Semiconductor Today features "Semi-polar indium gallium nitride laser diode/waveguide photodiode combo" 1 min read · Fri, Mar 24 2017 News "Researchers based in Saudi Arabia and USA have integrated a waveguide photodetector (WPD) with a 405nm laser diode (LD) using free-standing semi-polar gallium nitride (GaN) technology." http://www.semiconductor-today.com/news_items/2017/mar/kaust_240317.shtml
Post-Doctoral Fellow Ahmed Bader bestowed YPs Best Innovation Award at IEEE WCNC 2017 1 min read · Wed, Mar 22 2017 News Spotlight Energy-efficient wireless multihop networks Cross-layer protocol design Dr. Ahmed Bader, a CEMSE Post-Doctoral Fellow in electrical engineering, won the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Young Professionals (YPs) Best Innovation Award at Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2017, in San Francisco, USA, on March 22.
EE Graduate Seminar | Towards Efficient Fuel Alternatives: Unbiased Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation from Pure Water using III-Nitride Nanowires 1 min read · Sun, Mar 19 2017 News By Dr. Mohamed Ebaid: The expected depletion of fossil fuel reserves and its severe environmental impact have emphasized the need for sustainable and clean energy resources. Solar hydrogen generation from water splitting using sunlight and semiconductors is a promising alternative to conventional fossil fuels, which has great potential to relieve energy and environmental issues and bring an energy revolution in a clean and sustainable manner. To be practical, hydrogen production needs to tackle the challenges of high solar-to-hydrogen (STH) energy conversion efficiency and high stability of
EE Graduate Seminar | Hybrid perovskites: approaches towards green lasing 1 min read · Sun, Mar 19 2017 News By Dr. Mohd Sharizal Alias: The high optical gain and absorption of organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites have attracted extensive research for photonic device applications. Using the bromide halide as an example, we present key approaches of our work towards realizing green lasing in hybrid perovskites. The approaches involved determination of optical constants for the hybrid perovskites thin films, understanding the material morphologies, fabrication of photonic nanostructures to reflect and manipulate light emission from the perovskite active media, and enhancing the emission property of the
Stretching toward energy efficiency 1 min read · Sat, Mar 18 2017 News Thermoelectric materials Applied physical sciences electrical engineering Deformable thermoelectric materials add a new twist to the design of energy-scavenging devices.
Professors discuss big data and human health in latest Sci-Café 1 min read · Mon, Mar 13 2017 News machine learning big data artificial intelligence comparative genomics biomedical data human health Professors Takashi Gojobori, Xin Gao and Robert Hoehndorf spoke about big data and human health at the Sci-Café event held on February 27. Their talk, which was moderated by James Calvin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, aimed to answer the question, "Can Big Data Solve My Health Problems?" This event was open to all members of the KAUST community.
Compound Semiconductor features "Researchers Simplify Fabrication Of Nanowire UV-LEDs On Silicon" 1 min read · Mon, Mar 6 2017 News KAUST team demonstrates dislocation-free AlGaN nanowires that spontaneously coalesce to allow device fabrication without planarization. https://compoundsemiconductor.net/article/101173-Researchers-simplify-fabrication-of-nanowire-UV-LEDs-on-silicon.html
Dr. Hesham ElSawy Elevated to Senior Member of IEEE and Recognized as an Exemplary Reviewer by the IEEE Transactions on Communications 1 min read · Sun, Mar 5 2017 News Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications Dr. Hesham ElSawy has been elevated to the rank of Senior Member of IEEE, the world's largest technical professional organization for the advancement of technology. The achievement is considered a significant honor since it is granted only to researchers who have shown a significance and continuous performance over a period of five years in professional practice. At present, only an 8% of 400,000 IEEE members have received this honor because of their superior professional achievements.
Signaling success for 5th gen communications 1 min read · Sat, Mar 4 2017 News applied mathematics mobile An efficient wireless signal optimization scheme achieves peak performance for next-generation mobile communications.
Improving connections for spatial analysis 1 min read · Sat, Mar 4 2017 News statistics computing applied mathematics A statistical model that accounts for common dependencies in spatial data yields more realistic results for studies of temperature, wind and pollution levels.
Blind matchmaking for more efficient wireless networks 1 min read · Sat, Feb 25 2017 News algorithm applied mathematics electrical engineering Autonomously pairing network users could expand the capability of the next generation of wireless networks
A safe sweep of weather data 1 min read · Sat, Feb 25 2017 News weather statistics applied mathematics A statistical technique for automatically cleaning erroneous data from weather-balloon observations will improve the accuracy of weather forecasting.
