News

August 2020

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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Yingquan Li

  1 min read · Tue, Aug 11 2020

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  Optical wireless communications Signal processing

  Yingquan Li, 21, is an electrical engineering graduate who will join KAUST in the fall of 2020. He will join KAUST as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Communication Theory Lab under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini. An initial reference from a supervisor spurred his interest in joining KAUST, which resulted in a visiting student opportunity at KAUST. During his internship, Li was amazed by the facilities and research standard found on campus. It was this combination of impressive factors that inspired him to continue his academic career at the University.
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  KAUST prospective student: Xiaochuan Gou

  1 min read · Tue, Aug 11 2020

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  data mining machine learning

  Xiaochuan Gou, 27, from Dalian, China, will join KAUST in the fall of 2020. He will join KAUST as a Ph.D. candidate and member of the Machine Intelligence and kNowledge Engineering research group under the supervision of Professor Xiangliang Zhang.
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  KAUST prospective student: Qizhou Wang

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 9 2020

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  machine learning Computer Vision

  Qizhou Wang, 22, is a communication engineering graduate who will join KAUST from the University of Electronic Science and Technology, China. Wang will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Primalight Lab under the supervision of Professor Andrea Fratalocchi.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Igor Sokolov

  1 min read · Sun, Aug 9 2020

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  machine learning optimization

  Igor Sokolov, 23, is an applied mathematics and physics graduate who will join KAUST from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Igor first came to KAUST as a visiting student in 2019 and was highly impressed by the University's living and working facilities. It was this first impression that prompted him to pursue an M.S. at KAUST. Sokolov will join KAUST in the Fall of 2020 as an M.S. candidate under the supervision of Professor Peter Richtarik.

July 2020

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  KAUST mathematician named Fellow to European Academy of Sciences

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 29 2020

  Spotlight News

  EurASc numerical analysis Partial Differential Equations

  KAUST Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Dr. Peter Markowich, is named a 2020 Fellow to the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) in recognition of his outstanding scholarship in the field of mathematical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.
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  How AI helps improve COVID-19 testing

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 28 2020

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  COVID-19 artificial intelligence

  Following a call by President Tony Chan for KAUST PIs to contribute through their research capabilities to alleviate the COVID-19 pandemic, efforts coordinated by Donal Bradley, KAUST vice president for research, and Pierre Magistretti, KAUST dean of the Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering division, mobilized a group of faculty to form the Rapid Research Response Team (R3T).
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  Studying COVID-19’s envelope protein

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 28 2020

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  COVID-19 human health genomics

  A likeness between genes of the SARS and COVID-19 viruses could inform research into potential treatments.
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  To Boldly Go Where No Sensor Has Gone Before: The Movement to Place IoT in Radical New Spaces

  1 min read · Mon, Jul 27 2020

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  IoT electrical engineering

  The rapid growth of the world’s population demands more natural resources, food, and space. World renowned physicist Stephan Hawking has argued that soon we will require another world to live on because we are running out of space and natural resources. This ever-increasing demand for resources and space needs novel technologies to explore natural resources, produce more crops, and explore outer space. Internet of X-things (X-IoT) is an enabling technology to overcome all of the above issues. The framework of X-IoT consists of three major categories as shown in Figure 1. The first one is the
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  Blueprint may power up KSA's wind energy future

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 23 2020

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  energy security climate science statistics

  High-resolution analysis of wind speed across Saudi Arabia can help fast track the expansion of the Kingdom’s emerging world-class wind energy industry.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Isaías de Sousa

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 22 2020

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  Isaías de Sousa is an electrical engineering graduate from Brazil. He obtained his master's degree from the Federal University of Campina Grande and his bachelor's degree from the Federal University of Piauí, Brazil, respectively. Isaías will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as a Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Sensors Lab under Professor Khaled Nabil Salama's supervision.
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  A shock to the system

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 22 2020

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  Spectral Analysis numerical analysis COVID-19 research

  The global, multifarious challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic has scientists tapping their wide-ranging fields of expertise to attack the problem on many fronts. Answering the call from KAUST President Tony Chan, and coordinated by the University's leadership team, KAUST researchers making up the Rapid Research Response Team (R3T) are turning this crisis into an opportunity to innovate.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Asaad AlGhamdi

