CEMSE Weekly Updates - October 28, 2025

Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE.

Register for the 6th KAUST 6G Summit

Join global experts virtually to explore the future of 6G wireless technology at the 6th KAUST 6G Summit. For registration details and to learn more about the event, please visit: https://6gsummit.org

6th KAUST 6G Summit

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Virtual

KAUST's annual summit on emerging 6G technologies and applications.

Upcoming Events

The KAUST 2025 Workshop on Statistics

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Between Building 2 / 3, Level 0, Auditorium 0215

The KAUST Statistics Workshop will feature the latest research on statistical methods and modeling to address real-world challenges in health, environment, climate, energy and beyond.

Cybersecurity Threats to Power Grid Operations from the Demand-Side Response Ecosystem

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B9, L2, R2325

This talk will highlight the cybersecurity threats from IoT-enabled energy smart appliances (ESAs) such as smart heat pumps, electric vehicle chargers, etc., to power grid operations.

Proper Random Walk Spline Models

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B3 L5 R5209

This dissertation introduces the Proper Random Walk of order 2 (PRW2), a full-rank Gaussian Markov random field that provides a principled alternative to intrinsic random walk (RW2) priors. By construction, RW2 models exhibit heteroscedastic marginal variances, inflated boundary effects, sensitivity to grid design, and unbounded forecast uncertainty—features that undermine the reliability of inference, particularly in sparse-data settings or beyond the observed domain.

Computational and Statistical Advances in Spatio-Temporal Modeling: Causality, Deep Learning, and High-Performance Computing

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B2, L5, R5209

Recent advances in environmental monitoring and remote sensing have led to an unprecedented increase in spatial and spatio-temporal data complexity, presenting both opportunities and challenges for environmental science. This thesis explores three critical challenges in environmental data analysis.
KAUST-CEMSE-ECE-Phd-dissertation-defense-Zhengying-Lou

Performance Analysis for High Altitude Platform Station-Assisted Wireless Communication Networks

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B1, L3, R3123

High altitude platform stations (HAPS) have recently emerged as a pivotal stratospheric segment within the broader non-terrestrial network (NTN) ecosystem, offering a promising solution for enhancing coverage, reliability, and efficiency in next-generation wireless networks. This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation into the architecture, performance, and integration of HAPS-assisted wireless communication networks from multiple perspectives.

Don’t be the Jean-Claude Van Damme of Your Research Area

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B9, L2, R2325

What does the career of an action movie icon have to teach us about surviving and thriving in academic research? In this talk, we’ll explore surprising parallels between cinematic fame and the life cycle of hot research topics, using personal experience from the rise and disruption of question answering over knowledge graphs. Join us for unexpected insights, practical lessons, and a lively discussion on how to avoid fading into irrelevance as the scholarly landscape evolves.

Urban Air Mobility Communications: Performance Analysis and Design

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B1 L2 2202

This dissertation develops a foundation for designing robust and reliable communication systems for urban air mobility (UAM), supporting the anticipated large-scale deployment of UAM in smart cities.

Bayesian Inverse Problems: Methods, Tools, and Applications

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B1 L3 R3119

This talk will discuss methods, tools and applications for solving inverse problems.