Querying big data just got universal 1 min read · Sun, Jun 23 2019 News big data algorithm Computer science A universal query engine for big data that works across computing platforms could accelerate analytics research.
Alumni Focus: Ronell Sicat 1 min read · Thu, Jun 20 2019 News immersive analytics computer graphics large-scale data visualization As the volume and complexity of data captured around the world continues to grow exponentially, new ways of exploring and visualizing this data are required. Today, society has moved beyond the traditional desktop computer with tools such as augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) at the forefront of immersive data visualization and analysis.
Alumni Focus: Faisal Nawab 1 min read · Wed, May 29 2019 News Spotlight KAUST alumnus Faisal Nawab received his master's degree in computer science from the University in 2011. His M.S. thesis work, which focused on how to build wireless network infrastructure, was supervised by KAUST Associate Professor Basem Shihada.
KAUST Professor David Keyes to chair International Supercomputing Conference 2020 1 min read · Mon, May 20 2019 Spotlight News supercomputing conference David Keyes, KAUST professor of applied mathematics and computational science; director of the University's Extreme Computing Research Center; and senior associate to the President of KAUST, will chair the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC) 2020. He will be the first program chair from a Middle Eastern institution, as announced by ISC 2020.
Alumni Focus: Manal Kalkatawi 1 min read · Thu, May 16 2019 News Spotlight Manal Kalkatawi graduated from KAUST in 2017 with a Ph.D. in computer science with a focus on bioinformatics. She is currently an assistant professor at the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology at King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah. Kalkatawi also pursues research in her field of specialization through cooperation with different research organizations, and she supervises master's degree theses of KAU students.
Cutting datasets down to size 1 min read · Thu, May 16 2019 News applied mathematics computational science statistics environment A powerful statistical tool could significantly reduce the burden of analyzing very large datasets.
Alumni Focus: Suzan Katamoura 1 min read · Mon, Apr 15 2019 News Spotlight KAUST alumna Suzan Katamoura graduated from the University in 2013 with a master's degree in computer networks. She currently works at King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy as a researcher and a director of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Unit in the Atomic Energy Sector.
Alumni Focus: Albara Alauhali 1 min read · Tue, Mar 5 2019 News Spotlight saudi vision 2030 KFUPM KAUST alumnus Albara Bin Mousaed Alauhali is currently the executive advisor and director of strategic projects at the National Identity Enhancement Program, a program aimed at achieving Saudi Vision 2030.
Scanning in the Fourth Dimension 1 min read · Sun, Feb 17 2019 News visualization visual computing Three-dimensional (3D) computed tomography is a widely used technology that visualizes an object's external and internal structure by assembling a series of two-dimensional images taken sequentially across or around it. However, as anyone who has had a medical magnetic resonance imaging scan will recall, this type of 3D reconstruction requires the subject to be motionless throughout the capture process, which can take minutes. Capturing a 3D structure that changes or deforms over time is much more difficult, and existing approaches often yield reconstructions marred by image artifacts and
Tweaking tools to track tweets over time 1 min read · Sun, Feb 17 2019 News Social media data machine learning artificial intelligence Computer model learns to identify Twitter users’ evolving interests by analyzing their Tweets.
Professor Ivan Viola Joins the Visual Computing Center 1 min read · Wed, Feb 13 2019 Spotlight News visualization visual computing We are proudly announcing that Professor Ivan Viola has joined VCC as an Associate Professor of Computer Science in November, 2018. He is establishing the Nano-visualization Research Group as a part of the Visual Computing Center. Prof. Viola has a master and Ph.D. from TU Wien in Austria. He has received a series of honors and recognition for his contribution to computing visualization such as the Austrian Computer Graphics Award 2016 for the Best Technical Solution, and the 1st Place Eurographics Dirk Bartz Prize for Visual Computing in Medicine 2013. Prof. Viola was attracted to KAUST for
Adel is invited to give a talk in EECVC on "Optimization meets Deep Learning" 1 min read · Tue, Jan 22 2019 News Deep learning optimization EECVC Adel is invited to give a talk in EECVC on "Optimization meets Deep Learning". It is a 45 minutes talk scheduled on the 6th of July 2019.
