Events

Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2025

Will AI Replace Professors?

Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Chair and Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Dec 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B2/B3 A0215

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2025

Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots with Closed-Loop Guarantees

Mohamed Elobaid, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Nov 2 - Nov 8, 2025

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Cybersecurity Threats to Power Grid Operations from the Demand-Side Response Ecosystem

Subhash Lakshminarayana, Associate Professor, University of Warwick, UK

Nov 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

The KAUST 2025 Workshop on Statistics

Nov 2, 09:00 - Nov 6, 17:00

Between Building 2 / 3, Level 0, Auditorium 0215

Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2025

Integrated Silicon Photonics with Quantum Dot On-Chip Lasers

Yating Wan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Oct 19 - Oct 25, 2025

One-on-One Statistical Consulting for KAUST Researchers 2025

Oct 20, All day

B1 L4 R4102

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2025

Learning-Based Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems with Convergence Guarantees

Yasmine Marani, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 14, 10:00 - 12:00

B3 L5 R5220

KAUST Robotics Bay Inauguration

Oct 13, 14:00 - 15:30

B5 L2 R2800

robotics autonomous systems Mechatronics Multi-agent systems

Bio-Inspired Consensus Enabledby Distributed Active Perception

Fumin Zhang, Chair Professor and Director, Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Oct 13, 12:00 - 13:00

Auditorium (between Buildings 4 and 5), Level 0, Room 0215

Phase-Change Memory for In-Memory Computing

Ghazi Sarwat Syed, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Switzerland

Oct 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Oct 5 - Oct 11, 2025

Block Low-Rank Matrices for Modern Scientific Computing

Daria Sushnikova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Oct 9, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

FIFA Research Institute

Silvio Giancola, Research Scientist, Image and Video Understanding Lab

Oct 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI Sports FIFA

Silicon-Based mm-Wave Phased-Arrays for 5G/6G and SATCOM

Abdulrahman Alhamed, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 5, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2025

AI for Science: AI-Driven Knowledge Discovery

Dongxiao Zhang, Chair Professor, Faculty of Engineering; Provost and Executive Vice President, Eastern Institute of Technology, Ningbo (EIT)

Oct 2, 14:30 - 15:30

B1 L3 R3119

AI machine learning

Efficient Bayesian Methods for Biostatistics

Janet van Niekerk, Research Scientist, Statistics

Oct 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

bayesian methods

Towards Finite Element Tensor Calculus

Kaibo Hu, Associate Professor, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Sep 30, 14:30 - 15:30

B1 L3 R3119

Finite elements tensor calculus PDEs

New Challenges in the Kinetic Theory of Complex Fluids

Umberto Zerbinati, Stipendiary Lecturer, Oriel College, University of Oxford

Sep 29, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L4 R4214

PDEs numerical PDEs Kinetic Theory

Robotics at KAUST

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

robotics

Programmable Matter: Liquid Metal for Reconfigurable Electronics and Logic

Wedyan Babatain, Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab

Sep 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

liquid metal

Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2025

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Nonparametric Functional Quantiles, Skewness, and Probability Bands via the Functional Signed Directionality

Emmanuel Ambriz, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics

Sep 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

functional signed directionality

Advice and Comments About Research

Peter Wonka, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 22, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

academic life

Forays into modular drones: Sierpinsky tetrahedra, dodecahedra, and Alexander Graham Bell

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

modular drons

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2025

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Neural Methods for Amortized Inference with Models for Spatial Extremes

Raphaël Huser, Associate Professor, Statistics

Sep 18, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Geometric Sensor Fusion for Pose Estimation on Riemannian Manifolds

Mohammed Hussain AlSharif, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Sep 18, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3119

From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 16, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM

From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 15, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM

Optical Frequency Combs: From Conventional Techniques to Emerging Approaches

Aram Mkrtchyan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 14, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Sep 7 - Sep 13, 2025

Gaussian Random Fields on Metric Graphs

David Bolin, Professor, Statistics

Sep 11, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 B2 L2325

Gaussian random fields Metric graphs Statistical Modeling

Innovative Multi-Band Antenna Designs for Internet of Sea Applications

Hanguang Liao, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 8, 14:00 - 16:00

