PhD Dissertation Defense | CEMSE | Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Characterization of non-conventional methods for alignment relaxation in underwater wireless optical communication systems

Mohammed Sait

Thursday, November 11, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 3, Level 3, Room 5220. Zoom ID: 393 156 5261

PhD Dissertation Defense

Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronics Based on GaN Quantum Disks and Bio-Inspired Nanostructures

Ram Chandra Subedi

Wednesday, November 10, 18:00

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209, https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99936098680

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE ECE Amr M Abdelhady On the Downlink

On the Downlink Operation and Architecture Optimization of Multi-User VLC Systems

Amr Mohamed Abdelaziz Abdelhady

Tuesday, November 09, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97915131876

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Challenges in Sampling and Representation of Uncertain Reaction Kinetics in Large Dimensions

Saja Almohammadi

Monday, November 08, 16:00

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220, https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94644495211

PhD Dissertation Defense

Hybrid inorganic heterostructures and methods of fabricating p-type semiconductors for optoelectronic devices

Jian Wei Liang

Monday, November 08, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8305796581

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Generalized and Robust Knowledge Association

Shichao Pei

Tuesday, November 02, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91954695269

PhD Dissertation Defense

Control and Estimation for Partial Differential Equations and Extension to Fractional Systems

Lilia Ghaffour

Monday, November 01, 15:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97915131876

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Bitrate Photodetection in Ultraviolet-to-Visible for Optical Wireless Communication

Chun Hong Kang

Thursday, October 28, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8426647959

PhD Dissertation Defense

Monotonicity method for Mean-Field games

Teruo Tada

Monday, October 25, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Room 4214, Zoom link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91395074375

PhD Dissertation Defense

Asymmetric Signaling: A New Dimension of Interference Management in Hardware Impaired Communication Systems

Sidrah Javed

Monday, October 11, 17:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97634490362

PhD Dissertation Defense

On Seven Fundamental Optimization Challenges in Machine Learning

Konstantin Mishchenko

Monday, October 04, 17:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91912026865?pwd=UUxOV25wWWNyYllwdlhia1lGbDN2dz09

PhD Dissertation Defense

End-to-end Optics Design for Computational Cameras

Qilin Sun

Wednesday, September 15, 16:20

- 18:10

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94131072784

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Imaging and Its Applications in Fluids

Jinhui Xiong

Monday, September 06, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94131072784

PhD Dissertation Defense

Applications of Magnetic Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Monolayers to the Field of Spinorbitronics

Idris H. Smaili

Monday, August 16, 11:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94295229137

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stylistic and spatial disentanglement in GANs

Yazeed Alharbi

Thursday, August 12, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95801707216

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stochastic Optimization in Target Positioning and Location-based Applications

Hui Chen

Tuesday, July 27, 17:00

- 19:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/3817617967

PhD Dissertation Defense

Reconfigurable Snapshot HDR Imaging Using Coded Masks

Masheal Alghamdi

Thursday, June 17, 12:00

- 14:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95088144914

PhD Dissertation Defense

Lagrangian Spatio-Temporal Covariance Functions for Multivariate Nonstationary Random Fields

Mary Lai O. Salvana

Monday, June 07, 17:00

- 19:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/4140228838

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stationary and Cyclostationary Processes for Time Series and Spatio-Temporal Data

Soumya Das

Tuesday, June 01, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96960741449

PhD Dissertation Defense

Flexible Covariance Models for Spatio-Temporal and Multivariate Spatial Random Fields

Ghulam A. Qadir

Monday, May 31, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93176117006

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Wavefront Sensing: Theory, Practice, and Applications

Congli Wang

Wednesday, May 26, 18:00

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93887554721

PhD Dissertation Defense

Discriminant Analysis and Support Vector Regression in High Dimensions: Sharp Performance Analysis and Optimal Designs

Houssem Sifaou

Thursday, April 08, 11:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99702752439

PhD Dissertation Defense

Wireless Magnetic Sensors to Empower the Next Technological Revolution

Abdullah Almansouri, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Thursday, April 01, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94736907194

PhD Dissertation Defense

Toward Improving the Internet of Things: Quality of Service and Fault Tolerance Perspectives

Maha Al-Aslani, PhD Student, Computer Science, KAUST

Wednesday, March 31, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7665815153

PhD Dissertation Defense

Transient Analysis of Electromagnetic and Acoustic Scattering using Second-kind Surface Integral Equations