Visualization of brain structures helps to model function 1 min read · Thu, Jan 3 2019 News bioscience Computer simulations and virtual reality are used by KAUST researchers and collaborators in France to visualize the energetic coupling between neurons and astrocytes and to improve understanding of brain metabolism. The human brain uses more energy than any other organ, accounting for around 20 percent of all glucose-derived energy. Neurons can’t meet their own energy requirements: they depend on supporting glial cells and the neurovascular system to supply various forms of sugar fuel. However, it is still unclear how this neuro-glio-vasculature network manages the brain’s energy demands
KAUST students participate in Europe’s leading hackathon event 1 min read · Thu, Jan 3 2019 Awards Torsten Hädrich and Yan Gong, two KAUST Ph.D. students from the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering division, recently represented KAUST at the 48-hour international hackathon event Junction 2018. The event, which is Europe's most prestigious annual hackathon, brought computer and data scientists to Helsinki, Finland, from November 23 to 25, 2018, with the goal of addressing real-world computational issues while inspiring the next generation of technological leaders. Around 1,000 participants—including developers, designers and other "tech-heads" from 105
Nanovisualization Research Group is hiring 1 min read · Wed, Nov 21 2018 News visual computing visualization Nanovisualization Research Group is hiring scientific staff on the levels of Research Scientist, Postdoctoral Fellow, and Graduate Student. Follow the links to apply for the respective position: Research Scientist position Postdoctoral Fellow Graduate Student
KAUST Associate Professor Xiangliang Zhang talks about artificial intelligence 1 min read · Mon, Nov 12 2018 News artificial intelligence Xiangliang Zhang, associate professor of computer science in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering division, recently gave an invited Early Career Spotlight Talk at the 27th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-ECAI-18) 2018. During the event—which was held in Stockholm, Sweden, from July 13 to 19—Zhang and 21 international peers presented on all areas of artificial intelligence (AI).
Sara Althubaiti defends her Master's thesis 1 min read · Tue, Nov 6 2018 News cancer driver mutation bioinformatics text mining machine learning Sara Althubaiti, a student under the supervision of Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf, defended her Master's thesis on November 5, 2018.
Azza Althagafi defends her Master's thesis 1 min read · Fri, Nov 2 2018 News bioinformatics artificial intelligence genomics Azza Althagafi, a student under the supervision of Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf, defended her Master's thesis on November 1, 2018.
Teaching algorithms to see 1 min read · Tue, Oct 30 2018 News UAV visual computing Four hundred hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. Other than using text to search the title, description or tags associated with a video, video content search is limited. In addition to helping users find content more quickly and accurately, the ability to search video content is of paramount importance to video platforms and advertisers. Last year, YouTube was embroiled in controversy after rolling video ads for Coca-Cola and Amazon, among others, were shown before racist and extremist content. Advertising content is a major revenue stream for video platforms like YouTube
Meshari Alazmi defends his Ph.D. thesis 1 min read · Wed, Oct 24 2018 News machine learning bioinformatics structural biology systems biology Meshari Alazmi, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Associate Professor Xin Gao, defended his Ph.D. dissertation on October 24, 2018.
Polymers offer a better view 1 min read · Wed, Oct 24 2018 News visual computing Imaging Computer science A window opens for analyzing the distribution of small molecules in biological and medical tissue samples.
Aerial Path Planning for Urban Scene Reconstruction: A Continuous Optimization Method and Benchmark 1 min read · Tue, Oct 16 2018 News optimization urban planning Small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are ideal capturing devices for high-resolution urban 3D reconstructions using multi-view stereo. Nevertheless, practical considerations such as safety usually mean that access to the scan target is often only available for a short amount of time, especially in urban environments. It, therefore, becomes crucial to perform both view and path planning to minimize flight time while ensuring complete and accurate reconstructions. In this work, we address the challenge of automatic view and path planning for UAV-based aerial imaging with the goal of urban
Mona Alshahrani defends her thesis proposal 1 min read · Tue, Oct 16 2018 News data integration machine learning human bioinformatics Mona Alshahrani, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf, defended her thesis proposal on October 10, 2018.
Computing solutions for biological problems 1 min read · Sun, Oct 14 2018 News bioinformatics machine learning computational models Xin Gao’s research is building bridges between computer science and biology.
