Meet KAUST prospective student: Miguel Ángel Álvarez Ballesteros 1 min read · Mon, Aug 31 2020 News monte carlo algorithms Miguel Ángel Álvarez Ballesteros is a physics graduate from the Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia. Miguel will join KAUST this fall as a M.S./Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Computational Probability research group under the supervision of Professor Ajay Jasra.
Meet KAUST Prospective Student: Igor Sokolov 1 min read · Sun, Aug 9 2020 News machine learning optimization Igor Sokolov, 23, is an applied mathematics and physics graduate who will join KAUST from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia. Igor first came to KAUST as a visiting student in 2019 and was highly impressed by the University's living and working facilities. It was this first impression that prompted him to pursue an M.S. at KAUST. Sokolov will join KAUST in the Fall of 2020 as an M.S. candidate under the supervision of Professor Peter Richtarik.
KAUST mathematician named Fellow to European Academy of Sciences 1 min read · Wed, Jul 29 2020 Spotlight News EurASc numerical analysis Partial Differential Equations KAUST Distinguished Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science, Dr. Peter Markowich, is named a 2020 Fellow to the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc) in recognition of his outstanding scholarship in the field of mathematical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations.
Studying COVID-19’s envelope protein 1 min read · Tue, Jul 28 2020 News COVID-19 human health genomics A likeness between genes of the SARS and COVID-19 viruses could inform research into potential treatments.
Blueprint may power up KSA's wind energy future 1 min read · Thu, Jul 23 2020 News energy security climate science statistics High-resolution analysis of wind speed across Saudi Arabia can help fast track the expansion of the Kingdom’s emerging world-class wind energy industry.
A shock to the system 1 min read · Wed, Jul 22 2020 News Spectral Analysis numerical analysis COVID-19 research The global, multifarious challenge posed by the COVID-19 pandemic has scientists tapping their wide-ranging fields of expertise to attack the problem on many fronts. Answering the call from KAUST President Tony Chan, and coordinated by the University's leadership team, KAUST researchers making up the Rapid Research Response Team (R3T) are turning this crisis into an opportunity to innovate.
New research aims to bridge the digital divide 1 min read · Thu, Jul 16 2020 News 6G atmospheric turbulence pointing errors By the end of 2018, there were nearly 4 billion people without Internet connectivity in the world. Almost 75% of this unconnected population is located in 20 countries and is concentrated in rural, low-income, and low-literacy areas.
Unleashing the potential of tethered drones 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News electrical engineering applied mathematics Wire-connected drones may complement or replace the fixed base stations of cellular communications networks.
Keyes and colleagues take part in historic ISC 1 min read · Tue, Jul 14 2020 News International Supercomputing Conference KAUST Professor David Keyes, director of the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) and professor of applied mathematics and computational science, chaired this year's International Supercomputing Conference (ISC). The ISC, which takes place in Frankfurt, Germany every June, is where the world's supercomputers are re-ranked for computational power, power efficiency, and performance on various scientific benchmarks.
Peter Markowich elected Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences 1 min read · Thu, Jul 9 2020 Spotlight News Applied Partial Differential Equations mean-field games KAUST Professor Peter Markowich has been elected as a Fellow of the European Academy of Sciences (EurASc). Established in 2003, the EurASC is a fully independent international organization of distinguished scholars that aims to recognize and elect to its membership the best European researchers to strengthen European science and scientific cooperation.
Dr. Alexandra Gomes receives 2020 KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award 1 min read · Wed, Jul 8 2020 Spotlight News Upon the recommendation of the DTA selection committee and the KAUST Interim Vice President for Academic Affairs Professor Yves Gnanou, Dr. Alexandra Gomes has been awarded the 2020 KAUST Distinguished Teaching Award. Gomes, who is a member of the KAUST CEMSE Division, was recognized for the award due to her exceptional contributions to the classroom instruction mission of KAUST. The award will be conferred at the annual KAUST Faculty Recognition Dinner scheduled for this fall.
KAUST scientists win prestigious Gauss Award for supercomputing excellence 1 min read · Fri, Jun 26 2020 News HPC supercomputing numerical linear algebra parallel computing KAUST Ph.D. graduate Dr. Noha Al-Harthi and doctoral student Rabab Alomairy, have won the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing (GCS) Award for original research that best advances high-performance computing. This makes KAUST the first Middle Eastern institution to receive this prestigious award.