Rui Chen, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST

Wednesday, March 31, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97237199129

PhD Dissertation Defense

Generation of Orbital Angular Momentum (OAM) Modes with Spiral Phase Plate Integrated Laser Source

Edgars Stegenburgs

Wednesday, March 10, 12:00

- 14:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93212598025

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Dimensional Analysis of Regularized Convex Optimization Problems with Application to Massive MIMO Wireless Communication Systems

Ayed M. Alrashdi

Sunday, February 21, 17:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96952307833

PhD Dissertation Defense

Control Theoretic Approaches to Computational Modeling and Risk Mitigation for Large Crowd Management

Mohammed M. Alrashed

Wednesday, November 11, 20:00

- 21:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7906468541?pwd=RDBNZnFXcjZTbVQ2dmJkSUd5OXFqUT09

PhD Dissertation Defense

Exploring Entity Relationship in Pairwise Ranking: Adaptive Sampler and Beyond

Lu Yu

Wednesday, November 11, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/9777029647

PhD Dissertation Defense

The equations of polyconvex thermoelasticity

Myrto Galanopoulou

Monday, November 09, 17:00

- 19:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98175362000

PhD Dissertation Defense

Quantile Function Modeling and Analysis for Multivariate Functional Data

Gaurav Agarwal

Monday, November 09, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97656050988

PhD Dissertation Defense

UAV Enabled IoT Network Designs for Enhanced Estimation, Detection, and Connectivity

Osama Bushnaq

Monday, November 09, 11:00

- 13:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7245526297

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spatio-Temporal Prediction and Stochastic Simulation for Large-Scale Nonstationary Processes

Yuxiao Li

Monday, November 02, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/4019459654

PhD Dissertation Defense

Design and topological optimization of nanophotonic devices

Ronghui Lin

Monday, November 02, 10:30

- 12:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95073404140

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spatio-Temporal Statistical Modeling with Application to Wind Energy Assessment in Saudi Arabia

Wanfang Chen

Monday, October 26, 15:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/5053292472

PhD Dissertation Defense

3D Near Isotropic Antenna in Package for IoT Applications

SU Zhen

Wednesday, October 14, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92772662132?pwd=bm81eFdEeW83cFd6Y0p4QUsrOG5CZz09

PhD Dissertation Defense

Post-processing and Feature Extraction Methods for Smart Biomedical Signal Monitoring: Algorithms and Applications

Abderrazak Chahid

Wednesday, October 14, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99212056184

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient Ensemble Data Assimilation and Forecasting of the Red Sea Circulation

Habib Toye Mahamadou Kele

Tuesday, October 13, 16:15

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/my/phddissertation

PhD Dissertation Defense

Dynamic Programming Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization

Michal A. Mankowski

Tuesday, October 13, 15:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91353826539

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Speed GaN-Based Distributed-Feedback Lasers and Optoelectronics

Jorge A. Holguin-Lerma

Thursday, September 17, 09:30

- 11:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95965631707

PhD Dissertation Defense

Learning from Scholarly Attributed Graphs for Scientific Discovery

Uchenna Akujuobi

Monday, September 14, 11:30

- 12:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/2916342953

PhD Dissertation Defense

Machine Learning Models for Biomedical Ontology Integration and Analysis

Fatima Zohra Smaili

Thursday, September 03, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99861683622

PhD Dissertation Defense

Low Power Micro-electromechanical Resonator-Based Logic Circuits

Sally Ahmed

Monday, August 31, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91515195700

PhD Dissertation Defense

Additively Manufactured Vanadium Dioxide (VO₂) based Radio Frequency Switches and Reconfigurable Components

Shuai Yang

Thursday, July 30, 18:00

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91824151108

PhD Dissertation Defense

Optimization for Supervised Machine Learning: Randomized Algorithms for Data and Parameters

Filip Hanzely

Thursday, July 30, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94115666384

PhD Dissertation Defense

Maximizing I/O Bandwidth for Out-of-Core HPC Applications on Heterogeneous Large-Scale Systems

Tariq Alturkestani

Thursday, July 09, 16:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94054511362

PhD Dissertation Defense

Heterogeneous Integration Strategy for Obtaining Physically Flexible 3D Compliant Electronic Systems

Sohail Faizan Shaikh

Thursday, July 09, 15:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94675922617

