Events

Oct 30 - Nov 5, 2022

The KAUST 2022 Workshop on Statistics

Oct 31, 09:00 - Nov 3, 17:00

B2 B3 A0215

statistics data science big data modeling complex data

The workshop will cover current trends in statistics and the statistical modeling of big and complex data. Over four days, it will have talks by leading experts as well as two poster sessions where students and postdocs will present their work. All talks will be given Auditorium 0215, between Buildings 2 and 3 at KAUST. Speakers Aritz Adin (Public University of Navarre) Ahmadou Alioum (Bordeaux School of Public Health) Denis Allard (INRAE) Vera Baladandayupathani (University of Michigan) Emily Hector (North Carolina State University) Eduardo Garcia Portugues (Carlos III University of Madrid)
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

Next-generation wireless networks are envisioned to break the boundaries of the current terrestrial-based networks and fully adopt the Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTNs).
Toward scalable and high performance on-chip light source for integrated silicon photonics

Chen Shang, Postoctoral Researcher Fellow, University of California Santa Barbara

Oct 30, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

Integrated Photonics technology

Monolithic integration of quantum dot (QD) gain materials onto Si photonic platforms via direct epitaxial growth is considered as the ultimate solution for on-chip light sources.

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

In this talk, I will first provide an overview of our research on design-for-testability of 3D integrated circuits, silicon lifecycle management, microfluidics, and hardware security, which all involve close industry collaborations. I will next describe in more detail our recent work on design-for-yield that targets manufacturing imperfections for layouts based on emerging carbon nanotube field-effect transistors. Following this, I will present our ongoing work on built-in self-test of monolithic 3D integrated circuits. Finally, I will describe a test and diagnosis technique to characterize fault origins in inter-tier vias and resistive random-access memories for monolithic 3D integration.
On Some PDEs with singular data

Prof. Mohammed Kbiri Alaoui, King Khalid University

Oct 25, 15:30 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

PDEs singular data

The aim of this talk is to investigate the following non local p-Laplacian problem with data a bounded Radon measure.
Flexible Extremal Dependence Models for Multivariate and Spatial Extremes

Zhongwei Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Oct 25, 15:00 - 18:00

B5 L5 R5220

Statistics of extremes spatial statistics

This dissertation consists of four major contributions to subasymptotic modeling of multivariate and spatial extremes. The dissertation proposes a multivariate skew-elliptical link model for correlated highly-imbalanced (extreme) binary responses, and shows that the regression coefficients have a closed-form unified skew-elliptical posterior with an elliptical prior.
A journey in applied complexity: pioneering record-performing technologies in clean energy harvesting, machine vision, and smart materials - Public Colloquium

Andrea Fratalocchi, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 25, 14:00 - 16:00

B9 L2 R2322

Applied complexity artificial intelligence information security biomedical applications

Applied Complexity aims to understand the physical origin of these behaviors and transform them into sustainable technologies that tackle global problems of global interest. These range from energy harvesting to clean water production, the design of smart materials, biomedical applications, information security, artificial intelligence, and global warming. In this talk, I will summarize my group's recent research, discussing present results and future challenges of Applied complexity both as a science and engineering.
Mean-Field Games on Networks and Wardrop Equilibria - Graduate Seminar

Ricardo De Lima Ribeiro, Research Specialist, CEMSE, KAUST

Oct 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

mean-field games

Models for flows on networks arise in the study of traffic and pedestrian crowds. These models encode congestion effects, the behavior and preferences of agents, such as aversion to crowds and their attempts to minimize travel time. We will present the Wardrop equilibrium model on networks with flow-dependent costs and its connection with stationary mean-field game.
Applied AI for sustainable development

Prof.Evgeny Burnaev, Applied AI Center, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology

Oct 24, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

Skoltech machine learning Bayesian modeling artificial intelligence

Skoltech Applied AI center’s mission is to create AI models and frameworks for solving the problems of sustainable development of industry and economy. In my presentation, I will overview the current center's activities, applied and fundamental problem statements, and corresponding recent results.
BioChips: Leveraging Integrated Electronics for Sensing, Medicine, and Science

Pamela Abshire, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Institute for Systems Research at the University of Maryland, College Park

Oct 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

biomedical electronics Biosensors

This talk will provide a brief overview of LoCMOS systems, the technologies used to construct them, and their application to novel applications in biosensing, medical diagnostics, and neuroscience. The integration of integrated circuits into LoCMOS devices poses a number of distinct and vexing challenges, increasing complexity while reducing the need for external instrumentation.

