NVIDIA Days at KAUST Sep 15, 20:45 - Sep 17, 17:00 B2/3 A0215 HPC NVIDIA agentic AI systems Physical AI digital twins robotics weather GPU quantum computing
SADIQ: An Intelligent Context-Aware IoT System Basem Shihada, Program Chair, Computer Science Sep 14, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 SDN Quality of service IoT software defined network
Algorithmically Faithful and System-Efficient Optimization for Large Language Models Liangyu Wang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Sep 8, 13:30 - 16:30 B4 R5209; Zoom Meeting 99767080624 LLM Neural Network training algorithms Optimization for Machine Learning LLM training systems
The Event Horizon Telescope: From the First Images to the First Movies of Black Holes Laurent Loinard, Professor of Astronomy, Institute for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Sep 7, 16:00 - 17:00 B20 Auditorium Astrophysics Visualization High Performance Computing algorithms telescope statistical inference computational analysis galaxy black holes astrometry
The Dark Side of Metaverse: Unmasking the Threats from eXtended Reality (XR) Systems Tao Ni, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Sep 7, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 extended reality XR cyber-physical systems privacy cybersecurity
Computer Science: Research, Innovation & AI at the Frontier Basem Shihada, Program Chair, Computer Science Aug 31, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 AI Cyber Security HPC Computational biology Computer Information Systems industry Computer science Higher Education
QCRG Special Seminar: Q.ANT – Photonic Computing for Real-World Applications Utz Bacher, Vice President Software, Q.ANT Aug 27, 16:00 - 17:00 B4/5 A0215; Zoom Meeting 92514602742 quantum computing photonic computing high performance computing emerging technologies
Understanding Practical Optimization in Machine Learning Egor Shulgin, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Jul 22, 17:00 - 19:00 B5 R5209; Zoom Meeting 95703397179 Optimization for Machine Learning AI artificial intelligence machine learning Optimization design and machine learning
Bridging the Gap: AI-Driven Software Quality Assurance Dr. Eman Abdullah AlOmar, Assistant Professor, Charles V. Schaefer Jr. School of Engineering and Science (SES), STEVENS Institute of Technology Jul 20, 11:00 - 12:00 B2/3 L0 R0215; Zoom Meeting 96002635189 AI Trustworthy AI LLM nlp AI agents
Gray Scott School 2026 Jun 29 - Jul 2, All day B3 L2 R2202 HPC Performance optimization parallel computing
Differentiable Optics for Automated Optical Design and End-to-end Computational Imaging Xinge Yang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science May 11, 17:00 - 18:30 B1 R2202 differentiable optics computational imaging optical design automated design augmented reality virtual reality AR VR
Multimodal Agents: From Automation toward Open-Ended Self-Improvement Mingchen Zhuge, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science May 9, 17:30 - 19:30 B4 R5220; Zoom Meeting 91489077683 AI agents coding Multi-agent systems world models recursive self-improvement LLM Deep Reinforcement Learning
Learning under Limited Information across Federated, Multi-Agent, and LLM Settings Salma Kharrat, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science May 7, 15:00 - 16:45 B3 R5220 Federated learning personalized learning decentralized learning Reinforcement Learning black-box optimization prompt optimization decentralized systems combinatorial optimization observability inference Trustworthy AI trustworthy machine learning intelligent systems LLM
What Survives When Code Doesn’t? Dr. Laurent Bindschaedler, Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS) May 4, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 Trustworthy AI trustworthy machine learning coding AI axplainable AI software development
Causal Reasoning in Medical Digital Twins: Methods and Architectures Sakhaa Alsaedi, Ph.D. (former), Computer Science Apr 29, 03:00 - 05:00 B3 R5209 explainable AI reasoning causal representation learning medical digital twins personalized medicine AI AI for healthcare
Publication Ethics and Authorship - Including the Responsible and Ethical Use of AI in Research Sidney Engelbrecht, Senior Research Compliance Specialist, Research Operations Apr 26, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 research ethics scientific research AI
Introduction to Research Ethics and Integrity - Including Issues Around Research Misconduct Sidney Engelbrecht, Senior Research Compliance Specialist, Research Operations Apr 19, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 research ethics scientific research
Private and Robust Learning for Decision Making Yulian Wu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Apr 14, 15:00 - 17:00 B4 R5220; Zoom Meeting 98132861421 decision making Trustworthy AI privacy-preserving AI Data Privacy machine learning artificial intelligence AI
The Role of Humans in Scientific Discovery in the Age of LLMs — Beyond Asking: Turning LLMs into Research Collaborators Sir Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Vice President, Research & Innovation, King’s College London (KCL); Distinguished Professor, Department of Engineering, Faculty of Natural, Mathematical & Engineering Sciences, King’s College London (KCL) Apr 8, 12:00 - 14:15 B9 R2325 AI artificial intelligence LLM scientific research scientific knowledge Assistive Technology
DePIN: From Decentralization Promise to Security Reality - A Critical Dissection of Trust, Privacy, and Architectural Illusions Roberto Di Pietro, Professor, Computer Science Apr 6, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 privacy preserving techniques cybersecurity Web and Network security DePIN Decentralized Physical Infrastructure Networks VPNs dVPNs computer networking decentralized infrastructure systems
