Dr. Katsuhiko Mineta recently gave a talk on "Population Genomics of Indigenous Inhabitants in Arabian Peninsula". Dr. Katsuhiko is a principal research scientist at Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).
Martin Ibarra's startup Polymeron won the $1m sustainability award. The Omnipreneurship Sustainability Challenge for Inclusive Leadership was organized by the Tanmiah Food Co., with 93 proposals received from across the world and Polymeron was one of the five finalist.
CBRC's Alumni Dr. Tanvir Alam received the top researcher award from Qatar Biobank for having the highest number of collaborations done by one researcher with Qatar Biobank in 2021.
Fernando Patricio Zhapa Camacho an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Bio-Ontology research group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf successfully defended his thesis "Embedding Ontologies using Category Theory Semantics".
CBRC congratulates Somayah Albaradei on successfully completing her Ph.D in Bioinformatics. She defended her thesis on "Omics-based Metastasis Prediction using Machine Learning and Deep Learning" on the 30th of March.
CBRC Ph.D Students Sakaa and Sara's project SentiMonica being chosen as the top 10 AI artworks in the Saudi Pavillion at the Dubai Expo 2020.
Azari Ibrahim Bantan, a MS Student under the supervision of Distinguished Professor Takashi Gojobori successfully defended her thesis "SARS-CoV-2 Intra-host Evolution In Immunocompromised Patients for the Emergence of Variants of Concerns"
CBRC launched its first ever Dual Seminar Series on the 15th of March. The seminar featured Postdoctoral fellow Keying Guo and Research scientist Raik Grunberg as speakers.
Xi Peng MS Student under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf successfully defended his thesis "Description Logic EL++Embeddings with Intersectional Closure"
Yang Liu, M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the Bio-Ontology research group under the supervision of Professor Robert Hoehndorf
successfully defended her thesis "Rare variant collapsing analysis on UK Biobank".
CBRC congratulates Sakhaa Alsaedi and Sara Althubaiti for being selected as one of the winners in the SAAI special prize winners category for their project SentiMo.
The five finalists for the 2020 Omnipreneurship Awards sustainability challenge were announced at the MENA Poultry Conference 2022 in Riyadh on Tuesday 15th of March 2022. Martin Ibarra's startup Polymeron was one of the five finalist.
Mohammed Alarawi a Research Specialist at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) was invited as a speaker at the Supercomputing Asia Conference 2022 (SCA2022). The title of Mohammed's talk at the seminar was "The Bio/medical data HPC landscape in Saudi Arabia."
CBRC congratulates Lara Monagel on securing sixth place in the IBDAA Competition after going through several stages among 103,000 participants.
Martin Ibarra a Phd student and founder of Polymeron was awarded second place in the Shooting Star category at the LEAP22.