computational predictions

Towards an Early Warning System for Climate-Sensitive Infectious Diseases: Spatio-Temporal Modeling and Deep Learning for Dengue Forecasting in Brazil

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B5 R5209

This dissertation develops integrated spatio-temporal forecasting approaches that combine deep learning, climate data, spatial dependencies, and human mobility to improve dengue prediction and support early-warning systems in Brazil.

Deep Predictive Models for Mining Electronic Health Records

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B1 L4 R4214

There is an increasing growth in the amount of electronic health records (EHRs) being collected by healthcare facilities. Data mining techniques hold great potential to systematically use such data for identifying not only inefficiencies but also best practices that improve care and reduce costs. However, due to the complexity of EHR data, directly applying traditional machine learning techniques may yield unsatisfactory predictive performance. Recent advances in deep learning-based methods provide unprecedented ability to predict patients’ future health status, but they still suffer from the sparsity issue of EHR data.

Professor Marc Genton named Distinguished Professor of Statistics at KAUST

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Marc G.Genton, Professor of Statistics in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE), has been appointed by KAUST President Jean-Lou Chameau to Distinguished Professor of Statistics.

Professor Marc Genton and former postdoctoral fellow win the 2017 Wilcoxon Award

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Marc Genton, KAUST distinguished professor of statistics, and his former postdoctoral fellow Stefano Castruccio, have jointly won the 2017 Wilcoxon Award for best applications paper in Technometrics. Technometrics is a journal of statistics for the Physical, Chemical and Engineering Sciences, and is published quarterly by the American Society for Quality and the American Statistical Association. The award announcement was made at the 61st Annual Fall Technical Conference (FTC) in Philadelphia from October 5 to 6, 2017. Genton and Castruccio's paper was entitled "Compressing an ensemble with

Marc Genton received an ISI Service Award 2019

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Marc Genton, Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Statistics Program of KAUST and Head of the Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science Research Group, received an International Statistical Institute (ISI) Service Award 2019 for his efforts and leadership as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stat. Professor Genton received his award at the Awards Ceremony during the World Statistical Congress (WSC) 2019 held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-23 August 2019.

Marc G. Genton

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Statistics
Professor Genton’s pioneering research on large-scale spatial and temporal data has profoundly affected the field of environmental statistics. He is an expert in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics with applications to environmental problems.