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

In this work, we proved statistical inference for the common Z-estimator based on adaptively sampled data. Adaptive sampling methods, such as reinforcement learning (RL) and bandit algorithms, are increasingly used for the real-time personalization of interventions in digital applications like mobile health and education. As a result, there is a need to be able to use the resulting adaptively collected user data to address a variety of inferential questions, including questions about time-varying causal effects.
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

Reinforcement Learning provides an attractive suite of online learning methods for personalizing interventions in Digital Behavioral Health. However, after a reinforcement learning algorithm has been run in a clinical study, how do we assess whether personalization occurred? We might find users for whom it appears that the algorithm has indeed learned in which contexts the user is more responsive to a particular intervention. But could this have happened completely by chance? We discuss some first approaches to addressing these questions.
Gradient Estimates for weak solutions of Elliptic PDE's - Colloquium

Giuseppe Di Fazio, Professor, University of Catania

Oct 18, 15:30 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

Elliptic PDE

In the Seminar, we exploit what is the heart of the technique to show gradient estimates allowing the function ? to belong to very general function spaces. Our technique is very flexible and allows us to show the existence, uniqueness, and well-posedness of the Dirichlet problem in several classes.
Distributed multi-GPU Algorithms for Hierarchical Matrices

George Turkiyyah, Research Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Oct 18, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

GPU Algorithms hierarchical matrices

In this talk, we show that, besides their optimal O(N) algorithmic complexity, hierarchical matrix operations also benefit from parallel scalability on distributed machines with extremely large core counts. In particular, we describe high-performance, distributed-memory, GPU-accelerated algorithms for matrix-vector multiplication and other operations on hierarchical matrices in the H^2 format.
Recent advances in mixed finite element approximation for poroelasticity

Arbaz Khan, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)

Oct 18, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3119

parallel computing Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations stochastic differential equations

This talk discusses the non-conforming approximation of Biot's consolidation model. In the first part of the talk, we discuss posteriori error estimators for locking-free mixed finite element approximation of Biot’s consolidation model. In the second part of the talk, we discuss a novel locking-free stochastic Galerkin mixed finite element method for the Biot consolidation model with uncertain Young’s modulus and hydraulic conductivity field.

Oct 9 - Oct 15, 2022

Oct 2 - Oct 8, 2022

Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2022

Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2022

Sep 11 - Sep 17, 2022

Sep 4 - Sep 10, 2022

Aug 28 - Sep 10, 2022

Compound Semiconductor Weekend

Integrated Photonics Laboratory; Smart, Advanced Memory devices and Applications Laboratory; Photonics Laboratory; Advanced Semiconductor Laboratory

Sep 3, 09:00 - Sep 5, 17:00

B3 L5 R5209

The Compound Semiconductor Weekend will focus on some of the most important research areas on the beautiful KAUST campus by the Red Sea. It features 18 invited and contributed oral talks and a poster competition. Semiconductor technology is a major foundation of the third and fourth Industrial Revolutions as well as the modern society. While silicon remains as the widest-employed semiconductor, compound semiconductors have emerged from lab research to becoming the second most widely used within a short period of time. This is because compound semiconductors could possess multiple superior key properties simultaneously. They include high speed, high power, and efficient light emission and absorption, as well as that they can be produced in large scale at low cost and are highly robust. As a result, they have become cornerstones of many crucial technologies including lighting, display, communication, space exploration, and electric vehicles. While semiconductor researchers are plowing deeper for those technologies, compound semiconductors attract increasing attention for future computing, memory, and quantum information science as the pursuit of Moore’s Law has slowed down dramatically when the size of silicon transistors is approaching the physical limit of a few atoms.

Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2022