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December 2021

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  Workshopping ways to revolutionize in-Kingdom kidney care

  1 min read · Sun, Dec 19 2021

  News

  The KAUST Saudi National Kidney Paired Donation Workshop, organized by Professor Michał Mańkowski with support from the KAUST CEMSE Division, brought together 12 of the Kingdom's top experts in kidney transplantation to discuss the future of this complex and highly important surgical procedure.
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  Professor Atif Shamim named IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer

  1 min read · Thu, Dec 16 2021

  Awards News

  Antennas wireless sensors networks

  KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Atif Shamim has been selected as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society (AP-S) from 2022 to 2024. In his new role, sponsored by the IEEE, Shamim will give lectures to AP-S chapter members on topics of interest and importance to the global AP community.
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  KAUST presents exascale expertise at SC21

  1 min read · Tue, Dec 14 2021

  News

  supercomputing HPC Shaheen

  Supercomputing experts from KAUST converged with global participants at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri from November 14 to 19 for SC21, the annual international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. Established in 1988, the SC conference is the largest HPC event of its kind, with big name industries like Intel, Red Hat and Oracle sharing the exhibition floor alongside universities, government agencies and small businesses, and professionals from various affiliations attending presentations throughout the convention center. In non
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  Professor Elnozahy Elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors

  1 min read · Thu, Dec 9 2021

  News

  Information Technology

  KAUST Professor of Computer Science Elmootazbellah Elnozahy has been elected to the rank of National Academy of Inventors (NAI) Fellow. NAI fellows are selected based on the number and significance of patents they are co-inventors; the patents must also have stemmed from a university-based research program.
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  Finding true protein hotspots in cancer research

  1 min read · Wed, Dec 8 2021

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  proteins statistics cancer human health

  Novel statistical methods help tell the difference between "false positives" and true detections of protein domain hotspots that could be linked to cancer.

November 2021

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  KAUST-KFUPM collaboration wins top honors at STC AIoT Hackathon

  1 min read · Mon, Nov 29 2021

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  IoT agriculture artificial intelligence drones

  A team composed of KAUST and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) students was one of three winning teams of this year’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) AIoT (AI & IoT) Hackathon. The KAUST entry, AgriDoctor, a proposed autonomous, sustainable, intelligent agriculture system, was a standout pick for the competition judges from a pool of 110 project submissions and 350 participants.
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  Deeper defense against cyber attacks

  1 min read · Sun, Nov 28 2021

  News

  cybersecurity machine learning Deep learning statistics

  To address the growing threat of cyberattacks on industrial control systems, a KAUST team including Fouzi Harrou, Wu Wang and led by Ying Sun has developed an improved method for detecting malicious intrusions.
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  KAUST SENTRY team wins 2021 Cybersecurity Games & Conference Embedded Security Challenge

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021

  News

  resilience cybersecurity

  The SENTRY Lab team wins the 18th annual CSAW Cybersecurity Games & Conference’s (CSAW '21) Embedded Security Challenge (ESC).
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  Professor Ooi appointed Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Photonics Technology Letters

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 24 2021

  News

  optics photonics

  KAUST Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Boon S. Ooi has been appointed Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters beginning January 1, 2022.
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  KAUST collaborative research wins ACM SOSP 2021 Best Paper Award

  1 min read · Sun, Nov 7 2021

  News

  distributed file systems

  A collaborative multi-institutional research team featuring KAUST Associate Professor of Computer Science Marco Canini won the best paper award at the 28th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2021).
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  Mathematician Peter Markowich named 2022 AMS Fellow

  1 min read · Sun, Nov 7 2021

  News

  mathematics numerical analysis plant physiology brain science applied mathematics

  KAUST Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Dr. Peter Markowich joins 45 mathematical scientists from around the world named 2022 Fellows of the American Mathematical Society (AMS) program.
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  Professor El-Atab to feature in NEOM “Changemakers” video series

  1 min read · Thu, Nov 4 2021

  News

  solar cells memory devices

  Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to feature in the upcoming NEOM “Changemakers” video series.
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  Coal product used to create green clean water

  1 min read · Wed, Nov 3 2021

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  filtration desalination water resources monitoring

  Compressed blocks of pulverized coal can be used as the basis of sunlight-powered off-grid water purification. The technology is already being progressed by commercial partners toward pilot-scale production of drinking water. Dark-colored materials that strongly soak up sunlight to drive seawater desalination are a long-standing research interest of KAUST's Andrea Fratalocchi. While reading about the economic challenges of ending coal’s use for power generation, Fratalocchi was struck by a novel possible use for coal. “The two ideas clicked together: why don’t we use coal for a new economy in
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  The KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 #RobotoKAUST

  1 min read · Tue, Nov 2 2021

  News

  robotics research conference

  Building upon our successful online conference in spring 2021, the KAUST Robotics, Intelligent Systems, and Control Lab (RISC Lab) will host the KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2022 (#RobotoKAUST2022) from February 28 until March 2, 2022. The conference will address the most recent trends of robotics application in a range of disciplines.