SPIE Newsroom features "Perovskite nanocrystals as color converters for record-breaking visible light communications" 1 min read · Wed, Feb 22 2017 News Cesium lead bromide perovskite nanocrystals are used to generate white light that can be used as both an efficient lighting source and for ultrafast data transfer. https://doi.org/10.1117/2.1201611.006756
Self-destructible electronics is a Mission Impossible no more 1 min read · Fri, Feb 17 2017 News CMOS nanoelectronics flexible In today's digital age, the increasing dependency on information makes everyone potentially exposed to privacy invasion and cyber security. Annual reports on tech-safety breaches are alarming, with stolen portable devices, laptops or mobiles, along with hacked hardware skyrocketing to 50% in the United States only. Bigger the picture, global is the risk of unwilling access to private lives or strategical documents, with everyone in the eye of the most dangerous of information violation. In such cases, an immediate ability to remotely destroy the sensitive parts, if it is not possible to regain them, would save us.
Wrist sensor for health screening 1 min read · Sun, Feb 5 2017 News sensors flexible nanoelectronics Give a Post-It Note paper to an Electrical Engineering team and you will see it turn onto the new alley to revolutionize modern medicine; an unprecedented wearable, budget-friendly and reliable a paper-based sensor for health screening encapsulated in a silicon wrist with a recycling high-tech design. Body temperature, sweat levels, heart rate and blood pressure can now be monitored with no need to go to hospitals nor using costly technologies, dramatically rare in underdeveloped or developing countries.
Giving power to demand-driven electricity 1 min read · Sat, Feb 4 2017 News applied mathematics computational science computing Computer science A new approach to analyzing household electricity: smart-meter data could improve the performance and efficiency of national power grids.
DIY Challenge 2017 winner announcement 1 min read · Thu, Feb 2 2017 News electronics recyclable materials Congratulations to Daniel Hickox-Young, Luke Prestowitz of Northwestern University, and Ma Yukun of National University Singapore. The three are the proud winners of the DIY Electronics Innovation Challenge 2017 that was hosted by the KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Interactive Electronics.
Visualizing a real change: CEMSE-held exhibition "State of Flux" opens new frontiers in information visualization for science 1 min read · Tue, Jan 31 2017 News visualization climate change Climate change is affecting the world drastically. Contrasting perceptions look at it as either a direct effect of human carelessness or a natural calamity. Whatever the case, prompting action for preventing or mitigating its effects lies on effective and easy-to-understand communication.
Keeping antennas at peak performance 1 min read · Sat, Jan 28 2017 News applied mathematics statistics Sensitive detection of partial faults in antenna systems could prevent performance degradation in wireless networks.
Costless and reliable 3D high-speed printing process to revolutionize decal sensors fabrication 1 min read · Fri, Jan 27 2017 News 3D fabrication CMOS 3D high-speed printing printed decal sensors Attempts for 3D fabrication of decal electronics were previously made. But, rigid, bulky, and planar CMOS electronics were larger in size and limited in adaptability with the human body. Unwillingly, such obsolete device creates localized heating, power-loss and grumpy data performances.
New Data Mining approach makes recurring patterns easier to be spotted 1 min read · Wed, Jan 18 2017 News supercomputing infoclouds Frequent subgraph mining algorithm The ultimate answer is ScaleMine, cost-effective and agile scalable parallel frequent subgraph mining in a single large graph. Panagiotis Kalnis, Professor of Computer Science (CS), and the team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC), under the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division signed this novel approach.
New cost-effective GPUs solver redesigns the computational game 1 min read · Thu, Jan 12 2017 News exascale High Performance Computing parallel computing Prof. David Keyes and his team proposed a GPUs light architecture to solve systems of multiple equations involving a large amount of data. Broadly used in computer gaming, mobile, and PC graphics - GPUs allow customizing an effective result-driven support to create a computational framework for increasing the number of processors while reducing the memory required to temporarily store the data.
Taking graphics cards beyond gaming 1 min read · Mon, Jan 9 2017 News graphic card computing applied mathematics computational science A highly efficient mathematical solver designed to run on graphics processors gives scientists and engineers a powerful new tool for a common computational problem.
Rolling out an e-sticker revolution 1 min read · Mon, Jan 2 2017 News sensors Electronic devices High-speed fabrication developed at KAUST can turn out adhesive and flexible electronic devices in any shape imaginable.
Divide and conquer pattern searching 1 min read · Tue, Dec 27 2016 News Computer science computing Searching for recurring patterns in network systems has become a fundamental part of research and discovery in fields as diverse as biology and social media. KAUST researchers have developed a pattern or graph-mining framework that promises to significantly speed up searches on massive network data sets. “A graph is a data structure that models complex relationships among objects,” explained Panagiotis Kalnis, leader of the research team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center. “Graphs are widely used in many modern applications, including social networks, biological networks like
KAUST 7th Commencement: Dr. Ahmad Ali Al-Jabr, Dr. Hala H. Al-Hashim, Dr. Amanda Ooi, and Master Edgars Stegenburgs 1 min read · Mon, Dec 19 2016 News Dr. Ahmad Ali Al-Jabr, Dr. Hala H. Al-Hashim, Dr. Amanda Ooi, and Master Edgars Stegenburgs graduates from KAUST Class of 2016!
