Ph.D. Student’s Research Listed in The American Journal of Transplantation’s “Top 10 Articles of 2019” 1 min read · Wed, Jan 22 2020 News Spotlight Dynamic programming Combinatorial machine learning Research work carried out by Michał Mańkowski, a Ph.D. student in the KAUST Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, was recently selected for inclusion by the editors of The American Journal of Transplantation (AJT) in their “Top 10 Articles of 2019.
Distinguished Professor Marc Genton selected as the 2020 Georges Matheron Lecturer of the IAMG 1 min read · Tue, Jan 21 2020 Spotlight News IAMG Marc Genton, chair, and distinguished professor of the KAUST Statistics Program, was recently selected as the 2020 Georges Matheron Lecturer of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG).
Algorithm turns cancer gene discovery on its head 1 min read · Mon, Jan 20 2020 News human health Computer science cancer A method for finding genes that spur tumor growth takes advantage of machine learning algorithms to sift through reams of molecular data collected from studies of cancer cell lines, mouse models and human patients.
Steep learning in mathematics of big waves 1 min read · Sun, Jan 19 2020 News extreme weather A better mathematical understanding of how big waves form could lead to better prediction of tsunami impacts.
Gaurav Agarwal wins IISA best student paper award 1 min read · Sun, Jan 19 2020 News Spotlight IISA Award Gaurav Agarwal, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in KAUST Associate Professor Ying Sun’s Environmental Statistics (ES) research group, recently won the best student paper award at the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) 2019 Student Paper Competition for his paper titled “Bivariate Functional Quantile Envelopes with Application to Radiosonde Wind Data.”
A pure twist on optical data transfer 1 min read · Thu, Jan 16 2020 News communications electrical engineering bioscience The finding that light can be twisted very precisely may offer fresh options for communications infrastructure.
Faculty Focus: Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati 1 min read · Wed, Jan 15 2020 Spotlight News modeling control systems -By A. Ortega, KAUST News KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati joined the University in 2011 after working as a researcher at INRIA in France. Laleg-Kirati leads the Estimation, Modeling and ANalysis (EMAN) research group at KAUST, and her interests lie in control theory, system modeling and signal applications. She investigates multiple engineering disciplines and develops mathematical models and algorithms that control processes relying on real-time feedback. "My research goals [are the development of] effective estimation methods and algorithms to
Using Statistical Models to Solve Environmental Problems 1 min read · Wed, Jan 15 2020 Spotlight News spatio-temporal statistics computational methods Joining the faculty of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) six years ago gave statistics Professor Ying Sun a unique career opportunity: the chance to build and lead her own research group solving real-world problems.
AI uses your imagination 1 min read · Tue, Jan 14 2020 News artificial intelligence machine learning Computer science The psychology of human creativity helps artificial intelligence imagine the unseen.
Transforming electronics 1 min read · Tue, Jan 14 2020 News flexible electronics stretchable electronics KAUST Professor of Electrical Engineering Muhammad Mustafa Hussain was recently elected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2020, for his "contributions to flexible and stretchable electronic circuits," IEEE stated.
LD Motif Finder locates ancient hidden protein patterns 1 min read · Mon, Jan 6 2020 News artificial intelligence machine learning human health bioscience A machine learning method has identified highly elusive amino acid sequences involved in cell morphogenesis and adhesion and in diseases like cancer.
KAUST STAT Students Launch First ASA Chapter Outside of the U.S. 1 min read · Mon, Jan 6 2020 News This October, Zhuo Qu, a Ph.D. candidate in statistics, along with several of her fellow Statistics (STAT) Program students launched the first-ever American Statistical Association (ASA) student chapter outside of the United States.
KAUST Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi elected Fellow of the Optical Society 1 min read · Thu, Jan 2 2020 News photonics energy harvesting Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering division, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) at the society's Board of Directors meeting in September.
Flexible thinking on silicon solar cells 1 min read · Sun, Dec 22 2019 News solar cells electrical engineering Combining silicon with a highly elastic polymer backing produces solar cells that have record-breaking stretchability and high efficiency.
Patterned optical chips keep secrets perfectly safe 1 min read · Sun, Dec 22 2019 News communications data security electrical engineering Chaos could help put cyberhackers out of business with a patterned silicon chip that will be uncrackable even in the future.
KAUST graduates celebrate ‘journey of discovery’ at 10th Commencement ceremony 1 min read · Tue, Dec 17 2019 News commencement The University celebrated its 10th Commencement ceremony on December 13, 2019, welcoming 103 master's degree and 93 Ph.D. graduates to the KAUST global alumni community.
ActivityNet is featured in the 2019 Artificial Intelligence Index 1 min read · Sun, Dec 15 2019 News artificial intelligence Video Understanding ActivityNet is featured in the AI Index as the benchmark for the algorithms that can recognize human actions and activities from videos.
Drones deliver on internet connectivity 1 min read · Thu, Dec 12 2019 News communications electrical engineering IoT Hovering airborne vehicles could connect smart sensors to the internet of things.
