Seminar

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 Sciences

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

A Free Boundary Problem for Accretive Growth

Katerina Nik, Postdoc, Applied Mathematics and Modelling Group, University of Vienna

Apr 28, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L3 R3128

Apr 21 - Apr 27, 2024

Securing Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems in Smart Living Environments

Prof. Sajal K. Das is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.

Apr 25, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220

cyber-physical infrastructure cyber-physical systems cyber-physical-human cybersecurity

Apr 14 - Apr 20, 2024

β-contraction: a Framework for Contracting Coloured Networks. Use Cases and Applications

Dr. Elia Onofri, Research fellow, the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the National Research Council of Italy (IAC-CNR).

Apr 18, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220

networks cryptocurrencies

Towards Self-explainable Deep Learning Models

Prof. Michael Kampffmeyer, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Apr 16, 16:30 - 17:00

B1 L4 R 4102

Can neural ODEs forecast weather?

Dr. Markus Heinonen, Academy Research Fellow, Aalto Univeristy, Finland

Apr 16, 16:00 - 16:30

B1 L4 R 4102

Towards Human-enabled Intelligent Robots: Perception, Imitation and Morphology

Xingyu Liu, Postdoc, CMU

Apr 16, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225

Mar 31 - Apr 6, 2024

Thoughts About Machine Learning - Week 8

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Professor, Computer Science

Apr 2, 15:30 - 17:30

B9 H1 R 2322

artificial intelligence machine learning Reinforcement Learning

Mar 24 - Mar 30, 2024

Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations

Fajri Koto, Postdoc, MBZUAI

Mar 26, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225

Natural Language Processing

Mar 10 - Mar 16, 2024

Thoughts About Machine Learning - Week 7

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Professor, Computer Science

Mar 12, 15:30 - 17:30

B9 LH1 R2322

machine learning artificial intelligence Reinforcement Learning

Mathematics and health: a model of the glucose-insulin system for estimating the glycaemic index of food

Fabio Credali, Postdoc at IMATI, Pavia

Mar 12, 14:30 - 15:30

B1 L4 seaside R4214

Mar 3 - Mar 9, 2024

Dependability assessment work at City, University of London and possible synergies with RC3 at KAUST

Reader, the Department of Computer Science, City, University of London.

Mar 7, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

dependability fault tolerance cybersecurity

Feb 25 - Mar 2, 2024

Programming Theory in Security Analysis: A Tripartite Framework for Vulnerability Specification

Yinxi Liu, PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Feb 27, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225