environmental applications

CEMSE Welcomes new Professor: Dr. Ying Sun

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Ying Sun is an Assistant Professor of Statistics in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE). She joined KAUST after one-year service as an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the Ohio State University.

Professor Sun receives the Environment Early Investigator Award 2017 for her outstanding contribution in environmental statistics

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Ying Sun, Professor of Statistics in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division (CEMSE) of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the 2017 Early Investigator Award by the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).

SRSI student success story at Ibdaa 2022

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Faisal Fadi Hasan Almulla, who worked last year under the mentorship of Dr. Fouzi Harrou and Professor Ying Sun as part of the annual KAUST Saudi Research Science Institute (SRSI) summer program, won two awards at the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity — Ibdaa 2022.

Ying Sun

Associate Professor, Statistics
KAUST Professor Ying Sun leads a research group focusing on environmental statistics. She is at the forefront of developing advanced models and methodologies in the fields of spatio-temporal statistics, functional data analysis and process monitoring.

Damilya Saduakhas

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
Damilya Saduakhas is a Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Stochastic Processes and Applied Statistics Research group (StochProc) under the supervision of Professor David Bolin. Before joining KAUST, Damilya obtained a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Research Interests Damilya's research interests include geospatial statistics, multivariate spatial processes, environmental modeling, and applications.