Graduate Seminar | CS | Computer Science

Computing in the Specialization Era

Prof.Gustavo Alonso, Computer Science, ETH Zurich

Monday, March 13, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

A Data Science Pipeline for Big Linked Earth Observation Data

Prof.Manolis Koubarakis, Informatics and Telecommunications, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Monday, March 06, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

Controlling acoustic wave propagation via rotational motion

Monday, February 27, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

acoustic waves

Learned Optics — Improving Computational Imaging Systems through Deep Learning and Optimization

Wolfgang Heidrich

Sunday, February 26, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325

Learned Optics

Visualization Methods for Graphs&Networks

Prof.Oliver Deussen, Visual Computing, University of Konstanz

Monday, February 20, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

Entrepreneurship Explored

Prof.Bülent Erbilgin and Dr.Lama Hakem, KAUST Entrepreneurship Center

Monday, February 13, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

EF21-P and friends: Improved theoretical communication complexity for distributed optimization with bidirectional compression

Monday, February 06, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

Prototypical Random Walk Learning Mechanisms for Few-shot Learning, Novel Visual Generation, and (Continual)? Zero-shot Recognition

Monday, January 30, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2

Principles and practice of TEE replication (and beyond)

Prof.Rodrigo Rodrigues, Instituto Superior Tecnico (ULisboa)

Monday, January 23, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Reynolds-robust preconditioners for the stationary incompressible Navier--Stokes equations

Prof.Patrick Farrell, University of Oxford

Monday, December 05, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Bridging the Gap between the Academia and Industry by Extending High-Quality Research to Practical Business Needs

Dr.Syed Adnan Yusuf

Monday, November 28, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

On training algorithms for neural networks

Monday, November 21, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

KAUST-CEMSE-CS-Seminar-Francesco-Orabona

Parameter-Free Online Optimization: Past, Present, and Future

Francesco Orabona, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Boston University

Monday, November 14, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322

Thoughts on how to Effectively Explore Visual Representations in Mixed Reality

Tobias Isenberg, Senior Research Scientist, Inria

Monday, November 07, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Everything PhD students always wanted to know about research* (*but were afraid to ask)

Monday, October 31, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Applied AI for sustainable development

Prof.Evgeny Burnaev, Applied AI Center, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Monday, October 24, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

EF-BV: distributed optimization with compressed communication

Laurent Condat

Monday, October 10, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

A new class of random field models for data on networks

Monday, October 03, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Designing High-Performance and Scalable Middleware for HPC, AI, and Data Science

Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University

Monday, September 26, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Towards Detailed Understanding of the Visual World

Fahad Khan, Associate Professor at MBZUAI and Linköping University

Monday, September 19, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322

Computer Vision

Defeating the attacks from bots scrapers hiding behind residential proxy IPs

Marc Dacier

Monday, September 12, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

Communication-Efficient Distributed Newton-type Algorithms for Federated Learning

Monday, September 05, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

machine learning

Resilience is the Cybersecurity of the XXI century, and here's why!

Sunday, September 04, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322

Resilience is the Cybersecurity of the XXI century

Which came first: the paper or the peer-review?

Marco Canini

Monday, August 29, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1

It is Okay to not be Okay: Overcoming Emotional Bias in Affective Image Captioning by Contrastive Data Collection (ArtEmis 2.0)

Monday, May 16, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

Software challenges in the renewable hydrogen economy

Monday, May 09, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98631999457

Private Learning with Heavy-tailed Data

Di Wang

Monday, April 25, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

Electric Power to the People: Sustainable, Secure, and Resilient Energy Systems

Charalambos Konstantinou

Monday, April 18, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322 Lecture Hall #1

Geospatial Data Science for Public Health Surveillance

Monday, April 11, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322 Lecture Hall #1

Visualization for DNA Nanotechnology Design and Simulations

Ivan Viola

Monday, April 04, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

Energy Efficient Neuromorphic computing systems

Monday, March 28, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Lecture Hall #1

Permutation compressors for provably faster distributed nonconvex optimization

Peter Richtarik

Monday, March 21, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322 Lecture Hall #1

