Events

Nov 19 - Nov 25, 2023

Natural Language Models For Unnatural Languages

Wamiq Para, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 20, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 L2 R2202

Multi-agent higher-order learning vs Nash equilibrium

Jeff Shamma

Nov 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B5 L5 R5209

Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Transformers

Di Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Nov 20, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

transformers nlp interpretation faithfulness

Inferring effects of mutations from genomic evolutionary history

Dr. Muhammad Saqib Sohail, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nov 20, 11:30 - 12:30

B1 L3 R3119

Future Electronics Beyond the FinFET and GAA-FETs

Uttam Kumar Das, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 19, 16:00 - 18:00

B9 L2 H2322

Interface engineering for GaN HEMTs

Chuanju Wang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 19, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

semiconductor

Nov 12 - Nov 18, 2023

Multiscale Learning of High-dimensional Cell Fate

Prof. Qing Nie, Department of Mathematics, Department of Developmental and Cell Biology, NSF-Simons Center for Multiscale Cell Fate Research, University of California, Irvine

Nov 16, 15:30 - 17:00

B9 L4 R4225

How do periodic structures affect nonlinear waves?

David Ketcheson, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Nov 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

Tensor-train Methods for Partial Differential Equations and its application to a Neutron Transport Problem

Daniele Boffi, Associate Dean for Faculty, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Nov 14, 15:30 - 17:00

B9 L4 R4225

Partial Differential Equations

The Partition of Unity Finite Element Method for the Schrödinger Equation

Francesca Gardini, Associate Professor, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Pavia, Italy

Nov 14, 14:30 - 15:30

B9 L4 R4225

Efficient Algorithms for Vision and Language Learning

Jun Chen , Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 14, 12:15 - 14:15

B1 L3 R3426

Experimental Design Statistical Workshop

Hernando Ombao, Professor, Statistics

Nov 14, 09:00 - Nov 15, 17:00

B1 L4 R4102

The SCION Research and Education Network

Adrian Perrig, Professor, the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Nov 13, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

cybersecurity internet architecture

Family of Mean-Mixtures of Multivariate Normal Distributions

Prof. Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University

Nov 12, 15:30 - 16:30

B1 L4 R4102

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

Deyao Zhu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 12, 15:00 - 16:30

B1 L4 R4214

Models and Inference for Non-Gaussian Random Vectors and Fields

Sagnik Mondal, Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Nov 12, 12:30 - 14:30

B5 L5 R5209

Mathematical Control Theory in Aeronautical Engineering: Boosted Maneuverability in Stall and Unconventional Stability of Insect Flight

Haithem Taha, Visiting Professor, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, KAUST

Nov 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

Aeronautical Sciences

Nov 5 - Nov 11, 2023

Security and privacy in centralized and decentralized machine learning

Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and an ICREA-Acadèmia, Research Professor, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia.

Nov 9, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

cybersecurity machine learning Security and Privacy attacks

Coded Super-MAC

Mohammed Zafar Ali Khan

Nov 8, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3426

A Brief Overview of Arabic NLP

Prof. Sakhar B. Alkhereyf

Nov 7, 15:30 - 17:00

B5 L5 R5209

nlp Arabic natural language processing

Interpretable Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs

Qiang Yang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 7, 15:00 - 17:00

B3 L5 R5220

Adaptive Optimization Algorithms for Machine Learning

Slavomir Hanzely, Ph.D. Student, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Nov 7, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L4 R4214

artificial intelligence machine learning

The Prospect of Generative Language Processing

Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Nov 6, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

nlp generative language processing artificial intelligence

The KAUST 2023 Workshop on Statistics

Nov 6, 09:00 - Nov 9, 17:00

B18 R4203

statistics data science modeling big data sustainability health environment

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

Huda Badghaish, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 5, 16:00 - 18:00

KAUST

Smart Multifunctional Electronic Devices for IoT and Healthcare Applications

Nazek El-Atab, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nov 5, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

CMOS electronics Multifunctional Electronic Devices

Oct 29 - Nov 4, 2023

Scheduling tasks in energy harvesting IoT

Stefano Chessa, Professor, Department of Computer Science, the University of Pisa, Italy.