A clique away from more efficient networks 1 min read · Sun, Jun 14 2020 News networks connectivity applied mathematics electrical engineering An old branch of mathematics finds a fertile new field of application.
Angling for underwater WiFi 1 min read · Wed, Jun 10 2020 News communications Computer science Scuba divers could send sea life shots in real time using an aquatic internet service.
A sharper view of flood risk 1 min read · Sun, Jun 7 2020 News extreme events climate science statistics Extreme weather patterns and regions at risk of flooding could be easier to spot using a new statistical model for large spatial datasets.
6G: The time is now! 1 min read · Sun, May 17 2020 News wireless telecommunication technology 6G While 5G companies and opponents are competing over the deployment of the first 5G platforms, the next generation of wireless telecommunication technology is being concocted right now in laboratories all around the world.
Shaheen II open to serve COVID-19 research around the Kingdom 1 min read · Sun, May 10 2020 News supercomputing The COVID-19 pandemic has imposed challenges across the globe that need to be solved using scientific discovery and innovation. In line with that, the KAUST Supercomputing Core Laboratory (KSL) has opened a call for proposals that require its supercomputer Shaheen II, as well as other cluster computing resources, to support research projects.
Understanding the COVID wave 1 min read · Thu, Apr 16 2020 News numerical analysis numerical methods As countries around the world work to "flatten the curve," a reference to slowing the progression of COVID-19 cases, David Ketcheson is putting mathematical modeling to work to understand how transmission is playing out.
CEMSE Division student spotlight: Gaurav Agarwal 1 min read · Thu, Apr 16 2020 News spatial statistics Environmental Statistics Gaurav Agarwal firmly believes in the age-old adage that patience is a virtue. Without patience, life’s challenges cannot be overcome, and a steadfast belief in perseverance has served the statistics Ph.D. student well throughout his academic career.
Unlocking coronavirus' secrets through cellphone data and social media 1 min read · Sun, Apr 12 2020 News Dr. Paula Moraga is part of a multidisciplinary KAUST research team that applies models to COVID-19. She has worked on projects examining malaria in Africa and leptospirosis in Brazil, and the models she develops rely on in-depth knowledge about each disease. "With malaria, for example, we know that it's transmitted by mosquitoes," said Moraga. "So, if some regions have a high density of mosquitoes, are close to bodies of water or have a lot of humidity, we know that we are going to probably see a high risk of this disease." Into the unknown In many places, malaria and leptospirosis
New book of Mikhail Moshkov "Comparative Analysis of Deterministic and Nondeterministic Decision Trees" is published by Springer 1 min read · Mon, Mar 16 2020 Spotlight News Mikhail begun to write this book more than 30 years ago in Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, continued in University of Warsaw, University of Silesia in Katowice, and Stanford University, and finished last year in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.
Joining forces to advance healthcare analytics in the Kingdom 1 min read · Wed, Feb 26 2020 News healthcare analytics data science The recent KAUST-Prince Mohammed Bin Salman College (MBSC) Invitational Healthcare Analytics and Data Science Workshop brought together top-level clinicians, healthcare executives, representatives to discuss digitization and advancement of healthcare analytics in Saudi Arabia.
CEMSE New Faculty: Daniele Boffi, Professor of Numerical Analysis 1 min read · Tue, Jan 28 2020 News numerical analysis Daniele Boffi is a professor of numerical analysis who recently joined the KAUST Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division.
Distinguished Professor Marc Genton selected as the 2020 Georges Matheron Lecturer of the IAMG 1 min read · Tue, Jan 21 2020 Spotlight News IAMG Marc Genton, chair, and distinguished professor of the KAUST Statistics Program, was recently selected as the 2020 Georges Matheron Lecturer of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences (IAMG).
Steep learning in mathematics of big waves 1 min read · Sun, Jan 19 2020 News extreme weather A better mathematical understanding of how big waves form could lead to better prediction of tsunami impacts.
Gaurav Agarwal wins IISA best student paper award 1 min read · Sun, Jan 19 2020 News Spotlight IISA Award Gaurav Agarwal, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in KAUST Associate Professor Ying Sun’s Environmental Statistics (ES) research group, recently won the best student paper award at the International Indian Statistical Association (IISA) 2019 Student Paper Competition for his paper titled “Bivariate Functional Quantile Envelopes with Application to Radiosonde Wind Data.”