PhD Dissertation Defense

Hierarchical Approximation Methods for Option Pricing and Stochastic Reaction Networks

Chiheb Ben Hammouda

Thursday, July 02, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7625776125

PhD Dissertation Defense

Two-Scale Homogenization and Numerical Methods for Stationary Mean-Field Games

Xianjin Yang

Wednesday, July 01, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97077508273

mean-field games

PhD Dissertation Defense

Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles: A Stochastic Optimization Approach

Sultan S. Albarakati

Sunday, June 07, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99434336745

optimization

PhD Dissertation Defense

Indoor 3D Scene Understanding Using Depth Sensors

Jean Lahoud

Thursday, May 28, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99582916945

PhD Dissertation Defense

Predicting Single Gene Loss of Function Phenotypes

Maxat Kulmanov

Monday, April 06, 19:30

- 21:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/858990591

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computation of High-Dimensional Multivariate Normal and Student-t Probabilities Based on Matrix Compression Schemes

Jian Cao

Monday, April 06, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/3520039297

PhD Dissertation Defense

Fabrication and Characterization of GaN-Based Superluminescent Diode for Solid-State Lighting and Visible Light Communication

Abdullah A. Alatawi

Thursday, April 02, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/4396782350

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient and Accurate Numerical Techniques for Sparse Electromagnetic Imaging

Ali Imran Sandhu

Wednesday, April 01, 15:30

- 17:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/966326183

PhD Dissertation Defense

Ultraviolet band based underwater wireless optical communication

Xiaobin Sun

Wednesday, April 01, 10:00

- 12:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/552120381

PhD Dissertation Defense

Understanding a Block of Layers in Deep Neural Networks: Optimization, Probabilistic and Tropical Geometric Perspectives

Adel Bibi

Monday, March 30, 18:00

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/279877360

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel computational methods for promoter identification and analysis

Ramzan Umarov

Sunday, February 16, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Space-Time Tomographic Reconstruction of Deforming Objects

Guangming Zang

Monday, January 27, 17:00

- 18:30

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Integration Strategy for Standalone Compliant Interactive Systems for Add-on Electronics

Sherjeel Khan

Tuesday, November 12, 16:30

- 18:00

Building 9, Level 3, Room 3125

PhD Dissertation Defense

Deep-Ultraviolet Optoelectronic Devices Enabled by the Hybrid Integration of Next-Generation Semiconductors and Emerging Device Platforms

Nasir Alfaraj

Monday, November 11, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Additively Manufactured Conformal Microwave Sensors for Applications in Oil Industry

Muhammad Akram Karimi

Thursday, November 07, 16:30

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Interactive High-Quality Visualization of Large-Scale Particle Data

Mohamed Ibrahim

Tuesday, November 05, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Machine Learning Models for Context Aware Recommendation Systems

Basmah Altaf

Monday, November 04, 10:00

- 11:00

Building 3, Level 5 , Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Magnetic Polymer Composite Transducers for Integrated Systems

Mohammed Asadullah Khan

Monday, October 21, 14:30

- 15:30

B3 L5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Study of III-nitride Nanowire Growth and Devices on Unconventional Substrates

Thursday, September 12, 09:30

- 11:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Compliant Electronics for Unusual Environments

Amani Almuslem

Sunday, August 25, 17:00

- 18:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Study of ultraviolet AlGaN nanowires light-emitting diodes

Davide Priante

Tuesday, July 30, 16:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Traffic Monitoring and MAC-Layer Design for Future IoT Systems

Enas M. Odat

Sunday, July 28, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Analysis of Transcriptional Regulation after Single and Multiple Drug Administration.

Trisevgeni Rapakoulia

Wednesday, July 17, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spectrum Management for Future Generations of Cellular Networks

Itsikiantsoa Randrianantenaina

Monday, July 08, 08:30

- 10:30

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Analysis and Optimization of Massive MIMO Systems via Random Matrix Theory Approaches

Ikram Boukhedimi

Monday, June 24, 12:00

- 14:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Random Matrix Theory: Selected Applications from Statistical Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Khalil Elkhalil

Monday, June 24, 09:00

- 10:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient Localization of Human Actions and Moments in Videos

Victor Escorcia

Tuesday, June 11, 15:00

- 16:00

B3, L5, 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stationary Mean-Field Games with Congestion

