Graduate Seminar

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2025

Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots with Closed-Loop Guarantees

Mohamed Elobaid, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Nov 9 - Nov 15, 2025

A Service-Based Approach to Drone Service Delivery in Skyway Networks

Athman Bouguettaya, Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney

Nov 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

drones optimization Quality of service

Nov 2 - Nov 8, 2025

Cybersecurity Threats to Power Grid Operations from the Demand-Side Response Ecosystem

Subhash Lakshminarayana, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

Nov 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2025

BiCoLoR: Communication-Efficient Optimization with Bidirectional Compression and Local Training

Laurent Condat, Senior Research Scientist, Computer Science

Oct 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

optimization Distributed algorithms Signal and Image Processing

Integrated Silicon Photonics with Quantum Dot On-Chip Lasers

Yating Wan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2025

Bias-Reduced Estimation of Structural Equations Models

Haziq Jamil, Research Specialist, Statistics

Oct 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Bio-Inspired Consensus Enabledby Distributed Active Perception

Fumin Zhang, Chair Professor and Director, Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Oct 13, 12:00 - 13:00

Auditorium (between Buildings 4 and 5), Level 0, Room 0215

Phase-Change Memory for In-Memory Computing

Ghazi Sarwat Syed, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Switzerland

Oct 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Oct 5 - Oct 11, 2025

Block Low-Rank Matrices for Modern Scientific Computing

Daria Sushnikova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Oct 9, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

FIFA Research Institute

Silvio Giancola, Research Scientist, Image and Video Understanding Lab

Oct 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI Sports FIFA

Silicon-Based mm-Wave Phased-Arrays for 5G/6G and SATCOM

Abdulrahman Alhamed, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 5, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2025

Efficient Bayesian Methods for Biostatistics

Janet van Niekerk, Research Scientist, Statistics

Oct 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

bayesian methods

Robotics at KAUST

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

robotics

Programmable Matter: Liquid Metal for Reconfigurable Electronics and Logic

Wedyan Babatain, Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab

Sep 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

liquid metal

Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Emmanuel-Ambriz-Nonparametric-functional-quantiles

Nonparametric Functional Quantiles, Skewness, and Probability Bands via the Functional Signed Directionality

Emmanuel Ambriz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Sep 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

functional signed directionality

Advice and Comments About Research

Peter Wonka, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 22, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

academic life

Forays into modular drones: Sierpinsky tetrahedra, dodecahedra, and Alexander Graham Bell

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

modular drons

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Raphael-Huser-Neural-Methods-Amortized-Inference-Spatial-Extremes

Neural Methods for Amortized Inference with Models for Spatial Extremes

Raphaël Huser, Associate Professor, Statistics

Sep 18, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 15, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM

Optical Frequency Combs: From Conventional Techniques to Emerging Approaches

Aram Mkrtchyan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 14, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Sep 7 - Sep 13, 2025

Gaussian Random Fields on Metric Graphs

David Bolin, Professor, Statistics

Sep 11, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 B2 L2325

Gaussian random fields Metric graphs Statistical Modeling

Building a Safer and More Equitable Internet in the Age of AI

Zafar Qazi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Sep 8, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Watching Earth from Space: Methane, Mangroves, and Sinkholes in Saudi Arabia

Abdulrahman Aljurbua, Assistant Research Professor, KACST; Ibn Rushd Fellow, KAUST; Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Sep 7, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Aug 31 - Sep 6, 2025

From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM

Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies

Stefan Schmid, Professor, Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin

Sep 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

(Ultra)wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Future of Moore’s Law

Xiaohang Li, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aug 31, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R2325

May 11 - May 17, 2025

The Signed Translation Transformed Depth: Order, Quantiles, Spread, Skewness, and Quantile Regression for Multivariate Functional Data

Emmanuel Ambriz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

May 15, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

multivariate analysis

Error Feedback for Communication-Efficient First and Second-Order Distributed Optimization: Theory and Practical Implementation

Konstantin Burlachenko, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Federated learning software development

Structuring Sound and Vibration by Metasurfaces

Badreddine Assouar, Professor, Director of Research at French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Lorraine, France

May 11, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

May 4 - May 10, 2025

Vecchia Approximations of Gaussian Processes on GPUs for Scalable Spatial Modeling and Computer Model Emulation

Qilong Pan, Ph.D. Student, Statistics

May 8, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

machine learning Geospatial Data GPU Computing

AI for Chips and Chips for AI

Mehdi Saligane, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brown University, USA

May 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

artificial intelligence AI semiconductors innovation LLM

Apr 27 - May 3, 2025

Retraction Maps, Feedback Linearization and Nonholonomic Integrators

Ravi Banavar, Professor, Systems and Control Engineering, IIT Bombay

May 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

On Singular Equations Modeling Electrostatic MEMS

Katerina Nik, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

MEMS free boundary problems

Harnessing Multi-modal AI and Machine Learning for Next-Generation 6G Networks

Asmaa Abdallah, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

LLM machine learning 6G wireless communication Digital signal processing

Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2025

Linear Solvers for Large-Scale Bayesian Modeling

Lisa Gaedke-Merzhäuser, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Apr 24, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Utility

David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

GaN-based VCSELs and Future of Semiconductor Lasers

Tatsushi Hamaguchi, Professor, Innovation Center for Semiconductor and Digital Future

Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2025

Homogenization and Wave Functional Materials

Ying Wu, Program Chair, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Wave functional materials Homogenization

Gallium Oxide Diodes: Past , Present and Future Applications

Jose Manuel Taboada Vasquez, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2025

The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Advantage

David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

quantum computing quantum processing unit supercomputers

Architecture and System Co-Design for High-performance LLM Inference and Training

Jingwen Leng, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Apr 7, 11:00 - 12:00

B9 L2 R2325

Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2025

Sense of Touch: from Haptics to Robotic Tactile Sensing

Zhanat Kappassov, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Mar 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

biomedical sensing robotics haptics

Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2025

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

Mikhail Moshkov, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Mar 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Bridging 2D and 3D for Label-Efficient Learning in Scene Understanding

Timo Ropinski, Professor, Institute of Media Informatics, Ulm University, Germany

Mar 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

iHunter: Empowering Autonomous UAVs for Robust, Real-Time Aerial Terget Tracking and Trajectory Prediction

Mohamed Abdelkader, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University

Mar 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

UAV Aerial Robotics

Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Kaja-Dynamic

The Ball-Proximal (=“Broximal”) Point Method: a New Algorithm, Convergence Theory, and Applications

Kaja Gruntkowska, PhD student, Statistics, KAUST

Mar 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Gaming (in)security

Marc Dacier, Professor, Computer Science

Mar 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Millimeter Wave Antennas and Beamforming for Wireless Communication and Imaging Systems

Abdel Razik Sebak, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Mar 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Artavazd-Maranjyan-Ringmaster-ASGD

Ringmaster ASGD: The First Asynchronous SGD with Optimal Time Complexity

Artavazd Maranjyan, PhD Student, AMCS, KAUST

Feb 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Boris-Mordukhovich-Derivative-free-nonconvex-opt-noise

Derivative-Free Methods in Nonconvex Optimization with and Without Noise

Boris Mordukhovich, Distinguished University Professor, Wayne State University

Feb 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325