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Data assimilation and optimal control in the context of UAV-based flash flood monitoring

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Flash floods are one of the most common natural disasters worldwide, causing thousands of casualties every year. The emergence of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) gives the possibility to monitor these events over large geographical areas. In this talk, we focus on the problem of trajectory planning for a swarm of unmanned aerial vehicles sensing flooding conditions.

CEMSE Welcomes new Professor: Jeff Shamma

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The CEMSE Division has recently welcomed a new Professor of Electrical Engineering, Dr. Jeff Shamma. Prof. Shamma joins from the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Professor Meriem Laleg's research on modeling contaminant transport published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

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A new algorithm is proposed to estimate the average velocity, dispersion coefficient, and differentiation order of a space-fractional advection-dispersion equation used for modeling contaminant transport in porous media. This allows for the characterization of the medium and the determination of the contaminant source. The algorithm is efficient, robust and fast.

Professor Meriem Laleg's research on brain response models published in Journal of Neuroscience Methods

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A novel approach to calibrate the hemodynamic model using functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) measurements.

Professor Meriem Laleg's research on membrane distillation modeling for desalination published in Desalination

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An accurate mathematical model is proposed to describe an emerging desalination technology called direct contact membrane distillation system. The mathematical model is important for designing efficient control and monitoring strategies, a crucial step to facilitate the commercialization of this technology.

Jeff Shamma elected IFAC fellow 2014-17

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The award is an international distinction given to scientists for their contributions in the fields of interest of IFAC under the form of technical publications, patents, control solutions, products, software, and leadership in research, development, and education.

Team KAUST places 3rd at the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge

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A team from the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) competed in the inaugural Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge (MBZIRC), held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, March 2017, and took a 3rd place finish in the ground robotics challenge.

KAUST hosts International Graduate School on Control event

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KAUST recently acted as a host campus for the European Embedded Control Institute's International Graduate School on Control (IGSC). The IGSC is an annual series of 27 one-week graduate modules focusing on different topics of networked and embedded control and is taught to eligible attendees at different locations worldwide. The series is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Control Systems Society and the International Federation of Automatic Control.

CEMSE New Faculty: Eric Feron, Professor of Aerospace Software Engineering

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Eric Feron is a professor of aerospace software engineering who recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Faculty Focus: Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati

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-By A. Ortega, KAUST News KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati joined the University in 2011 after working as a researcher at INRIA in France. Laleg-Kirati leads the Estimation, Modeling and ANalysis (EMAN) research group at KAUST, and her interests lie in control theory, system modeling and signal applications. She investigates multiple engineering disciplines and develops mathematical models and algorithms that control processes relying on real-time feedback. "My research goals [are the development of] effective estimation methods and algorithms to

An Airline observatory created by Passengers for Passengers

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The COVID-19 pandemic has generated a significant worldwide disruption to flight operations, affecting the lives of millions of passengers.

Usman Amin Fiaz

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Robotics Intelligent Systems Design Multi-Agent Control Systems Aerial Grasping Self-Assembly & Self-Reconfigurable Systems ​ Education Profile PhD in Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park (UMD), United States of America (current) MS in Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia (2017) BS in Electrical Engineering, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences (PIEAS), Pakistan (2015)

Sarah A. Toonsi

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Robotics Control Systems Programming Education Profile ​BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Effat University, Saudi Arabia (2017) ​

Noureddine Toumi

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Robotics Control Multi-agent systems Cooperative aerial transportation Education Profile BS ​Engineering from Tunisia Polytechnic School, Major: signal processing,systems conception and control.

Nawaf Alotaibi

Education 2020.08 - 2022.05 M.S. Student in Mechanical Engineering, KAUST, KSA 2016.08 - 2020.05 B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Professional Profile 2019.06 - 2019.08 Research Intern, RISC Lab, KAUST, KSA Areas of Expertise and Research Interests ​Robotics Autonomous Vehicles Machine learning Vision

Mohammed M. Alrashed

Mohammed M. Alrashed research interests are in ​Systems and Control with robotic applications and Mathematical Theory of Rational Behavior. Master Thesis Abstract The increasing occurrence of panic stampedes during mass events has motivated studying the impact of panic on crowd dynamics and the simulation of pedestrian flows in panic situations. The lack of understanding of panic stampedes still causes hundreds of fatalities each year, not to mention the scarce methodical studies of panic behavior capable of envisaging such crowd dynamics. Under those circumstances, there are thousands of

