Hesham ElSawy wins IEEE Communication Society 1 min read · Mon, May 22 2017 News Cognitive radio network Stochastic Geometry Green communications The Internet of Everything in quickly growing and vastly enlarging its spectrum of applications. At the same time, traffic demand per-user is increasing dramatically. It is estimated that by 2020 there will be more than 50 billion devices connected. The cellular support infrastructure should be developed accordingly, making of network performance analysis a critical task. The existing elementary probability methods are currently inefficient when it comes to detecting mobility faults and interference.
Getting a visual on complex data 1 min read · Thu, May 18 2017 News applied mathematics data A new method for visually presenting complex data distributions provides a much-needed tool for management, analysis and interpretation.
A talk with PhD student Sabrina Vettori: Catastrophic events are forecastable, after all! 1 min read · Mon, May 15 2017 News Statistics of extremes Environmental Statistics spatial statistics Environmental disasters occur daily and hit almost every country around the world, taking a heavy toll on lives and economies. According to the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, every year there are around 350 reported disasters causing more than 20,000 deaths and affecting the life of almost 100 million people with an overall economic damage of 66.5 billion US$. But this can change.
The crest of waveforms for next-gen radar 1 min read · Sat, May 6 2017 News electrical engineering Computer science radar A new method for shaping the waveform generated by multi-antenna radar systems is inexpensive and practical.
Student life: studying and working at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (KAUST) 1 min read · Thu, May 4 2017 News machine learning graph mining genomics pathway design computational methods data mining data analysis bioinformatics For Ph.D. students Arturo Magana Mora, Haitham Ashoor and Olaa Motwalli, April 2017 was a particularly nerve-wracking month. After years of hard work and sleepless nights, they finally defended their thesis, bringing them one step closer to graduation.
A simple nose for noxious gases 1 min read · Thu, May 4 2017 News material science and engineering metal-organic framework chemical science Tunable porous MOF materials interface with electrodes to sound the alarm at the first sniff of hydrogen sulfide.
Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller going to ICVSS 2017 1 min read · Mon, May 1 2017 News Italy Summer School Computer Vision ICVSS Adel Bibi and Matthias Mueller have been accepted to participate in the ICVSS (International Computer Vision Summer Schoole) 2017 in Italy. Admission into this summer school is quite competitive in the vision community.
Thinking outside the box in flood control 1 min read · Mon, May 1 2017 News inkjet printing technologies paper cube electronic sensor wireless monitor Floating paper cubes containing low-cost, inkjet printed electronic sensors can wirelessly monitor floods in real time.
Algorithm scours datasets to diagnose medical mysteries 1 min read · Sat, Apr 29 2017 News bioscience Computer science algorithm A new tool uses genetic and clinical information to find the root cause of unexplained illnesses.
Fractal electrochemical microsupercapacitors 1 min read · Wed, Apr 26 2017 News sputtered anhydrous RuO2 thinfilm electrodes prototypes Circuits μSCs Marinal K. Hota, et al., " Fractal electrochemical microsupercapacitors". Advanced Electronic Materials, 3(10), 20171700185. The first successful fabrication of microsupercapacitors (μ‐SCs) using fractal electrode designs is reported. Using sputtered anhydrous RuO2 thin‐film electrodes as prototypes, μ‐SCs are fabricated using Hilbert, Peano, and Moore fractal designs, and their performance is compared to conventional interdigital electrode structures. Microsupercapacitor performance, including energy density, areal and volumetric capacitances, changes with fractal electrode geometry
Ferroelectric Fractional‐Order Capacitors 1 min read · Wed, Apr 26 2017 News Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy Circuits X‐ray diffraction techniques Agamaryat Agambayev, et al., " Ferroelectric Fractional‐Order Capacitors". ChemElectroChem, 4(11), 2017, 2807. Poly(vinylidene fluoride)‐based polymers and their blends are used to fabricate electrostatic fractional‐order capacitors. This simple but effective method allows us to precisely tune the constant phase angle of the resulting fractional‐order capacitor by changing the blend composition. Additionally, we have derived an empirical relationship between the ratio of the blend constituents and the constant phase angle to facilitate the design of a fractional‐order capacitor with a desired
Tien Khee Ng presented an invited talk "Nanowires for Optoelectronic and Solar Water Splitting Applications" at AOM 2017 1 min read · Tue, Apr 25 2017 News Tien Khee Ng presented an invited talk and chaired a Micro/nano Optics, Nanophotonics session at the 6th Conference on Advances in Optoelectronics and Micro/Nano-optics at Nanjing, China (April 23-26, 2017).
