CEMSE Weekly Updates - December 2, 2025

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Tales of a Spur Hunter: The Wandering Spur

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B9 L2 R2325

Prof. Michael Peter Kennedy presents the decade-long journey to diagnose and fix 'wandering spurs' in frequency synthesizers.
KAUST-CEMSE-ECE-PhD-Dissertation-Defense-Amin-Almozel

Safety-Aware Pre-Flight Trajectory Planning for Urban and Rural UAVs Under Mechanical and GPS Failure Scenarios

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Building 4, Level 5, Room 5209

This work develops a safety-aware pre-flight planning framework for UAV missions, addressing risks such as propulsion failure, GPS loss, and communication outages. It ensures drones remain within reach of safe landing sites and accounts for dense urban constraints, including no-fly zones. Using a high-fidelity simulator with real geospatial data, the framework is validated for both routine and emergency scenarios, offering a structured approach to reliable, failure-tolerant UAV trajectory planning.

Stochastic Interacting Particle Methods and Generative Learning for Multiscale PDEs

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B1 L3 R3119

This talk discusses stochastic interacting particle (SIP) methods for advection-diffusion-reaction PDEs based on probabilistic representations of solutions, and shows their self-adaptivity and efficiency in several space dimensions.

Mean Field Games: From Many-Player Games to PDEs

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B9, L2, R2325

This talk will introduce the basic concepts of mean field games, beginning with the mean field limit that describes systems with infinitely many infinitesimal players.

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting: From Efficiency to Safety

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B3 L5 R5220

This thesis addresses the challenge of catastrophic forgetting in AI by developing novel continual learning methods that enhance memory efficiency in video analysis and preserve safety alignment in large language models, ensuring reliable adaptation in both resource-constrained and safety-critical applications.