Events

Apr 19 - Apr 13, 2025

Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits with Integrated Lasers

John E. Bowers, Distinguished Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Stanta Barbara, United States

Apr 16, 09:30 - 10:30

B9 L2 R2322

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

Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency in Distributed and Federated Learning: Compression, Local Training, and Personalization

Kai Yi, Ph.D. Student, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Apr 14, 18:00 - 20:00

B5 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

Enhancing Solar Fuel Production Performance through Catalyst Design and Device Engineering

Fei Xiang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 13, 14:00 - 16:00

B2 L5 R5209

Gallium Oxide Diodes: Past , Present and Future Applications

Jose Manuel Taboada Vasquez, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Apr 12 - Apr 6, 2025

The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Advantage

David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

quantum computing quantum processing unit supercomputers

Helmholtz–Korteweg Equations: Modeling, Analysis, and Applications

Umberto Zerbinati

Apr 8, 15:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4102

Korteweg fluids Helmholtz–Korteweg equation

Architecture and System Co-Design for High-performance LLM Inference and Training

Jingwen Leng, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Apr 7, 11:00 - 12:00

B9 L2 R2325

Workshop on Analysis and PDEs

Apr 7, 08:00 - Apr 10, 17:00

B3, L5, R5220

PDEs Analysis of PDE's fluid dynamics free boundary problems energy minimization Mathematical Biology

Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2025

Apr 7 - 10, All day

Building 19, Halls 1, 2 and 3

SAAI Factory 3

Apr 6, 08:00 - Apr 14, 14:45

Buildings 20 and Buildings 19

artificial intelligence AI art machine learning Hackathon

Mar 29 - Mar 23, 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

Some Contributions to Particle and Unbiased Simulation Methods

Elsiddig Awadelkarim Elsiddig, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Mar 26, 10:00 - 12:00

B3 L5 R5209; Zoom Meeting 95303621356

Bayesian Statistics machine learning

Dimension Liftings for Quantum Computation of Partial Differential Equations and Related Problems

Shi Jin, Director of Institute of Natural Sciences, Chair Professor of Mathematics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Mar 25, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

PDEs Schrödinger equation quantum simulation quantum computing

Statistical Models and Methods Based on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

David Bolin, Professor, Statistics

Mar 23, 14:00 - 15:30

B9 L2 R2322; Zoom Meeting ID 93209452060

SPDEs non-Gaussian random fields statistical analysis Metric graphs

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

Sense of Touch: from Haptics to Robotic Tactile Sensing

Zhanat Kappassov, Associate Professor, School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan

Mar 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

biomedical sensing robotics haptics

Mar 22 - Mar 16, 2025

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

Mikhail Moshkov, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Mar 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Color-Converting Luminescent Devices for High-Speed Optical Wireless Communication

Yue Wang, Ph.D. Candidate (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 20, 10:00 - 11:30

B3 L5 R5209

Free-space optical communications Underwater wireless optical communication luminescent optoelectronics fiber optics

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

Bridging 2D and 3D for Label-Efficient Learning in Scene Understanding

Timo Ropinski, Professor, Institute of Media Informatics, Ulm University, Germany

Mar 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

iHunter: Empowering Autonomous UAVs for Robust, Real-Time Aerial Terget Tracking and Trajectory Prediction

Mohamed Abdelkader, Assistant Professor, Computer and Information Sciences, Prince Sultan University

Mar 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

UAV Aerial Robotics

Mar 15 - Mar 9, 2025

On the Use of "Conventional" Unconstrained Minimization Solvers for Training Regression Problems in Scientific Machine Learning

Stefano Zampini, Senior Research Scientist, Hierarchical Computations on Manycore Architectures

Mar 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

petsc PETScML machine learning

Viscous Thin Films Driven by Thermal Noise

Manuel V. Gnann, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Mar 11, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

The American Statistical Association (ASA) KAUST Student Chapter

One-on-One Statistical Consulting for KAUST Researchers

Mar 11, 10:00 - 16:00

B1 L4 R4102

Chase and Escape from Sticks to Groups: Effects of Noise and Delay

Toru Ohira, Professor, Graduate School of Mathematics Division of Mathematics Advanced Topology, Nagoya University, Japan

Mar 10, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

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 8 - Mar 2, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Kaja-Dynamic

The Ball-Proximal (=“Broximal”) Point Method: a New Algorithm, Convergence Theory, and Applications

Kaja Gruntkowska, PhD student, Statistics, KAUST

Mar 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Gaming (in)security

Marc Dacier, Professor, Computer Science

Mar 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Millimeter Wave Antennas and Beamforming for Wireless Communication and Imaging Systems

Abdel Razik Sebak, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

Mar 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

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

Mar 1 - Feb 23, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Artavazd-Maranjyan-Ringmaster-ASGD

Ringmaster ASGD: The First Asynchronous SGD with Optimal Time Complexity

Arto Maranjyan, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Feb 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Longitude

Alessandro Astolfi, Professor, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Engineering, Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy

Feb 26, 11:30 - 12:30

B3 L5 R5220

Adapting Foundation Models: From Reinforcement Learning to Multivariate Time Series Forecasting

Abdelhakim Benechehab, Ph.D. Student, EURECOM, France

Feb 24, 12:00 - 13:00

B4 L5 R5220

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 22 - Feb 16, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Boris-Mordukhovich-Derivative-free-nonconvex-opt-noise

Derivative-Free Methods in Nonconvex Optimization with and Without Noise

Boris Mordukhovich, Distinguished University Professor, Wayne State University

Feb 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Convergence of Descent Methods under Polyak- Lojasiewicz-Kurdyka Properties

Boris Mordukhovich, Distinguished Professor, Mathematics, Wayne State University, USA

Feb 19, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

optimization algorithm

Conformal Mapping and Invariants – Motivating Numerical PDE Approaches

Dr. Harri Hakula, Principal University Lecturer, Mathematics and Systems Analysis, Aalto University, Finland

Feb 18, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

PDEs numerical methods optimization

mR_LWE-CP-ABE: a Recoverable CP-ABE protocol for Post-quantum Cryptography

Dr. Elia Onofri, Researcher, The Institute of Applied Mathematics of the National Research Council of Italy

Feb 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Cryptography

Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductor Devices and Monolithic Circuits

Dhanu Chettri, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 17, 08:30 - 09:30

B3 L5 R5220

advanced semiconductors Ultrawide bandgap materials CMOS electronics Transistors Gallium oxide Aluminium nitride

Feb 15 - Feb 9, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Aelson-Sobral-infinity-laplacian

Recent Advances in Infinity Laplacian Equations

Aelson Sobral, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Feb 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

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

Spatial Dataflow is all you need!

Jian Weng, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Feb 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

machine learning RTL computational methods

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

Development of a Four-Quadrant Gallium Oxide Bidirectional Switch

Dhanu Chettri, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Feb 9, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

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

Feb 8 - Feb 2, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Katerina-Nik-MEMS-Heterogeneous-Dielectric-Properties

A Limiting Model for MEMS with Heterogeneous Dielectric Properties

Katerina Nik, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Feb 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

KAUST-AMCS-Distinguished-Lectures-of-Mathematics-and-Applications

Random Matrix and SYK model

Prof. Gang Tian

Feb 4, 16:00 - 17:00

B1, L3, R3119