October 2021

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  The Recordings of the #RobotoKAUST talks are available

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 19 2021

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  research conference RobotoKAUST

  The first KAUST Research Conference on Robotics and Autonomy 2021, #RobotoKAUST, brought together leading international and in-Kingdom robotics researchers and government and industry representatives from the robotics industry to discuss robotics and its applications. The recordings of the talks are available online! To watch the talks, please visit our website #RobotoKAUST or our KAUST RISC Lab YouTube Channel.
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  Nazek El-Atab appointed IEEE Distinguished Lecturer

  1 min read · Mon, Oct 18 2021

  News

  IoT

  Nazek El-Atab, KAUST assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab, has been recently selected to serve as a Distinguished Lecturer (DL) for the IEEE Electron Devices Society.
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  Welcoming composite inks into the fold

  1 min read · Thu, Oct 14 2021

  News

  wearables materials science electrical engineering IoT

  A screen-printing approach to creating foldable circuits could make many functional devices easier and cheaper to mass produce.
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  Progressive KAUST communications study awarded at the IEEE SusTech 2021 student poster contest

  1 min read · Wed, Oct 13 2021

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  The progressive telecommunications research of KAUST Ph.D. candidate Maurilio Matracia, supervised by postdoctoral fellow Mustafa Kishk and Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mohamed-Slim Alouini, has been recently awarded the second-place prize at the IEEE SusTech 2021 student poster contest.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Qilong Pan

  1 min read · Wed, Oct 13 2021

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  spatio-temporal statistics Deep learning

  Qilong Pan is a statistics graduate who joined KAUST in June 2021 from the Wuhan University of Technology, China. Pan is a M.S./Ph.D. student and member of the Environmental Statistics research group under the supervision of Professor Ying Sun.
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  KAUST paper wins 2020 Computational Optimization and Applications Best Paper Award

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 12 2021

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  stochastic gradient descent machine learning

  KAUST Professor of Computer Science Peter Richtárik and his former student Nicolas Loizou, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and soon to take up an assistant professorship position at Johns Hopkins University, recently received the 2020 Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP) Best Paper Award.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Ioannis Zografopoulos

  1 min read · Wed, Oct 6 2021

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  cyber-physical systems embedded systems cybersecurity

  Ioannis Zografopoulos is a Ph.D. student who joined KAUST this fall as a Ph.D. candidate and member of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) Lab under the supervision of Professor Charalambos Konstantinou. Zografopoulos believes that KAUST's renowned faculty, global reputation and research infrastructure make the University the ideal environment for him to develop high-quality, impactful research.
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  Developing the future of digital inclusivity

  1 min read · Tue, Oct 5 2021

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  6G Wireless Communications

  The second edition of the KAUST 6G Summit on "Connecting the Unconnected" was recently held online from Tuesday, September 28 to Thursday, September 30, 2021. As part of “The Decade of Digital Inclusion,” a semester-long master class from the Marconi Society, the summit covered the latest research and technological advancements in 6G global connectivity.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Mohammed Khalid Aljahdali

  1 min read · Mon, Oct 4 2021

  News

  Mohammed Khalid Aljahdali obtained his B.Sc. from King Abdulaziz University, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology, Rabigh, Saudi Arabia.
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  Airborne antennas to address electro-magnetic fields exposure concerns

  1 min read · Sun, Oct 3 2021

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  communications human health electrical engineering

  Movable airborne antennas receiving cellphone signals could reduce EMF exposure while offering higher data transmission speed and using less power.

