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Professor Marc Genton named Distinguished Professor of Statistics at KAUST

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Marc G.Genton, Professor of Statistics in the Division of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE), has been appointed by KAUST President Jean-Lou Chameau to Distinguished Professor of Statistics.

Stefanos Georgiadis

Stefanos Georgiadis is a Ph.D. candidate in a co-tutelle between KAUST and TU Wien, under the supervision of Professor Athanasios Tzavaras and Ansgar Jüngel. Before joining KAUST, Stefanos obtained his bachelor and master's degree in applied mathematics from the School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences of the National Technical University of Athens in Greece. Research Interests Stefanos' research interests include the analysis of nonlinear partial differential equations as they apply to the modeling of multicomponent systems of gases.

Marc G. Genton

Al-Khawarzmi Distinguished Professor, Statistics
Professor Genton’s pioneering research on large-scale spatial and temporal data has profoundly affected the field of environmental statistics. He is an expert in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics with applications to environmental problems.

Dmitry Lyakhov

Dmitry Lyakhov is a Research Scientist at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Dominik Michels in the Computational Sciences Group (CSG). Education and Early Career Dmitry Lyakhov graduated from Belarusian State University with a master's degree in Theoretical Physics and, later on, a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He is also an alumnus of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and visiting scholar of von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. In 2018, he received a Nanodegree in Machine Learning. Before joining KAUST

Athanasios Tzavaras

KAUST Professor of Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Athanasios (Thanos) Tzavaras specializes in mathematical modelling, analysis and computation of partial differential equations pertaining to fluid mechanics or modeling of materials.