Poster Competition

Ammar Alqatari wins first place in KGSP Poster Competition

1 min read · Mon, Oct 29 2018

KGSP Poster Competition

Ammar Alqatari, a KAUST Gifted Student Program (KGSP) student who interned with Associate Professor Xin Gao in the summer of 2018, has won first place in the KGSP Poster Competition held on August 28, 2018. His poster, entitled "Convolutional Sequence to Sequence Learning to Improve Nanopore Basecalling Efficiency ", is based on his work with Professor Gao about creating a deep learning model that can accurately and efficiently decode ultra-long DNA sequences from raw Nanopore signals. Watch Ammar talk about his experience as a visiting student in CBRC:

Matthias Mueller Wins the Innovation Award

1 min read · Tue, Feb 12 2019

Awards Spotlight

student award Poster Competition

Matthias Mueller, a Ph.D. candidate in Electrical Engineering, who works in the Image and Video Understanding lab (IVUL) under the supervision of Professor Bernard Ghanem, was awarded the Innovation Award at the WEP Library E-Poster Competition on the poster "Driving Policy Transfer via Modularity and Abstraction". The competition was held at the campus library as part of the Winter Enrichment Program (WEP) 2019 that took place in KAUST from the 13 th until 24 th of January, 2019. The winners received their awards at the Final Gala that was held to celebrate the end of the tenth annual Winter