Events

Oct 16 - Oct 22, 2022

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

Oct 9 - Oct 15, 2022

EF-BV: distributed optimization with compressed communication

Laurent Condat, Senior Research Scientist, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering

Oct 10, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

big data distributed computing Federated learning

Oct 2 - Oct 8, 2022

Towards Structured Intelligence with Deep Graph Neural Networks

Guohao Li, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Oct 5, 18:00 - 20:00

B5 L5 R5209

graph machine learning Graph Neural Networks

A new class of random field models for data on networks

David Bolin, Associate Professor, Statistics

Oct 3, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

applied statistics machine learning Gaussian processes

Sep 25 - Oct 1, 2022

Designing High-Performance and Scalable Middleware for HPC, AI, and Data Science

Prof. Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sep 26, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

data science Deep learning machine learning artificial intelligence

Sep 18 - Sep 24, 2022

Towards Detailed Understanding of the Visual World

Fahad Khan, Associate Professor at MBZUAI and Linköping University

Sep 19, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

Computer Vision

Sep 11 - Sep 17, 2022

Optimal Algorithms for Affinely Constrained, Distributed, Decentralized, Minimax, and High-Order Optimization Problems

Dmitry Kovalev, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Sep 14, 16:00 - 18:30

B5 R5220

optimization machine learning

Architecting the Future of Wireless Networks Connectivity

Basem Shihada, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 13, 14:00 - 15:30

B9 L2 H2

Defeating the attacks from bots scrapers hiding behind residential proxy IPs

Marc Dacier, Professor, Computer Science

Sep 12, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

operational security resilient computing

Sep 4 - Sep 10, 2022

Communication-Efficient Distributed Newton-type Algorithms for Federated Learning

Mher Safaryan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Sep 5, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

machine learning

Resilience is the Cybersecurity of the XXI century, and here's why! - 2022-09-04

Sep 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322

Resilience is the Cybersecurity of the XXI century

Aug 28 - Sep 3, 2022

Which came first: the paper or the peer-review?

Marco Canini, Associate Professor, Computer Science

Aug 29, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

Jun 26 - Jul 2, 2022

Drug Repositioning through the Development of Diverse Computational Methods using Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Graph Mining

Maha Thafar, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Jun 30, 08:30 - 10:30

KAUST

Computational biology machine learning Deep learning graph mining

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 19 - Jun 25, 2022

High-Performance Scientific Applications Using Mixed Precisions and Low-Rank Approximations Powered by Task-based Runtime Systems

Rabab Alomairy, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Jun 20, 11:00 - 13:00

B9 L4 R4223

Tile Low Rank Algorithmic redesign Task based Runtime 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

May 15 - May 21, 2022

It is Okay to not be Okay: Overcoming Emotional Bias in Affective Image Captioning by Contrastive Data Collection (ArtEmis 2.0)

Mohamed Elhoseiny, Associate Professor, Computer Science

May 16, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

May 8 - May 14, 2022

Introduction to Computer Simulation - A short course - Lecture 3

Michal A. Mankowski, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

May 10, 10:00 - 11:30

B1 L4 R4102

Computer simulations

Software challenges in the renewable hydrogen economy

Mani Sarathy, Professor, Chemical Engineering

May 9, 12:00 - 13:00

KAUST

Introduction to Computer Simulation - A short course - Lecture 2

Michal A. Mankowski, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

May 9, 10:00 - 11:30

B1 L4 R4102

Computer simulations

Introduction to Computer Simulation - A short course - Lecture 1

Michal A. Mankowski, Assistant Professor, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands

May 8, 10:00 - 11:30

B1 L4 R4102

Computer simulations

Apr 24 - Apr 30, 2022

Private Learning with Heavy-tailed Data

Di Wang, Assistant Professor, Computer Science

Apr 25, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Apr 17 - Apr 23, 2022

Electric Power to the People: Sustainable, Secure, and Resilient Energy Systems

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

Apr 18, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Apr 10 - Apr 16, 2022

Geospatial Data Science for Public Health Surveillance

Apr 11, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Apr 3 - Apr 9, 2022

Learning-Based Approaches for Next-Generation Intelligent Networks

Liang Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 5, 14:00 - 16:00

KAUST

communication network problems communication networks

Visualization for DNA Nanotechnology Design and Simulations

Ivan Viola, Professor, Computer Science

Apr 4, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Mar 27 - Apr 2, 2022

To Encourage or to Restrict: the Label Dependency in Multi-Label Learning

Zhuo Yang, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Mar 30, 17:30 - 19:30

KAUST

machine learning data mining

Omics-based Metastasis Prediction using Machine Learning and Deep Learning

Somayah Albaradei, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Mar 30, 14:00 - 15:00

KAUST

bioinformatics Computational biology machine learning Computer Vision

Masterclass on Visual Computing

Dominik Michels, Helmut Pottmann, Ivan Viola, Peter Wonka, Soeren Pirk, Wolfgang Heidrich

Mar 29, 14:30 - Mar 30, 17:15

KAUST

visual computing

Energy Efficient Neuromorphic computing systems

Khaled Salama, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Mar 20 - Mar 26, 2022

Permutation compressors for provably faster distributed nonconvex optimization

Peter Richtarik, Professor, Computer Science

Mar 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Mar 13 - Mar 19, 2022

Making Autonomous Driving more Reliable using Live 3D Digital Twins

Fawad Ahmad, PhD Candidate, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California

Mar 14, 18:30 - 19:30

KAUST

Towards Secure and Scalable Blockchains

Jiangshan Yu, Senior Lecturer, Monash University, Australia

Mar 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B2 B3 A0215

blockchain

Resilient operation of future low-carbon cyber-physical power grids

Fei Teng, Lecturer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Mar 13, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

resilient cyber-physical

Rising Stars in AI Symposium 2022 at KAUST

Jürgen Schmidhuber, Professor, Computer Science

Mar 13, 09:00 - Mar 15, 17:00

B4 B5 A0215

artificial intelligence machine learning mathematical optimization Deep Reinforcement Learning Computer Vision Natural Language Processing

Feb 27 - Mar 5, 2022

Filling the Resources Gap with Approximate Mobile Computing

Veljko Pejović, Assistant professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Science (UL FRI), University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Feb 28, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

Feb 20 - Feb 26, 2022

Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing

Dmitry Lyakhov, Research Scientist, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Feb 21, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1

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

Feb 13 - Feb 19, 2022

Security and Resiliency for Critical Infrastructures

Professor Roberto Di Pietro, College of Science and Engineering, Cybersecurity at Hamad Bin Khalifa University

Feb 14, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

Feb 6 - Feb 12, 2022

Procedural Modeling of Botanical Trees

Wojtek Palubicki is leading the Natural Phenomena Modeling Group at the Faculty of Mathematics and Compter Science at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan.

Feb 7, 12:00 - 13:00

KAUST

Safe and Secure Computer Control Systems? The devil is in the details...

Feb 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 L2 R2322 H1

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

New tools for symbolic computation in partial differential equations

Diogo Gomes, Program Chair, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jan 31, 12:00 - 13:00

KAUST

Jan 23 - Jan 29, 2022

Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining - 2022-01-24

Mikhail Moshkov, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences

Jan 24, 12:00 - 13:00

KAUST

Dec 5 - Dec 11, 2021

Deploying DNNs in the Embedded Space: Challenges and Opportunities

Christos-Savvas Bouganis, Reader in Intelligent Digital Systems in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

Dec 6, 12:00 - 13:00

B9 R2322 H1