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

Binary Diffractive Optical Elements for structured light applications

Redha Al Ibrahim

Thursday, November 30, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Broadband Wireless Communication Using Free-space Optics and Radio Frequency

Ming-Cheng Tsai

Wednesday, November 29, 16:30

- 18:30

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Numerical approximation of PDEs on complex geometries: fluid-structure interaction problems and virtual element methods

Fabio Credali

Tuesday, November 28, 16:30

- 18:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93585330887

PhD Dissertation Defense

Analysis and Design of Linear Classifiers for High-Dimensional, Small Sample Size Data Using Asymptotic Random Matrix Theory

Lama Burhan Niyazi

Sunday, November 26, 11:30

- 13:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Natural Language Models For Unnatural Languages

Wamiq Para

Monday, November 20, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98998367957

PhD Dissertation Defense

Future Electronics Beyond the FinFET and GAA-FETs

Uttam Kumar Das

Sunday, November 19, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall 2322

PhD Dissertation Defense

Efficient Algorithms for Vision and Language Learning

Jun Chen

Tuesday, November 14, 12:15

- 14:15

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3426

PhD Dissertation Defense

Learning Sequential Modeling Algorithms for Motion Forecasting, Reinforcement Learning, and Vision-Language Understanding

Deyao Zhu

Sunday, November 12, 15:00

- 16:30

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95923113519

PhD Dissertation Defense

Models and Inference for Non-Gaussian Random Vectors and Fields

Sagnik Mondal

Sunday, November 12, 12:30

- 14:30

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Interpretable Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs

Qiang Yang

Tuesday, November 07, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91694005678

PhD Dissertation Defense

Adaptive Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning

Slavomir Hanzely

Tuesday, November 07, 10:00

- 11:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Atomic Layer Deposition Reaction Parameters Influence on ZnO's Electrical Properties on Cotton Fabric for Textile Electronics

Huda Badghaish

Sunday, November 05, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8340105925?pwd=OU1zVkdCK21tSllScjEzZkQyR3c0dz09

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spatial and Spatio-temporal Statistical Methods for Environment and Public Health Applications

Andre Victor Ribeiro Amaral

Thursday, November 02, 11:45

- 14:30

Building 9, Level 4, Room 4225; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94077068064

PhD Dissertation Defense

Transient Numerical Schemes in Electromagnetics: From Electromagnetic Scattering to Multiphysics Simulation

Ming Dong

Wednesday, October 25, 13:00

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Molecular Generation via Deep Generative Models

Changsheng Ma

Tuesday, October 24, 14:30

- 16:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94342095932

PhD Dissertation Defense

Improvement of InGaN-based light-emitting diodes: hydrogen passivation - based device fabrication, LED structure optimization, and III-Nitride growth using different substrates

Pavel Kirilenko

Sunday, October 22, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Coverage Performance Analysis for the Full Connected Underwater Acoustic Communication Network

Jiajie Xu

Sunday, October 08, 13:00

- 14:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Low-Coherence Surface-Emitting Lasers for Optical Wireless Communication and Low-Speckle Illumination

Omar Alkhazragi

Sunday, October 08, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Toward Sustainable Transportation: A Driver-Centric Approach to Deploying Charging Infrastructure for Electric Vehicles

Duc Minh Nguyen

Thursday, September 28, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Stability and Asymptotics in Electrohydrodynamics

Nuno J. Alves

Tuesday, September 12, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Spatial Models and Extreme-Value Methods for Wildfire Risk Assessment

Daniela Cisneros

Monday, September 11, 16:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97801785665

PhD Dissertation Defense

Mean Field Games price formation models

Julian David Gutierrez Pineda

Wednesday, September 06, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Model-Based Computational Cryo-Electron Tomography Joint Reconstruction with Awareness of Noise

Yuanhao Wang

Monday, September 04, 17:30

- 19:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Tackling the Communication Bottlenecks of Distributed Deep Learning Training Workloads

Chen-Yu (Elton) Ho

Monday, August 14, 08:00

- 10:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99759217604

PhD Dissertation Defense

Model-based and Learned, Inverse Rendering for 3D Scene Reconstruction and View Synthesis

Rui Li

Monday, July 24, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

PhD Dissertation Defense

Prioritizing Causative Genomic Variants by Integrating Molecular and Functional Annotations from Multiple Biomedical Ontologies

Azza Althagafi

Thursday, July 20, 13:00

- 17:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Ontology design patterns and methods for integrating phenotype ontologies

Sarah Alghamdi

Thursday, July 20, 09:00

- 10:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209.