2019 Statistics and Data Science Workshop 1 min read · Wed, Dec 11 2019 News data science statistics From November 18 to 20 the KAUST CEMSE Division has hosted the 2019 Statistics and Data Science Workshop. The workshop, organized by Workshop Chair Professor Ying Sun from the KAUST Environmental Statistics Group, featured 17 keynote talks from eminent data science researchers from Asia, Europe, North America and on-campus. Talks included: personalized recommendation by learning from heterogeneous graph data; dynamic spatial panel models; networks, common shocks, and sequential exogeneity; unbiased Markov chain Monte Carlo, plus many more.
A second wind for turbine design 1 min read · Sun, Dec 8 2019 News renewable energy wind energy statistics Better prediction of extreme winds at sparsely observed locations could help optimize the design of wind farms.
Professor Hussain elected IEEE Fellow 1 min read · Mon, Dec 2 2019 Spotlight News CMOS nanoelectronics Muhammad Mustafa Hussain, KAUST professor of electrical engineering, was recently elected as an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, effective January 1, 2020, for his “contributions to flexible and stretchable electronic circuits.
Jinhui Xiong wins Best Paper Award at VMV 2019 1 min read · Mon, Dec 2 2019 News Spotlight computational imaging 3D reconstruction Fourth-year computer science Ph.D. student Jinhui Xiong won the best paper award at this year’s 24th International Symposium on Vision, Modeling, and Visualization (VMV) 2019.
Testing barley's salt tolerance is a numbers game 1 min read · Mon, Dec 2 2019 News salinity tolerance statistics future food Factors influencing the tolerance of barley to saline soils have been uncovered using an advanced robust statistical technique.
Abeer Almutairi succesfully defends her master's thesis | Unsupervised Method for Disease Named Entity Recognition 1 min read · Mon, Dec 2 2019 News Abeer Almutairi, a student under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf, defended her Master's thesis "Unsupervised Method for Disease Named Entity Recognition" on November 4, 2019.
Using electronics to solve common biological problems 1 min read · Sun, Dec 1 2019 News bioelectronics bioscience What do an electrical engineer, an organic chemist, a materials scientist and a cell biologist all have in common? They invent and improve applications at the interface of biology and electronics.
Mona Alshahrani Ph.D. Defense | Knowledge Graph Representation Learning: Approaches and Applications in Biomedicine 1 min read · Sun, Dec 1 2019 News Mona Alshahrani a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf Defended her Ph.D. thesis "Knowledge Graph Representation Learning: Approaches and Applications in Biomedicine."
CEMSE New Faculty: Eric Feron, Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering 1 min read · Wed, Nov 27 2019 News control systems aerospace software system Eric Feron is a professor of aerospace software engineering who recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
CEMSE New Faculty: Ajay Jasra, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences 1 min read · Wed, Nov 27 2019 News Bayesian Statistics Marko Chain Theory Ajay Jasra is a professor of applied mathematics and computational sciences who recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division in July 2019.
Andrea Fratalocchi Elected OSA Fellow for Pioneering Innovations 1 min read · Mon, Nov 25 2019 Spotlight News photonics energy harvesting Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, was recently elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society of America (OSA) at the Society’s Board of Directors meeting in September.
Professor Kosel Appointed as Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council 1 min read · Mon, Nov 25 2019 Spotlight News sensors transducers Jürgen Kosel, associate professor of electrical engineering in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, has been appointed as a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Sensors Council for the period of 2020-2022.
Machine learning models gather momentum 1 min read · Sun, Nov 24 2019 News algorithms machine learning Computer science New methods for training machine learning models are quicker and more accurate than current approaches, previously considered state-of-the-art.
Student Focus: Abdullah Hamdi 1 min read · Thu, Nov 21 2019 Spotlight student focus KAUST Ph.D. student Abdullah Hamdi began his university studies at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM) in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia, where he specialized in electrical engineering. After graduating from KFUPM in 2016, he moved to KAUST for his master's degree ('18) and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, with a focus on artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning and computer vision. At KAUST, Hamdi is part of Associate Professor Bernard Ghanem's Image and Video Understanding Lab. Ghanem, a member of the University's Visual Computing Center, seeks to teach machines to
Malleswararao Tangi Awarded the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers 1 min read · Wed, Nov 20 2019 News Malleswararao Tangi Receives the Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.
CEMSE New Faculty: David Bolin, Associate Professor of Mathematical Statistics 1 min read · Tue, Nov 19 2019 News spatial statistics spatio-temporal modeling David Bolin is an associate professor of mathematical statistics who joined the KAUST Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division earlier this month from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Before joining KAUST, Bolin received both his Ph.D. degree in mathematical statistics and M.S.c in engineering mathematics from Lund University, Sweden, in 2012 and 2007, respectively. Upon completing his Ph.D., he spent one year at Umeå University, Sweden, working as a postdoctoral fellow before moving to the Chalmers University of Technology. In 2016, Bolin became an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Gothenburg, where a year later he received the title of Docent in mathematical statistics.
Ronghui Won Oxford Instruments SEM Micrograph Competition! 1 min read · Thu, Nov 14 2019 News Congratulations to Ronghui for winning Oxford Instruments SEM Micrograph Competition.