Making Autonomous Driving more Reliable using Live 3D Digital Twins

Fawad Ahmad, PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California

Monday, March 14, 18:30

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98631999457

Resilient operation of future low-carbon cyber-physical power grids

Fei Teng, Lecturer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Sunday, March 13, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Lecture Hall 1

resilient cyber-physical

Filling the Resources Gap with Approximate Mobile Computing

Veljko Pejović, Assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science (UL FRI), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Monday, February 28, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Lecture Hall #1

Security and Resiliency for Critical Infrastructures

Professor Roberto Di Pietro, College of Science and Engineering, Cybersecurity at Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Monday, February 14, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Hall 1, https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98631999457

Procedural Modeling of Botanical Trees

Wojtek Palubicki is leading the Natural Phenomena Modeling Group at the Faculty of Mathematics and Compter Science at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

Monday, February 07, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98631999457

Safe and Secure Computer Control Systems? The devil is in the details...

Sunday, February 06, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322, Lecture Hall 1

KAUST CEMSE AMCS Diogo Gomes New Tools Jan 31 2022

New tools for symbolic computation in partial differential equations

Monday, January 31, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98631999457

KAUST CEMSE CS Graduat Seminar Mikhail January 24 Online

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

Mikhail Moshkov

Monday, January 24, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98631999457

Deploying DNNs in the Embedded Space: Challenges and Opportunities

Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Reader in Intelligent Digital Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

Monday, December 06, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

DeepReduce: A Sparse-tensor Communication Framework for Distributed Deep Learning

Panagiotis Kalnis

Monday, November 29, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

Knowledge-based methods in bioinformatics

Robert Hoehndorf

Monday, November 22, 12:00

- 13:00

Bldg. 9, R. 2322, Hall 1

Discrete geometric structures for architecture and and computational fabrication

Helmut Pottmann

Monday, November 15, 12:00

- 13:00

Bldg. 9, R. 2322, Hall 1

Towards Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Charalambos Konstantinou

Sunday, November 14, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97114085704

Towards Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

BioAI – Facts, Fiction, and the Future

Jesper Tegner, Professor, Computer Science, KAUST

Monday, November 08, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

EF21: A new, simpler, theoretically better, and practically faster error feedback

Peter Richtarik

Monday, November 01, 12:00

- 13:00

Bldg. 9, R. 2322, Hall 1

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The Impact of Information Technology on the Future of Energy Consumption

Elmootazbellah Elnozahy

Monday, October 25, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

The Data-sparse Renaissance in Numerical Linear Algebra

David Keyes

Monday, October 11, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

KAUST- CEMSE CS Gradute Seminar Ricardo Pérez MarcoMishchenko

Bitcoin and decentralized protocols

Ricardo Pérez-Marco, Visiting Professor at KAUST, CNRS researcher in Paris

Monday, October 04, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322 Lecture Hall #1

Towards Secure and Resilient Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Charalambos Konstantinou, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Monday, September 27, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

Deep Optics - Joint Design of Imaging Hardware and Reconstruction Methods

Wolfgang Heidrich

Monday, September 20, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

A Journey in the Underwater Systems

Basem Shihada

Monday, September 13, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

A Toolkit for Multi-Faceted Geospatial Data Protection in Transactional and Analytical Processing using Searchable Encryption and Differential Privacy

Gabriel Ghinita, Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Monday, September 06, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322, Hall 1

Large-Scale Visualization of Scientific Data: Volume Data and Flow Fields

Markus Hadwiger

Monday, August 30, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Room 2322 Lecture Hall #1

Community Detection in Biological Networks: Lessons from the DREAM 2016 Module Identification Challenge

Lenore J. Cowen is a Professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University

Monday, May 03, 18:30

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Energy-Efficiency and Security for EdgeAI: Challenges and Opportunities

Muhammad Shafique , Professor, Division of Engineering, New York University Abu Dhabi (NYU-AD), United Arab Emirates

Monday, April 26, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

How do people explore virtual environments? Capturing and modeling visual behavior in VR

Belen Masia, Associate Professor in the Computer Science Department at Universidad de Zaragoza

Monday, April 19, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Ingesting and Processing Data Efficiently for Machine Learning

Ana Klimovic, Assistant Professor, Systems Group of the Computer Science Department, ETH Zurich.

