Seminar

Feb 1 - Feb 7, 2026

Uncertainty-Aware Learning: From Bayesian Neural Networks to Agentic Decision Making

Theodore Papamarkou, Founder, PolyShape; Visiting Professor, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences (SEMFE), National Technical University of Athens (NTUA)

Feb 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B4/5 L0 A0215

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2026

The Sharpness Condition for Constructing Finite Element From a Superspline

Qingyu Wu, Ph.D. Student, Mathematics, Peking University

Jan 28, 14:00 - 15:00

B1 L3 R3119

Beyond Bayesian Uncertainty: a Variational Perspective

Chérief-Abdellatif Badr-Eddine, CNRS (Chargé de Recherche) Researcher, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation (LPSM), Sorbonne Université, France

Jan 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B4/5 L0 A0215

Thoughts About Machine Learning

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Professor, Computer Science

Jan 26, 15:30 - 17:30

B9, Lecture Hall 1, R-2322

AI machine learning deep learning

Jan 18 - Jan 24, 2026

Programmable Wavefunction Dynamics for Topological and Nonlinear Acoustic Control

Ze-Guo Chen, Associate Professor School of Advanced Manufacturing, Nanjing University, China

Jan 21, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

topological phenomena

Jan 11 - Jan 17, 2026

Causal Representation Learning

Ali Tajer, Professor, Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering

Jan 15, 15:00 - 16:00

B1 L2 2202

machine learning causal representation learning statistical learning Information theory

Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2025

C1-Conforming Virtual Element Method (VEM) for Optimal Control of Oseen Equations with a Stream-Function Formulation

Harpal Singh, Ph.D. Student, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee

Dec 1, 14:30 - 15:30

B1 L3 R3426

Virtual Element Method

Nov 16 - Nov 22, 2025

The Sharpness Condition for Constructing Finite Element From a Superspline

Qingyu Wu, Ph.D. Student, Mathematics, Peking University

Nov 18, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3426

Nov 9 - Nov 15, 2025

Mathematical Modeling of Two-Population Pedestrian Congestion

Noureddine Igbida, Full Professor, Applied Mathematics, Institut de Recherche XLIM, Université de Limoges

Nov 11, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3426

Diffusion Models pedestrian dynamics numerical methods

Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2025

New Challenges in the Kinetic Theory of Complex Fluids

Umberto Zerbinati, Stipendiary Lecturer, Oriel College, University of Oxford

Sep 29, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L4 R4214

PDEs numerical PDEs Kinetic Theory

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2025

Geometric Sensor Fusion for Pose Estimation on Riemannian Manifolds

Mohammed Hussain AlSharif, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Sep 18, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3119

Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2025

Beyond Connectivity: Paving the Road to Perceptive and Intelligent Networks

Hesham ElSawy, Associate Professor, School of Computing, Queen’s University

Aug 26, 13:30 - 14:30

B1 L3 R3119

Intelligent Communication connectivity edge computing

May 11 - May 17, 2025

Signal Alignment: a Practical Way to Communicate Under Unpredictable Interference

Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, USA

May 14, 13:30 - 14:30

B1 L3 R3119

wireless communication

Topological Phenomena in Artificial Materials

Xiujuan Zhang, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Material Science and Engineering, Nanjing University

May 12, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

topological phenomena artificial materials

Carrier- and Trap-Resolved Photo-Hall Effect: Unlocking the 145-Year-Old Secret in Hall Effect

Oki Gunawan, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, USA

May 12, 10:00 - 11:00

B5 L5 R5209

advanced semiconductors

May 4 - May 10, 2025

Spatiotemporal Machine Learning for Real-world Complex Systems: Enhancing Smart Transportation with Robust AI

ZIyue Li, Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department, University of Cologne, Germany

May 8, 13:00 - 14:00

B1 L4 R4214

The 2025 Iberian Blackout: Anatomy of a Grid Collapse

Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 6, 09:00 - 11:00

B9 L2 R2322

renewable energy resilience power grid

Autonomy at the Edge of Capabilities: Uncertain Environments, Limited Resources, Difficult Missions

Melkior Ornik, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

May 4, 10:30 - 11:30

B5 L5 R5209

Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2025

Advancing Security Red-Teaming in Cyber-Physical Systems via AI-Driven Side-Channel Analysis

Tao Ni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Apr 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

cybersecurity IoT cyber-physical systems

Towards Full Information Transformation in Deep Learning: A Study in Neural Machine Translation and Vision on Next-Generation Language Foundation Models

Dr. Liang Ding

Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2025

Towards Safe, Factual, and Empathetic Human-AI Interaction

Yuxia Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural Language Processing department, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Apr 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

Advancing Optoelectronics and Power Electronics: From Ultrawide-Bandgap Semiconductors to Silicon-Integrated Plasmonic Heterojunctions for Next-Generation Applications

Nasir Alfaraj, Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellow, The Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto

Apr 15, 11:30 - 12:30

B3 L5 R5209

Making LLMs Agentic: How Tool Use and Synthetic Data Drive Real-World Intelligence

Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

Apr 13, 16:00 - 17:00

B2/3 L0 R0215

LLM machine learning artificial intelligence AI

Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2025

Helmholtz–Korteweg Equations: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications

Umberto Zerbinati

Apr 8, 15:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4102

Korteweg fluids Helmholtz–Korteweg equation

Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2025

MI is All You Need: Understanding Complex Multivariate Systems Through the Lenses of GenAI

