A team composed of KAUST and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) students was one of three winning teams of this year’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) AIoT (AI & IoT) Hackathon. The KAUST entry, AgriDoctor, a proposed autonomous, sustainable, intelligent agriculture system, was a standout pick for the competition judges from a pool of 110 project submissions and 350 participants.
A team of KAUST researchers have won first place in the Digital Research track at the inaugural Digital Innovation Awards held on Sunday, April 25, 2021. Launched by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), the awards aim to “enhance the culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in digital research and development” in Saudi Arabia.
Flying drones connected by a cable tethered to a ground station could be a flexible solution for enhancing wireless connectivity in temporary hotspots.
On March 12th, Professor Tareq Al-Naffouri delivered an online public colloquium titled, "Sensing, Localization, and Communications to Enable Future IoT Systems".
The abstract of the article can be found here
On April 30th 2020, Professor Tareq Al-Naffouri delivered a talk on Optimal Regularization in Estimation, Detection, and Classification. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the talk was delivered online via Zoom.
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This year, the ISL department has welcomed 13 new interns from across the globe. These students are working with Professor Tareq Al-Naffouri on projects and research. Due to COVID-19, many interns are working remotely which is a unique experience for everyone involved.
Title: Asymptotic Performance Analysis of the Randomly-Projected RLDA Ensemble Classifier
Date: June 24th, 2019
Thesis topic : An asymptotic study of a particular classifier using random matrix theory tools in order to derive an approximation for its error rate.
This year, the ISL team attended the 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium. A team of Professor Tareq Al-Naffouri, Xing Lui and Tarig Ballal co-authored the Conference Publication titled GNSS Attitude Determination Using a Constrained Wrapped Least Squares Approach. The publication focused on GNSS Attitude Determination.
Since February 2020, ISL student Mohammed Al-Sharif has been participating in an internship at the California Institute of Technology. He was working with renowned Professor Babak Hassibi at Caltech's Electrical Engineering department.
The topic they are working on is indoor localization based on Riemannian optimization.
KAUST alumna Shamael Al-Shuhail won the prestigious Abu Dhabi International Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) Young Engineer of the Year Award at ADIPEC 2018 held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.
ISL scientists have developed a hybrid sensor network that overcomes the shortcomings of acoustic and optical waves. Acoustic and optical waves are two of the most commonly used underwater wireless communication systems.
The rapid growth of the world’s population demands more natural resources, food, and space. World renowned physicist Stephan Hawking has argued that soon we will require another world to live on because we are running out of space and natural resources.
An old branch of mathematics finds a fertile new field of application.