PhD Dissertation Defense | CS

Natural Language Models For Unnatural Languages

Wamiq Para

Monday, November 20, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98998367957

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient Algorithms for Vision and Language Learning

Jun Chen

Tuesday, November 14, 12:15

- 14:15

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3426

PhD Dissertation Defense

Learning Sequential Modeling Algorithms for Motion Forecasting, Reinforcement Learning, and Vision-Language Understanding

Deyao Zhu

Sunday, November 12, 15:00

- 16:30

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95923113519

PhD Dissertation Defense

Interpretable Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs

Qiang Yang

Tuesday, November 07, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91694005678

PhD Dissertation Defense

Molecular Generation via Deep Generative Models

Changsheng Ma

Tuesday, October 24, 14:30

- 16:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94342095932

PhD Dissertation Defense

Tackling the Communication Bottlenecks of Distributed Deep Learning Training Workloads

Chen-Yu (Elton) Ho

Monday, August 14, 08:00

- 10:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99759217604

PhD Dissertation Defense

Prioritizing Causative Genomic Variants by Integrating Molecular and Functional Annotations from Multiple Biomedical Ontologies

Azza Althagafi

Thursday, July 20, 13:00

- 17:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Ontology design patterns and methods for integrating phenotype ontologies

Sarah Alghamdi

Thursday, July 20, 09:00

- 10:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209.

PhD Dissertation Defense

Exploiting Data Sparsity in Matrix Algorithms for Adaptive Optics and Seismic Imaging

Wednesday, June 07, 14:30

- 17:00

Building 2, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/my/yuxihong

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards the Inference, Understanding, and Reasoning on Edge Devices

Guoqing Ma

Wednesday, May 10, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Data-efficient Graph Learning

Qiannan Zhang

Tuesday, May 02, 18:00

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93037578099

PhD Dissertation Defense

Latent Space Manipulation of GANs for Seamless Image Compositing

Anna Fruehstueck

Monday, April 17, 17:30

- 18:30

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5220; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91763886566; Passcode: KAUST

PhD Dissertation Defense

Interpretation, Verification and Privacy Techniques for Improving the Trustworthiness of Neural Networks

Arnaud Dethise

Wednesday, March 22, 12:30

- 14:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96771488660

PhD Dissertation Defense

Generative Models for Neural Fields

Ivan Skorokhodov

Wednesday, February 15, 20:10

- 22:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96924769576

Deep generative models

PhD Dissertation Defense

Extracting Semantic and Geometric Information in Images and Videos using GANs

Rameen Abdal

Wednesday, February 15, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94085653142

GaN

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Richer Video Representation for Action Understanding

Humam Alwassel

Monday, January 23, 18:30

- 20:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Optimal Algorithms for Affinely Constrained, Distributed, Decentralized, Minimax, and High-Order Optimization Problems

Dmitry Kovalev

Wednesday, September 14, 16:00

- 18:30

Building 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Drug Repositioning through the Development of Diverse Computational Methods using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Graph Mining

Maha Thafar

Thursday, June 30, 08:30

- 10:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/s/96993442133

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Performance Scientific Applications Using Mixed Precisions and Low-Rank Approximations Powered by Task-based Runtime Systems

Rabab Alomairy

Monday, June 20, 11:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 4, Room 4223

PhD Dissertation Defense

Learning-Based Approaches for Next-Generation Intelligent Networks

Tuesday, April 05, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99609805192

PhD Dissertation Defense

To Encourage or to Restrict: the Label Dependency in Multi-Label Learning

Zhuo Yang

Wednesday, March 30, 17:30

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95328976703

PhD Dissertation Defense

Omics-based Metastasis Prediction using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Somayah Albaradei

Wednesday, March 30, 14:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98007745127

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Generalized and Robust Knowledge Association

Shichao Pei

Tuesday, November 02, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91954695269

PhD Dissertation Defense

On Seven Fundamental Optimization Challenges in Machine Learning

Konstantin Mishchenko

Monday, October 04, 17:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91912026865?pwd=UUxOV25wWWNyYllwdlhia1lGbDN2dz09

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Imaging and Its Applications in Fluids