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 21 2020

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  Natural Language Processing IoT

  Asaad AlGhamdi is a 24-year-old graduate who will join KAUST in the fall from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Asaad will join the University as a M.S. candidate and member of the Machine Intelligence and kNowledge Engineering research group under the supervision of Professor Xiangliang Zhang.
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  New research aims to bridge the digital divide

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 16 2020

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  6G atmospheric turbulence pointing errors

  By the end of 2018, there were nearly 4 billion people without Internet connectivity in the world. Almost 75% of this unconnected population is located in 20 countries and is concentrated in rural, low-income, and low-literacy areas.
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  Researchers use lasers to bring the Internet under the sea

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 15 2020

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  research

  Communicating underwater has always been a hassle. Radio transmissions, the ubiquitous wireless standard above the waves, can't transmit very far before being entirely absorbed by the water. Acoustic transmissions (think sonar) are the preferred choice underwater, but they suffer from very low data rates. Wouldn't it be nice if we could all just have Wi-Fi underwater instead?
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  KAUST Prospective student: Sara Rojas Martínez

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 15 2020

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  Sara Rojas Martínez is a 24-year-old Biomedical Engineering graduate from Bogotá, Colombia. Since childhood, Sara was fascinated by robots, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI). Her interest in technology motivated her to pursue a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. After obtaining her bachelor's degree from Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, she realized that she wanted to do something related to AI and humans, so she also pursued her master’s degree from the same university.
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  Unleashing the potential of tethered drones

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020

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  electrical engineering applied mathematics

  Wire-connected drones may complement or replace the fixed base stations of cellular communications networks.
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  Keyes and colleagues take part in historic ISC

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020

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  International Supercomputing Conference

  KAUST Professor David Keyes, director of the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) and professor of applied mathematics and computational science, chaired this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). The ISC, which takes place in Frankfurt, Germany every June, is where the world's supercomputers are re-ranked for computational power, power efficiency, and performance on various scientific benchmarks.
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  Prof. Keyes opening virtually the ISC event

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020

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  International Supercomputing Conference research conference

  Prof. Keyes and team successfully run virtually the ISC event: catch up on the opening session below! Read the full article here.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Zere Iman

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020

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  Antennas electromagnetics

  Zere Iman is a 22-year-old graduate who will join KAUST from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Iman will join us in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas and Circuits Technology Research Group, under the supervision of Professor Atif Shamim.
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  Jorge Holguín-Lerma receives 2020 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 12 2020

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  Laser Diodes GaN

  KAUST Ph.D. student Jorge Holguín-Lerma has recently been named a recipient of the 2020 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship. Holguín-Lerma was one of only ten students worldwide to receive the Society’s most competitive scholarship for graduate students in photonics. The award acknowledges both his work at KAUST and the potential impact of his future research.
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  Membrane makeover makes face mask reusable

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 12 2020

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  electrical engineering membranes COVID-19

  A polyimide membrane with regularly sized and spaced pores turns the N95 respirator into a reusable mask for protection against COVID-19.
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  KAUST Prospective Student: Damilya Saduakhas

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 12 2020

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  machine learning Deep learning Natural Language Processing

  Damilya Saduakhas, 21 years old, from Kazakhstan, obtained a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Damilya has been selected as a young scientist to participate in the summer Data Lab from Yessenov Foundation and will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Stochastic Processes and Applied Statistics Research group under the supervision of Professor David Bolin.
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  Making the invisible, visible

  1 min read · Fri, Jul 10 2020

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  visual computing multi-scale 3D visualization SARS-CoV-2 visualization COVID-19

  As bioscience and medicine progress, we are now able to live with diseases, which were once a death sentence. And we are rapidly discovering new interactions at the microscopic level that give us insight into the engines of life. However, as research gets more complicated, the layperson gets left further and further behind. Even those who trust the work of scientists can feel overwhelmed when attempting to read the latest research.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Xinge Yang

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 9 2020

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  machine learning Computer Vision IoT

  Xinge Yang is a 22-year-old graduate who will join KAUST from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). Yang will join the University in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Computational Imaging Group under the supervision of Professor Wolfgang Heidrich.
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  Peter Markowich elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 9 2020