Faculty Focus: Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati 1 min read · Wed, Jan 15 2020 Spotlight News modeling control systems -By A. Ortega, KAUST News KAUST Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati joined the University in 2011 after working as a researcher at INRIA in France. Laleg-Kirati leads the Estimation, Modeling and ANalysis (EMAN) research group at KAUST, and her interests lie in control theory, system modeling and signal applications. She investigates multiple engineering disciplines and develops mathematical models and algorithms that control processes relying on real-time feedback. "My research goals [are the development of] effective estimation methods and algorithms to
Using Statistical Models to Solve Environmental Problems 1 min read · Wed, Jan 15 2020 Spotlight News spatio-temporal statistics computational methods Joining the faculty of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) six years ago gave statistics Professor Ying Sun a unique career opportunity: the chance to build and lead her own research group solving real-world problems.
KAUST Associate Professor Andrea Fratalocchi elected Fellow of the Optical Society 1 min read · Thu, Jan 2 2020 News photonics energy harvesting Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering division, was recently elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA) at the society's Board of Directors meeting in September.
Patterned optical chips keep secrets perfectly safe 1 min read · Sun, Dec 22 2019 News communications data security electrical engineering Chaos could help put cyberhackers out of business with a patterned silicon chip that will be uncrackable even in the future.
Testing barley's salt tolerance is a numbers game 1 min read · Mon, Dec 2 2019 News salinity tolerance statistics future food Factors influencing the tolerance of barley to saline soils have been uncovered using an advanced robust statistical technique.
CEMSE New Faculty: Ajay Jasra, Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences 1 min read · Wed, Nov 27 2019 News Bayesian Statistics Marko Chain Theory Ajay Jasra is a professor of applied mathematics and computational sciences who recently joined the KAUST CEMSE Division in July 2019.
Andrea Fratalocchi Elected OSA Fellow for Pioneering Innovations 1 min read · Mon, Nov 25 2019 Spotlight News photonics energy harvesting Andrea Fratalocchi, associate professor in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division, was recently elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society of America (OSA) at the Society’s Board of Directors meeting in September.
Machine learning models gather momentum 1 min read · Sun, Nov 24 2019 News algorithms machine learning Computer science New methods for training machine learning models are quicker and more accurate than current approaches, previously considered state-of-the-art.
CEMSE New Faculty: David Bolin, Associate Professor of Mathematical Statistics 1 min read · Tue, Nov 19 2019 News spatial statistics spatio-temporal modeling David Bolin is an associate professor of mathematical statistics who joined the KAUST Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division earlier this month from the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Gothenburg. Before joining KAUST, Bolin received both his Ph.D. degree in mathematical statistics and M.S.c in engineering mathematics from Lund University, Sweden, in 2012 and 2007, respectively. Upon completing his Ph.D., he spent one year at Umeå University, Sweden, working as a postdoctoral fellow before moving to the Chalmers University of Technology. In 2016, Bolin became an associate professor of mathematics at the University of Gothenburg, where a year later he received the title of Docent in mathematical statistics.
Shaking up the landslide model 1 min read · Thu, Oct 24 2019 News disaster management Environmental Statistics statistics Areas without earthquake monitoring systems could model the tremors by using data from local landslides.
Less chat leads to more work for machine learning 1 min read · Wed, Oct 16 2019 News machine learning Computer science Deep analysis of the way information is shared among parallel computations increases efficiency to accelerate machine learning at scale.
NRW’s EUR 1.25M Artificial Intelligence Grant awarded to Dominik L. Michels 1 min read · Tue, Oct 15 2019 News grants Dominik L. Michels, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and Head of the Computational Sciences Research Group within KAUST's Visual Computing Center, was recently awarded one of the six Artificial Intelligence Grants of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany, for his contributions to the simulation of complex physical environments. The grant, amounting to 1.25 million euros, will fund Michels’ research on algorithmic methods to use synthetic data for training of neural networks in Machine Learning. “Synthetic data are data that were not obtained by direct measurement but were generated by specific algorithms,” Michels explains, “in neural networks, the use of synthetic data is needed whenever the amount of data available is less than required.”
