Graduate Seminar

Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2020

Optimal Reference Frames, Scaling and Features in Visualization

Prof. Holger Theisel, Visual Computing, Magdeburg University

Feb 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

visual computing visualization

Toward Satellite-Air-Ground-Ocean Optical Wireless Communication for Internet of Things

Meiwei Kong, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Photonics Laboratory

Feb 9, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

Satellite-Air-Ground-Ocean Optical Wireless Communication for Internet

Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2020

Mathematical modeling of the stochastic climate system

Georgiy L. Stenchikov, Professor (former), Earth Science and Engineering

Feb 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

weather climate projections

Paving the Way for Next Generation Wireless Networks

Basem Shihada, Professor, Computer Science

Feb 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

networking IoT

Nanomaterials and Nanostructure Based Energy Efficient Edge and Fluidic Computing for Internet of Things Applications

Nazek El-Atab, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

nanomaterials Nanostructure Based Energy Efficient Edge Fluidic Computing KAUST IoT

Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2020

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

Jan 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

media integrity machine learning deepfake digital media

Low power approaches to communication and computing system design

Ahmed Eltawil, Associate Dean for Research, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Jan 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

low power communication computing system

Dec 1 - Dec 7, 2019

Proximal Splitting Methods for Convex Optimization: An Introduction

Laurent Condat, Senior Research Scientist, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Dec 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Enabling smart and connected systems

Ahmed Eltawil, Associate Dean for Research, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Dec 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Nov 24 - Nov 30, 2019

Statistical Analysis of Multi-day Solar Irradiance using a Threshold Time Series model

Carolina D. Euan Campos, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Nov 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 H2 R2325

solar energy solar irradiance analysis nonlinearity TAR model statistical analysis forecasting

Nov 17 - Nov 23, 2019

Estimation Problems for Partial and Fractional Differential Equations - Autumn 2019

Nov 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Fractional differential equations Partial Differential Equations Estimation problems Simulations algorithms real applications

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

Nov 18, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

organ transplantation wait time modeling Equity Maximization network flows queuing theory Rawls theory

Photonics for bio-applications: see, move and fabricate with lasers

Carlo Liberale, Research Associate Professor, Bioscience

Nov 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Nov 10 - Nov 16, 2019

Statistical models based on stochastic partial differential equations

Prof. David Bolin, Statistics, KAUST

Nov 14, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

statistics SPDEs

Langevin Monte Carlo as an optimization algorithm

Adil Salim, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science

Nov 11, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

machine learning Langevin Monte Carlo optimization

EE 398 Graduate Seminar

Tareq Al-Naffouri, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Nov 3 - Nov 9, 2019

On mean-field game price models

Diogo Gomes, Program Chair, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Nov 7, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

mean-field games price formation modeling linear-quadratic problem optimal transport with constraints supply and demand balance

Accelerating biomedical discovery with an Internet of FAIR data and services

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

Nov 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

biomedicine collective knowledge incompatible formats overlapping heterogenous access points computational standards effective representations semantic technologies FAIR automated scientific discovery

Efficient and Accurate Numerical Methods for Transient Electromagnetic Analysis - 2019

Hakan Bagci, Associate Dean for Students, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Nov 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Oct 27 - Nov 2, 2019

Energy-conserving and energy-stable discretizations of differential equations

David Ketcheson, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Oct 31, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

numerical discretization energy stability energy conservation Runge-Kutta methods

Oct 20 - Oct 26, 2019

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

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

Oct 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Cyber attacks and defenses Web and Network security cybersecurity malicious infrastructure detection

Hybrid integration of materials for ultraviolet detection

Tien Khee Ng, Principal Research Scientist, Photonics Laboratory

Oct 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

semiconductors electronics optoelectronics AlInGaN-based lasers LED silicon-based photodetectors solving technological challenges ultraviolet detection Optical communications

Oct 13 - Oct 19, 2019

Monte Carlo Computation

Oct 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

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

Panagiotis Kalnis, Professor, Computer Science

Oct 14, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

sparse matrix algebra RDF engine MAGIQ SPARQL queries RDF graphs optimization CPU GPU