  Spotlight News

  Applied Partial Differential Equations mean-field games

  KAUST Professor Peter Markowich has been elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). Established in 2003, the EurASC is a fully independent international organization of distinguished scholars that aims to recognize and elect to its membership the best European researchers to strengthen European science and scientific cooperation.
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  Dr. Alexandra Gomes receives 2020 KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 8 2020

  Spotlight News

  Upon the recommendation of the DTA selection committee and the KAUST Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Professor Yves Gnanou, Dr. Alexandra Gomes has been awarded the 2020 KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award. Gomes, who is a member of the KAUST CEMSE Division, was recognized for the award due to her exceptional contributions to the classroom instruction mission of KAUST. The award will be conferred at the annual KAUST Faculty Recognition Dinner scheduled for this fall.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Imran Pervez

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 8 2020

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  Fractional order elements Optical communications

  Soon-to-be graduate Imran Pervez will join KAUST from Aligarh Muslim University, India. An initial reference from a friend piqued his initial interest in joining KAUST. This interest in joining was solidified by an inspiring interaction with Professor Khalid Nabil Salama, which further convinced Pervez to join KAUST.
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  PhD Defense of Tariq AlTurkestani

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 5 2020

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  PhD Defense HPC scientific computing parallel simulations Parallel and Distributed Computing

  Maximizing I/O Bandwidth for Out-of-Core HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Large-Scale Systems PhD Dissertation Defense by Tariq Alturkestani PhD Student, Computer Science Thursday, July 9, 16:00 - 17:00, https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94054511362 Contact Person: Tariq Alturkestani The execution rate of floating-point operations has typically increased by an order of magnitude every four years during the last 30 years of modern comput ing. This exponential growth in terms of computational power has benefited from the hardware technology scaling. However, memory and storage systems have not maintained
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Amin Wu

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 5 2020

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  Gaussian processes spatio-temporal statistics

  Amin Wu is a 24-year-old graduate who will join KAUST from the Communication University of China. Wu will join the University in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Environmental Statistics Research Group under the supervision of Professor Ying Sun. Wu wants to be a teacher or researcher and use her expertise and knowledge to make the world a better place.
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  Red-light LEDs for next-generation displays

  1 min read · Sun, Jul 5 2020

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  LED electrical engineering

  Novel red LEDs are more temperature stable than those made using the conventional semiconductor of choice.
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  KAUST Prospective Student: Siyuan Chen

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 2 2020

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  artificial intelligence IoT

  Siyuan Chen is a 22-year-old graduate who comes to KAUST from the School of Communication and Information Engineering, UESTC, China. Chen will join the University in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Structural and Functional Bioinformatics research group under the supervision of Professor Xin Gao.
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  Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Olga Krestinskaya

  1 min read · Thu, Jul 2 2020

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  Neuromorphic Circuits

  Olga Krestinskaya, from Kazakhstan, obtained her master’s and bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and electronics from Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. She is the recipient of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) society pre-doctoral award in 2019 and will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as a Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Sensors Lab under the supervision of Professor Khaled Nabil Salama.
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  An Airline observatory created by Passengers for Passengers

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 1 2020

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  aerospace software system optimization control systems

  The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a significant worldwide disruption to flight operations, affecting the lives of millions of passengers.
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  Robert Hoehndorf promoted to associate professor at KAUST

  1 min read · Wed, Jul 1 2020

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  bioinformatics biomedical data artificial intelligence

  KAUST faculty member Robert Hoehndorf was recently promoted from the rank of assistant professor to associate professor. Hoehndorf’s promotion caps a year-long process where the German researcher’s scientific and scholarly output was measured and evaluated by internal and external reviews.

June 2020

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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Carlos Augusto Zan Malaguti

  1 min read · Tue, Jun 30 2020

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  microelectronics micro and nanofabrication Biosensors

  Carlos Augusto Zan Malaguti, 23, from Brazil, obtained his bachelor’s degree in electronics and telecommunications engineering from Sao Paulo State University (UNESP). Carlos will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Sensors Lab under the supervision of Professor Khaled Nabil Salama.
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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Juexiao Zhou

  1 min read · Mon, Jun 29 2020

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  protein function Medical imaging

  Juexiao Zhou is a 21-year-old graduate from Shenzhen, China, who will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Structural and Functional Bioinformatics research group under the supervision of Professor Xin Gao.
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  KAUST scientists win prestigious Gauss Award for supercomputing excellence