Can AI Make Physicians Better at Diagnosis? Ihsan Ayyub Qazi, Full Professor, Computer Science, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) Mar 30, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 AI Trustworthy AI Diagnosis behavioral analysis decision making LLM Biomedical
Demystifying Adversarial Patch Attacks and Defenses in the Physical World Tao Ni, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Mar 16, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 R2325 Trustworthy AI Computer Vision computational predictions spoofing
Provable and Measurable Machine Unlearning in Modern Learning Systems Cheng-Long Wang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Mar 10, 10:30 - 12:30 B2 L5 R5209 Machine Unlearning Data Privacy Trustworthy AI Federated learning machine learning AI
Learning to Identify and Exploit Neural Network Dynamics in Multi-Step Inference Haozhe Liu, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Mar 9, 13:30 - 15:30 B4 L5 R5220; Zoom Meeting 95866424218
Extreme Computing Universals David Keyes, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Mar 9, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 HPC APIs extreme computing smart systems parallel computing software development
Assessing Network Middlebox Impact on End-to-End Protocol Behavior via a Distributed and Reprogrammable Framework Ilies Benhabbour, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Mar 4, 13:00 - 16:00 B5 L5 R5220 cybersecurity Cryptography distributed computing
From Prompts to Production: The Systems Agenda for Agentic AI Marco Canini, Professor, Computer Science Mar 2, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 AI observability reproducibility Computer Information Systems
Towards Scalable and Structured Understanding in Visual LLMs Mohamed Elhoseiny, Associate Professor, Computer Science Feb 23, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 LLM Visual Language Models VLMs visual computing
Eyes in the Sky: AI-Based Camel Identification and Tracking Using Drones Basem Shihada, Program Chair, Computer Science Feb 16, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 AI drones animal tracking
Accelerating Branch-and-Bound Graph Algorithms with GPUs Izzat El Hajj, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, American University of Beirut (AUB) Feb 9, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 parallel computing optimization GPU Algorithms HPC Graph Theory Efficient
Efficient Machine Learning for Scientific and Medical Applications Yasir Ghunaim, Ph.D., Computer Science Feb 4, 18:00 - 20:00 B4/5 L0 A0215 Efficient Machine Learning machine learning Graph Neural Networks
From Dialects to Peptides: Scalable and Efficient AI for People Muhammad Abdul-Mageed, Canada Research Chair, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning; Associate Professor, School of Information, Department of Linguistics, The University of British Columbia Feb 2, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 AI Efficient Efficient Machine Learning
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
Shedding New Light on the Past: Applications of Multi-Light Image Collections in Cultural Heritage Ruggero Pintus, Senior Researcher, Center for Advanced Studies, Research and Development in Sardinia (CRS4) Jan 26, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 interactive visualization image processing data acquisition
KAUST Research Conference on Mathematical and Data Sciences Jan 26 - 28, All day KAUST Campus data science scientific computing Computer science
Empowering Natural Intelligence with Artificial Intelligence: a Mathematician's Perspective Alfio Quarteroni, Emeritus Professor, Politecnico di Milano and EPFL Jan 25, 14:00 - 15:00 B9, L2, R2322 Computational mathematics numerical methods Scientific Machine Learning scientific computing applied mathematics
Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting: From Efficiency to Safety Lama Alssum, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Dec 11, 14:00 - 15:00 B3 L5 R5220 AI machine learning Computer Vision
Tales of a Spur Hunter: The Wandering Spur Michael Peter Kennedy, Full Professor, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University College Dublin Dec 7, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
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 L0 A0215
First Provably Optimal Asynchronous SGD for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data Arto Maranjyan, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Dec 4, 08:30 - 11:00 B4/5 L0 A0215 machine learning optimization asynchronous algorithms Training
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
Balancing Accuracy and Efficiency: Compact Representations for Flow and Multivariate Visualization Amani Ageeli, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Nov 25, 10:00 - 12:00 B3 L5 R5220 Scientific Visualization real-time rendering computer graphics interactive visualization large datasets multivariate functional data
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
KAUST Workshop on Distributed Training in the Era of Large Models Nov 24 - 26, All day Auditorium between B4 & 5, L0, R0215 machine learning Distributed algorithms generative models ML
Observer-Relative Flow Visualization and Objective Feature Extraction Xingdi Zhang, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computer Science Nov 19, 16:30 - 18:00 B1 L4 R4214 visual computing scientific computing deep learning
Gaussian Splatting: A Novel Paradigm for 3D Scene Representation and Rendering Ivan Viola, Professor, Computer Science Nov 17, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
First Provably Optimal Asynchronous SGD for Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Data Arto Maranjyan, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science Nov 13, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 machine learning optimization asynchronous algorithms Training
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
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