PhD Dissertation Defense

Solutions for Perishables Shelf-life Extension and Spoilage Detection Towards Food Waste Reduction

Asrar Damdam

Sunday, July 16, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Cybersecure and Resilient Power Systems with Distributed Energy Resources

Ioannis (Yannis) Zografopoulos

Monday, July 10, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Axisymmetric flows with swirl for Euler and Navier-Stokes equations

Ioanna Mousikou

Thursday, July 06, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Low-Power Edge-Enabled Sensor Platforms

Jose Ilton De Oliveira Filho

Thursday, July 06, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors Modeling, Epitaxy, Processing, and Applications for Ultraviolet Emission and Detection

Yi Lu

Thursday, June 08, 14:30

- 16:30

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98737157935

PhD Dissertation Defense

Exploiting Data Sparsity in Matrix Algorithms for Adaptive Optics and Seismic Imaging

Yuxi Hong

Wednesday, June 07, 14:30

- 17:00

Building 2, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/my/yuxihong

PhD Dissertation Defense

Approximate Bayesian inference based on dense matrices and new features using INLA

Esmail Abdul Fattah

Sunday, June 04, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99802128930

Bayesian computational statistics

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contemporary Techniques in the Emerging Free Space Optical Communication Systems

Dmitrii Briantcev

Sunday, June 04, 12:30

- 14:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Leave-Group-Out Cross-Validation for Latent Gaussian Models

Zhedong Liu

Tuesday, May 30, 15:30

- 17:30

Building 1, Room 4102; https://kaust.zoom.us/my/zhedong

PhD Dissertation Defense

Criticism and robustification of latent Gaussian models

Rafael Medeiros Cabral

Sunday, May 28, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 4, Room 4102; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/7276313489

latent Gaussian models

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards The Implementation of Reliable Hyperloop Communication Systems

Wafa Hedhly

Wednesday, May 24, 09:00

- 10:45

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards the Inference, Understanding, and Reasoning on Edge Devices

Guoqing Ma

Wednesday, May 10, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Query Localization in Long-form Videos

Mengmeng Xu (Frost)

Thursday, May 04, 07:30

- 09:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/8868108577

PhD Dissertation Defense

GNSS Localization and Attitude Determination via Optimization Techniques on Riemannian Manifolds

Xing Liu

Wednesday, May 03, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Data-efficient Graph Learning

Qiannan Zhang

Tuesday, May 02, 18:00

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93037578099

PhD Dissertation Defense

Fabrication of metasurfaces operating in the visible via nanotechnology and artificial intelligence

Fedor Getman

Tuesday, May 02, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 3, Level 2, Lobby Sea Side

PhD Dissertation Defense

Latent Space Manipulation of GANs for Seamless Image Compositing

Anna Fruehstueck

Monday, April 17, 17:30

- 18:30

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5220; Zoom Link: https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91763886566; Passcode: KAUST

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Designing Robust Deep Learning Models for 3D Understanding

Abdullah Hamdi

Monday, April 10, 17:00

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220

deep neural networks

PhD Dissertation Defense

Modeling and Inference for Multivariate Time Series, with Applications to Integer-Valued Processes and Nonstationary Extreme Data

Matheus B. Guerrero

Tuesday, April 04, 16:00

- 19:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95859608188

PhD Dissertation Defense

Flexible Multivariate, Spatial, and Causal Models for Extremes

Yan Gong

Tuesday, March 28, 16:00

- 19:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97763748127

PhD Dissertation Defense

Interpretation, Verification and Privacy Techniques for Improving the Trustworthiness of Neural Networks

Arnaud Dethise

Wednesday, March 22, 12:30

- 14:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96771488660

PhD Dissertation Defense

Generative Models for Neural Fields

Ivan Skorokhodov

Wednesday, February 15, 20:10

- 22:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/96924769576

Deep generative models

PhD Dissertation Defense

Extracting Semantic and Geometric Information in Images and Videos using GANs

Rameen Abdal

Wednesday, February 15, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94085653142