September 2021

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  KAUST New Faculty: Marc Dacier, Professor of Computer Science

  1 min read · Thu, Sep 30 2021

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  Marc Dacier, professor of computer science, joins KAUST as a member of the Resilience Computing and Cybersecurity Research Center (RC3) from his most recent position as full professor and department head of the digital security department at EURECOM.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Xiuying Chen

  1 min read · Wed, Sep 29 2021

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  Natural Language Processing

  Xiuying Chen is a computer science graduate who joined KAUST from Wuhan University, China. Chen believes that KAUST provides an excellent research environment to carry out scientific research.
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  CEMSE New Faculty: Nazek El-Atab, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021

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  By David Murphy Nazek El-Atab is an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering and the principal investigator of the Smart, Advanced Memory Devices and Applications (SAMA) Lab. The former KAUST MMH Labs research scientist originally joined the University in October 2017, having obtained her B.Sc. in computer and communications engineering ('12) from the Hariri Canadian University, Lebanon, and her M.Sc. in microsystems engineering ('14) and Ph.D. in interdisciplinary engineering ('17) from the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, UAE. Her current research focuses on
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  Full color LEDs cut down to size

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021

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  communications LEDs electrical engineering materials science

  Tiny light-emitting devices that can create all the colors in the rainbow are essential for the next generation of phones and screens.
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  Shaping a 6G future

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 26 2021

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  wireless networks 6G Wireless Communications global connectivity

  This coming decade promises to be yet another revolutionary one in how we communicate. In a world that is only beginning to embrace 5G technology, several scientific institutions, governments, telecom companies, and phone manufacturers worldwide are beginning to research the development possibilities of its successor—6G technology.
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  Schmidhuber named Director of KAUST AI Initiative

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 21 2021

  News

  KAUST recently announced that Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber will join KAUST as director of the University's Artificial Intelligence Initiative. Schmidhuber is a renowned computer scientist who is most noted for his pioneering work in the field of artificial intelligence, deep learning, and artificial neural networks.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Alyah Alfageh

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 14 2021

  News

  Alyah Alfageh is an electrical and computer engineering graduate who joined KAUST this fall from Effat University, Saudi Arabia. Alyah joined KAUST as a M.S. student and member of the Secure Next Generation Resilient Systems (SENTRY) Lab under the supervision of Professor Charalambos Konstantinou.
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  KAUST Ph.D. student Asrar Damdam named among "Forbes Middle East" 30 Under 30 list of innovators for 2021

  1 min read · Tue, Sep 14 2021

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  Forbes ME

  Asrar Damdam, a Ph.d. student based in the KAUST Integrated Circuits and Systems Group (ICS), was recently named amongst the "Forbes Middle East" 30 Under 30 list of innovators for 2021.
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  Heatwave model shows it is hotter in more places, more often

  1 min read · Sun, Sep 12 2021

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  extreme weather climate change statistics

  New modeling shows that heatwaves across Europe have increased in both frequency and spatial extent over the past century.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Yurii Tsyban

  1 min read · Mon, Sep 6 2021

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  Yurii Tsyban is a graduate in metrology and information-measuring technology who joined KAUST in July 2021 from the National Technical University of Ukraine "Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute."
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  Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber appointed as the Director of the KAUST Artificial Intelligence Initiative

  1 min read · Thu, Sep 2 2021

  News

  CEMSE Division is pleased to announce the appointment of Professor Jürgen Schmidhuber as the Director of the KAUST Artificial Intelligence Initiative, who will join KAUST on October 1, 2021.
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  Meet KAUST new student: Daniel Osorio Barreto

  1 min read · Wed, Sep 1 2021

  News

  Biostatistics macroeconomics

  Daniel Osorio Barreto, is an economics graduate who joined KAUST this fall from Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, Colombia. He is as a Ph.D. student and member of the KAUST Biostatistics Group under the supervision of Professor Hernando Ombao.

August 2021

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  Meet KAUST new student: Jin Yu

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 30 2021

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  photovoltaics thermoelectric appliances

  Jin Yu is a physics graduate who joined KAUST in July 2021 from Nankai University (NKU), China. Before joining KAUST, Jin worked as an intern at Wake Forest University (WFU), North Carolina, U.S. After completing his studies at WFU, Jin served as a volunteer high school teacher at China Volunteer Association for almost a year.
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  Harnessing the particle-tracking power of the algorithm

  1 min read · Wed, Aug 25 2021

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  fluid dynamics visual computing algorithms Computer science

  A simple camera system paired with a sophisticated image-processing algorithm can achieve faster and more accurate reconstructions of particle flow.
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  Drop the zeros for a performance boost

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 23 2021

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  machine learning big data artificial intelligence Computer science

  An eight-fold speed up of deep machine learning can be achieved by skipping the transmission of zero values.
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  Congratulation, Razan Andigani!

