Ibrahim Hoteit PhD

Research Interests

Professor Hoteit's research involves the effective use and integration of dynamical models and observations to simulate, study and predict realistic geophysical fluid systems. This involves developing and implementing numerical models and data inversion, assimilation, and uncertainty quantification techniques suitable for large scale applications. Professor is currently focusing on developing an integrated data-driven modeling system to simulate and predict the circulation and the climate of the Saudi marginal seas: the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf.

Selected Publications

Red Sea deep water renewals caused by volcanic eruptions and the north Atlantic oscillation
F. Yao and I. Hoteit
Science Advances, 4:eaar5637, 2018
A fault-tolerant HPC scheduler extension for large and operational ensemble data assimilation in the Red Sea
H. Toye, S. Kortas, P. Zhan, and I. Hoteit
Journal of Computational Science, 10.1016/j.jocs.2018.04.018,2018
Sensing coral reef connectivity pathways from space
D. Raitsos, R. Brewin, P. Zhan, D. Dreano, Y. Pradhan, and I. Hoteit
Scientific Report, doi:10.1038/s41598-017-08729-w, 2017
Climatic features of the Red Sea from a regional assimilative model
V. Yesubabu, H. Dasari, S. Langodan, S. Challa, and I. Hoteit
International Journal of Climatology, 37, 2563-2581, 2017
The climatology of the Red Sea – Part-I: The wind & Part-II: The waves
S. Langodan, A. Pomaro, L. Cavaleri, Y. Vishwanadhapalli, L. Bertotti, and I. Hoteit
International Journal of Climatology, doi:10.1002/joc.5103, 2017
Eddies in the Red Sea: A statistical and dynamical study
P. Zhan, A. Subramanian, F. Yao, and I. Hoteit
Journal of Geophysical Research, 119(6), 3909-3925, 2014
Efficient Kernel-based ensemble Gaussian mixture filtering
B. Lui, B. Ait-El-Fquih, and I. Hoteit
Monthly Weather Review, 144, 781-800, 2016
Mitigating observation perturbation sampling errors in the stochastic EnKF
I. Hoteit, D.-T. Pham, M.E. Gharamti, and X. Luo
Monthly Weather Review, 143, 2918-2936, 2015
Seasonal overturning circulation in the Red Sea. Part-I: Model validation and summer circulation & Part-II: Winter circulation
F. Yao, I. Hoteit, L. Pratt, A. Bower, P. Zhai, A. Kohl, and G. Gopalakrishnan
Journal of Geophysical Research, doi:10.1002/2013JC009331, 2014
Remote sensing the phytoplankton seasonal succession of the Red Sea
D. Raitsos, P. Pradhan, R. Brewin, G. Stenchikov, and I. Hoteit
PLoS ONE 8(6): e64909, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0064909, 2013

Education

Ph.D., Université Joseph Fourrier, Grenoble, France 1998 - 2002
M.Sc., Université Joseph Fourrier, Grenoble, France 1997 - 1998

Professional Profile

2019 - present Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
2013 - 2019 Associate Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
2009 - 2013 Assistant Professor, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia.
2004 - 2008 Research Scientist, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego, CA.
2002 - 2004 Postgraduate Researcher, ECCO (MIT/SIO/JPL) , Scripps Institution of Oceanography, San Diego.

Scientific and Professional Membership

Member of the American Geophysical Union
Member of the European Geophysical Union
Member of the UNSECO Center of Pure and Applied Mathematics (CIMPA)

Awards

Finalist in Environment for the 2017 World Technology Awards, World Technology Network (WTN), Nov 2017
Co-recipient of the second-best poster award at the International Petroleum Engineering Conference (IPTC), Doha, January 2014
Honorable mention (top five papers), PacificVis Symposium, Syndey, Australia, 2013
Best poster award at the SIAM conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Earth Sciences, Long Beach, USA, 2011
Best poster award at the Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing Conference, San Francisco, USA, 2011
Ph.D. Fellowship Award from the French Government