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July 2019

ISL has 10+ new visiting students joining this year

1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019

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ISL this year is receiving over 10+ students from all around the world. Students range from Montreal, Canada, to Ile-Ife, Nigeria. These visiting students are all supervised by Dr. Tareq AlNaffouri and working on a variety of topics within the Information Systems Lab. These students are a great asset to the lab, and will further develop their research skills through working with Professor AlNaffouri.
Davide Priante's Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

2 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019

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Ultraviolet (UV) group III-Nitride-based light emitters have been used in various applications such as water purification, medicine, lighting, and chemical detection. Despite attractive properties such as bandgap tunability in the whole UV range (UV-C to UV-A), high chemical stability and relative low cost, the low quantum efficiency hamper the full utilization. In fact, external quantum efficiencies of UV devices are below 10 % for emission wavelength shorter than 350 nm.
ISL Students place 4th at Microsoft Indoor Localization Competition 2017

1 min read · Mon, Jul 29 2019

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Accurate indoor positioning has the potential to transform the way people navigate indoors similar to the way the GPS transformed outdoor navigation. Over the last 20 years, many indoor positioning technologies have been proposed and experimented by both academia and industry. We developed an accurate acoustic 3D positioning system, which consists of one mobile device (MD) and four base stations (BSs) with known locations. The MD transmits a series of ultrasound and RF sequences, named Zadoff-Chu (ZC) sequences, at the same time. The propagation time of the RF signal is negligible compared to
Single-electrode material streamlines functions into a tiny chip

1 min read · Sun, Jul 28 2019

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Ruthenium oxide is used to integrate energy-storing microsupercapacitors and thin-film electronics at the transistor level.
ISL Student Osama Bushnaq does an Delft Internship

1 min read · Sun, Jul 28 2019

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IoT

Summary of Delft internship : Advanced sensor networks are needed in order to meet the increasing needs of IoT applications, such as automated surveillance, environmental monitoring, smart cities, and so on. Optimal sensor placement, i.e., to select the best subset of sensing locations out of a large set of available locations, keeping in mind the network infrastructure and the inference task, forms an important sensor network design task. In this internship, the offline sensor selection for source estimation is improved by considering different practical issues such as observation accuracy
ISL PhD Student Osama Bushnaq does Internship at UBC

1 min read · Sun, Jul 28 2019

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UAV IoT

ISL PhD Student Osama Bushnaq did an internship at the University of British Coloumbia in Canada. His internship was focused on UAV-IoT. Every year, an average of 2.5 million hectares (ha) is burnt only in Canadian forests, which costs around 500 million to 1 billion Canadian dollars per year. The current forest fire detection methods such as satellite imaging and infrared cameras are not reliable. In order to detect forest fires before getting out of control, a new fire detection method based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Internet of Things (UAV-IoT) network was studied during this internship. A
Epilepsy study shows the shape of things to come

1 min read · Sun, Jul 21 2019

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Pyramidal graphs resulting from statistical analyses of EEG recordings can improve our understanding of epileptic seizures.
KAUST hosts International Graduate School on Control event

2 min read · Mon, Jul 15 2019

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KAUST recently acted as a host campus for the European Embedded Control Institute's International Graduate School on Control (IGSC). The IGSC is an annual series of 27 one-week graduate modules focusing on different topics of networked and embedded control and is taught to eligible attendees at different locations worldwide. The series is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society and the International Federation of Automatic Control.
Mastering a prickly problem in ferrofluids

1 min read · Sun, Jul 14 2019

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Computer science visual computing nanoelectronics ferrofluids magnetic-field simulations

Computer simulation accurately captures the beguiling motion of a liquid magnetic material.
New Book "Decision and Inhibitory Trees and Rules for Decision Tables with Many-valued Decisions" of Professor Moshkov and His Former Students is Published by Springer

1 min read · Tue, Jul 9 2019

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New book "Decision and Inhibitory Trees and Rules for Decision Tables with Many-valued Decisions" by Fawaz Alsolami, Mohammad Azad, Igor Chikalov, and Mikhail Moshkov is published by Springer
Teamwork pays off at startup Insyab

2 min read · Mon, Jul 8 2019

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Insyab, a technology startup specializing in smart solutions allowing robots and drones to collaborate on the execution of common tasks, resulted from three years of its founders' dedicated research at KAUST.
Red Sea temperatures to cool in coming decades

1 min read · Sun, Jul 7 2019

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Exploring the links between natural climate cycles and the sea-surface temperature of the Red Sea reveals a cooling trend during the next few decades.
Accelerating the grapevine effect

1 min read · Sun, Jul 7 2019

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By looking at classical gossip algorithms from a novel perspective, KAUST Professor Peter Richtarik has found a way to significantly speed up gossip-based information sharing, and in the process, he discovered new applications for this efficient mathematical approach. Gossip involves the sharing of information between individuals in a network and can be applied mathematically in both human social networks and data networks, such as distributed sensors. “A network is a collection of nodes, each connected to other nodes via links,” explains Richtarik. “In social networks, for instance
KAUST Ph.D. student wins Three Minute Thesis competition

2 min read · Wed, Jul 3 2019

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Muhammad Akram Karimi, a fourth-year KAUST Ph.D. student working in the Integrated Microwaves Packaging Antennas & Circuits Technology (IMPACT) Lab headed by Associate Professor Atif Shamim, won the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition held during the IEEE Microwave Theory and Techniques Society's International Microwave Symposium (IMS2019) in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S, in early June. IEEE IMS has been taking place for 60 years, and it is the flagship conference for microwave engineers and scientists.
KAUST Researchers Are the First to Generate Images of Realistic and Highly Detailed Texture Maps of Gigapixel in Size Using Deep Neural Networks

1 min read · Tue, Jul 2 2019

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Deep learning artificial intelligence machine learning

KAUST researchers Anna Fruehstueck, Dr. Ibraheem Alhashim, and Prof. Peter Wonka have developed a novel technique to generate images of realistic and highly detailed texture maps using deep neural networks. The texture images synthesized by their system TileGAN can be of gigapixel size and are created by seamlessly merging smaller texture blocks into a single large image. The underlying neural networks are trained using high-resolution images such as detailed satellite imagery, maps and famous paintings.

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The darkest black

1 min read · Tue, Apr 30 2019

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Metallic nanostructures absorb light better than any other known structures.