Mohamed Elhoseiny

May 2025

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  SAAI for Kids hackathon introduces Saudi youth to creative uses of AI

  3 min read · Tue, May 13 2025

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  AI artificial intelligence

  More than 200 students joined KAUST’s SAAI Hackathon to explore AI in art, music and design

July 2024

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  New Google collaboration advances AI research in Saudi Arabia

  1 min read · Mon, Jul 8 2024

  News Clip News

  Google has awarded $100,000 in seed research grants to KAUST's CEMSE faculty to advance multilingual, multimodal machine learning, fostering innovations in areas like health and education, with projects led by Tareq Al-Naffouri, Mohamed Elhoseiny, and Bernard Ghanem aimed at enhancing mobile networks and developing inclusive AI models.

October 2023

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  A knack for data and love of animals breeds a tool for mammal conservation

  4 min read · Thu, Oct 5 2023

  News

  A Ph.D. candidate’s passion for animals is helping to drive the development of an AI system that informs conservation practice.

March 2023

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  Professor Elhoseiny elected as a Senior Member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

  2 min read · Wed, Mar 1 2023

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  KAUST Assistant Professor of Computer Science Mohamed H. Elhoseiny has been elected as a senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Elhoseiny was recognized for his longstanding contributions to the field of artificial intelligence and long-term membership in the AAAI.

May 2022

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  Computer learns to write captions with feeling

  1 min read · Tue, May 31 2022

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  machine learning visual computing artificial intelligence Visual Art Computer science

  Mohamed Elhoseiny and his PhD student Youssef Mohamed are teaching AI to capture the full spectrum of human emotions when annotating artwork in order to reduce emotional bias in computer-generated captions.

June 2021

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  SAAI Summer 2021 Hybrid Hackathon

  1 min read · Wed, Jun 16 2021

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  In Summer 2021, in an international hybrid hackathon, the participants will come together and join forces to prototype, experiment and work on the realization of the artistic ideas. The hackathon will take place both locally - in Hamburg, Zurich, Lagos, Thuwal, Riyadh, Dubai, Mumbai, Bangalore, and San Francisco - and virtually.

May 2021

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  Neural Visiolingual Editor

  1 min read · Mon, May 31 2021

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  Learning to Edit 3D Structural variations with Language Guidance with Neural Networks Goal: Starting from a blank slate or an initial 3D model loaded from disk, a user can iteratively refine the model by issuing commands in the form of natural language. We consider and exploit synergies between two geometric 3D application domains: furniture and whole-cell modeling Investigator: Mohamed Elhoseiny Peter Wonka Ivan Viola Jesper Tengner

September 2020

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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Kilichbek Haydarov

  2 min read · Sun, Sep 6 2020

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  Computer Vision

  Kilichbek Haydarov is a graduate student who will join KAUST from Uzbekistan. He will join KAUST as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Computer Vision, Content AI research group under the supervision of Professor Mohamed Elhoseiny. Kilichbek obtained his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from Sejong University, South Korea.

August 2020

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  Meet KAUST prospective student: Kai Yi

  1 min read · Thu, Aug 27 2020

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  Computer Vision machine learning

  Kai Yi is a graduate from Xi'an Jiaotong University (XJTU), China, who will join KAUST in the fall of 2020. Kai will join KAUST as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Computer Vision, Content AI research group under the supervision of Professor Mohamed Elhoseiny. KAUST's high reputation and Kai's interest in computer vision and machine learning prompted him to choose the University to further his academic career.
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  KAUST-Stanford neural network paper accepted for presentation at ECCV 2020

  2 min read · Sun, Aug 23 2020

  News

  artificial intelligence Computer Vision

  A novel KAUST-Stanford University research paper by Panos Achlioptas (Stanford), Ahmed Abdelreheem (KAUST), Fei Xia (Stanford), Mohamed Elhoseiny (KAUST) and Leonidas Guibas (Stanford) was accepted for presentation at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020).

January 2020

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  AI uses your imagination

  1 min read · Tue, Jan 14 2020

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  artificial intelligence machine learning Computer science

  The psychology of human creativity helps artificial intelligence imagine the unseen.

November 2019

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  CEMSE New Faculty: Mohamed Elhoseiny, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

  3 min read · Thu, Nov 7 2019

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  artificial intelligence Computer Vision

  Prior to joining the KAUST CEMSE Division earlier this year, Mohamed Elhoseiny received his Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2016, before spending over two years working as a postdoctoral researcher at Facebook in the company’s AI research wing. Elhoseiny joins the Division as an assistant professor of computer science based in the KAUST Visual Computing Center (VCC). He will also act as the PI of the KAUST Computer Vision, Content AI (Vision-CAIR) Research Group. Outside of his duties at KAUST, he is also acting as an artificial intelligence (AI) research consultant for Baidu Research, Silicon Valley AI Lab.

July 2019

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  ISL has 10+ new visiting students joining this year

  1 min read · Tue, Jul 30 2019

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  ISL this year is receiving over 10+ students from all around the world. Students range from Montreal, Canada, to Ile-Ife, Nigeria. These visiting students are all supervised by Dr. Tareq AlNaffouri and working on a variety of topics within the Information Systems Lab. These students are a great asset to the lab, and will further develop their research skills through working with Professor AlNaffouri.