GaN

PhD Dissertation Defense

Electromagnetic Analysis of Plasmonic Nanostructures by Using a Coupled system Volume Integral and Hydrodynamic Equations

Doolos Aibek Uulu

Wednesday, February 15, 14:30

- 16:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Nanostructured Group-III Nitrides for Photoelectrocatalytic Applications and Renewable Energy Harvesting

Huafan Zhang

Tuesday, February 14, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Energy-Efficient Neuromorphic Computing Systems

Wenzhe Guo

Tuesday, February 07, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 4, Level 5, Room 5209

neuromorphic computing

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Richer Video Representation for Action Understanding

Humam Alwassel

Monday, January 23, 18:30

- 20:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Simulation and Calibration of Uncertain Space Fractional Diffusion Equations

Hasnaa Alzahrani

Tuesday, January 10, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/97190474480

PhD Dissertation Defense

Bayesian Non-parametric Models for Time Series Decomposition

Guillermo C. Granados Garcia

Thursday, January 05, 17:00

- 19:00

Building 1, Room 4214

spectral density function

PhD Dissertation Defense

Performance Analysis of Free Space Optical (FSO) Link with Pointing Errors

KugJin Jung

Tuesday, December 13, 10:00

- 12:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

Free-space optical communication

PhD Dissertation Defense

Performance Analysis and Throughput Maximization of Satellite Communication Systems with Randomly Located Users

Dong Hyoun Na

Sunday, December 11, 08:00

- 10:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

satellite communication

PhD Dissertation Defense

Machine learning in hardware via trained metasurface encoders: theory, design and applications

Maksim Makarenko

Wednesday, November 23, 10:00

- 12:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Numerical approximations of Mean-Field-Games

Serikbolsyn Duisembay

Monday, November 07, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Level 2, Room 2202

Mean Field Games

PhD Dissertation Defense

Multivariate Functional Data Analysis and Visualization

Zhuo Qu

Monday, November 07, 11:00

- 13:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95838296527

PhD Dissertation Defense

Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Device Design via Machine Learning

Rongyu Lin

Wednesday, November 02, 15:30

- 17:30

Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Microstructural Analysis and Engineering of III-Nitride-Based Heterostructures for Optoelectronic Devices

Martín Velázquez Rizo

Tuesday, November 01, 10:00

- 11:30

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

photocatalytic energy conversion

PhD Dissertation Defense

Flexible Extremal Dependence Models for Multivariate and Spatial Extremes

Zhongwei Zhang

Tuesday, October 25, 15:00

- 18:00

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92015547878

PhD Dissertation Defense

Synergistic Multi-Source Ambient Radio Frequency and Thermal Energy Harvesting for IoT Applications

Azamat Bakytbekov

Tuesday, October 25, 15:00

- 16:00

Building 16, Level 3, Room 3101

PhD Dissertation Defense

Towards Structured Intelligence with Deep Graph Neural Networks

Guohao Li

Wednesday, October 05, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Pulse Shaped Waveform Characterization using the Schrödinger Operator's Spectrum

Peihao Li

Sunday, September 18, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 1, Room 4214

PhD Dissertation Defense

Optimal Algorithms for Affinely Constrained, Distributed, Decentralized, Minimax, and High-Order Optimization Problems

Dmitry Kovalev

Wednesday, September 14, 16:00

- 18:30

Building 5, Room 5220

PhD Dissertation Defense

Liquid Metal-Based Inertial Sensors for Motion Monitoring and Human Machine Interfaces

Wedyan Babatain

Tuesday, July 19, 15:00

- 16:00

Auditorium 0215 (between Building 2 and 3)

PhD Dissertation Defense

Mean-Field Games on Networks and Wardrop Equilibria

Fatimah H. Al Saleh, PhD Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Wednesday, July 06, 10:00

- 12:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92512099536

PhD Dissertation Defense

Drug Repositioning through the Development of Diverse Computational Methods using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Graph Mining