PhD student Sabrina Vettori selected for an ENVR Student Paper Award. Congrats! 1 min read · Sun, Dec 18 2016 News Spotlight Spatial extremes extreme-value theory PhD student Sabrina Vettori has been selected to receive a Best Student Paper Award from the Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) of the American Statistical Association (ASA) for her manuscript entitled "Bayesian clustering and dimension reduction in air pollutant multivariate extremes".
KAUST-born robotic avatar sets new era for undersea archaeology 1 min read · Thu, Dec 15 2016 News sensors antenna arrays In 2015, an extensive archaeological programme led by the French Ministry of Culture and the University of Montpellier set up a scientific collaboration with Khaled Nabil Salama, Professor from CEMSE Division and co-worker Professor Christian R. Voolstra, from the KAUST Red Sea Research Center, in partnership with Stanford University and Meka Robotics, in California, to develop Ocean One, an agile avatar that affords immediate and haptic-visual interaction â the process of recognizing objects through touch - in the ocean environment at depths greater than 50m.
BORG Ph.D. Student wins 3rd Prize at CBRC Student Poster Competition 1 min read · Wed, Dec 14 2016 News BORG member and Ph.D. Student Imene Boudellioua won 3rd Prize in the CBRC Student Poster Competition of the recently-held KAUST Research Conference: Computational Systems Biology in Biomedicine. Her winning poster is titled "Semantic Prioritization of Novel Causative Genomic Variants". She received a certificate and a PHOTO CUBE Compact Photo Printer.
Assessing Red Sea potential for alternative energy 1 min read · Sun, Dec 11 2016 News applied mathematics marine science numerical earth science and engineering Advanced numerical models are helping researchers identify potential sites to exploit offshore wind and wave energy in the Red Sea region.
CEMSE Big Data Open Day shows off fascinating discoveries 1 min read · Thu, Dec 8 2016 News big data machine learning knowledge discovery supercomputing The fifth-anniversary event marked CEMSE's biggest successes and featured 20 KAUST discoveries, with more than 1,000 visitors from the community attending the event."Big data has many applications: to understand medicine better; to manage food supplies, and to connect objects. Data is at the center of everything," said Dean Mootaz Elnozahy of the University's Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at the CEMSE Big Data Open Day held on December 4, 2016.
Reconstructing the Red Sea's climate patterns 1 min read · Sat, Dec 3 2016 News earth science and engineering An advanced numerical model is helping researchers better understand the variability of the Red Sea’s climate patterns.
Getting the jump on industrial failures 1 min read · Sat, Nov 26 2016 News applied mathematics statistics industry A statistics-driven method for the early detection of emerging problems in industrial processes could improve industrial safety, reliability and productivity.
Rawan Naous: a student with a knack for success 1 min read · Tue, Nov 22 2016 News system on chip wireless communications network Computer architecture "KAUST is a unique place!" said Rawan. "The university has an interdisciplinary environment that offers great opportunities both at academic and social level. Working at KAUST has made possible improving my professional skills while raising a family, a mission impossible for most women out there."
Prof. Benjamin Shaby (Penn State University, USA) visits extSTAT 1 min read · Sun, Nov 20 2016 Spotlight News Spatial extremes extreme-value theory Statistics of extremes Prof. Ben Shaby is an Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department and the Institute for CyberScience at Penn State, where he started in 2013. Before that, he was a postdoc with Cari Kaufman at UC Berkeley. Previous stop was in Durham at the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Institute (SAMSI) and Duke University. He did his Ph.D. work in Statistics at Cornell University with David Ruppert and Marty Wells. Before starting at Cornell, he spent his undergrad years at Stanford (go Cardinal!). He then spent two great years working for Chris Field at the Carnegie Institution's Department of
Color-changing coatings ready for the big time 1 min read · Sat, Nov 19 2016 News applied mathematics nanomaterials light electrical engineering The dazzling colors of peacock feathers arise from the physical interaction of light with biological nanostructures. Researchers have discovered how to exploit this natural trickery known as structural coloration into a large-scale printing technology that produces lightweight and ultraresistant coatings in any color desirable.
Driven to diffraction 1 min read · Wed, Nov 9 2016 News electrical engineering bioscience light Optical elements that diffract light could lead to smaller and more powerful cameras.
