Seminar

May 21 - May 27, 2023

Multiscale numerical methods. Theory and Practice

Yalchin Efendiev, Professor, Institute for Scientific Computation, Texas A and M University

May 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3128

numerical methods

May 14 - May 20, 2023

Viability assays of CMOS-compatible materials, device architectures, and emerging device platforms for nano-photonics

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

May 18, 15:00 - 16:00

B5 L5 R5209

nanophotonics

Apr 30 - May 6, 2023

Bringing the Cloud to industrial systems: trends, opportunities and challenges

Marcello Cinque, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, the University of Naples Federico Il, Italy.

May 4, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

cloud technologies industrial systems

Prospects for B containing III-N alloys for UVB and UVC LEDs

Prof. Peter Parbrook, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, University College Cork

May 3, 14:00 - 15:00

B3 L5 R5220

Modeling and Simulation of Semiconductor Equations: Insights and Applications

Prof. Nella Rotundo, Department of Mathematics University of Florence, Italy

May 3, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L4 R4102

PPP-RTK: a review and recent developments

Peter Teunissen, Professor, Geodesy and Satellite Navigation, Delft University of Technology (DUT), Netherlands Honorary Professor at Melbourne and Curtin Universities, Australia, and Beihang and Tongji Universities, China

May 1, 13:00 - 14:00

B1 L3 R3119

PPP-RTK GPS Galileo QZSS IRNSS

Robust and Energy-Efficient Embedded Computing

Semeen Rehman, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Wien

May 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L1 R3131

Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2023

A personal path from mathematics to biomedical research

Apr 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 L5 R5209

Biomedical Computational biology

Apr 2 - Apr 8, 2023

Intelligent Health Monitoring in the Home

Yuan Yuan, Postdoc Fellow, MIT

Apr 4, 15:00 - 16:00

KAUST

Non-Abelian Braiding with Sound and Light

Guancong Ma, Associate Professor, Department of Physics, Hong Kong Baptist University

Apr 3, 09:30 - 10:30

B9 L2 R2131

Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2023

On the rate of convergence of the Inviscid Limit for 2D Incompressible Fluid

Associate Professor Stefano Spirito, Department of Mathematics, University of LAquila, Italy

Mar 30, 12:00 - 13:00

B1 L4 R4102

End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage

Qiang Tang, Senior Lecturer (equal to U.S. Associate Professor), the University of Sydney

Mar 30, 12:00 - 13:00

B4 L5 R5220.

cloud storage End-to-Same-End-Encryption

Challenges in ML for Sustainable Development

Prof. Laure Berti, Computer Science, Research Director, French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD)

Mar 28, 14:00 - 15:00

B1 L4 R4214

data cleaning and preparation data fusion

Mathematics of Emergent Phenomena in Networks and Collective Motion

Jan Haskovec, Senior Research Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Mar 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3131

Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2023

Making federated learning practical and confidential

Dr. Ruichuan Chen, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and a Tech Lead, Nokia Bell Labs

Mar 23, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

Federated learning

Mar 12 - Mar 18, 2023

Gravitational Collapse of Self-similar stars

Dr. Matthew Schrecker, Departments of Mathematics, University College London

Mar 16, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L4 R4102

Nonlinear Partial Differential Equation Gravitational collapse UCL

Towards Neurosymbolic AI: From Knowledge Infrastructure to Explainable Predictions

Dr. Michel Dumontier, Distinguished Professor, Data Science

Mar 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 L5 R5220

data science

Neuroimplants for Neurodegenerative Conditions of the Eye and the Brain: Predictive Multiscale Computational Modeling, System Design, and Experimental Testing

Gianluca Lazzi, PhD MBA is a Provost Professor of Ophthalmology, Electrical Engineering, Clinical Entrepreneurship and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC)

Mar 16, 10:00 - 11:00

B9 H1 R2322

Technical challenges Neuroprosthetics Bioelectromagnetic systems

On Inference About the Smoothness Parameter in Gaussian Matern Random Fields

Prof. Victor DeOliveira, Professor in Department of Management Science and Statistics in the Carlos Alvarez College of Business

Mar 15, 15:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4102

Algebraic Structures from beginning to Lie algebras-Part 2

Associate Professor Amir Baklouti, Department of Mathematics, Umm Al-Qura University (KSA

Mar 14, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4102

Algebraic Structures from beginning to Lie algebras- Part 1

Associate Professor Amir Baklouti, Department of Mathematics, Umm Al-Qura University (KSA

Mar 13, 10:00 - 12:00

B1 L4 R4102

Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2023

An Overview of Systems Research at TU Munich

Pramod Bhatotia, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

Mar 9, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

distributed systems operating systems

Machine Learning for Scalable MIMO Communication Systems: From Theory to Real-World Demonstration

Dr. Ahmed Alkhateeb, Electrical Engineering , Arizona State University

Mar 6, 14:00 - 15:00

B9 L2 H1

communication systems machine learning

Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2023

An introduction to Patankar-type schemes

Thomas Izgin, M.Sc., Department of Mathematics, University of Kassel

Feb 14, 14:00 - 15:00

B9 L3 R3229

numerical analysis

Conditional Kernel Density Estimation For Dependent Data, Mean Shift Algorithm and Predictive Regions in Human Health

Prof. Mohamed El Machkouri, Associate professor, Applied Mathematics, University of Rouen Normandy

Feb 12, 16:00 - 17:30

B1 L4 R4102

nonparametric estimation

Designing, Synthesizing, and Automating Domain-Specific Accelerators

Jian Weng, PhD student, Computer Science Department, UCLA

Feb 12, 08:30 - 09:30

KAUST

Digital signal processing

Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2023

Vulnerability discovery in binaries and protocols

Prof. Sven Dietrich, the Computer Science Department, Hunter College, the City University of New York (CUNY)