Magnetic skin ensures the force is with you 1 min read · Tue, Nov 12 2019 News sensors electrical engineering A magnetic skin that is safe and comfortable to wear could open the door to a wide range of wireless, remotely controlled applications.
Nasir Alfaraj's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense 1 min read · Mon, Nov 11 2019 News Study on Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by the Hybrid Integration of Next-Generation Semiconductors and Emerging Device Platforms
CEMSE New Faculty: Ahmed Eltawil, Professor, Electrical Engineering 1 min read · Mon, Nov 11 2019 News Signal processing mobile systems low power digital circuit Professor of Electrical Engineering, Ahmed Eltawil, recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division from the University of California (UCI), Irvine, where he had worked for 14 years prior. At UCI, Eltawil worked in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and was also the founder and director of the university’s Wireless Systems and Circuits Laboratory. As an expert in system integration for wireless systems, he joins KAUST with an established pedigree of university-industry collaboration, and he continues to act as an advisor in the development of wireless systems for leading international companies.
CEMSE New Faculty: Mohamed Elhoseiny, Assistant Professor of Computer Science 1 min read · Thu, Nov 7 2019 News artificial intelligence Computer Vision Prior to joining the KAUST CEMSE Division earlier this year, Mohamed Elhoseiny received his Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2016, before spending over two years working as a postdoctoral researcher at Facebook in the company’s AI research wing. Elhoseiny joins the Division as an assistant professor of computer science based in the KAUST Visual Computing Center (VCC). He will also act as the PI of the KAUST Computer Vision, Content AI (Vision-CAIR) Research Group. Outside of his duties at KAUST, he is also acting as an artificial intelligence (AI) research consultant for Baidu Research, Silicon Valley AI Lab.
CEMSE New Faculty: Joaquín Ortega Sánchez, Instructional Professor, Statistics 1 min read · Mon, Nov 4 2019 News Stochastic processes Gaussian processes functional data analysis Joaquín Ortega Sánchez is an instructional professor of statistics who joins the KAUST CEMSE Division after spending the last sixteen years working at the Mathematics Research Center (CIMAT) in Guanajuato, Mexico. Born in Venezuela, Ortega completed his postgraduate and graduate studies in London, where he studied mathematics at King’s College London, before obtaining his Ph.D. in Probability Theory across the city at Imperial College London. After his time in the U.K., he returned to his native Venezuela where he worked for over 20 years at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas. Over the course of his career, Ortega’s research work has focused on stochastic processes, specifically Gaussian processes and time series with applications in oceanography and biostatistics. And more recently his work has focused on functional data analysis.
AI reveals nature of RNA-protein interactions 1 min read · Wed, Oct 30 2019 News artificial intelligence Computer science A deep learning tool could help in structure-based drug discovery.
Flexing for success from Saudi Arabia to Silicon Valley 1 min read · Tue, Oct 29 2019 News wearable electronics electrical engineering Asrar Damdam is setting up her own biotech company in Silicon Valley while pursuing a Ph.D. at KAUST
Pitching a winning business idea in Silicon Valley 1 min read · Tue, Oct 29 2019 Awards News Spotlight ultraviolet wavelengths food pathogens UV LED KAUST Ph.D. student Asrar Damdam's business idea wins first place at pitching competition in Silicon Valley.
Baby steps for transparent electronics 1 min read · Sun, Oct 27 2019 News nanomaterials electrical engineering Stretchy, see-through, silver nanowire sheet combines optical transparency with excellent electrical conductivity.
Latifah Al maghrabi's Master's Thesis Defense 1 min read · Thu, Oct 24 2019 News Study of PA-MBE grown III-nitride nanowires for strain engineering optoelectronics, nano-energy harvesting devices and piezotronics.
Shaking up the landslide model 1 min read · Thu, Oct 24 2019 News disaster management Environmental Statistics statistics Areas without earthquake monitoring systems could model the tremors by using data from local landslides.
Chao Shen awarded a 2017 Young Professional Travel Grant from IEEE Photonics Society 1 min read · Wed, Oct 23 2019 News Chao Shen awarded a 2017 Young Professional Travel Grant from IEEE Photonics Society.
Hybrid integration of materials for ultraviolet detection 1 min read · Sun, Oct 20 2019 News Semiconductors are pervasive in consumer electronics and optoelectronics, and the related optical devices are deemed disruptive that Nobel Prize in Physics in 2014 was awarded to the inventors of blue light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which “has enabled bright and energy-saving white light sources”. While AlInGaN-based lasers and LEDs, and silicon-based photodetectors are currently matured, unconventional usage based on the materials has demonstrated their further potential, including solar-hydrogen generation, indoor-horticulture, and high-speed communication. By combining the optical
Symbol of change for AI development 1 min read · Sun, Oct 20 2019 News artificial intelligence Computer science Bridging the knowledge gap in artificial intelligence requires an embedding function that helps step between different types of "thinking."
Less chat leads to more work for machine learning 1 min read · Wed, Oct 16 2019 News machine learning Computer science Deep analysis of the way information is shared among parallel computations increases efficiency to accelerate machine learning at scale.