Pietro Michiardi, Professor, Department Head, Data Science Department, EURECOM

Mar 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B1 L4 R4102

Latent Abstractions, Mutual Information and Generative Diffusion Models

Giulio Franzese, Assistant Professor, Data Science Department, EURECOM

Mar 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B1 L4 R4102

Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2025

Luminescent Photonic Metamaterials and Devices from THz to Optical Frequencies

Qing Gu, Associate Professors, Electrical and Computer Engineering, NC State University, United States

Mar 19, 12:00 - 13:15

B3 L5 R5209

Recent Advances in 3D Computer Vision and Their Applications for Medical Imaging

Abdullah Hamdi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Visual Geometry Group; Junior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Mar 17, 13:00 - 14:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall1, Room 2325

Mar 9 - Mar 15, 2025

A Comprehensive Perception and Decision-making Pipeline for Autonomous Surface Vehicle Navigation in Aquatic Environments

Mingi Jeong, Research Assistant, Computer Science, Dartmouth College, USA

Mar 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B3 L5 R5220

Autonomous Surface Vehicle Collision Avoidance environment

Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2025

Enhance Neural Network Training for Complex PDEs: Algorithms, Architectures, and Integration with Traditional Methods

Dr. Yahong Yang, Postdoctoral Scholar, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Mar 2, 12:00 - 13:00

Auditorium between Building 2 - 3, L0 R0215

Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2025

Theoretical Foundations of Efficient and Scalable Graph Learning

Dr. Ziang Chen, Instructor, Applied Mathematics, MIT, USA

Feb 24, 12:00 - 13:00

Auditorium between Building 2 - 3, L0 R0215

Graph Neural Networks

Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2025

Mapping Properties of Neural Networks and Inverse Problems

Prof. Matti Lassas, Applied Mathematics, University of Helsinki, Finland

Feb 12, 18:00 - 19:00

B1 L4 R4214

Neural Networks generative models

Surface Tracking for Large-scale Dynamic Foams and Fluids

Aleksei Kalinov, PhD Student at Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Feb 9, 13:00 - 14:30

B1, L2, R2202

Bridging Optimal Control and Modern AI Techniques

Tingwei Meng, Assistant Professor, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of California,

Feb 9, 12:00 - 13:00

Auditorium between 2 and 3

Jan 19 - Jan 25, 2025

Parametric Loudspeaker: From Theory To Applications

Jun Yang, Distinguished Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jan 23, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

Jan 5 - Jan 11, 2025

Emerging Vertical GaN Devices on native GaN substrates

Biplab Sarkar, Associate Professors, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee

Jan 7, 09:00 - 10:00

B3 L5 R5209

Dec 8 - Dec 14, 2024

From perfect numbers to Egyptian fraction

Tianxin Cai

Dec 12, 16:00 - 17:00

B5, L5, R5209

Innovating Tomorrow: Research, Opportunities, and Future Semiconductor and Digital Technologies

Sohail Faizan Shaikh

Dec 10, 14:00 - 15:00

B3, L5, R5220

Dec 1 - Dec 7, 2024

From Pentamodes to Cable Webs to Masonry Structures

Graeme Milton

Dec 5, 10:00 - 11:00

B1, L3, R3119

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-SIAM-seminar-Melih-Ucer

Monotone Operator methods for proving existence of solutions to Dirichlet-type problems

Melih Ucer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Dec 4, 14:15 - 15:15

B1, L4, R4214

Nov 24 - Nov 30, 2024

Economic Fitness: Concepts, Methods and Applications

Luciano Pietronero

Nov 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B2, L5, R5220

Jun 30 - Jul 6, 2024

Stacked Intelligent Metasurfaces Enabled Joint Signal Processing and Communication in the Wave Domain

Chau Yuen

Jul 1, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

Synthetic Molecular Communication Across Different Scales: From Theory to Experiments

Robert Schober

Jun 30, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

Jun 23 - Jun 29, 2024

Mega Constellations - Trends, Technologies and Vision

Symeon Chatzinotas

Jun 27, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

Jun 2 - Jun 8, 2024

Integration is all you need: a vision of joint sensing, learning, and communication networks

Nuria Gonzalez Prelcic, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California

Jun 4, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

May 26 - Jun 1, 2024

ML-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Resilience threats and a mitigation approach

António Casimiro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences (FCUL)

May 30, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220

cybersecurity cyber threats

May 19 - May 25, 2024

Advancing Plasmonic Modulation: CMOS-Compatible MIS-Schottky Devices for Integrated Photonics

Dr.Nasir Alfaraj, Department of Electrical and computer Engineering, University of Toronto

May 21, 10:00 - 12:00

B9 L3 R3128

May 12 - May 18, 2024

Towards trustworthy use of scientific machine-learning in large scale numerical simulations

Alena Kopanicakova, Researcher, Brown University

May 13, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L3 R3128

numeric simulations

May 5 - May 11, 2024

Averaging, Momentum, and Schedulers in Optimization for Deep Learning

Konstantin Mishchenko

May 5, 11:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3128

Deep learning artificial intelligence

Apr 28 - May 4, 2024

Towards accelerating catalyst discovery: bridging the gap between modeling, experiments, and large-scale integration

Dr. Jehad Abed, Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental AI Research at Meta

Apr 30, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3426