.

Last Post Held:

  • Head of GlaxoSmithKline’s Vaccine Department

Education :

  • Ph.D – Molecular biology and Immunology – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • MBA – International Institute for Management Development, Lausanne,
  • M.S. – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
  • B.S. – Biology – Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Awards / Honours:

  • Honorary Doctorate of Science – Gettysburg College (2017)
  • ’25 of the Most Influential People in Biopharma Today’ – by FierceBiotech (2012)
  • ‘The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders’ – by Fortune (2010)
  • ‘World’s Top 100 Medicine Makers’ – by The Medicine Makers (2018)

Books/ Papers Published:

Several

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American / Belgian-American / Moroccan

Miriam Merad elected to U.S’s ‘National Academy of Sciences’ : May 2020

Immunologist Dr. Miriam Merad elected to the prestigious American National Academy of Sciences.

Presently:

  • Professor – Cancer Immunology
  • Director – Precision Immunology Institute , ICahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York City, New York
  • Vice President – International Union of Immunological Sciences

Awards:

  • William B Coley Award for Distinguished Research in Basic & Tumour Immunology (2018)
  • Leukemia Research Foundation Award (2006)
  • Member – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
  • Member – American Society for Clinical Investigation

Education:

  • M.D. – Algiers 1 University / – Paris Diderot University
  • PhD – Stanford University

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American / French-Arab / Algeria

Abbas El Gamal Wins ‘Claude E Shannon Award’ : 2012

Dr. Abbas El Gamal – Electrical engineer wins several awards and one of amongst them listed above.

Best known for his works on network information theory, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and CMOS imaging sensors and systems.

Work :

  • Chair – Department of Electrical Engineering , Stanford University
  • Hitachi America Professor of Engineering, Stanford University
  • Director – Information Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
  • Assistant Professor – Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

Education :

  • Ph.D :
  • M.S : Statistics
  • M.S: Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
  • B.S (Hons) : Cairo University, Egypt

Awards :

  • 2016 IEEE Richard W. Hamming Medal
  • 2014 Viterbi Lecture, University of Southern California
  • 2013 Shannon Memorial Lecture, UCSD
  • 2013 Member of the National Academy of Engineering
  • 2012 Claude E. Shannon Award , IEEE Information Theory Society
  • 2000 Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers

Books :

Network Information Theory, (Cambridge University Press, 2011) – with Young-Han Kim

Business :

  • LSI Corporation – Director – 1984
  • Actel Corporation – Co-Founder – 1986
  • Silicon Architects – Founder – 1990
  • Pixim Inc – Co-Founder – 1998
  • InscoPix – Co-Founder – 2011

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American / American-Arab / Egyptian-American

Amani Al-Salim – First Middle East Researcher from Saudi in ‘Organ Donation’ : April 2020

Dr. Amani Bint Abdulaziz Bin Ibrahim (aka) Amani Al-Salim, Saudi researcher notches up several firsts

Education:

Ph.D – Health Marketing, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia

Award:

  • Best paper in social marketing – by Australian and New Zealand Marketing Academy Conference 2018 (ANZMAC)

Firsts :

  • First Middle East Researcher in the field of Organ Donation
  • First Saudi Woman to participate in a Referee Committee
  • First Saudi Woman member and Assistant Researcher in the Research Centre of Griffith University, Australia

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia Ranks 4th Globally – Usage of 5G Technology : May 2020

Saudi Arabia ranks fourth globally in the use of 5G technology and 10th in internet speed.

Findings were presented by Deputy Minister for Technology, Industry & Digital Capacity, Ministry of Communicaion and Information, Dr. Ahmed Al-Theneyan – at the webinar ‘Digital Lanterns’ event launched by Makkah Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

The Kingdom jumped from 150th to 10th place globally in terms of internet speed.

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Saudi Arabia

Dubai achieves – World’s First 3-D Printed Commercial Building : February 2020

Dubai Future Foundation (DFF) achieved the Guinness World Record title.

The building measures 6 metres (20 feet high), 36.57m (120 feet) long and 12.19m (40 feet) wide and was created on only one printer.

The building took 17 days to print and 3 months to build.

It it planned to be the home of the ‘Dubai Future Academy’ (DFAc), Dubai, UAE

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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Saudi Arabia holds ‘ World Record for Seawater Desalination ‘ : Feb 2018

‘The Saline Water Conversion Corporation’ owned by the Ministry of Water & Electricity, Saudi Arabia – holds the world record for Seawater Desalination.

Thus reinforcing the Kingdom’s position as a world leader in desalination development.

The Saline Water Conversion Corporation produces 5 million cubic meters of water a day. The confirmation certificate was issued by Guinness Book of World Records in February 2018.

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Saudi Arabia