KAUST professors receive Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers 1 min read · Sun, Oct 6 2019 Awards Spotlight News uncertainty quantification bayesian inference computational fluids mechanics Mohamed Eddaoudi, KAUST distinguished professor of chemical science and director of the University's Advanced Membrane & Porous Materials Center, recently received the Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers for Renewable Energy, an award presented annually by the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation. Omar Knio, KAUST professor of applied mathematics and computational science, was also honored by the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation this year as a joint recipient of the Shoman Award for Mathematical Modeling with Dr. Shaher Mohammed Ahmad Momani.
Expanding the scale of dangerous weather prediction 1 min read · Sun, Sep 29 2019 News Environmental Statistics A more accurate and efficient method of capturing the local factors that lead to extreme rainfall enables better flood prediction across larger regions.
Honing in on hotspots in spatial data 1 min read · Sun, Sep 15 2019 News statistics Environmental Statistics More accurate detection of hotspot clusters provides new insights into the behavior of air pollution.
KAUST Professor Peter Richtárik wins Distinguished Speaker Award 1 min read · Sun, Sep 15 2019 Awards Spotlight News optimization machine learning big data Peter Richtárik, KAUST professor of computer science, recently received a Distinguished Speaker Award at the Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT 2019) held in Berlin from August 3 to 8. ICCOPT 2019 was organized by the Mathematical Optimization Society and was hosted this year by the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics.
Marc Genton received an ISI Service Award 2019 1 min read · Sun, Sep 15 2019 Awards Spotlight News statistics visualization computational predictions Marc Genton, Chair and Distinguished Professor of the Statistics Program of KAUST and Head of the Spatio-Temporal Statistics and Data Science Research Group, received an International Statistical Institute (ISI) Service Award 2019 for his efforts and leadership as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Stat. Professor Genton received his award at the Awards Ceremony during the World Statistical Congress (WSC) 2019 held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18-23 August 2019.
Database to support infectious disease research 1 min read · Wed, Sep 11 2019 News machine learning artificial intelligence human health Computer science Linking disease pathogens to clinical signs and symptoms through a database could support research into the molecular mechanisms of infectious diseases.
KAUST Assistant Professor Raphaël Huser receives American Statistical Association award 1 min read · Tue, Sep 3 2019 News Statistics of extremes spatio-temporal statistics copulas KAUST Assistant Professor Raphaël Huser recently received the American Statistical Association's (ASA) 2019 Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) Early Investigator Award for his outstanding contributions to environmental statistics. He accepted the award at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings held in Denver, Colorado, U.S., from July 27 to August 1.
KAUST Ph.D. student wins Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics award 1 min read · Wed, Aug 21 2019 News Spotlight Stochastic Modeling Quantitative finance Numerical simulation and analysis Chiheb Ben Hammouda, a KAUST Ph.D. student in the University's Stochastic Numerics Research Group, recently won the best poster award at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Conference on Financial Mathematics & Engineering (FM19) held at the University of Toronto from June 4 to 7. His winning poster, titled "Hierarchical adaptive sparse grids and quasi-Monte Carlo for option pricing under the rough Bergomi model," is one of several research projects carried out by Ben Hammouda under the supervision of KAUST Professor Raul Tempone.
Measuring solar stores of the Arabian Peninsula 1 min read · Tue, Aug 20 2019 News meteorology climate science solar energy supercomputing earth science and engineering Mapping variations in sunlight across the Arabian Peninsula reveals a bright future for solar energy in the region.
A breath of fresh information to help diagnosis 1 min read · Sun, Aug 4 2019 News communication networks wireless networks energy harvesting cognitive radio systems A communications concept could pinpoint a person infected with a deadly, contagious virus in the middle of a crowded airport.
Epilepsy study shows the shape of things to come 1 min read · Sun, Jul 21 2019 News brain science bioscience statistics Pyramidal graphs resulting from statistical analyses of EEG recordings can improve our understanding of epileptic seizures.
Mastering a prickly problem in ferrofluids 1 min read · Sun, Jul 14 2019 News Computer science visual computing nanoelectronics ferrofluids magnetic-field simulations Computer simulation accurately captures the beguiling motion of a liquid magnetic material.
