Events

Nov 30 - Dec 6, 2025

Will AI Replace Professors?

Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Chair and Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego

Dec 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B2/B3 A0215

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I/O Coordination for Better Resource Sharing - From HPC to AI Storage

Xiaosong Ma, Department Chair and Professor of Computer Science, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

Dec 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, Level 2, Room 2325

ai storage

Nov 23 - Nov 29, 2025

Training Neural Networks at Any Scale

Volkan Cevher, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Switzerland

Nov 24, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

machine learning Numerical simulation and analysis Reinforcement Learning deep learning optimization

Nov 9 - Nov 15, 2025

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A Service-Based Approach to Drone Service Delivery in Skyway Networks

Athman Bouguettaya, Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Sydney

Nov 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

drones optimization Quality of service

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On adopting Gauss maps into geometry tools for Computer-Aided Design

Victor Ceballos Inza, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 10, 11:30 - 13:00

B1, L3, R3426

gauss maps computer-aided design

Nov 2 - Nov 8, 2025

Don’t be the Jean-Claude Van Damme of Your Research Area

Ahmed El-Roby, Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, Carleton University

Nov 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Oct 26 - Nov 1, 2025

AI-Driven Smart Wearables in Health and Sport Application

Luyao Yang, Ph.D. Student, Networking Research Lab

Oct 30, 10:00 - 11:00

B1 L3 R3119

smart health

Ringleader ASGD: The First Asynchronous SGD with Optimal Time Complexity under Data Heterogeneity

Arto Maranjyan, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Oct 28, 14:30 - 15:30

B1 L3 R3119

BiCoLoR: Communication-Efficient Optimization with Bidirectional Compression and Local Training

Laurent Condat, Senior Research Scientist, Computer Science

Oct 27, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

optimization Distributed algorithms Signal and Image Processing

Oct 12 - Oct 18, 2025

Bio-Inspired Consensus Enabledby Distributed Active Perception

Fumin Zhang, Chair Professor and Director, Cheng Kar-Shun Robotics Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Oct 13, 12:00 - 13:00

Auditorium (between Buildings 4 and 5), Level 0, Room 0215

Oct 5 - Oct 11, 2025

FIFA Research Institute

Silvio Giancola, Research Scientist, Image and Video Understanding Lab

Oct 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI Sports FIFA

Sep 28 - Oct 4, 2025

Robotics at KAUST

Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Sep 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

robotics

Sep 21 - Sep 27, 2025

Advice and Comments About Research

Peter Wonka, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 22, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

academic life

Sep 14 - Sep 20, 2025

From the Ball-Proximal (Broximal) Point Method to Efficient Training of LLMs

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 15, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

AI machine learning optimization algorithms LLM

Sep 7 - Sep 13, 2025

Building a Safer and More Equitable Internet in the Age of AI

Zafar Qazi, Associate Professor, Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS)

Sep 8, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Aug 31 - Sep 6, 2025

Revolutionizing Datacenter Networks via Reconfigurable Topologies

Stefan Schmid, Professor, Computer Science, Technische Universität Berlin

Sep 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Aug 24 - Aug 30, 2025

Visual Analytics for Macromolecular Science

Deng Luo, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Aug 25, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 L2 R2202; Zoom Meeting 96140008642

bioinformatics artificial intelligence nanovisualization

Jul 6 - Jul 12, 2025

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Towards Usable and Useful Explainable AI

Lijie Hu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jul 7, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L5 R5220

explainable AI Large Language Models multimodal models

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Explainability and Efficiency in Spatio-Temporal Models: Applications to Traffic Forecasting

Xiaochuan Gou, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jul 6, 15:00 - 18:00

B5 L5 R5209

traffic forecasting Graph Neural Networks model interpretability

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Modern Privacy-preserving Machine Learning: Rigorous Approach for Data Privacy

Zihang Xiang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jul 6, 10:00 - 12:00

B3 L5 R5216

privacy-preserving machine learning Differential privacy Federated learning

May 25 - May 31, 2025

The Many Faces of Compression: Theory and Practice in Federated Optimization

Elnur Gasanov, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 28, 10:00 - 12:00

B3, L5, R5209

compression methods communication efficiency proximal algorithms

May 18 - May 24, 2025

Bridging AI and Spatial Biology to Navigate Biological Landscapes

Haoyang Li, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 20, 11:00 - 13:00

B3 L5 R5209; Zoom Meeting 2343423945

AI artificial intelligence Computational biology bioinformatics spatial transcriptomics

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Towards Privacy-preserving Artificial Intelligence (PAI) for Healthcare and Bioinformatics

Juexiao Zhou, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 20, 09:00 - 11:00

B3, L5, Room 5209

privacy-preserving AI Federated learning healthcare applications

May 11 - May 17, 2025

Data–Driven Mining of Causal Disease Relations to Enhance Disease Centric Predictions

Sumyyah Toonsi, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 15, 10:00 - 11:00