Monday, April 12, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Challenges of Differentially Private Empirical Risk Minimization

Di Wang

Monday, April 05, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Multi-Scale GPU Resource Management for Deep Learning

Mosharaf Chowdhury, Morris Wellman, Assistant Professor of CSE at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Monday, March 29, 18:30

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Automated Reasoning in Systems Engineering

Laura Kovacs, Professor in Computer Science at the TU Wien

Monday, March 22, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

On Discovering Nature’s Equations from Observations

Jesper Tegner, Professor, BESE Division, KAUST

Thursday, March 18, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94262797011?pwd=ZXBBcnltQ3JvZkdhWFZjTEptL3FmUT09

ArtEmis: Affective Language for Visual Art

Monday, March 08, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Novel computational models in biological imaging

Xin Gao

Monday, March 01, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Look Here! Guiding Attention in Complex Visualizations

Manuela Waldner, Assistant Professor at the Research Unit of Computer Graphics of the Institute of Visual Computing and Human-Centered Technology at TU Wien, Austria

Monday, February 22, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Resilience is the Cybersecurity of the XXI century, and here's why!

Monday, February 15, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Generative Adversarial Networks and Generative Modeling

Peter Wonka

Monday, February 08, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Enabling Accurate and Efficient Simulation in Visual Computing

Dominik L. Michels

Monday, February 01, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98889531668

Building Better Datacenters - The Quest for Low Latency

Simon Peter, Assistant professor, Computer Science, University of Texas, Austin

Monday, January 25, 18:30

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93816047882

Modelling and Simulation of Biological Systems

Gabriel Wittum

Thursday, December 03, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95474758108?pwd=WkwrdiszTE1uYTdmR3JRK09LVDErZz09

Research at the Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL)

Bernard Ghanem

Monday, November 30, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97173265210

From a Virtual Red Sea to the Urban Scales of NEOM: A Decade of Progress Driven by Computational Sciences

Monday, November 23, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98354721230

Federated Learning of a Mixture of Global and Local Models

Monday, November 16, 12:00

- 13:00

kaust.zoom.us/j/97786201982

Interactive Visual Data Analysis

Eduard Gröller, Associate Professor of Practical Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology

Monday, November 09, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97651002496

Making RPCs first class datacenter citizens

Marios Kogias, Researcher, Microsoft Research

Monday, November 02, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98713783466

Compressed communication in Distributed Deep Learning - A Systems perspective

Panagiotis Kalnis

Monday, October 26, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97404027567

Deep learning

Visualization and segmentation in Geology and Oil exploration

Daniel Patel, Bergen University College, Norway

Monday, October 12, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92296049084

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

Mikhail Moshkov

Monday, October 05, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98532637885

Personalized, Predictive and Preventive Visual Analytics for Cancer Treatment

Renata Raidou, Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) in Medical Visualization and Visual Analytics, and a Rosalind Franklin Fellow at the Bernoulli Institute of the University of Groningen, Netherlands

Monday, September 28, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99032753269

Data-sparse Algorithms for Large-scale Applications on Emerging Architectures

David Keyes

Monday, September 21, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99583790784

Automating Guidance in Nanovisualization

Ivan Viola

Monday, September 14, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98448929033

On Studying Computer Science

Peter Wonka

Monday, September 07, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93143385785

Computer science

Large-Scale Visualization of Scientific Data: Volume Data and Flow Fields

Markus Hadwiger

Monday, August 31, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92138949062

Modeling and Automated Storytelling of Mesoscale Molecular Models

Ivan Viola

Monday, May 04, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96184235853

A New Approach to Quad Mesh Processing for Computational Design and Fabrication

Helmut Pottmann

Monday, April 27, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96184235853

Simulation of Neuronal Signal Processing

Gabriel Wittum

Monday, April 20, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96184235853

Neuronal ensembles

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

Mikhail Moshkov

Monday, April 13, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/625071673

Deep Continual Learning

Monday, April 06, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/293175422

Deep learning

EE+CS Graduate Seminar: Deep Graph Convolutional Networks

Bernard Ghanem

Sunday, March 29, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/891114016

On Studying Computer Science

Peter Wonka

Monday, March 16, 12:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/537638698