David Evangelista

Tuesday, May 28, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

mean-field games

PhD Dissertation Defense

High Precision Comb-Assisted Molecular Spectroscopy in the Mid-Infrared

Bidoor AlSaif

Monday, May 27, 10:00

- 11:00

B2 L5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Sim-to-Real Transfer for Autonomous Navigation

Matthias Mueller

Tuesday, May 14, 16:00

- 17:00

B2 L5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Advanced MTJ Sensory Devices for Industrial and Healthcare Applications

Yousof A. Mashraei

Thursday, April 25, 15:00

- 16:00

B3 L5 Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Unstructured Computations on Emerging Architectures

Mohammed AlFarhan

Tuesday, April 23, 13:00

- 14:00

B3, L5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Paving the Way for Next Generation Wireless Data Center Networks

Amer AlGhadhban

Sunday, April 21, 13:00

- 14:00

B1 L4 Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Characterization of Red Sea Cyanobacteria Aimed for Cell Factory Applications in Saudi Arabia: Synechococcus sp. RSCCF101.

Thursday, April 04, 14:00

- 16:00

Buildng 3 Level 5 Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Characterization of microbiologically influenced corrosion in pipelines by using metagenomics

Badoor Nasser

Sunday, March 31, 14:00

- 16:00

B3 Level 5 Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Promoters identification and analysis

Ramzan Umarov

Thursday, March 07, 16:00

- 18:00

Buildng 1 Level 2 Room2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS PhD Defense Imene Boudellioua

Semantic Prioritization of Novel Causative Genomic Variants in Mendelian and Oligogenic Diseases

Imane Boudellioua

Tuesday, February 05, 14:00

- 17:00

Building 9, Room 4223

PhD Dissertation Defense

Biomedical Signal Processing using the Squared Eigenfunctions of the Schrödinger Operator and Machine Learning

Abderrazak Chahid

Thursday, January 24, 13:00

- 15:00

Building: 1 Level: 4 Room: 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Molecular Basis for p85 Dimerization and Allosteric Ligand Recognition

Safia Aljedani

Thursday, December 06, 13:00

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spatio-Temporal Data Analysis by Transformed Gaussian Processes

Yuan Yan, PhD Student of Prof. Marc Genton, KAUST

Monday, November 05, 17:15

- 18:15

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contributions to Computational Methods for Association Extraction from Biomedical Data: Applications to Text Mining and In Silico Toxicology

Arwa Bin Raies

Thursday, November 01, 11:00

- 13:00

Building 2, Level 5, room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards rational design of biosynthesis pathways

Meshari Alazmi

Wednesday, October 24, 17:00

- 18:30

Building3, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Similarity Algorithms by Anas Ismail

Anas Ismail

Thursday, August 02, 09:00

- 11:00

Building 3, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Genome-scale Evaluation of the Biotechnological Potential of Red Sea Bacilli Strains by Ghofran Othoum, PhD Student

Ghofran Othoum

Monday, February 05, 11:00

- 12:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel Computational Methods to Predict Drug–target Interactions Using Graph Mining and Machine Learning Approaches

Rawan Olayan

Monday, December 11, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contributions to In Silico Genome Annotation

Manal Kalkatawi

Thursday, November 09, 10:00

- 13:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Computational Methods for Large Spatio-temporal Datasets and Functional Data Ranking

Tuesday, June 13, 09:00

- 10:00

B1 L4 Room 4102

PhD Dissertation Defense

Mining Genome-Scale Growth Phenotype Data through Constant-Column Biclustering

Majed Alzahrani

Wednesday, May 17, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

KAUST CEMSE CS VCC PhD Defense Haitham Ashoor

Computational Methods for ChIP-seq Data Analysis and Applications

Haitham M. Ashoor

Monday, April 10, 16:00

- 17:30

Building 3, Level 5, 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Genetic Algorithms for Optimization of Machine-learning Models and their Applications in Bioinformatics

Arturo Magana Mora

Monday, April 10, 13:00

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel Computational Methods that Facilitate Development of Cyanofactories for Free Fatty Acid Production by Olaa Motwalli

Olaa A. Motwalli

Sunday, April 09, 16:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Novel Data Mining Methods for Virtual Screening of Biological Active Chemical Compounds by Othman Soufan

Othman Soufan

Wednesday, November 16, 14:00

- 15:00

Lecture Hall 2, Building 9

PhD Dissertation Defense

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