Maha Thafar

Thursday, June 30, 08:30

- 10:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/s/96993442133

PhD Dissertation Defense

Better Methods and Theory for Federated Learning: Compression, Client Selection, and Heterogeneity

Samuel Horváth

Monday, June 27, 18:00

- 20:00

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface for Next-Generation Networks

Jia Ye

Thursday, June 23, 16:00

- 18:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3-123

PhD Dissertation Defense

High-Performance Scientific Applications Using Mixed Precisions and Low-Rank Approximations Powered by Task-based Runtime Systems

Rabab Alomairy

Monday, June 20, 11:00

- 13:00

Building 9, Level 4, Room 4223

PhD Dissertation Defense

Joint Posterior Inference for Latent Gaussian Models and extended strategies using INLA

Cristian Chiuchiolo

Monday, June 06, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/94924228096

PhD Dissertation Defense

Contributions to Data-driven and Fractional-order Model-based Approaches for Arterial Haemodynamics Characterization and Aortic Stiffness Estimation

Mohamed Abdelwaheb Bahloul

Tuesday, April 26, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/5701046454; Building 1, Level 4, Room 4318

PhD Dissertation Defense

Energy-Efficient Devices and Circuits for Ultra-Low Power VLSI Applications

Ren Li, PhD Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Wednesday, April 20, 15:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/93429662866

PhD Dissertation Defense

Bayesian Modeling of Sub-Asymptotic Spatial Extremes

Rishikesh Yadav

Tuesday, April 05, 15:00

- 17:00

Building 5, Level 5, Room 5220; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98137502556

PhD Dissertation Defense

Learning-Based Approaches for Next-Generation Intelligent Networks

Liang Zhang

Tuesday, April 05, 14:00

- 16:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/99609805192

PhD Dissertation Defense

Modeling and Simulation of Spatial Extremes Based on Max-Infinitely Divisible and Related Processes

Peng Zhong

Monday, April 04, 17:00

- 19:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/92152610311

PhD Dissertation Defense

To Encourage or to Restrict: the Label Dependency in Multi-Label Learning

Zhuo Yang

Wednesday, March 30, 17:30

- 19:30

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95328976703

PhD Dissertation Defense

Omics-based Metastasis Prediction using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Somayah Albaradei

Wednesday, March 30, 14:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98007745127

PhD Dissertation Defense

Multifunctional Flexible Laser-Scribed Graphene Sensors for Resilient and Sustainable Electronics

Altynay Kaidarova

Monday, March 28, 13:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98812052166

Laser-scribed graphene

PhD Dissertation Defense

The capabilities of summation-by-parts and structure-preserving operators for compressible computational fluid dynamics and reaction-diffusion models

Mohammed Sayyari

Monday, March 21, 14:00

- 16:00

Building 2 Level 5 Room 5209

PhD Dissertation Defense

Underwater optical communication and sensing technology in silent ocean

Yujian Guo

Sunday, March 20, 13:00

- 15:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/9555063071

PhD Dissertation Defense

Coupled Sampling Methods for Filtering

Fangyuan Yu

Monday, March 07, 15:00

- 17:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/6992288669

PhD Dissertation Defense

Fully-integrated systems and self-powered gas sensors for sustainable environment monitoring

Mani Teja Vijjapu

Thursday, February 03, 13:30

- 15:00

Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209; https://kaust.zoom.us/j/95261438154

PhD Dissertation Defense

Miniaturized Drug Delivery Systems for Biomedical Applications

Khalil Moussi

Tuesday, January 18, 18:15

- 20:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/91629656542

PhD Dissertation Defense

Multilevel Methods for Stochastic Forward and Inverse Problems

Marco Ballesio

Wednesday, January 12, 11:00

- 12:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/98533448697

PhD Dissertation Defense

Control Design for Alignment Problem in Optical Wireless Communication

Asem Al Alwan

Thursday, December 23, 16:00

- 18:00

https://kaust.zoom.us/j/5063529298

PhD Dissertation Defense

Signal Processing and Optimization Techniques for High Accuracy Indoor Localization, Tracking, and Attitude Determination

Mohammed Hussain AlSharif

Thursday, December 16, 14:00

- 15:00

Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119

PhD Dissertation Defense

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

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

Amr M. 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

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