​Kuo-Wei Huang is currently Associate Professor of Chemical Sciences. He received his B.S. from National University of Taiwan in 1997 and Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2004. Prior to joining KAUST in 2009 as a founding faculty member, he had been Assistant Professor of Chemistry in National University of Singapore. The research interests of his group include CO₂ utilization, hydrogen storage, small molecules activation and kinetic and DFT studies of transition metal and organocatalysis. He is a co-author of over 180 peer-reviewed international publications and a co-inventor of 13 patents and patent applications. He also serves as an Associate Editor of Journal of Saudi Chemical Society (JSCS) and a consultant and trainer for the Saudi Team for International Chemistry Olympiad (STIChO). He is proud of his students' achievements from his efforts in high school and graduate school education: 4 sliver and 13 bronze medals in IChO, national awards in National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity (Ibdaa) and Intel's ISEF, and the 3^rd place award at Falling Walls Lab 2016. He has received numerous awards, including Rising Stars Lectureship, 41^st International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (2014), SABIC Chair Professorship (2013-2016), Asian Rising Stars Lectureship, the 15^th Asian Chemical Congress (2013), RIKEN Visiting Fellowship (2012); Asian Core Program Lectureship (2012), Certificate of Appreciation from King Abdulaziz and his Companions Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity (MAWHIBA) and Ministry of Education of Saudi Arabia (2011, 2014), UK-Singapore Partners In Science Collaboration Development Award（2008), Gertrude and Maurice Goldhaber Distinguished Fellowship (2004-2007), Regina Casper Stanford Graduate Fellowship (2002-2004), and Yuan T. Lee Fellowship (1993-1997).