Feb 9, 15:30 - 16:30

B5 L5 R5209

software

Point processes and their application to modeling drug seizure and overdose interactions

Prof. George Mohler, Computer Science, Boston College

Feb 8, 17:00 - 18:00

KAUST

point processes stochastic models

Physical Layer Security: Latest Trends, Threats, and Countermeasures

Prof. Huseyin Arslan, Dean of Faculty of Engineering at Istanbul Medipol University

Feb 8, 14:00 - 15:00

B2 L5 R5220

Physical Layer

Machine-learning-assisted Quality of Transmission Estimation in Optical Networks

Andrea Bianco, Full Professor, Electronics and Telecommunications Department at Politecnico di Torino

Feb 8, 13:00 - 14:00

B9 L4 R4125

machine learning explainable AI framework artificial intelligence

Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2023

Fighting against cyber threats from a system perspective

Prof. David Bromberg, Distributed computing systems, University of Rennes (IRISA)

Feb 2, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220.

cyber threats

Capturing Actionable Dynamics with Structured Latent Ordinary Differential Equations

Ricardo Henao, Associate Professor (former), Bioengineering

Feb 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B3 L5 R5220

bioinformatics

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2023

Securing data against non-conventional adversaries

Prof. Mohammad Mannan, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal

Jan 26, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220.

data security

Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2023

Aggregation-Diffusion and Kinetic PDEs for collective behavior: applications in the sciences

Prof. José Antonio Carrillo de la Plata, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Jan 15, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

Partial Differential Equations University of Oxford

Jan 8 - Jan 14, 2023

Challenges and Recent Progress on AlN Growth by the PVT Method

Prof.Liang Wu, Shanghai University and CEO of Ultratrend Technologies Inc.

Jan 8, 15:00 - 16:00

B3 L3 R3334

AlN crystals

Dec 11 - Dec 17, 2022

A tractable model for coverage analysis of satellite downlink networks

Namyoon Lee, Wireless Communications, Korea University

Dec 11, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

Satellite downlink networks

The Wild West of NLP Modeling, Evaluation, and Documentation

Dr. Nazneen Rajani, Research Lead, Hugging Face, California

Dec 11, 14:00 - 15:00

B2 L5 R5220

artificial intelligence Natural Language Processing machine learning

Dec 4 - Dec 10, 2022

Characterization of Natural Bacterial Pathogens with Genomic and Predictive Modelling

Dr. Danesh Moradigaravand, Infectious Disease Epidemiology lab, BESE, KAUST

Dec 5, 12:00 - 13:00

B3 L5 R5209

machine learning Metagenomics

Nov 27 - Dec 3, 2022

Modelling and Simulation of Biological Systems - 2022-11-28

Gabriel Wittum, Professor (former), Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Nov 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 L5 R5209

applied mathematics bioengineering

On the collapse mechanism of Wave Maps

Prof. Manoussos Grillakis, Departments of Mathematics, University of Maryland

Nov 27, 13:00 - 15:00

B1 L4 R4214

Partial Differential Equations

Nov 13 - Nov 19, 2022

Interval Prediction for Spatial Data Using Deep Learning Models

Ghulam Qadir, Posdoctoral fellow, Computational Statistics group at Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Germany

Nov 17, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L4 R4102

Recent Progress in Aeronautical Sciences: Exquisite Stability of Insect Flight and a New Theory of Lift

Prof. Haithem Taha, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, Irvine

Nov 14, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 L5 R5220

Aeronautical Sciences Insect Flight New Theory of Lift

Nov 6 - Nov 12, 2022

The role of skewed distributions in Bayesian inference: conjugacy, scalable approximations and asymptotics

Daniele Durante, Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University, Italy

Nov 8, 15:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4102

bayesian inference

Integrating Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks: 3D Opportunities and Challenges

Giovanni Geraci, Assistant Professor, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona

Nov 6, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

Integrating Terrestrial and Non-terrestrial Networks

Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2022

Flexible Electronics Beyond Mechanical Flexibility: Multifunctional Flexible Semiconductor Materials and Devices for Photonic, Electronic, Energy, and Sensing Applications

Prof. Jae-Hyun Ryou, Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston

Nov 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

flexible photonic energy sensing devices

Autonomy for recreational vessels: Safe intelligence at your finger tips Pablo Afman, ATL Robotics

Juan-Pablo Afman

Nov 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 L5 R5220

robotics intelligent systems

Non-Terrestrial Networks: Opportunities and Challenges

Abdulah Aljohani, Research and Innovation Consultant, Communications and Information Technology Commission (CITC)

Oct 30, 16:00 - 16:30

KAUST

Non-Terrestrial Networks

Oct 23 - Oct 29, 2022

Enabling the New Semiconductor Revolution through Advances in Design-for-Yield, Design-for-Test, and Fault-Origin Analysis

Krish Chakrabarty, John Cocke Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University

Oct 26, 11:15 - 12:15

B9 L2 R2322

advanced semiconductors

Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2022

Inference for Longitudinal Data After Adaptive Sampling

Prof. Susan Murphy, Statistics and Computer Science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Oct 20, 15:00 - 16:00

B9 L2 H2

Reinforcement Learning

We used Reinforcement Learning; but did it work?

Prof. Susan Murphy, Statistics and Computer Science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Oct 19, 16:00 - 17:00

B9 L2 H2

Reinforcement Learning Digital Behavioral Health