Keeping pollution under control 1 min read · Sat, Nov 5 2016 News monitoring sensors Sophisticated statistical methods can detect ozone pollution hot spots and monitor instrument failure.
2016 Workshop Statistics for High-Dimensional & Complex Data 1 min read · Mon, Oct 31 2016 News statistics Workshop on Statistics for High-Dimensional and Complex Data, Nov. 6-9, 2016 Organizers : Prof. Marc G. Genton, Chair of Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science Group Prof. Raphael Huser, Chair of Extreme Statistics Group Prof. Ying Sun, Chair of Environmental Statistics Group Confirmed speakers: Prof. David Bolin, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Prof. Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India Prof. Dan Cooley, Colorado State University, USA Prof. Subhajit Dutta, IIT Kanpur, India Prof. Amanda Hering, Baylor University, USA Dr. Anna Kiriliouk, Université
Professor Marc Genton named Distinguished Professor of Statistics at KAUST 1 min read · Wed, Oct 26 2016 News computational predictions mathematical modelling visualization Marc G.Genton, Professor of Statistics in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE), has been appointed by KAUST President Jean-Lou Chameau to Distinguished Professor of Statistics.
PhenomeNET method wins at Ontology matching workshop 1 min read · Tue, Oct 25 2016 News ontology phenotype ontologies PhenomeNET CBRC congratulates Professor Robert Hoehndorf and Postdoctoral Fellow Miguel Angel Rodriguez Garcia for being one of the winners of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative challenge sponsored by Pistoia Alliance, presented in the Ontology Matching Workshop that is co-located with ISWC 2016 in Kobe, Japan.
Professor Robert Hoehndorf's PhenomeNET method wins at Ontology matching workshop 1 min read · Sun, Oct 23 2016 News artificial intelligence bioinformatics biomedical data PhenomeNET Professor Robert Hoehndorf and Postdoctoral Fellow Miguel Angel Rodriguez Garcia are the winners of the Ontology Alignment Evaluation Initiative Challenge sponsored by Pistoia Alliance.
A modern way to heal old wounds 1 min read · Sat, Oct 15 2016 News sensor-laden bandage wearable sensors inkjet printing technologies Injuries that fail to heal within three months, such as many diabetic foot ulcers, can require years of treatment and significant healthcare resources. A sensor-laden bandage developed by a research team at KAUST promises to reduce the burden on hospitals and enhance patient well-being by transforming how chronic wounds are monitored.
Muhammad Hussain elected Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) 1 min read · Thu, Oct 13 2016 News CMOS nanoelectronics flexible The Fellowship is an international distinction assigned only to highly selected scientists for their contributions in the fields of APS, and was given to Prof Hussain for contributions to exploration, evaluation, and transition of planar and nonplanar high-k/metal gate complementary metal oxide semiconductor electronics, silicon/silicongermanium/ III-V nanotube devices, and flexible, stretchable, reconfigurable complementary metalâoxideâsemiconductor electronic systems.
Helping computers to see who we really are 1 min read · Sat, Oct 8 2016 News algorithm machine learning algorithm Algorithms that train computers to automatically detect human activity in videos can improve online searches and real-world surveillance systems.
Ph.D. student Muhammad Akram Karimimi among Best Paper Award finalists 1 min read · Thu, Oct 6 2016 News energy harvesting oil and gas sensors embedded systems sensors Ph.D. student Muhammad Akram Karimimi from the research team of Atif Shamim, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at KAUST and Director of IMPACT Laboratory, was one of the finalists in the Student Paper Competition at the International Microwave Symposium held in San Francisco, California, in May 2016.
Professor Shamim's Smart Bandage hits Nature Scientific Report and win the IEEE MECAP' 16 Best Paper Award 1 min read · Tue, Sep 27 2016 News RFICs sensors Professor Shamim's new cutting edge, flexible and low-cost technology to monitor chronic wounds recently put CEMSE on the map of health care system research. His scientific paper " Low-Cost Inkjet Printed Smart Bandage for Wireless Monitoring of Chronic Wounds " appeared on Nature Scientific Reports and won IEEE MECAP'16 - Middle East Conference on Antennas and Propagation - Best Paper Award, in Beirut, last September.
Tunable sound transmission shapes up 1 min read · Sat, Sep 24 2016 News acoustic waves phonons applied mathematics computational science Carefully designed crystal structures can now be tuned to control how they transmit acoustic waves.
Gentle sensors for diagnosing brain disorders 1 min read · Sat, Sep 24 2016 News sensors bain science electrical engineering New sensor design paves the way for safer and more effective brain monitoring.
CS Graduate Seminar: Symbolic AI in Bioinformatics 1 min read · Tue, Sep 20 2016 News Professor Robert Hoehndorf recently held a seminar on Symbolic AI in Bioinformatics on September 19, 2016.
