Events

Dec 1 - Dec 8, 2024

KAUST-CEMSE-CS-Graduate-Seminar-Robert-Hoehndorf-Neuro

Neuro-symbolic methods for Semantic Web ontologies

Robert Hoehndorf, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Dec 2, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Nov 24 - Dec 1, 2024

KAUST-CEMSE-Public-Colloquium-Marco-Canini-Why-ML-Works-Its-Not-Magic

Why ML Works: It’s Not Magic, It’s Networked Systems Wizardry!

Marco Canini, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Nov 27, 10:00 - 11:30

B9, L2, R2322

machine learning computing system

Data Augmentation is Regularization

Maurizio Filippone, Associate Professor, Statistics

Nov 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9, L2, R2325

Jun 2 - Jun 9, 2024

Cellular Mesoscale Visualization from Electron Microscopy Imaging

Ngan Nguyen, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jun 6, 13:00 - 15:00

B1 L4 R4214

May 26 - Jun 2, 2024

ML-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems: Resilience threats and a mitigation approach

António Casimiro is an Associate Professor at the Department of Informatics of the University of Lisboa Faculty of Sciences (FCUL)

May 30, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220

cybersecurity cyber threats

Stein Variational Gradient Descent and Consensus-Based Optimization: Towards a Convergence Analysis and Generalization

Lukang Sun, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 30, 11:00 - 14:00

B3 L5 R5220

Compressed Communication in Distributed Deep Learning and Generative Language Models

Hang Xu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

May 28, 15:00 - 17:00

B2 L5 R5209

Apr 28 - May 12, 2024

Averaging, Momentum, and Schedulers in Optimization for Deep Learning

Konstantin Mishchenko

May 5, 11:00 - 13:00

B9 L3 R3128

Deep learning artificial intelligence

Apr 28 - May 5, 2024

Towards accelerating catalyst discovery: bridging the gap between modeling, experiments, and large-scale integration

Dr. Jehad Abed, Postdoctoral Researcher, Fundamental AI Research at Meta

Apr 30, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L3 R3426

Discovering HTTP/2 DoS Vulnerabilities using Protocol Reverse Engineering

Prof. Sven Dietrich, Computer Science, City University of New York

Apr 29, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Apr 21 - May 5, 2024

Imaginative AI: A Decade+ Journey Towards Human-level imaginative AI skills transforming Species Discovery, Content Creation, Autonomous Agents, Healthcare, and Beyond

Mohamed Elhoseiny, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Apr 28, 15:00 - 16:30

B9 L2 H2

Apr 21 - Apr 28, 2024

Securing Cyber-Physical and IoT Systems in Smart Living Environments

Prof. Sajal K. Das is a Curators’ Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, and Daniel St. Clair Endowed Chair, Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA.

Apr 25, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220

cyber-physical infrastructure cyber-physical systems cyber-physical-human cybersecurity

Neural-symbolic Knowledge Representation with Ontology and Knowledge Graph Embeddings

Dr. Jiaoyan Chen, Lecturer in Department of Computer Science, The University of Manchester

Apr 22, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Apr 14 - Apr 21, 2024

β-contraction: a Framework for Contracting Coloured Networks. Use Cases and Applications

Dr. Elia Onofri, Research fellow, the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the National Research Council of Italy (IAC-CNR).

Apr 18, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220

networks cryptocurrencies

Towards Human-enabled Intelligent Robots: Perception, Imitation and Morphology

Xingyu Liu, Postdoc, CMU

Apr 16, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225

Intracellular "in silico microscopes" - Fully 3D Spatio-Temporal Virus Replication Model Simulations

Gabriel Wittum, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Apr 15, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Mar 31 - Apr 7, 2024

Learned Imaging Systems

Wolfgang Heidrich, Professor, Computer Science

Apr 1, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Mar 24 - Mar 31, 2024

Navigating NLP for Underrepresented Languages: Dataset Challenges, Efficient Techniques, and Evaluations

Fajri Koto, Postdoc, MBZUAI

Mar 26, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225

Natural Language Processing

RDMA at Hyperscale: Experience and Future Directions

Wei Bai, Principal Software Research Architect, NVIDIA

Mar 25, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Mar 17 - Mar 31, 2024

Towards Trustworthy AI-Generated Text

Xiuying Chen, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Mar 24, 15:00 - 17:00

B3 L5 R5209

language models AI-generated text

Mar 17 - Mar 24, 2024

Building Latency-Critical Applications for the Future Datacenter

Marios Kogias, Assistant Professor, Computing Department, Imperial College, London

Mar 18, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Mar 10 - Mar 17, 2024

Differential Privacy for Modern Deep Learning Models

Di Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Mar 11, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Mar 3 - Mar 10, 2024

Dependability assessment work at City, University of London and possible synergies with RC3 at KAUST

Reader, the Department of Computer Science, City, University of London.

