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robert.hoehndorf

Robert Hoehndorf

Interim Associate Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • artificial intelligence
  • bioinformatics
  • biomedical data
Professors
KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC SFB Xin Gao

Xin Gao

Acting Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center
  • BioE
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • STAT
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • machine learning
Professors
KAUST CEMSE CS BORG Senay Kafkas

Senay Kafkas

Research Scientist, Bio-Ontology Research Group
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • data mining
  • data integration
  • information extraction
Research Scientists
KAUST CEMSE VCC Deng Luo

Deng Luo

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • Cellvis
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • NANOVIS
  • VCC
  • bioinformatics
  • artificial intelligence
  • nano-visualization
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC SFB Gian Marco Messa

Gian Marco Messa

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • neural network
Students
KAUST CEMSE CBRC SFB Haoyang Li

Haoyang Li

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • Computational biology
  • bioinformatics
Students
KAUST CEMSE VCC Jun Chen

Jun Chen

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CS
  • Vision-CAIR
  • CEMSE
  • VCC
  • machine learning
  • neural network
  • bioinformatics
Students
KAUST CBRC CEMSE BORG CS Kexin Niu Student

Kexin Niu

PhD Student, Bioengineering
  • BORG
  • BioE
  • CBRC
  • CEMSE
  • machine learning (95
  • bioinformatics
  • artificial intelligence
Students
KAUST CEMSE CBRC BORG  CS Nurul Muttakin master student .JPG

MD Nurul Muttakin

MS/PhD Student, Computer Science
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • artificial intelligence
  • bioinformatics
  • Reinforcement Learning
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Somayah Albaradei

Somayah Albaradei

Alumni, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • KML
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • machine learning
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Wenkai Han

Wenkai Han

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Xiaopeng Xu

Xiaopeng Xu

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Students
Yang Liu

Yang Liu

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • BORG
  • BESE
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • data analysis
  • machine learning
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Yongkang Long

Yongkang Long

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Zhongxiao Li

Zhongxiao Li

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Students
KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC Abdullah Khamis

Abdullah Khamis

PhD Degree, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
Alumni
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Abeer Almutari

Masters Student, Computer Science
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
Alumni
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Ahmed Abbas

PhD Degree, Computer Science
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
Alumni
KAUST CEMSE CS CLOUD Dimitrios Kleftogiannis

Dimitrios Kleftogiannis

PhD Degree, Computer Science
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • CLOUD
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • artificial intelligence
Alumni
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Heba Abu Samra

Master Degree, Computer Science
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Alumni
Maha Thafar

Maha Thafar

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • KML
  • machine learning
  • Deep learning
  • data mining
Alumni
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Mario Messih

Mario Messih

Master Degree, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
Former Members
KAUST CEMSE CBRC BORG CS Maxat Kulmanov.jpg

Maxat Kulmanov

Research Scientist, Bio-Ontology Research Group
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
Research Staff
KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC PhD Degree Othman Soufan

Othman Soufan

PhD Degree, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • KML
  • artificial intelligence
  • data mining
  • bioinformatics
Alumni
KAUST CEMSE CS BORG Sara Althubaiti

Sara Althubaiti

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • text mining
  • machine learning
Alumni
KAUST CEMSE CBRC BORG MS Student Shahad Qatan.JPG

Shahad Qathan

MS Student, Computer Science
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • artificial intelligence
  • machine learning
  • Deep learning
Alumni
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Siqing Hou

MS Degree, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • machine learning
Alumni
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Trisevgeni Rapakoulia

Trisevgeni Rapakoulia

PhD Degree, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • Drug Combinations
Alumni
KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC Vasiliki kordopati

Vasiliki Kordopati

Master Degree, Computer Science
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • data mining
Alumni
KAUST CEMCE CS CBRC SFB Francesco Napolitano

Francesco Napolitano

Research Scientist, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • data analysis
  • drug treatments
Former Members
KAUST CEMSE CS BORG Luke Slater

Luke Slater

PhD Student, Computer Science
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • data mining
Former Members
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Peng Yang

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
Former Members
KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Renmin Han

Renmin Han

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • High Performance Computing
  • machine learning
Former Members
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Sheng Wang

