Seminar

Jul 19 - Jul 25, 2026

Bridging the Gap: AI-Driven Software Quality Assurance

Dr. Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Assistant Professor, Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science (SES), STEVENS Institute of Technology

Jul 20, 11:00 - 12:00

B2/3 L0 R0215; Zoom Meeting 96002635189

AI Trustworthy AI LLM nlp AI agents

Jun 28 - Jul 4, 2026

Bose-Einstein Condensation of Photons in VCSELs – New Operation Mode of Semiconductor Lasers

Maciej Pieczarka, Associate Professor, Department of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WrocławTech)

Jul 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B3 R5220

BEC Bose-Einstein condensate VCSEL laser photonics

Jun 7 - Jun 13, 2026

KAUST CEMSE ECE Seminar Abdulrahman Aljurbua Monitoring Environmental Change in Saudi Arabia from Space: Methane Emissions, Mangrove Ecosystems, and Ground Deformation

Monitoring Environmental Change in Saudi Arabia from Space: Methane Emissions, Mangrove Ecosystems, and Ground Deformation

Abdulrahman Aljurbua, KAUST Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Jun 9, 11:00 - 12:00

B3 R5220

remote sensing remote sensing applications Signal processing SAR

May 17 - May 23, 2026

Microwave Linear Analog Computer (MiLAC) as Efficient Next-Generation Transceiver Toward 6G and Beyond

Yuchen Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 17, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 R4214

microwave linear analog computer MiLAC beamforming 6G

Apr 26 - May 2, 2026

Mathematical Modeling and Analysis of Liquid Crystals: Ericksen-Leslie Model

Majed Sofiani, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 27, 14:00 - 15:00

B1 R3426

Ericksen-Leslie Model non-linear partial differential equations Liquid Crystals Navier-Stokes equation

Dynamical Systems in Data Science: From Kinetic Closure to Learning Dynamics

Dr. Florian Kogelbauer, Senior Research Fellow, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)

Apr 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B2/3 A0215

Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2026

Engineering Scalable Multi-Robot Systems for Reliable Operation Under Uncertainty and Resource Constraints

Dr. Mohamed Salaheddine Talamali, Research Associate, Energy Aware Swarm Programming, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE), University of Sheffield (TUOS)

Mar 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B4/5 A0215

Multi-robot Systems reliability heterogeneous UAVs

Mar 8 - Mar 14, 2026

Mathematical Modelling of Solar Cells

Theodoros Katsaounis, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Crete (UoC)

Mar 10, 11:00 - 12:30

B1 L3 R3119

solar cells Mathematical modeling PDEs numerical PDEs

Mar 1 - Mar 7, 2026

Approximation and Optimization for Neural Networks

Gerrit Welper, Assistant Professor, Mathematics, University of Central Florida (UCF)

Mar 4, 16:00 - 17:00

Zoom Meeting 95807131415

Neural Networks optimization deep neural networks Finite element methods

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

uncertainty quantification neural network Bayesian modeling AI

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

Event Status: Cancelled | 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