Sara Shaheen was a Ph.D. student in Computer Science under the supervision of Professor Bernard Ghanem at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). She is currently an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Prince Sultan University (PSU) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Education and Career

Sara received her Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Prince Sultan University (PSU) in Riyadh in 2010. She joined the MS/PhD program in KAUST and earned her Master and Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017. She was a part of Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) Research Group under the supervision of Professor Bernard Ghanem.

Education Profile

  • Ph.D., Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2017
  • M.S., Computer Science, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia, 2012
  • B.S., Computer Science, Prince Sultan University (PSU), Saudi Arabia, 2010

Selected Publications

Shaheen, S., Affara, L., & Ghanem, B. (2017). Constrained Convolutional Sparse Coding for Parametric Based Reconstruction of Line Drawings. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV). doi:10.1109/iccv.2017.474
Shaheen, S. (2017). Sketch Style Recognition, Transfer and Synthesis of Hand-Drawn Sketches, (Thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10754/625241
Shaheen, S. (2012). Functionality and Performance Visualization of the Distributed High Quality Volume Renderer (HVR), (Thesis). https://hdl.handle.net/10754/244574