  1 min read · Fri, Jun 26 2020

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  HPC supercomputing numerical linear algebra parallel computing

  KAUST Ph.D. graduate Dr. Noha Al-Harthi and doctoral student Rabab Alomairy, have won the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) Award for original research that best advances high-performance computing. This makes KAUST the first Middle Eastern institution to receive this prestigious award.
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  KAUST Prospective student: Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho

  1 min read · Thu, Jun 25 2020

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  Natural Language Processing

  Fernando is a 23-year-old Information Technology graduate fromYachay Tech University in Urcuquí, Ecuador. He has planned to continue his academic career at KAUST under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf.
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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Matheus Vinícius Medeiros de Souza

  1 min read · Wed, Jun 24 2020

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  Computer Vision machine learning

  Matheus Vinícius Medeiros de Souza is a 24-year-old electrical engineering graduate from the city of Natal, Brazil. Matheus first came to KAUST as a visiting student in 2019 and was instantly impressed by the university’s research facilities.
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  A clique away from more efficient networks

  1 min read · Sun, Jun 14 2020

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  networks connectivity applied mathematics electrical engineering

  An old branch of mathematics finds a fertile new field of application.
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  Angling for underwater WiFi

  1 min read · Wed, Jun 10 2020

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  communications Computer science

  Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service.
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  AI that's built to save lives

  1 min read · Tue, Jun 9 2020

  Spotlight News

  artificial intelligence COVID-19

  Associate Professor Xin Gao and his group have developed an artificial-intelligence (AI) based solution to help increase COVID-19 testing accuracy. Identifying cases of early stage infection has been particularly challenging for frontline clinicians. Gao's AI-based model, which aims to increase accuracy, has been put to immediate use at King Faisal Specialist Hospital (KFSH) in Riyadh.
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  A sharper view of flood risk

  1 min read · Sun, Jun 7 2020

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  extreme events climate science statistics

  Extreme weather patterns and regions at risk of flooding could be easier to spot using a new statistical model for large spatial datasets.
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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Adilya Bakambekova

  1 min read · Wed, Jun 3 2020

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  electronics electrical engineering

  She loves watching films not for the plot, but in order to rethink her beliefs. She is 22, she graduates from the School of Engineering in the capital. Adilya Bakambekova may seem ordinary: she loves walking in the park, powerlifting, taking care of her five-year-old wiener dog.
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  Tracking the Curve: Analyzing the Emotional Response to COVID-19

  1 min read · Tue, Jun 2 2020

  Spotlight News

  Artificial Neural Network epidemiology artificial intelligence machine learning

  Hashtags like #covid19 and #coronavirus help us stay up to date on the developments of the new coronavirus pandemic. But beyond breaking news, tweets also offer a glimpse into the emotional side of the COVID-19 crisis.
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  KAUST named among academic winners at the 2020 Ansys Hall of Fame Competition

  1 min read · Tue, Jun 2 2020

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  electromagnetic simulation antenna arrays

  Landmine detection research developed by KAUST scientists—Sebastian Celis Sierra, Li Zhang, and Mohamed Farhat—was named among the top three academic winners of the 2020 Ansys Hall of Fame competition. Based in Pennsylvania, U.S., Ansys develop and market multiphysics engineering simulation software for product design.

May 2020

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  Training agents to walk with purpose

  1 min read · Sun, May 31 2020

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  statistics big data Computer science

  By training a search agent to make smarter exploratory decisions, relational data can be classified more accurately and efficiently.
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  Iron nanorobots go undercover

  1 min read · Wed, May 20 2020

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  electrical engineering nanoscience cells

  Customizable magnetic iron nanowires pinpoint and track the movements of target cells.
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  6G: The time is now!

  1 min read · Sun, May 17 2020

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  wireless telecommunication technology 6G

  While 5G companies and opponents are competing over the deployment of the first 5G platforms, the next generation of wireless telecommunication technology is being concocted right now in laboratories all around the world.
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  KAUST Ph.D. student receives SPIE 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship

  1 min read · Sat, May 16 2020

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  SPIE nanotechnology LED laser photonics

  Ronghui Lin, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professor Xiaohang Li, has been awarded an SPIE 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship for his “potential long-range contribution to optics, photonics, or other related fields.”