Seminar

Jan 25 - Jan 31, 2026

Thoughts About Machine Learning

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Professor, Computer Science

Jan 26, 15:30 - 17:30

B9, Lecture Hall 1, R-2322

AI machine learning deep learning

May 4 - May 10, 2025

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

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

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

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

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

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

Feb 9 - Feb 15, 2025

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

May 26 - Jun 1, 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

May 5 - May 11, 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 4, 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

Apr 21 - Apr 27, 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

Apr 14 - Apr 20, 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

Mar 24 - Mar 30, 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

Mar 3 - Mar 9, 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

Feb 25 - Mar 2, 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

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 17, 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 10, 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

Nov 26 - Dec 2, 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

Nov 19 - Nov 25, 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

Nov 5 - Nov 11, 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

Oct 29 - Nov 4, 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

Oct 1 - Oct 7, 2023

Security, Privacy, and Human

Eman Alashwali, Assistant Professor, the College of Computing and IT, King Abdulaziz University (KAU), KSA

Oct 5, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

cybersecurity privacy google

Jul 30 - Aug 5, 2023

Hybrid Analysis and Modeling as an Enabler for Digital Twins

Prof. Adil Rasheed, Computer Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Aug 3, 11:00 - 12:00

B1 L4 R4214

hybrid modelling

May 21 - May 27, 2023

Assessing DNS Resilience and Robustness

Prof. Fatemah Alharbi, Assistant Professor, the Computer Science Department, Taibah University, Yanbu, KSA.

May 25, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220.

resilience Robustness

Apr 30 - May 6, 2023

Bringing the Cloud to industrial systems: trends, opportunities and challenges

Marcello Cinque, Associate Professor, Computer Engineering, the University of Naples Federico Il, Italy.

May 4, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

cloud technologies industrial systems

Robust and Energy-Efficient Embedded Computing

Semeen Rehman, Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, TU Wien

May 1, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L1 R3131

Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2023

A personal path from mathematics to biomedical research

Apr 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 L5 R5209

Biomedical Computational biology

Mar 26 - Apr 1, 2023

End-to-Same-End Encryption: Modularly Augmenting an App with an Efficient, Portable, and Blind Cloud Storage

Qiang Tang, Senior Lecturer (equal to U.S. Associate Professor), the University of Sydney

Mar 30, 12:00 - 13:00

B4 L5 R5220.

cloud storage End-to-Same-End-Encryption

Challenges in ML for Sustainable Development

Prof. Laure Berti, Computer Science, Research Director, French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development (IRD)

Mar 28, 14:00 - 15:00

B1 L4 R4214

data cleaning and preparation data fusion

Mar 19 - Mar 25, 2023

Making federated learning practical and confidential

Dr. Ruichuan Chen, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff and a Tech Lead, Nokia Bell Labs

Mar 23, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

Federated learning

Mar 5 - Mar 11, 2023

An Overview of Systems Research at TU Munich

Pramod Bhatotia, Chair Professor, Department of Computer Science, the Technical University of Munich (TUM), Germany.

Mar 9, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5209

distributed systems operating systems

Feb 12 - Feb 18, 2023

Designing, Synthesizing, and Automating Domain-Specific Accelerators

Jian Weng, PhD student, Computer Science Department, UCLA

Feb 12, 08:30 - 09:30

KAUST

Digital signal processing

Feb 5 - Feb 11, 2023

Vulnerability discovery in binaries and protocols

Prof. Sven Dietrich, the Computer Science Department, Hunter College, the City University of New York (CUNY)

Feb 9, 15:30 - 16:30

B5 L5 R5209

software

Point processes and their application to modeling drug seizure and overdose interactions

Prof. George Mohler, Computer Science, Boston College

Feb 8, 17:00 - 18:00

KAUST

point processes stochastic models

Machine-learning-assisted Quality of Transmission Estimation in Optical Networks

Andrea Bianco, Full Professor, Electronics and Telecommunications Department at Politecnico di Torino

Feb 8, 13:00 - 14:00

B9 L4 R4125

machine learning explainable AI framework artificial intelligence

Jan 29 - Feb 4, 2023

Fighting against cyber threats from a system perspective

Prof. David Bromberg, Distributed computing systems, University of Rennes (IRISA)

Feb 2, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220.

cyber threats

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2023

Securing data against non-conventional adversaries

Prof. Mohammad Mannan, Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal

Jan 26, 15:30 - 16:30

B4 L5 R5220.

data security

Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2022

Inference for Longitudinal Data After Adaptive Sampling

Prof. Susan Murphy, Statistics and Computer Science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Oct 20, 15:00 - 16:00

B9 L2 H2

Reinforcement Learning

We used Reinforcement Learning; but did it work?

Prof. Susan Murphy, Statistics and Computer Science and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University

Oct 19, 16:00 - 17:00

B9 L2 H2

Reinforcement Learning Digital Behavioral Health

Jun 26 - Jul 2, 2022

IoT via 5G and Beyond 5G Satellite Systems

Prof. Giovanni Giambene, Information Engineering and Mathematics, University of Siena, Italy

Jun 28, 12:50 - 14:00

KAUST

5G IoT Satellite Systems

Jun 12 - Jun 18, 2022

How Can Data Science Change Everyday Life?

Prof. Wadii Boulila, Computer Science, Prince Sultan University

Jun 12, 16:00 - 17:00

B1 L3 R3119

May 29 - Jun 4, 2022

Critical Infrastructures and Satellites Security

Roberto Di Pietro, Full Professor in Cybersecurity, Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Jun 1, 08:30 - 09:30

B9 L2 H2325

Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2022

Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchains

Jiangshan Yu, Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia

Mar 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 B3 A0215

blockchain

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2022

When Second Order Methods Shine: Big Batches, Bayes, and Bilevel

Guodong Zhang, PhD student in University of Toronto

Feb 20, 15:00 - 16:00

KAUST

Jan 30 - Feb 5, 2022

Exoplanet Imaging Coronagraphic Mask Development and Testing: A North American Perspective

Benjamin L. Gerard, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, UC Observatories

Feb 2, 16:30 - 17:30

KAUST