SFB Group graduated its fourth Ph.D. student - Dr. Majed Alzahrani!
Congratulates Peng Yang on his work on developing a robust online multi-task learning with correlative and personalized structures, which was accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
Congratulates the SFB group on graduating its third Ph.D. student, Dr. Ibrahim Alabdulmohsin.
Congratulates Majed and Hiro on their work on developing a novel constant-column biclustering algorithm for mining co-fit genes from genome-scale growth phenotype data which was accepted by Bioinformatics.
Professors Takashi Gojobori, Xin Gao and Robert Hoehndorf spoke about big data and human health at the Sci-Café event held on February 27. Their talk, which was moderated by James Calvin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, aimed to answer the question, "Can Big Data Solve My Health Problems?" This event was open to all members of the KAUST community.
Congratulates Jingyan on his work on multi-instance dictionary learning via multivariate performance optimization which was accepted by Pattern Recognition.
Xuefeng becomes a PI at Tsinghua
Jingyan becomes a Research Scientist at NYU Abu Dhabi
The second Ph.D. graduated from SFB Group.
Congratulates Xuefeng and Jingyan for their work on developing a cross-modal learning framework for protein homology detection which is accepted by ISMB2016 and will appear in Bioinformatics.
Congratulates Hiro, Meshari, and Xuefeng on their work on MRE, a web tool to suggest foreign enzymes for the biosynthesis pathway design with competing endogenous reactions in mind which was published in Nucleic Acids Research.
Congratulates Xin on his joint work with Prof. Jianhua Huang at Texas A&M University on the collective estimation of multiple bivariate density functions with application to angular-sampling-based protein loop modeling that was published in JASA.