Kenneth Kennedy, PhD, is lab director for the Nanofabrication Core Lab at KAUST. He is responsible for the 2000 m² Class 100 Cleanroom, Thin film deposition lab, and Microfluidics lab. He started working in the semiconductor industry with Hewlett-Packard (UK) in 1998, manufacturing semiconductor components for telecoms and datacoms applications, then was a Technology Transfer Engineer for Agilent Technologies, Singapore. Before arriving in KAUST, he was Device Fabrication and Cleanroom Manager at the National Centre for III-V Technologies at the University of Sheffield, UK, which included device fabrication, cleanroom labs, and semiconductor epitaxy equipment. Ken was co-founder of a spin-out company manufacturing semiconductor-based Quantum Cascade lasers for Mid-infrared gas sensors for use in medical and environmental sensing applications. His research expertise is in the area of semiconductors, nanofabrication, photonics, optoelectronics, and sensors.