Research Scientist, Structural and Functional Bioinformatics Group
  • BESE
  • B
  • CGG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • Computational biology
Former Members
KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Dissertation Defense Somayah Albaradei
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
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • machine learning
PhD Dissertation Defense
KAUST CEMSE CS Public Colloquium Robert Hohndorf Knowledge based methods in life sciences
Knowledge-based methods in life sciences
Robert Hoehndorf
Tuesday, March 03, 10:00
- 11:30
Building 9, Level 2, Hall 2, Room 2325
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • Computer science
  • bioinformatics
  • knowledge representation
Public Colloquium
KAUST CEMSE CS Graduate Seminar Xin Gao zero in on computational challenges in nanopore sequencing
Zero in on computational challenges in Nanopore sequencing
Xin Gao
Monday, September 02, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Hall 1
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • Nanopore Sequencing
Graduate Seminar
AI for Genomics and Health
AI4GH Seminar Series - Towards Rational Design of Biosynthesis Pathways
Sunday, November 11, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 2 Room 5220
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • structural biology
Seminar
KAUST CEMSE CS SEMINAR Trisevgeni Rapakoulia
AI4GH Seminar Series - Genome-scale Regression Analysis Reveals a Linear Relationship for Promoters and Enhancers After Combinatorial Drug Treatment
Trisevgeni Rapakoulia
Wednesday, November 07, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 2 Room 5220
  • BESE
  • B
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • Drug Combinations
Seminar
KAUST CEMSE CS MS Defense Sara Althubaiti.jpg
Variant Prioritization in Cancer: Understanding and Prediction of Cancer Driver Genes and Mutations
Sara Althubaiti
Monday, November 05, 10:30
- 12:30
Building 3, Room 5209
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • text mining
  • machine learning
Master Thesis Defense
KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Arwa Raies
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
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • KML
  • artificial intelligence
  • High Performance Computing
  • machine learning
PhD Dissertation Defense
KAUST Campus Beacon
VSIM: Visualization and Simulation of Genomes for Premarital Testing
Azza Althagafi
Thursday, November 01, 08:00
- 10:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • artificial intelligence
Master Thesis Defense
KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Meshari Alazmi
Towards rational design of biosynthesis pathways
Wednesday, October 24, 17:00
- 18:30
Building3, Room 5209
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • structural biology
PhD Dissertation Defense
AI4GH SEMINAR SERIES CEMSE CS BORG Robert Hoehndorf
AI4GH Seminar Series| Artificial Intelligence for Genomics and Health: Introduction and Overview
Robert Hoehndorf
Wednesday, October 03, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 2, Room 5220
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • biology
  • biomedicine
  • bioinformatics
Seminar
KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC SFB Master Defense Siqing Hou
Neural Inductive Matrix Factorization for Predicting Disease-Gene Associations
Siqing Hou
Wednesday, April 18, 10:00
- 11:30
Building 3, Room 5208
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • Disease-Gene Associations
Master Thesis 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
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • KML
  • bioinformatics
  • data integration
  • data mining
PhD Dissertation Defense
KAUST CEMSE CS Sensors PhD Defense Manal Kalkatawi
Contributions to In Silico Genome Annotation
Manal Kalkatawi
Thursday, November 09, 10:00
- 13:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • KML
  • bioinformatics
  • data mining
  • machine learning
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
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • VCC
  • computation techniques
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
PhD Dissertation Defense
KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Arturo Magana Mora
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
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • machine learning
  • data mining
  • biology
PhD Dissertation Defense
KAUST Campus Beacon
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
  • CBRC
  • CS
  • CEMSE
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • graph mining
PhD Dissertation Defense
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Yu Li
KAUST alumnus named in Forbes' “30 Under 30 Asia list” – Class of 2022
9 months 2 weeks ago
  • CEMSE
  • SFB
  • SFB
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • healthcare technologies
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
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KAUST CEMSE CS SFB Yu Li
Talented KAUST Ph.D. student aims to revolutionize healthcare with machine learning
2 years 4 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • SFB
  • CBRC
  • machine learning
  • healthcare
  • bioinformatics
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KAUST CEMSE CS BORG Robert Hoehndorf
Robert Hoehndorf promoted to associate professor at KAUST
2 years 8 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • BORG
  • CS
  • bioinformatics
  • biomedical data
  • artificial intelligence
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KAUST CEMSE CBRC Sara Althubaiti Master Defense
Sara Althubaiti defends her Master's thesis
4 years 4 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • BORG
  • cancer
  • driver mutation
  • bioinformatics
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KAUST CEMSE CS Azza Althagafi Masters Defense
Azza Althagafi defends her Master's thesis
4 years 4 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • BORG
  • bioinformatics
  • artificial intelligence
  • genomics
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CEMSE CS CBRC Meshari Alazmi PhD Defense
Meshari Alazmi defends his Ph.D. thesis
4 years 5 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • structural biology
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CEMSE CS Xin Gao With Structural Biologist Stefan Arold
Computing solutions for biological problems
4 years 5 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CBRC
  • STAT
  • CS
  • BESE
  • StruBE
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
  • computational models
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KAUST AMCS CBRC KML Knowledge Mining Lab Group
Knowledge Mining Lab website is now online
4 years 5 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CBRC
  • BESE
  • KML
  • CS
  • B
  • AMCS
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • artificial intelligence
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KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC Maxat Kulmanov Thesis Proposal Defense
Maxat Kulmanov defends his thesis proposal
4 years 7 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • BORG
  • CBRC
  • bioinformatics
  • artificial intelligence
  • neural network
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KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC BESE SFB Meshari Alazami Thesis Proposal
Meshari Alazami defends his thesis proposal
4 years 10 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • BESE
  • SFB
  • machine learning
  • bioinformatics
  • structural biology
Sarah Alghamdi defends her master's thesis
4 years 10 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CBRC
  • BORG
  • CS
  • artificial intelligence
  • bioinformatics
  • computational methods
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KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC SFB Siqing Hou Masters Defense
Siqing Hou defends his Master’s thesis
4 years 11 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • Computational biology
  • machine learning
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KAUST CEMSE CS CBRC Abdullah Khamis
Alumni Feature: Abdullah Khamis
4 years 11 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • SFB
  • bioinformatics
  • machine learning
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CEMSE CBRC Haitham Ashoor Vladimir Bajic Olaa Motwalli Arturo Magana Mora
Student life: studying and working at the Computational Bioscience Research Center (KAUST)
5 years 10 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • machine learning
  • graph mining
  • genomics
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CEMSE CBRC CS BORG Robert Hoehndorf
Professor Robert Hoehndorf's PhenomeNET method wins at Ontology matching workshop
6 years 5 months ago
  • CEMSE
  • CS
  • CBRC
  • BORG
  • artificial intelligence
  • bioinformatics
  • biomedical data

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