B4 L5 R5209

Error Feedback for Communication-Efficient First and Second-Order Distributed Optimization: Theory and Practical Implementation

Konstantin Burlachenko, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Federated learning software development

May 4 - May 10, 2025

Optimization Methods and Software for Federated Learning

Konstantin Burlachenko, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 8, 19:00 - 21:00

B5 L5 R5209

Spatiotemporal Machine Learning for Real-world Complex Systems: Enhancing Smart Transportation with Robust AI

ZIyue Li, Assistant Professor, Information Systems Department, University of Cologne, Germany

May 8, 13:00 - 14:00

B1 L4 R4214

Modeling and Simulation of Carbon Dioxide Storage in Geological Layers

Shuai Lu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 8, 12:00 - 14:00

B2 L5 R5220

Current and Future Challenges and Solutions in AI & HPC System and Thermal Management

Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed, Senior Fellow & Chief Architect, AMD Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering Life Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow & Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Life Fellow, ASME

May 6, 13:00 - 17:00

B4 L5 R5209

The 2025 Iberian Blackout: Anatomy of a Grid Collapse

Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 6, 09:00 - 11:00

B9 L2 R2322

renewable energy resilience power grid

Relations between Decision Trees and Decision Rule Systems

Kerven Durdymyradov, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science

May 4, 11:00 - 13:00

B5 L5 R5220

decision trees machine learning

On Complexity of Decision Trees for Decision Tables from Closed Classes

Azimkhon Ostonov, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science

May 4, 09:00 - 11:00

B5 L5 R5220

decision trees machine learning

Apr 27 - May 3, 2025

Towards Trustworthy News Recommendation Systems

Manal A. Alshehri, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 1, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L5 R5209

machine learning artificial intelligence personalized recommendations Generative Adversarial Networks

On Singular Equations Modeling Electrostatic MEMS

Katerina Nik, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

MEMS free boundary problems

Apr 20 - Apr 26, 2025

Advancing Security Red-Teaming in Cyber-Physical Systems via AI-Driven Side-Channel Analysis

Tao Ni, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Apr 23, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

cybersecurity IoT cyber-physical systems

The Earliest Arrival of Quantum Utility

David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science

Apr 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Towards Full Information Transformation in Deep Learning: A Study in Neural Machine Translation and Vision on Next-Generation Language Foundation Models

Dr. Liang Ding

Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2025

Towards Safe, Factual, and Empathetic Human-AI Interaction

Yuxia Wang, Postdoctoral Researcher, Natural Language Processing department, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Apr 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3223

Strategies for Improving Communication Efficiency in Distributed and Federated Learning: Compression, Local Training, and Personalization

Kai Yi, Ph.D. Student, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Apr 14, 18:00 - 20:00

B5 L5 R5209

Making LLMs Agentic: How Tool Use and Synthetic Data Drive Real-World Intelligence

Ibrahim Abdelaziz, Senior Research Scientist, IBM

Apr 13, 16:00 - 17:00

B2/3 L0 R0215

LLM machine learning artificial intelligence AI

Apr 6 - Apr 12, 2025

Architecture and System Co-Design for High-performance LLM Inference and Training

Jingwen Leng, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Apr 7, 11:00 - 12:00

B9 L2 R2325

Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2025

Apr 7 - 10, All day

Building 19, Halls 1, 2 and 3

SAAI Factory 3

Apr 6, 08:00 - Apr 14, 14:45

Buildings 20 and Buildings 19

artificial intelligence AI art machine learning Hackathon

Mar 16 - Mar 22, 2025

Recent Advances in 3D Computer Vision and Their Applications for Medical Imaging

Abdullah Hamdi, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Visual Geometry Group; Junior Research Fellow, Kellogg College, University of Oxford

Mar 17, 13:00 - 14:00

Building 9, Level 2, Hall1, Room 2325

Bridging 2D and 3D for Label-Efficient Learning in Scene Understanding

Timo Ropinski, Professor, Institute of Media Informatics, Ulm University, Germany

Mar 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Mar 2 - Mar 8, 2025

Gaming (in)security

Marc Dacier, Professor, Computer Science

Mar 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Feb 16 - Feb 22, 2025

mR_LWE-CP-ABE: a Recoverable CP-ABE protocol for Post-quantum Cryptography

Dr. Elia Onofri, Researcher, The Institute of Applied Mathematics of the National Research Council of Italy

Feb 17, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

Cryptography

Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2025

Spatial Dataflow is all you need!

Jian Weng, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Feb 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2325

machine learning RTL computational methods

Surface Tracking for Large-scale Dynamic Foams and Fluids

Aleksei Kalinov, PhD Student at Institute of Science and Technology Austria

Feb 9, 13:00 - 14:30

B1, L2, R2202

Feb 2 - Feb 8, 2025

Metrics, Mayhem, and Microservices: Taming the Cloud Observability Beast

Alessandro Cornacchia, Postdoctoral Fellow

Feb 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325