Engineering Organic Electronics for Biology - 2019-10-13

Sahika Inal, Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Oct 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

bioelectronics Implantable devices soft conducting polymers organic electrochemical transistors

Oct 6 - Oct 12, 2019

Modeling, studying, and forecasting the circulation and Climate of the Red Sea

Ibrahim Hoteit, Professor, Earth Science and Engineering

Oct 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Learning for Visual Data Synthesis and Analysis

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

Oct 7, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Deep learning visual data synthesis visual data analysis estimation and segmentation Monte carlo methods

Strong, Versatile and Invisible - Magnetic Transducers

Oct 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Sep 29 - Oct 5, 2019

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

Sep 30, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

botnets C2C malware command and control

Virtual sensing: methods and applications

Sep 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

virtual sensors effective estimation methods non-measurable variables optimization sustainable desalination health monitoring

Sep 22 - Sep 28, 2019

Statistics of Extremes

Raphaël Huser, Associate Professor, Statistics

Sep 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

extreme environmental events probabilities risks univariate extremes Spatial extremes

Exploring FPGAs for Virtualized In-Network Acceleration

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

Sep 24, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 B3 A0215

FPGA data centers streaming applications accelerators big data cloud computing

Sep 15 - Sep 21, 2019

High friction limits for Euler flows

Athanasios Tzavaras, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Sep 19, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

High friction limits Euler flows

Representation Learning for Personalized Recommendation

Prof. Xiangliang Zhang

Sep 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

recommender systems e-commerce industry personalized recommendations learning representations user privacy

Waves Functional Materials - 2019-09-15

Ying Wu, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Sep 15, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1 R2322

Wave functional materials wave propagation control metamaterials Metasurfaces effective medium redirection emission rate

Sep 8 - Sep 14, 2019

Waves in Complex Media: Theories and Applications

Ying Wu, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Sep 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

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

Sep 9, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

Distributed algorithms nonexpansive operators

Laser lighting and its application in visible light communications

Boon Ooi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 8, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

laser-lighting Visible light communications Underwater communication high-speed transmitters high-speed receivers

Sep 1 - Sep 7, 2019

Zero in on computational challenges in Nanopore sequencing

Xin Gao, Program Chair, Computer Science

Sep 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

bioinformatics machine learning Nanopore Sequencing DNA sequences

Flexible, Wearable, Disposable Wireless Communication and Sensing Systems Through Additive Manufacturing - 2019

Atif Shamim, Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

additive manufacturing sensors electronics

Aug 25 - Aug 31, 2019

Knowledge-based methods in biomedicine

Robert Hoehndorf, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Aug 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

Biostatistics artificial intelligence gene-disease associations drug targets

UV light emitter – challenges and new approaches – an example of device oriented R&D at PORT

Prof. Detlef Hommel, Polish Center for Technology development, Wroclaw University

Aug 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

UV Emitter PORT

May 12 - May 18, 2019

Adaptive Intrusion Management System for Databases

Muhamad Felemban, Assistant Professor, Computer Engineering Department, KFUPM

May 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

cybersecurity

May 5 - May 11, 2019

Joint longitudinal-survival models using R-INLA

Janet van Niekerk, Research Scientist, Statistics

May 9, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

stochastic smoothing pipeline R-INLA

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

Alp Yurtsever, PhD Candidate, EPFL

May 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

semidefinite programming convex optimization

Apr 28 - May 4, 2019

Estimating the expected information gain in Bayesian optimal experimental design

May 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

optimization DLMC DLMCIS

OmniLedger: A Secure, Scale-Out, Decentralized Ledger via Sharding

Dr Philipp Jovanovic, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Apr 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

scale out security transactions

InGaN-based light-emitting devices

Daisuke Iida, Senior Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

MOVPE optoelectronics plasmonics photocatalysis solar energy

Apr 21 - Apr 27, 2019

Applications of random matrix theory for wireless communication and big data processing

Abla Kammoun, Senior Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1

Big Data Approaches to Scientific Output Prediction

Prof. Yannis Manolopoulos, Open Univ. of Cyprus

Apr 22, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H1