Computer science

Data-sparse Methods for Large-scale Applications on Emerging Architectures

David Keyes

Monday, March 02, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

hierarchical computations

Multi-layer Red Team vs. Blue Team Methods towards Secure Cyber-Physical Energy Systems

Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering with Florida A&M University and Florida State University (FAMU-FSU) College of Engineering

Monday, February 24, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1

Towards Accurate Biomedical Genomics Anywhere Anytime

Xin Gao

Monday, February 17, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Optimal Reference Frames, Scaling and Features in Visualization

Prof. Holger Theisel, Visual Computing, Magdeburg University

Monday, February 10, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Paving the Way for Next Generation Wireless Networks

Basem Shihada

Monday, February 03, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Seeing is Believing? Media Integrity in a Post-Truth World

Prof. Nasir Memon, Vice Dean for Academics and Student Affairs and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering

Monday, January 27, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1

Proximal Splitting Methods for Convex Optimization: An Introduction

Laurent Condat

Monday, December 02, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Enabling smart and connected systems

Sunday, December 01, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Eliminating Waiting Time Inequities for Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation in the USA

Dr. Joris van de Klundert, Professor of Operations Management, Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College (MBSC) of Business & Entrepreneurship

Monday, November 18, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Langevin Monte Carlo as an optimization algorithm

Adil Salim

Monday, November 11, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Accelerating biomedical discovery with an Internet of FAIR data and services

Dr. Michel Dumontier, Distinguished Professor of Data Science at Maastricht University, The Netherlands

Monday, November 04, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Finding the linchpins of the dark web: Understanding and detecting malicious infrastructure

Dr. Sumayah Alrwais, Assistant Professor, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA

Monday, October 21, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Use Mathematics and get a SPARQL Query Engine (almost) for Free! It’s MAGiQ!

Panagiotis Kalnis

Monday, October 14, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Learning for Visual Data Synthesis and Analysis

Dr. Timo Ropinski, Professor, Visual Computing, Ulm University, Germany

Monday, October 07, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

BGP hijacks: the next generation stealthy Command and Control for botnets

Dr. Marc Dacier, Chair of the Digital Security department and a full Professor at Eurecom, France

Monday, September 30, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Exploring FPGAs for Virtualized In-Network Acceleration

Dr. Suhaib Fahmy, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

Tuesday, September 24, 12:00

- 13:00

Auditorium 0215 (between Buildings 2 & 3)

Representation Learning for Personalized Recommendation

Xiangliang Zhang

Monday, September 16, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

Distributed Algorithms for Computing a Common Fixed Point of a Group of Nonexpansive Operators

Dr. Xiuxian Li, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Monday, September 09, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1

Zero in on computational challenges in Nanopore sequencing

Xin Gao

Monday, September 02, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1

Knowledge-based methods in biomedicine

Robert Hoehndorf

Monday, August 26, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1

Adaptive Intrusion Management System for Databases

Muhamad Felemban, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, KFUPM

Monday, May 13, 12:00

- 13:00

B9 L2 Hall 1

A Storage-Optimal Convex Optimization Framework with Applications to Semidefinite Programming

Alp Yurtsever, PhD Candidate, EPFL

Monday, May 06, 12:00

- 13:00

B9 L2 Hall 2

Big Data Approaches to Scientific Output Prediction

Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos, Open Univ. of Cyprus

Monday, April 22, 12:00

- 13:00

B9 L2 Hall 1

Visualizing Trees

Prof. Xiaoru Yuan, Peking University

Monday, April 15, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1, Room 2322

The Evolution of Machine Learning

Professor George Karypis, University of Minnesota

Monday, March 18, 12:00

- 13:00

B4-B5 L0 Auditorium H0215

Everything you always wanted to know about single machine large-scale graph analytics

Jasmina Malicevic, EPFL

Thursday, November 08, 12:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 2, Lecture Hall 1

Hihooi: Fusing Workload Scalability with Strong Consistency for Transactional Databases

Michael Sirivianos, Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering, Cyprus University of Technology

Monday, October 22, 11:45

- 13:00

B9 Lecture Hall 1