Events

May 18 - May 24, 2025

Stochastic Numerics and Statistical Learning Workshop

Stochastic Numerics and Statistical Learning: Theory and Applications Workshop 2025

May 18 - 25, All day

Auditorium 0215 between B2 & B3

stochastic algorithm statistical learning machine learning

Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2025

The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Utility

David Keyes, Senior Associate to the President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Apr 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

GaN-based VCSELs and Future of Semiconductor Lasers

Tatsushi Hamaguchi, Professor, Innovation Center for Semiconductor and Digital Future

Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 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 - 11:00

B9 L2 R2322

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

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 6 - Apr 12, 2025

The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Advantage

David Keyes, Senior Associate to the President, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Apr 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

quantum computing quantum processing unit supercomputers

Workshop on Analysis and PDEs

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

B3, L5, R5220

PDEs Analysis of PDE's fluid dynamics

Mar 23 - Mar 29, 2025

Statistical Models and Methods Based on Stochastic Partial Differential Equations

David Bolin, Associate Professor, Statistics

Mar 23, 14:00 - 15:30

Zoom Meeting ID 93209452060

SPDEs non-Gaussian random fields statistical analysis Metric graphs

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 16 - Mar 22, 2025

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

Mikhail Moshkov, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Mar 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

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

Yue Wang, Ph.D. Student, 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 9 - Mar 15, 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 2 - Mar 8, 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

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

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

Feb 23 - Mar 1, 2025

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

Ringmaster ASGD: The First Asynchronous SGD with Optimal Time Complexity

Artavazd Maranjyan, PhD Student, AMCS, KAUST

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

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

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

Feb 16 - Feb 22, 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 9 - Feb 15, 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 Sciences

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 2 - Feb 8, 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 Sciences

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

Metrics, Mayhem, and Microservices: Taming the Cloud Observability Beast

Alessandro Cornacchia, Postdoctoral Fellow

Feb 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

KAUST-CEMSE-The-International-Research-Conference-on-Multi-Grid-and-Multi-Scale-Methods-in-Computational-Science

KAUST International Research Conference on Multi-Grid and Multi-Scale Methods in Computational Science, IMG 2025

Feb 3 - 5, All day

Building 19 and 20

Multigrid Domain Decomposition HPC computational fluid dynamics Computational finance

Vehicular Edge Services

Dr. Hossam Hassanein, Professors, School of Computing, Queen's University

Feb 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

IEEE Antennas and Propagation Society Distinguished Lecturer Workshop

Feb 2 - 4, All day

Auditorium between Buildings 2 and 3

Workshops

antenna design Radio Wave Propagation Modeling wave propagation IEEE

Jan 26 - Feb 1, 2025

KAUST-CEMSE-AMCS-STAT-Graduate-Seminar-Melih-Ucer-hamilton-Jacobi-Equations

Singular Points of Solutions of Hamilton-Jacobi Equations

Melih Ucer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jan 30, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

kaust-amcs-Professor-Lourenco-Beirao-da-Veiga

An introduction to Virtual Elements in 3D

Professor Lourenco Beirao da Veiga, University of Milano-Bicocca

Jan 28, 16:00 - 17:00

B1, L3, R3119

KAUST-CEMSE-ECE-PhD-Dissertation-Defense-Mritunjay-Kumar

Extreme Temperature Performance and Heterogenous Integration of AlGaN/GaN HEMTs for Power Electronics

Mritunjay Kumar , Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jan 28, 15:30 - 17:30

B2, L5, R5220

Comments about Research in Computer Science

Peter Wonka, Professor, Computer Science

Jan 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325