KAUST gets ready for SC18 1 min read · Mon, Oct 8 2018 News supercomputing High Performance Computing For the past 10 years, KAUST has made a strong presence at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC) that takes place in different cities around the U.S. every year. 2018 will mark a special year for KAUST at SC, which will take place in Dallas, Texas, in November, with around 13,000 supercomputing professionals in attendance. The University will have an engaging presence on the exhibition floor and in the seminars, and the technical program of SC18 will be chaired by the Director of the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC)
Alumni Feature: Majed Alzahrani 1 min read · Sun, Oct 7 2018 News Spotlight data science Working in one of the largest companies in the world is a dream come true for many. For Majed Alzahrani, a former Ph.D. student who worked under the supervision of Associate Professor Xin Gao, things couldn't be better. After graduating in 2017, he quickly joined Saudi Aramco as a data scientist in its Drilling Data Science unit.
Mining Red Sea bacteria for industrial potential 1 min read · Thu, Oct 4 2018 News marine science bioprospecting microbiology genomics Genome sequencing of two Red Sea bacteria highlights their potential as industrial workhorses.
KAUST and KACST join forces to prevent infectious diseases 1 min read · Mon, Oct 1 2018 News The KAUST Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have collaborated under the umbrella of the National Infectious Disease Initiative to enrich research...
Alumni Focus: Ahmed Abdulmajeed Alabdulkarim, M.S. '11 1 min read · Tue, Aug 14 2018 News big data artificial intelligence machine learning Ahmed Abdulmajeed Alabdulkarim earned a master's degree from KAUST in 2011. His research interests are in the field of big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning, and he is now pursuing his Ph.D. at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the U.S. He received his bachelor's degree with honors in computer science from King Saud University, where he graduated at the top of his class. From a young age, Alabdulkarim was passionate about computers. Studying computer science was his drive and motivation to continue his university studies. He explained that he chose KAUST for
CBRC goes to ECCB 2018 1 min read · Thu, Aug 9 2018 News Computational biology Nanopore Sequencing cwDTW algorithm ontology phenotypes SmuDGE The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is one of the most important conferences in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology. Held in a different European city annually, this year's conference will take place in the historic city of Athens, Greece on September 8-12, 2018.
Maxat Kulmanov defends his thesis proposal 1 min read · Tue, Jul 31 2018 News bioinformatics artificial intelligence neural network Semantic web machine learning Maxat Kulmanov, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf, defended his thesis proposal on July 31, 2018.
Xiangliang Zhang joins CBRC 1 min read · Sun, Jul 15 2018 News machine intelligence knowledge engineering Computer science Xiangliang Zhang, KAUST associate professor of computer science and principal investigator of the Machine Intelligence & Knowledge Engineering Lab, joined the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC) on July 1, 2018. In CBRC, Xiangliang will work on the problems of modeling biological networks using machine learning models.
New Book "Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining" of Professor Moshkov and His Former Students is Published by Springer 1 min read · Mon, Jul 9 2018 News machine learning knowledge discovery data mining combinatorial optimization A new book - "Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining" by Hassan AbouEisha, Talha Amin, Igor Chikalov, Shahid Hussain, and Mikhail Moshkov - was recently published by Springer.
Superior seismic imaging for better drilling 1 min read · Sun, Jul 8 2018 News seismic imaging fossil fuels extreme computing data analysis Software could transform underground imaging of fossil fuel reserves by providing unprecedented detail in record time.
Lifting up female scientists 1 min read · Mon, Jun 11 2018 News WiDS data science Women in Data Science (WiDS) is like the Global Women's March for analytics; it's a phenomenon too big for just one city. WiDS is the largest data science conference on Earth—taking place in over 50 countries, it has attained more than 100,000 attendees and is tagged as a global movement. The annual conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide—regardless of gender—and support women in the field. This year's WiDS conference was held at Stanford University with more than 100 regional institutions all over the world participating, including KAUST.
Patent granted for highly accurate prostate cancer screening method 1 min read · Wed, Jun 6 2018 News graph and alignment algorithms methylation biomarker A new patent, "Methylation biomarkers for prostate cancer" (USPTO Patent No. 9976187), filed by Professor Vladimir Bajic, Senior Bioinformatician Roberto Incitti and former Bioscience Core Lab Research Scientist Hicham Mansour was granted on May 22, 2018.