Jinhui Xiong

Monday, September 06, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94131072784

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stylistic and spatial disentanglement in GANs

Yazeed Alharbi

Thursday, August 12, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95801707216

PhD Dissertation Defense

Reconfigurable Snapshot HDR Imaging Using Coded Masks

Masheal Alghamdi

Thursday, June 17, 12:00

- 14:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95088144914

PhD Dissertation Defense

Toward Improving the Internet of Things: Quality of Service and Fault Tolerance Perspectives

Maha Al-Aslani, PhD Student, Computer Science, KAUST

Wednesday, March 31, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7665815153

PhD Dissertation Defense

Exploring Entity Relationship in Pairwise Ranking: Adaptive Sampler and Beyond

Lu Yu

Wednesday, November 11, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/9777029647

PhD Dissertation Defense

Dynamic Programming Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization

Michal A. Mankowski

Tuesday, October 13, 15:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91353826539

PhD Dissertation Defense

Learning from Scholarly Attributed Graphs for Scientific Discovery

Uchenna Akujuobi

Monday, September 14, 11:30

- 12:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/2916342953

PhD Dissertation Defense

Machine Learning Models for Biomedical Ontology Integration and Analysis

Fatima Zohra Smaili

Thursday, September 03, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99861683622

PhD Dissertation Defense

Maximizing I/O Bandwidth for Out-of-Core HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Large-Scale Systems

Tariq Alturkestani

Thursday, July 09, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94054511362

PhD Dissertation Defense

Predicting Single Gene Loss of Function Phenotypes

Maxat Kulmanov

Monday, April 06, 19:30

- 21:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/858990591

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel computational methods for promoter identification and analysis

Sunday, February 16, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Space-Time Tomographic Reconstruction of Deforming Objects

Guangming Zang

Monday, January 27, 17:00

- 18:30

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Interactive High-Quality Visualization of Large-Scale Particle Data

Mohamed Ibrahim

Tuesday, November 05, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Machine Learning Models for Context Aware Recommendation Systems

Basmah Altaf

Monday, November 04, 10:00

- 11:00

Building 3, Level 5 , Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation after Single and Multiple Drug Administration.

Trisevgeni Rapakoulia

Wednesday, July 17, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Unstructured Computations on Emerging Architectures

Mohammed AlFarhan

Tuesday, April 23, 13:00

- 14:00

B3, L5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Ramzan Umarov

Promoters identification and analysis

Thursday, March 07, 16:00

- 18:00

Buildng 1 Level 2 Room2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contributions to Computational Methods for Association Extraction from Biomedical Data: Applications to Text Mining and In Silico Toxicology

Thursday, November 01, 11:00

- 13:00

Building 2, Level 5, room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Meshari Alazmi

Towards rational design of biosynthesis pathways

Wednesday, October 24, 17:00

- 18:30

Building3, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Similarity Algorithms by Anas Ismail

Thursday, August 02, 09:00

- 11:00

Building 3, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CBRC CS PhD Defense Rawan Olayan

Novel Computational Methods to Predict Drug–target Interactions Using Graph Mining and Machine Learning Approaches

Monday, December 11, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contributions to In Silico Genome Annotation

Manal Kalkatawi

Thursday, November 09, 10:00

- 13:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Mining Genome-Scale Growth Phenotype Data through Constant-Column Biclustering

Majed Alzahrani

Wednesday, May 17, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS VCC PhD Defense Haitham Ashoor

Computational Methods for ChIP-seq Data Analysis and Applications

Monday, April 10, 16:00

- 17:30

Building 3, Level 5, 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of Machine-learning Models and their Applications in Bioinformatics

Arturo Magana Mora

Monday, April 10, 13:00

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel Computational Methods that Facilitate Development of Cyanofactories for Free Fatty Acid Production by Olaa Motwalli

Olaa A. Motwalli

Sunday, April 09, 16:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel Data Mining Methods for Virtual Screening of Biological Active Chemical Compounds by Othman Soufan

Othman Soufan

Wednesday, November 16, 14:00

- 15:00

Lecture Hall 2, Building 9

PhD Dissertation Defense

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