New research aims to bridge the digital divide 1 min read · Thu, Jul 16 2020 News 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.
Researchers use lasers to bring the Internet under the sea 1 min read · Wed, Jul 15 2020 News 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?
KAUST Prospective student: Sara Rojas Martínez 1 min read · Wed, Jul 15 2020 News 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.
Unleashing the potential of tethered drones 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News electrical engineering applied mathematics Wire-connected drones may complement or replace the fixed base stations of cellular communications networks.
Keyes and colleagues take part in historic ISC 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News 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.
Prof. Keyes opening virtually the ISC event 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Zere Iman 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News 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.
Jorge Holguín-Lerma receives 2020 IEEE Photonics Society Graduate Student Scholarship 1 min read · Sun, Jul 12 2020 News 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.
Membrane makeover makes face mask reusable 1 min read · Sun, Jul 12 2020 News 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.
KAUST Prospective Student: Damilya Saduakhas 1 min read · Sun, Jul 12 2020 News 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.
Making the invisible, visible 1 min read · Fri, Jul 10 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Xinge Yang 1 min read · Thu, Jul 9 2020 News 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.
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.
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.
Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Imran Pervez 1 min read · Wed, Jul 8 2020 News 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.
PhD Defense of Tariq AlTurkestani 1 min read · Sun, Jul 5 2020 News 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
Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Amin Wu 1 min read · Sun, Jul 5 2020 News 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.
Red-light LEDs for next-generation displays 1 min read · Sun, Jul 5 2020 News LED electrical engineering Novel red LEDs are more temperature stable than those made using the conventional semiconductor of choice.
KAUST Prospective Student: Siyuan Chen 1 min read · Thu, Jul 2 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Olga Krestinskaya 1 min read · Thu, Jul 2 2020 News 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.
An Airline observatory created by Passengers for Passengers 1 min read · Wed, Jul 1 2020 News 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.
Robert Hoehndorf promoted to associate professor at KAUST 1 min read · Wed, Jul 1 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST prospective student: Carlos Augusto Zan Malaguti 1 min read · Tue, Jun 30 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST prospective student: Juexiao Zhou 1 min read · Mon, Jun 29 2020 News 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.
KAUST scientists win prestigious Gauss Award for supercomputing excellence 1 min read · Fri, Jun 26 2020 News 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.
KAUST Prospective student: Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho 1 min read · Thu, Jun 25 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST prospective student: Matheus Vinícius Medeiros de Souza 1 min read · Wed, Jun 24 2020 News 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.
A clique away from more efficient networks 1 min read · Sun, Jun 14 2020 News networks connectivity applied mathematics electrical engineering An old branch of mathematics finds a fertile new field of application.
Angling for underwater WiFi 1 min read · Wed, Jun 10 2020 News communications Computer science Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service.
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.
A sharper view of flood risk 1 min read · Sun, Jun 7 2020 News 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.
Meet KAUST prospective student: Adilya Bakambekova 1 min read · Wed, Jun 3 2020 News 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.
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.
KAUST named among academic winners at the 2020 Ansys Hall of Fame Competition 1 min read · Tue, Jun 2 2020 News 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.
Training agents to walk with purpose 1 min read · Sun, May 31 2020 News statistics big data Computer science By training a search agent to make smarter exploratory decisions, relational data can be classified more accurately and efficiently.
Iron nanorobots go undercover 1 min read · Wed, May 20 2020 News electrical engineering nanoscience cells Customizable magnetic iron nanowires pinpoint and track the movements of target cells.
6G: The time is now! 1 min read · Sun, May 17 2020 News 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.
KAUST Ph.D. student receives SPIE 2020 Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship 1 min read · Sat, May 16 2020 News Spotlight 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.”
Shaheen II open to serve COVID-19 research around the Kingdom 1 min read · Sun, May 10 2020 News supercomputing The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed challenges across the globe that need to be solved using scientific discovery and innovation. In line with that, the KAUST Supercomputing Core Laboratory (KSL) has opened a call for proposals that require its supercomputer Shaheen II, as well as other cluster computing resources, to support research projects.
Pure red LEDs fulfill a primary goal 1 min read · Wed, May 6 2020 News material science electrical engineering First high-intensity, low-voltage red LEDs made from nitride semiconductors.
Light sensors detect larval pests munching on date palms 1 min read · Mon, May 4 2020 News electrical engineering food security sensors Optical fibers wrapped around date palm trunks could help detect this tree’s most destructive pest early enough to save it.
KAUST CS student recognized with AAAI Outstanding Program Committee Award 1 min read · Sun, May 3 2020 News artificial intelligence Konstantin Mishchenko, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Professor Peter Richtárik, has been selected as one of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence’s (AAAI) 12 Outstanding Program Committee Members for 2020. Mishchenko was presented with a certificate in recognition of his outstanding service at AAAI-20 held in New York from February 7-12.
Exciting New Technology Makes BPA Water Testing More Efficient 1 min read · Fri, May 1 2020 News Water pollution sensors Plastic LSG In today’s world, it should come as no surprise that plastic dominates the products that we rely on each and every day. From our technology devices, to our water bottles, plastic is almost always an integral structural component.
Early warning sensor sniffs out cities' harmful gas 1 min read · Tue, Apr 28 2020 News sensors pollution electrical engineering An integrated detector device could form the basis of a distributed air-quality sensor network.
Realization of an Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective OFET NO2 Sensor: The Synergistic Combination of PDVT-10 Polymer and Porphyrin–MOF 1 min read · Fri, Apr 24 2020 News OFET NO2 gas sensor organic semiconductor Gas Sensors MOFs Saravanan Yuvaraja, et al., "Realization of an Ultrasensitive and Highly Selective OFET NO2 Sensor: The Synergistic Combination of PDVT-10 Polymer and Porphyrin–MOF." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (16), 2020, 18748. Organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are emerging as competitive candidates for gas sensing applications due to the ease of their fabrication process combined with the ability to readily fine-tune the properties of organic semiconductors. Nevertheless, some key challenges remain to be addressed, such as material degradation, low sensitivity, and poor selectivity toward
KAUST startup Edama Organic Solutions has been featured in Arab News 1 min read · Tue, Apr 21 2020 News Edama Throughout the world, organic waste generation is posing serious challenges, threatening food security and water purity and availability. Saudi Arabia is no exception.
Peeling back the layers of deep machine learning 1 min read · Fri, Apr 17 2020 News machine learning artificial intelligence Computer science A layer-based approach raises the efficiency of training artificial intelligence models.
Understanding the COVID wave 1 min read · Thu, Apr 16 2020 News numerical analysis numerical methods As countries around the world work to "flatten the curve," a reference to slowing the progression of COVID-19 cases, David Ketcheson is putting mathematical modeling to work to understand how transmission is playing out.
CEMSE Division student spotlight: Gaurav Agarwal 1 min read · Thu, Apr 16 2020 News spatial statistics Environmental Statistics Gaurav Agarwal firmly believes in the age-old adage that patience is a virtue. Without patience, life’s challenges cannot be overcome, and a steadfast belief in perseverance has served the statistics Ph.D. student well throughout his academic career.
Sensing a heart attack before it strikes 1 min read · Tue, Apr 14 2020 News human health sensors electrical engineering Nanomaterial-based electronic device monitors a key heart health biomarker.