Somayah Albaradei wins at City of the Future competition 1 min read · Mon, May 28 2018 Awards News Spotlight Deep learning seismology sustainability sensors CBRC Ph.D. student Somayah Albaradei won first place in the People's Choice category of the 2018 Spring Enrichment Program's ePoster-City of the Future competition. She won an iPad Pro and received a certificate of recognition.
BORG members to present at ISMB 2018 1 min read · Sun, May 27 2018 News Three members of the Bio-Ontology Research Group will be presenting their work at the International Society for Computational Biology conference in Chicago, U.S.A.
Meshari Alazami defends his thesis proposal 1 min read · Tue, May 22 2018 News machine learning bioinformatics structural biology systems biology Meshari Alazami, a Ph.D. student under the supervision of Associate Professor Xin Gao, successfully defended his thesis proposal on May 22, 2018. His topic, "Towards Rational Design of Biosynthesis Pathways", was well received by committee members Associate Professor Xin Gao, Distinguished Professor Takashi Gojobori and Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf.
Arwa Bin Raies defends her thesis proposal 1 min read · Wed, May 16 2018 News computational methods biomedical data text mining silico toxicology Arwa Bin Raies, a Ph.D. candidate under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Bajic, defended her thesis proposal on May 14, 2018.
Exploring science's fourth paradigm 1 min read · Mon, May 7 2018 News computational and statistical interface big data The recent KAUST Research Conference: Computational and Statistical Interface to Big Data brought together leading computer science researchers and statistical experts to discuss the current state and future of data science. Held on campus from March 19 to 21, the conference covered such data science topics as succinct data representation and storage; big data visualization; parallel and distributed algorithms for inference and optimization; and analysis of large graphs and networks.
Sarah Alghamdi defends her master's thesis 1 min read · Sun, May 6 2018 News artificial intelligence bioinformatics computational methods data mining Sarah Alghamdi successfully defended her master's thesis on April 10, 2018. Her project, entitled "Ontology Design Patterns for Combining Pathology and Anatomy: Application to Study Ageing and Longevity in Inbred Mouse Strains", was well-received by a panel of professors that included Professor Vladimir Bajic, Associate Professor Xin Gao and Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf.
A clearer future for underwater exploration 1 min read · Sun, May 6 2018 News Underwater Video communications underwater sensor platform An optical communication system could revolutionize underwater exploration and discovery.
Siqing Hou defends his Master’s thesis 1 min read · Mon, Apr 23 2018 News bioinformatics Computational biology machine learning Siqing Hou, a Master's student under the supervision of Associate Professor Xin Gao, successfully defended his thesis.
Assistant Professor Robert Hoehndorf awarded Center Partnership Fund 1 min read · Thu, Apr 19 2018 News CBRC was awarded three Center Partnership Funds by the KAUST Office of Sponsored Research on April 1, 2018.
Alumni Feature: Abdullah Khamis 1 min read · Wed, Apr 18 2018 News bioinformatics machine learning Abdullah Khamis has had quite an impressive career so far. After graduating with a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from KAUST under the supervision of Professor Vladimir Bajic and Associate Professor Xin Gao, he now works as the Director of Data Science in the Center for Strategic Studies (CSS) of the Royal Court of Saudi Arabia.
Computer models combat malaria 1 min read · Sun, Apr 15 2018 News bioscience drug discovery human health A new malaria metabolic model may uncover better ways to treat a highly deadly disease.
Alumni Feature: Arturo Magana Mora 1 min read · Sun, Feb 25 2018 News Computational biology machine learning CBRC Ph.D. graduate Arturo Magana Mora is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the prestigious National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tokyo, Japan.
Pulling rank on spatial statistics 1 min read · Sun, Feb 18 2018 News High Performance Computing statistics A technique that uses the power of computing could solve statistical problems cheaper and faster than current methods.
BORG students present research in KAUST Research Conference on Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology 1 min read · Tue, Dec 12 2017 News Two students from the Bio-Ontology Research Group presented their research at KAUST Research Conference on Big Data Analyses in Evolutionary Biology.