  1 min read · Thu, Aug 19 2021

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  We are happy to announce that Razan Andigani, a student of Prof. Shinkyu Park, won the first prize in the SSI 2021 E-poster Competition run by the Saudi Summer Internship (SSI) 2021 Program. 1 st Place Winners (It's a Tie!): Razan Andigani Robotics and Mechanical Engineering student at Worcester Polytechnic Institute E-poster: "Simultaneous Multi-Camera Localization and Mapping with AprilTags (TagSLAM) and Trajectory Planning for Underwater ROV" Faculty Advisor: Prof. Shinkyu Park Mohammed Alabdullah Physics student at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals E-poster: "Supporting the
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  Beating the curse of dimensionality

  1 min read · Wed, Aug 18 2021

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  Environmental Statistics big data statistics

  By scanning past data for both partial and complete matches to current observations, a KAUST-led research team has developed a prediction scheme that can more reliably forecast the future trajectory of environmental parameters. The collection of data at regular intervals over time is common in many fields but particularly so in environmental, transportation and biological research. Such data are used to monitor and record the current state and also to help predict what might come in the future. A typical approach is to look for previous patterns or trajectories in the data that match the
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  KAUST Ph.D. student wins 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award

  1 min read · Tue, Aug 17 2021

  News

  sensors IEEE award microwave sensors

  Muhammad Akram Karimi, KAUST Ph.D. student and co-founder of the KAUST-supported startup company Saher Flow Solutions, has been selected as the recipient of the 2021 IEEE Sensors Council Technical Achievement Award in the Field of Sensors – Early Career. The award honors an individual with “outstanding technical contributions within the scope of the IEEE Sensors Council, as documented by publications and patents. It is based on the general quality and originality of contributions.”
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  Meet KAUST new student: Zhengying Lou

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 16 2021

  News

  Unmanned aerial vehicles UAVs

  Zhengying Lou is a communication engineering graduate who joined KAUST from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. Zhengying first came to KAUST in June 2020 as a visiting student and was instantly impressed by the university’s high academic standards and convenient living environment.
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  Trio of tuning tools for modeling large spatial datasets

  1 min read · Thu, Aug 12 2021

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  big data Environmental Statistics statistics

  Statistical tools help fine-tune the parameters and approximations of models used to make sense of large spatial datasets.
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  Dr. Harrou receives two IEEE ECBIOS 2021 best paper awards

  1 min read · Tue, Aug 10 2021

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  renewable energy systems Deep learning

  Dr. Fouzi Harrou, a research scientist in the KAUST Environmental Statistics (ES) group, recently received two IEEE Eurasia Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Healthcare and Sustainability 2021 (IEEE ECBIOS 2021) best paper awards.
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  Wildfire simulation heats up

  1 min read · Tue, Aug 10 2021

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  Computer science modeling environment visual computing

  Computational models capture the capricious behavior of forest fires.
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  Outstanding KAUST research acknowledged by leading photonics journal

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 8 2021

  News

  optics photonics photodetector optical engineering Optical wireless communications radio frequency communication

  KAUST professors Boon Ooi and Osman Bakr and their respective research groups have recently had their collaborative research recognized by one of the major journals for optics and photonics, Light: Science & Applications (LSA). The teams’ paper— titled "High-speed color-converting photodetector with all-inorganic CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals for ultraviolet light communication—" was awarded as an “Outstanding Paper of Light: Science & Applications in 2020.”
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  A supercomputer, billions of data points—and a plan for more efficient planes

  1 min read · Mon, Aug 2 2021

  News

  Matteo Parsani and his team at KAUST are modeling how air particles move around objects—providing vital info for engineers designing lighter jets.
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  Divided attention could ease wireless congestion

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 1 2021

  News

  communications artificial intelligence electrical engineering Computer science

  Predicting wireless traffic using artificial intelligence could improve the reliability of future wireless communications.

July 2021

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  Alumni Focus: Michal A. Mankowski

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 29 2021

  News

  KAUST Alumnus Michal Mankowski's first encounter with KAUST was in 2015 when he joined the university as a VSRP student. Then, in 2016, he started his Ph.D. program and defended it in the year 2020, and then he continued as a Pos tdoc under prof. Mikhail Moshkov. He worked on multi-objective optimization and applied operations research in the healthcare domain. Together with his PI, they published a book describing a novel framework on multi-objective optimization using dynamic programming (2021). Michal is joining Erasmus Univerys Rotterdam, Netherlands as an Assistant Professor of Operations