Mar 7, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

dependability fault tolerance cybersecurity

Imaginative Vision Language Models: Towards human-level imaginative AI skills transforming species discovery, content creation, self-driving cars, and health both physical and emotional

Mohamed Elhoseiny, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Mar 4, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Feb 25 - Mar 3, 2024

Programming Theory in Security Analysis: A Tripartite Framework for Vulnerability Specification

Yinxi Liu, PhD Student, Computer Science and Engineering, the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Feb 27, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225

Learning with Longitudinal Electronic Health Record Data

Ricardo Henao, Associate Professor (former), Bioengineering

Feb 26, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Principled Scaling of Deep Neural Networks

Soufiane Hayou, Postdoc, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley

Feb 26, 09:00 - 10:00

B9 L4 R4225

Neural Networks

Feb 11 - Feb 18, 2024

Local flex markets from theory to practice: the UK landscape and international experiences

Jason Avramidis, Director of Innovation and International Flexibility Markets for OakTree Power, UK

Feb 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B1 L4 R4214

Feb 4 - Feb 18, 2024

Data, AI and Cybersecurity: Synergies and Interconnection

Marco Mellia, Department of Control and Computer Engineering, Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Feb 11, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 H2 H2

Deep learning cybersecurity artificial intelligence

Feb 4 - Feb 11, 2024

Towards Transparency of IoT Device Presence

Gene Tsudik, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, the University of California, Irvine (UCI)

Feb 5, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

cybersecurity IoT

Jan 28 - Feb 11, 2024

Trainable Decompositions: Addressing Device Heterogeneity

Prof. Samuel Horvath, Machine Learning at Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI)

Feb 4, 15:00 - 16:00

Buliding 4 L5 R5220

Jan 28 - Feb 4, 2024

Developing, Synthesizing, and Automating Domain-Specific Accelerators

Jian Weng, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Jan 29, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2

Domain-Specific Accelerators

Jan 21 - Jan 28, 2024

Decision Trees for Fault Diagnosis in Circuits and Switching Networks

Mikhail Moshkov, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jan 22, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2325

decision trees switching networks

Dec 10 - Dec 24, 2023

Efficient Machine Learning across Hardware, Software, and Algorithms

Prof. Mohamed Abdelfattah, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Cornell University

Dec 17, 14:00 - 15:30

B2 L5 R5209

Efficient machine learning Hardware software algorithms

Dec 3 - Dec 17, 2023

Resistance is Futile: Balancing Opportunities and Security Challenges of Federated Learning

Prof. Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.

Dec 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B4 L5 R5220

artificial intelligence Federated learning

Dec 3 - Dec 10, 2023

RC3 Advisory Board Distinguished Lectures Workshop

RC3 Advisory Board

Dec 5, 08:30 - 12:30

B5 L5 R5220

cybersecurity resilience Computer science

Nov 26 - Dec 3, 2023

Resilient Cyber-Physical and Embedded Systems - Or how to cheat to get to n=f+1

Prof. Marcus Völp, Head of the CritiX lab, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT), the University of Luxembourg.

Nov 30, 15:30 - 16:30

B5 L5 R5209

ICT cyber-physical systems

Derivative-Free Global Minimization: Relaxation, Monte Carlo and Sampling

Diogo Gomes, Program Chair, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Nov 27, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

minimization Gradient flows Monte Carlo Monte Carlo Methodology

Nov 19 - Nov 26, 2023

FADO: A Federated Learning Attack and Defense Orchestrator

Nuno Neves, Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, the University of Lisboa (FCUL), Portugal.

Nov 23, 15:30 - 16:30

B5 L5 R5209

Federated learning machine learning

Natural Language Models For Unnatural Languages

Wamiq Para, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 20, 14:00 - 16:00

B1 L2 R2202

Improving Interpretation Faithfulness for Transformers

Di Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Nov 20, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

transformers nlp interpretation faithfulness

Nov 12 - Nov 19, 2023

Efficient Algorithms for Vision and Language Learning

Jun Chen , Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 14, 12:15 - 14:15

B1 L3 R3426

The SCION Research and Education Network

Adrian Perrig, Professor, the Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Nov 13, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

cybersecurity internet architecture

Nov 5 - Nov 19, 2023

Learning Sequential Modeling Algorithms for Motion Forecasting, Reinforcement Learning, and Vision-Language Understanding

Deyao Zhu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 12, 15:00 - 16:30

B1 L4 R4214

Nov 5 - Nov 12, 2023

Security and privacy in centralized and decentralized machine learning

Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and an ICREA-Acadèmia, Research Professor, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia.

Nov 9, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

cybersecurity machine learning Security and Privacy attacks

Interpretable Learning on Heterogeneous Graphs

Qiang Yang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Nov 7, 15:00 - 17:00

B3 L5 R5220

The Prospect of Generative Language Processing

Prof. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed

Nov 6, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

nlp generative language processing artificial intelligence

Oct 29 - Nov 5, 2023

Scheduling tasks in energy harvesting IoT

Stefano Chessa, Professor, Department of Computer Science, the University of Pisa, Italy.

Nov 2, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

IoT energy harvesting cybersecurity

Scalable Spatial Data Science for Social Scientists

Prof. Amr Magdy

Oct 31, 16:30 - 17:30

B4 L5 R5220

data science Spatial data

Memory Forensics 2.0

Davide Balzarotti, Professor and head of the Digital Security department, EURECOM, France.

Oct 30, 11:30 - 12:30

B9 L2 H2 H2

cybersecurity