Mohammed Abdullah Algarni

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) Robotics Autonomy Aerial Landing Education Profile MS in Mechanical Engineering, King Abdullah University for Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia (2014​​) ​BS in Mechanical Engineering, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM), Saudi Arabia (2009)

Mohamed A. Mabrok

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
From 2015 till 2017 Mohamed A. Mabrok was a research associate at Robotics, Intelligent Systems & Control (RISC) research group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at the Australian College of Kuwait. He obtained his Ph.D. in the field of systems and control in 2013 from the University of New South Wales at Australian Defence Force Academy, Canberra, Australia. Mohamed also holds a bachelor degree in applied mathematics and a master degree in applied mathematics/quantum physics. Mohamed's research

Khaled Abu-Jbara

Khaled Abu-Jbara was a Ph. D. student in the Computational Imaging Group (VCCIMAGING) under the supervision of Professor Wolfgang Heidrich at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Khaled Abu Jbara received his bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering, with Distinction, First Class Honors, from Kuwait University (KUNIV), Kuwait in August 2011. He worked as an Administrative Engineer and Teacher Assistant at Kuwait University, Electrical Engineering Department. After that, he joined King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) as a

Khalid Alzuhair

M.S. Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology).

Jiming Jiang

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Circuit and System, Robotics, Wireless Sensor Network Education Profile PhD in Electronics, Cambridge University, United Kingdom (2010) MS in Analog and Digital Integrated Circuit Design, Imperial College, United Kingdom (2004​) BS in Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, China (2003)​

Hiroyuki Kuwahara

Hiroyuki Kuwahara got his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah in 2008. He was then a junior researcher at Microsoft Research - Trento during 2007 and 2009. During 2009 and 2012, he was a Ray and Stephanie Lane Fellow at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 2012, he joined the SFB group as a Research Scientist. Research Interests ​Hiroyuki's area of research is broadly in computational systems and synthetic biology. His main research focus is on the theoretical understanding of how various uncertainties contribute to the relation between

Haya Alsharif

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests ​​Control Systems Computer Vision Machine Learning Robotics Education Profile ​​BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Saudi Arabia (2016)

Hassan Jaleel

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Expertise and Research Interests ​Distributed control of multi agent systems using game theory and algebraic graph theory Energy aware algorithms for multi agent systems Cyber physical systems Stochastic geometry Coverage problems for sensor networks Education Profile PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (2013) MS in Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Tech (2011) BSc in Electrical Engineering, UET (2007)

Gokul Krishnan S

PhD student at KAUST who works in grid design and control using HIL and RCP systems like RTDS, Opal-RT, Speedgoat, Typhoon and dSPACE.

Gilberto Mendoza Chavez

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Robotics Control Systems Distributed Systems Education Profile Masters in Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology, KSA (2016)​ ​Bachelors in Mechatronics Engineering, Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico (2014)

Fatema Alhani

Education 2020.08 - Present M.S. D. Student in Electrical Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA 2016.07 - 2020.05 B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA

Eric Feron

With 31 years of teaching and research experience, Professor Feron’s work utilizes elementary concepts of control systems, optimization and computer science to address critical issues in modern aerospace engineering and robotics.

Bacem Ben Nasser

Bacem Ben Nasser is a postdoctoral researcher fellow in the Electrical Engineering department within the CEMSE division. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Sciences and Technology-Mathematics from the University of Sfax, Faculty of Sciences of Sfax, Tunisia, where he worked in Lyapunov and control theories, nonlinear integral inequalities and time scale calculus. In January 2017, he was affiliated with the University of Kairouan, Tunisia, at the Higher Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Kairouan as assistant professor of applied mathematics. Dr. Ben Nasser joined the research group

Amjad Felemban

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests ​Control Systems Robotics Multi-Agent Systems Machine Learning Education Profile ​BS in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University, USA​ (2016)

Amin Almozel

Education 2021.01 - Present Ph.D. Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA 2018.08 - 2019.12 M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, KAUST, KSA 2014.08 - 2018.05 B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Rochester, USA Selected Publications A. Almozel, J.S. Shamma, "Competitive Drone Racing Using Asymmetric Games" IEEE 18th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), 349-356, 8 (2021). DOI: 10.1109/UR52253.2021.9494629 Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Autonomous and Intelligent Systems​

Alfiya Kulmukhanova

Areas of Expertise and Research Interests Multi-agent systems Smart Grids Game theory applications for Smart Grids Education Profile Bachelors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (2016)