CEMSE Weekly Updates - September 1, 2026

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Call for Posters

Present your research at the KAUST Workshop on AI-Enabled Microwave Sensing and Communication on October 18.

Graduate students and postdoctoral researchers working across microwave and millimeter-wave sensing, machine learning, RF systems, integrated sensing and communication, and related interdisciplinary fields are invited to submit an ePoster by October 11.

Upcoming Events

Manufacturing and Integration Strategies for Flexible Electronics Across Form Factors

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B9 R2325

This talk presents manufacturing and integration strategies for flexible electronics across form factors, from E-LIG, a laser-enabled additive process for functional flexible printed circuit boards, to FiberCircuits, which embed complete circuits within fibers for interactive textiles.

Integrated Silicon Photonics with Quantum Dot On-Chip Lasers: Enabling Scalable and Energy-Efficient Photonic Systems

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This talk presents how quantum dot lasers integrated on silicon provide the missing on-chip light source for scalable photonic systems spanning AI computing, hardware security, and coherent LiDAR sensing.

The Dark Side of Metaverse: Unmasking the Threats from eXtended Reality (XR) Systems

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B9 R2325

This talk reveals how the seamless integration of computation, networking, and physical components in XR devices turns every layer of the system into an attack surface that non-intrusively leaks user privacy, ranging from what users type and do to what they perceive in virtual scenes.

The Event Horizon Telescope: From the First Images to the First Movies of Black Holes

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B20 Auditorium

This lecture explores the Event Horizon Telescope's groundbreaking achievements in imaging supermassive black holes, details the complex global and computational infrastructure enabling these discoveries, and outlines the future transition from static images to dynamic, real-time movies of the universe's most extreme environments.

Algorithmically Faithful and System-Efficient Optimization for Large Language Models

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The thesis develops an optimizer-aware systems view in which these methods are treated as structured computations with algorithmic invariants, memory behavior, communication objects, and scheduling constraints.

Threshold Dynamics and Delayed Closure in a Moving-Boundary Model of Epidermal Wound Healing

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B9 R2325

We analyze how growth-factor production, diffusion, decay, activation thresholds, and wound geometry interact to determine whether epidermal wound closure begins, proceeds continuously, experiences repeated delays, or stops before completion.