Nov 2, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

IoT energy harvesting cybersecurity

Free Boundary Problems in Science and Engineering

Rafayel Teymurazyan, Research Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Nov 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

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

Andre Victor Ribeiro Amaral , Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Nov 2, 11:45 - 14:30

B9 L4 R4225

Scalable Spatial Data Science for Social Scientists

Prof. Amr Magdy

Oct 31, 16:30 - 17:30

B4 L5 R5220

data science Spatial data

Quantum Computing with Xanadu

Catalina Albornoz, Quantum Community Manager at Xanadu

Oct 31, 15:30 - 17:00

KAUST

quantum computing PennyLane photonic architecture

Stochastic Optimal Control with Exercise Rate Optimization and Markovian Projections: Pricing American Options and Importance Sampling Applications

Raul Tempone, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Oct 31, 15:30 - 17:00

B5 L5 R5209

sampling Markovian projection

Memory Forensics 2.0

Davide Balzarotti, Professor and head of the Digital Security department, EURECOM, France.

Oct 30, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

cybersecurity

Pseudo-CMOS Monolithic Integrated Circuits based on Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors

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

Oct 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

ultra-wideband

Oct 22 - Oct 28, 2023

Spatio-temporal Bayesian analysis of excess mortality in 5 European countries in 2020

Prof. Virgilio Gómez-Rubio, Department of Mathematics, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Oct 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

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

Ming Dong, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 25, 13:00 - 15:00

B3 L5 R5220

A Variational Theory of Aero-hydrodynamics

Haithem Taha, Associate Professor

Oct 24, 16:00 - 17:00

B5 L5 R5209

Euler equations aerodynamics Variational Navier-Stokes

Molecular Generation via Deep Generative Models

Changsheng Ma, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Oct 24, 14:30 - 16:30

KAUST

Efficient Computation Through Tuned Approximation

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

Oct 23, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 R2322 H1

computation approximation software

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

Pavel Kirilenko, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 22, 16:00 - 18:00

B3 L5 R5220

Sustainability-led Designs through Digital Twins

Dr. Eric Lou

Oct 22, 13:00 - 14:00

B9 L2 H2

Pasqal quantum computing: from hardware to applications

Krisztian Benyo

Oct 22, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

quantum computing

Oct 15 - Oct 21, 2023

Latent Gaussian Spatial Modelling with Change of Support

Erick Chacon Montalvan, Postdoctoral fellow, Statistics Geohealth Group, KAUST

Oct 19, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

Oct 8 - Oct 14, 2023

Quantinuum’s Full Stack Approach to Quantum Computing

Dr. Jenni Strabley, Anand Shah, Dr. Brian Neyenhuis

Oct 12, 16:00 - 18:00

KAUST

Quantinuum

Space–Time Multiscale Modeling and Numerics of Sorption Kinetics

Clarissa Astuto, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Oct 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

Models and methods for multifluid flow in Lagrangian coordinates

Prof. Giovanni Russo, Full Professor of Numerical Analysis Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy

Oct 10, 14:30 - 15:30

B1 L4 R4102

Mitigating Bias in Predictions from Machine Learning Models

Ricardo Henao Associate Professor, Bioengineering

Oct 9, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

machine learning risk prediction text generation

Coverage Performance Analysis for the Full Connected Underwater Acoustic Communication Network

Jiajie Xu, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 8, 13:00 - 14:30

B1 L3 R3119

Leveraging an off-the-shelf smartphone as a DIY health-diagnostic tool

Muhammad M. Rahman, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 8, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2

DIY smartphone

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

Omar Alkhazragi, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Oct 8, 10:00 - 11:30

B2 L5 R5220