CEMSE Weekly Updates - September 8, 2026 Tue, Sep 8 2026 Newsletter Upcoming Events Stay informed about the upcoming events and the latest news from CEMSE. Upcoming Events From Mirror to Companion: AI and the Next Era of Digital Twins Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, Distinguished Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa Sep 13, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 AI digital twins immersive technologies Smart Cities LLM Multi-Modal Large Language Models In this talk, I will share how AI is changing digital twins from tools into transformative forces that shape our future. SADIQ: An Intelligent Context-Aware IoT System Basem Shihada, Program Chair, Computer Science Sep 14, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 SDN Quality of service IoT software defined network This talk will identify the unique quality of service (QoS) needs of emerging IoT applications and propose SADIQ, which is a software-defined network (SDN) system that addresses these needs. NVIDIA Days at KAUST Sep 15, 20:45 - Sep 17, 17:00 B2/3 A0215 HPC NVIDIA agentic AI systems Physical AI digital twins robotics weather GPU quantum computing Join us (registration required) for the KAUST Supercomputing Lab (KSL) NVIDIA Days from September 15 to 17, 2026, a three-day program supporting the community's ongoing work in AI and High Performance Computing (HPC) through expert-led sessions, personalized clinics, and hands-on training. Physics-Informed Spatiotemporal Surrogate Modeling and Robust Operational Optimization for CO₂ Applications in Subsurface Flow under Permeability Uncertainty Zhao Beichen, Visiting Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Sep 17, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 Physics-informed Neural Networks Deep learning numerical simulations uncertainty quantification subsurface fluid flow This talk presents a physics-informed spatiotemporal surrogate that predicts coupled CO₂ storage and geothermal responses under geological uncertainty and enables rapid, risk-aware optimization of staged well controls.