Compound Semiconductor and Nanowerk features "KAUST Team Reveals Thermodynamic Disorder In GaN-Based Nanowires" 1 min read · Tue, Apr 25 2017 News "New study shows the thermodynamic entropy behaviour of InGaN/GaN nanowires." "GaN-based p-i-n power devices based on nanowires are suitable for attenuators, high-frequency switches, as well as photodetector applications. However, non-radiative recombination affects their performance." "Led by Xiaohang Li, Iman S. Roqan, and Boon S. Ooi, the team studied the photoinduced entropy of InGaN/GaN p-i-n double-heterostructure nanowires using temperature-dependent photoluminescence." "They hypothesised that the amount of generated randomness in the InGaN layers in the nanowires eventually increases
Deep thinking brings underwater robot to life 1 min read · Mon, Apr 24 2017 News marine science mechanical engineering robot An international, multidisciplinary collaboration that led to the world’s first underwater robotic avatar.
Smart healthcare uses stats to spot a stumble 1 min read · Sat, Apr 15 2017 News statistics healthcare Statistical monitoring technology can detect serious falls and immediately warn healthcare providers.
Building SANDS at KAUST 1 min read · Sat, Apr 15 2017 News SDN machine learning We live in a connected world where networked systems play an increasingly important role. These systems, which are the foundational pillars of our modern digital lives, are the result of some remarkable technological advancements and progress in computer science over the past three decades.
Feeling the heat in cells 1 min read · Sat, Apr 8 2017 News sensors heat transfer nanomembrane New nano-sized sensors provide unprecedented data on how heat diffuses in and out of living cells.
SCI Chemistry & Industry features "What a bright idea" 1 min read · Tue, Apr 4 2017 News "Thomas Alva Edison’s incandescent light bulb, patented in 1879, has served us well for more than a century. But, in the modern eco-conscious environment, it is fantastically wasteful – turning 98% of the electricity into heat rather than light." http://www.soci.org/chemistry-and-industry/cni-data/2016/9/what-a-bright-idea
KAUST Research Conference: Predictive Complex Computational Fluid Dynamics 2017 1 min read · Mon, Apr 3 2017 News computational fluid dynamics multi-scale complex flow simulations KAUST will host the 2017 Research Conference "Predictive Complex Computational Fluid Dynamics " on May 22-24, 2017. The Research Conference aims to gather international top scientists of all ages from academia and industry and will focus on cutting-edge research in the field of algorithmic development for CFD and multi-scale complex flow simulations. Although CFD is arguably the oldest area of computational science, it is a very challenging and active one, due to to the fact that worldwide research centers, in the private and public sector, are still actively working on the development and application of CFD algorithms to supplement experiment and to interpolate between experimental scenarios. CFD is currently being applied to scenarios where physical experiments are not feasible due to prohibitive costs, and ethical concerns, or where reproducibility is impossible to achieve.
Team KAUST places 3rd at the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 1 min read · Wed, Mar 29 2017 News Spotlight robotics intelligent systems control systems A team from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) competed in the inaugural Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2017, and took a 3rd place finish in the ground robotics challenge.
Dental braces get smart 1 min read · Mon, Mar 27 2017 News CMOS nanoelectronics flexible -By Francesca Serra Muhammad Hussain, associate Professor of electrical engineering at the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division of KAUST, recently developed a new dental brace technology that can straighten teeth faster and more effectively than actual products. The orthodontic system was designed to induce faster bone regeneration and to enhance protection of the enamel. According to Hussain and his team, the technology is going to introduce a paradigm shift in orthodontic treatments "The integration of high performance inorganic mechanically conformable and
PhD Student positions available 1 min read · Mon, Mar 27 2017 News We have two openings for Ph.D. student positions available on the interface between Linked Data, ontologies, and machine learning.
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.
