Prof. Edgard Pimentel, Department of Mathematics of the University of Coimbra
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5220
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Hessian-dependent functionals play a pivotal role in a wide latitude of problems in mathematics. Arising in the context of differential geometry and probability theory, this class of problems find applications in the mechanics of deformable media (mostly in elasticity theory) and the modelling of slow viscous fluids. We study such functionals from three distinct perspectives.
Fajri Koto, Postdoc, MBZUAI
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 09:00
- 10:00
Building 9, Level 4, Room 4225
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Democratizing NLP across numerous languages is a non-trivial task, as it may encounter challenges related to data scarcity, limitations in computational resources, and the intricacies of multilingual and multicultural diversity. The speaker will discuss the efforts and findings in tackling these challenges in this talk. To begin, data scarcity and inconsistency in metadata present common obstacles in low-resource NLP, complicating the understanding of the NLP landscape for low-resource languages.
Wei Bai, Principal Software Research Architect, NVIDIA
Monday, March 25, 2024, 11:30
- 12:30
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) has long been recognized as a powerful technology for high-performance computing and data-intensive applications. In this talk, I will present our experience in deploying intra-region RDMA to support storage workloads in Azure.
Sunday, March 24, 2024, 15:00
- 17:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209
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The emergence of large language models in text generation has markedly transformed our technological environment, significantly impacting our daily digital interactions.
Sunday, March 24, 2024, 12:00
- 13:30
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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The electric grid is the backbone of our society and economy. It powers our homes, businesses, and transportation systems. With the advances in technology and the increasing use of renewables, the 3D era (decarbonization, decentralization, digitization) of power systems is facing new challenges. I will discuss how such challenges drive power grid evolution and how the temporal fluctuations of renewable sources impact the grid’s vulnerability. I will also provide methods how we are addressing these threats to ensure that the grid remains secure and resilient. I will conclude my talk with a brief description of my future research plans and a few slides about my research supervision, teaching activities, and visibility of my research group.
Dr. Mohammad Vaseem and Dr. Sakandar Rauf, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST
Sunday, March 24, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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The graduate seminar planned for March 24, from 12:00 to 13:00, has been canceled.
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2
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In this work, we employ importance sampling (IS) techniques to track a small over-threshold probability of a running maximum associated with the solution of a stochastic differential equation (SDE) within the framework of ensemble Kalman filtering (EnKF).
Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 16:00
- 17:30
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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Artificial materials represent composite media that can be meticulously engineered to exhibit unique wave propagation behaviors. Our research endeavors are driven by the intriguing principles underlying these materials, such as effective models, and their broad applications, including perfect absorption. In this presentation, I will outline our recent advancements in our innovative design strategies for novel artificial materials from both forward first-principle physics-based modeling and data-driven approaches. Specifically, I will highlight our pioneering work in the designs of double-zero-index materials for both electromagnetic and acoustic waves. Additionally, I will discuss our discovery of the acoustic Purcell effect for enhanced emission, as well as our development of analytic and numerical solutions for space-time modulated wave systems. Furthermore, I will delve into our practical solution for achieving broad frequency cloaking of invisibility. These accomplishments hold significant promise for a wide range of applications spanning sound control, communication, sensing, imaging and more.
Marios Kogias, Assistant Professor, Computing Department, Imperial College, London
Monday, March 18, 2024, 11:30
- 12:30
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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Datacenters are the cornerstone of our digital lives since they can be viewed as just the other end of our smartphones. From an infrastructure point of view, although they started as a scale-out exercise for commodity off-the-shelf hardware, over the last years we are observing a shift from that paradigm with the emergence of increasingly fast network and storage IO devices, programmable accelerators, and new fast interconnects.
Yury Dvorkin, Associate Professor, Departments of Civil and Systems Engineering and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Johns Hopkins University
Sunday, March 17, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
B9, L2, R2325
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Advances in uncertainty quantification enable more nuanced exploration of decision-making under risk in complex environments.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 15:30
- 17:30
B9, LH1, R2322
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The seminars will be delivered in person by Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director of the KAUST AI Initiative, and will run weekly during the spring semester. The program will start with aspects of the theory of computation and delve into many topics not typically covered in a deep learning course. This is a truly unique opportunity to learn from one of the founders in artificial intelligence.
Fabio Credali, Postdoc at IMATI, Pavia
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 14:30
- 15:30
B1, L4, seaside, R4214
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In 2019, diabetes caused 1.5 million global deaths, with 48% occurring before age 70. While Type 1 diabetes strongly depends on genetic components and is usually diagnosed in childhood, Type 2 diabetes is primarily caused by long term consumption of high calories foods. Lifestyle choices significantly influence the risk of Type 2 diabetes and obesity, including energy intake, diet composition, physical activity, and smoking.
Monday, March 11, 2024, 11:30
- 12:30
B9, L2, R2325
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To protect privacy of training data for deep learning models, one line of work proposes to use Differential Privacy (DP). Over recent years, a substantial body of research has emerged, proposing a diverse array of differentially private training algorithms tailored to various deep learning models.
Prof. Ahmed Kishk, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Sunday, March 10, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
B9, L2, R2325, LH2
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Traditional guiding structures and microwave packaging have limitations regarding losses or physical realization. Therefore, there is a need for efficient millimeter-wave guiding structures that overcome such limitations. Gap waveguide technology is found to overcome such limitations at millimeter-wave bands. Interest in such technology is increasing.
Reader, the Department of Computer Science, City, University of London.
Thursday, March 07, 2024, 15:30
- 16:30
Building 4, Level 5, Room 5209
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Thursday, March 07, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
B9, L2, R2325, H2
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When pressure acoustic waves interact with rotating scatterers, they undergo peculiar and intriguing characteristics. In this talk, I will discuss our recent findings on the physics of acoustic scattering and propagation in spinning fluids.
Prof. Silvia Bertoluzza
Tuesday, March 05, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209
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We present a theoretical analysis of the Weak Adversarial Networks (WAN) method, recently proposed in [1, 2], as a method for approximating the solution of partial differential equations in high dimensions and tested in the framework of inverse problems. In a very general abstract framework.
Emad Felemban, Department of Computer Engineering, Umm Al-Qura University.
Sunday, March 03, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
B9, L2, R2325
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Hajj is a very complex event that requires huge logistical organization. Mobility is one of the most important logistical services needed since Hajj rituals are based on movement from one location to another.
Thursday, February 29, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2
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Quadratic Forms in Gaussian Random Variables (QFGRV) appear in a wide variety of applications in signal processing, communications, performance and reliability engineering, genetics, etc.
Prof. Christof Schmidhuber, ZHAW School of Engineering
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2322
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Analogies between financial markets and critical phenomena have long been observed empirically. So far, no convincing theory has emerged that can explain these empirical observations. Here, we take a step towards such a theory by modeling financial markets as a lattice gas.
Yinxi Liu, PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 09:00
- 10:00
Building 9, Level 4, Room 4225
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Living in a computer-reliant era, we’re balancing the power of computer systems with the challenges of ensuring their functional correctness and security. Program analysis has proven successful in addressing these issues by predicting the behavior of a system when executed.
Monday, February 26, 2024, 17:00
- 19:00
Building 3, Level 5, Room 5209
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The research focuses on improving metal-GaN and dielectric-GaN interfaces for high-performance GaN-based electronics. For metal-GaN, the damage caused by e-beam evaporation was mitigated using Ti3C2Tx MXene films, achieving a record ION/IOFF current of 1013 and low subthreshold swing.