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.
Soufiane Hayou, Postdoc, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
Monday, February 26, 2024, 09:00
- 10:00
Building 9, Level 4, Room 4225
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Neural networks have achieved impressive performance in many applications such as image and speech recognition and generation. State-of-the-art performance is usually achieved via a series of engineered modifications to existing neural architectures and their training procedures. However, a common feature of these systems is their large-scale nature: modern neural networks usually contain Billions - if not 10's of Billions - of trainable parameters, and empirical evaluations (generally) support the claim that increasing the scale of neural networks (e.g. width and depth) boosts the model performance if done correctly. However, given a neural network model, it is not straightforward to address the crucial question `how do we scale the network?'. In this talk, I will show how we can leverage different mathematical results to efficiently scale neural networks, with empirically confirmed benefits.
Suhail Shaik, Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Sunday, February 25, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Lecture Hall 2
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The conventional power system is transforming into a smart grid through the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT). The incorporation of advanced ICT in the smart grid enhances its control and operational efficiency.
Yuan (Alan) Qi, Professor, Fudan University, Director of Shanghai Academy of AI for Science, China
Monday, February 19, 2024, 11:30
- 12:30
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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AI has become a driving force for new scientific discovery. In this talk I will present our recent work in generative AI for sub-seasonal weather forecast, drug design and molecular modeling, where we outperformed state-of-the art prediction accuracy with dramatic reduction in computational resources. These works demonstrate the importance of the integration of AI with scientific problems and its transformative potential in both theoretical and practical applications.
KAUST
Monday, February 19, 2024, 08:00
- 17:00
Building 19, Level 3, Halls 1, 2, and 3
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Following the resounding success of our previous Annual "Rising Stars in AI" Symposia, including the 2022 and 2023 editions, the AI Initiative at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology), located on the scenic Red Sea coast, is thrilled to announce the third installment of this Symposium, scheduled for February 19th to 21st, 2024.

Sunday, February 18, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325
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Point-of-care (PoC) devices refer to portable and affordable diagnosing systems, mostly used in the field of healthcare. PoCs have garnered interest, particularly for detecting diseases that require multiple diagnostic tests and in resource-limited areas.
Thursday, February 15, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2
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Time series clustering is an essential machine learning task with applications in many disciplines. While the majority of the methods focus on time series taking values on the real line, very few works consider time series defined on the unit circle, although the latter objects frequently arise in many applications. In this talk, the problem of clustering circular time series is discussed.
Jason Avramidis, Director of Innovation and International Flexibility Markets for OakTree Power, UK
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 1,Level 4, Room 4214
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Until very recently, distribution-led local flexibility markets were exclusively an academic endeavor, with few practical applications, mostly limited to small-scale innovation projects. However, with European regulation finally catching up with the realities of modern distribution networks, local flexibility markets are slowly becoming a reality - new ones popping up across the continent, or some even becoming a BAU option in the most advanced countries.
Professor Norbert J Mauser, Mathematics, University of Vienna
Sunday, February 11, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 1, Level 3, Room 3119
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The Pauli-Poisswell equation models fast-moving charges in semiclassical semi-relativistic quantum dynamics. It is at the center of a hierarchy of models from the Dirac-Maxwell equation to the Euler-Poisson equation that is linked by asymptotic analysis of small parameters such as the Planck constant or inverse speed of light. We discuss the models and their application in plasma and accelerator physics as well as the many mathematical problems they pose
Marco Mellia, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Sunday, February 11, 2024, 12:00
- 13:00
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Lecture Hall 2
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This Dean's Distinguished Lecture is part of the ECE Graduate Seminar. Modern Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, led by deep learning, have gained unprecedented momentum over the past decade.
Thursday, February 08, 2024, 12:00
- 13:10
Building 9, Level 2, Room 2325, Hall 2
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Brain activity over the entire network is complex. A full understanding of brain activity requires careful study of its multi-scale spatial-temporal organization. Motivated by these challenges, we will explore some characterizations of dependence between components of a multivariate time series and then apply these to the study of brain functional connectivity.
Prof. Ulrich Langer, Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Johannes Kepler University, Linz
Wednesday, February 07, 2024, 16:00
- 17:00
Building 2, Level 5, Room 5209
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We consider the widely used continuous $Q_{k+1}-Q_k$ quadrilateral or hexahedral Taylor-Hood elements for the finite element discretization of the Stokes and generalized Stokes systems in two and three spatial dimensions.