B2, L5, R5209

Building a Safer and More Equitable Internet in the Age of AI

Zafar Qazi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Sep 8, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Watching Earth from Space: Methane, Mangroves, and Sinkholes in Saudi Arabia

Abdulrahman Aljurbua, Assistant Research Professor, KACST; Ibn Rushd Fellow, KAUST; Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

Sep 7, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Aug 31 - Sep 6, 2025

From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM

Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies

Stefan Schmid, Professor, Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin

Sep 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

(Ultra)wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Future of Moore’s Law

Xiaohang Li, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aug 31, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R2325

Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2025

Beyond Connectivity: Paving the Road to Perceptive and Intelligent Networks

Hesham ElSawy, Associate Professor, School of Computing, Queen’s University

Aug 26, 13:30 - 14:30

B1 L3 R3119

Intelligent Communication connectivity edge computing

Visual Analytics for Macromolecular Science

Deng Luo, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Aug 25, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 L2 R2202; Zoom Meeting 96140008642

bioinformatics artificial intelligence nanovisualization

Asymptotic Analysis of Precoding in Large-Scale Multi-User Systems

Xiuxiu Ma, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Aug 25, 08:30 - 10:00

B1 L3 R3119

MIMO Massive MIMO

Jul 27 - Aug 2, 2025

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Toward Robust Multimodal Egocentric Video Understanding

Merey Ramazanova, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science

Jul 28, 17:00 - 17:45

B4 L5 R5209; Zoom Meeting 92591807769

egocentric video Multimodal learning robust modeling

Jul 20 - Jul 26, 2025

Hardware Centric Quantized Convolutional Neural Network and Algorithms

Li Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 24, 09:00 - 10:00

B3 L5 R5209

machine learning accelerators FPGA

Simulation of Metasurfaces Described by Generalized Sheet Transition Conditions Using Integral Equations

Sebastian Celis Sierra, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 23, 10:00 - 11:00

B3 L5 R5209

computational electromagnetics Metasurfaces three-dimensional

Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2025

Design of Neuromorphic Object Detection Systems

Diego Augusto Silva, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 16, 16:00 - 17:00

B3 L5 R5209

event-based object detection neuromorphic vision systems efficient deep learning architectures

Randomized Greedy Algorithms for Neural Network Optimization in Solving Partial Differential Equations

Xiaofeng Xu, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jul 15, 17:00 - 19:00

B4 L5 R5220

PDEs optimization machine learning randomized orthogonal greedy algorithm

Towards Scalable and Efficient Semantic Video Search

Mattia Soldan, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jul 13, 18:00 - 19:00

B4 L5 R5209

video-language grounding semantic video retrieval multimodal alignment

Jul 6 - Jul 12, 2025

Discovery of Low-Dimensional Generative Models for Complex Dynamical Systems

Juan Pablo Muñoz Díaz, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jul 9, 09:00 - 10:00

B2 L5 R5220; Zoom Meeting 95274807609

generative ai applied mathematics bioscience Dynamical Systems deep learning

Theory and Implementation of Novel Numerical Methods for Multiphysics Interface Problems

Najwa Alshehri, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jul 8, 15:00 - 17:00

B2/B3 L0 R0215

finite element method numerical analysis fluid-structure interactions mixed finite elements

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Towards Usable and Useful Explainable AI

Lijie Hu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jul 7, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L5 R5220

explainable AI Large Language Models multimodal models

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Explainability and Efficiency in Spatio-Temporal Models: Applications to Traffic Forecasting

Xiaochuan Gou, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jul 6, 15:00 - 18:00

B5 L5 R5209

traffic forecasting Graph Neural Networks model interpretability

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Modern Privacy-preserving Machine Learning: Rigorous Approach for Data Privacy

Zihang Xiang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jul 6, 10:00 - 12:00

B3 L5 R5216

privacy-preserving machine learning Differential privacy Federated learning

Jun 29 - Jul 5, 2025

Towards Efficient AI Hardware: Software-Hardware Co-Design for In-Memory Computing Accelerators

Olga Krestinskaya, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 29, 08:00 - 10:00

Zoom Meeting 980 9796 2723; B4 L5 R5220

Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2025

Computer Vision for Video Editing Learning to Cut, Classify, Assemble, and Generate

Alejandro Pardo, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 23, 10:00 - 12:00

Click here to join the Ph.D. defense via Zoom