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KAUST Ph.D. student wins American Statistical Association paper competition

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Sabrina Vettori, a Ph.D. student co-supervised by KAUST Distinguished Professor Marc Genton, who leads the Spatio-Temporal Statistics & Data Science group, and KAUST Assistant Professor Raphaël Huser, who leads the Extreme Statistics Research Group, won the 2017 Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) of the American Statistical Association (ASA). ​ Eligible papers focused on environmental statistics, and the four competition winners presented their papers at an ENVR-sponsored session at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), held from

KAUST Ph.D. students win best paper awards at mean-field games conferences

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By Sonia Turosienski KAUST Ph.D. students David Evangelista and Xianjin Yang, who are supervised by Diogo Gomes, professor of applied mathematics and computational science, won best paper awards at conferences this summer for their work in mean-field game (MFG) theory. Mean-field games model and seek to explain the behavior of rational agents in a competitive environment and have been used in diverse areas of research, including studies on non-renewable resources and mining models; opinion dynamics; price impact and order book modeling; and networks and energy management. Evangelista was

KAUST master’s degree student wins best poster award at Data Science Summer School

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Samuel Horváth, a master's degree student in the University's statistics and optimization M.S./Ph.D. program, recently won a best poster award at the second edition of the Data Science Summer School (DS3). The event took place in Paris from June 25 to 29, and is one of the largest global data science summer schools. It was co-organized by the Data Science Initiative of École Polytechnique and DATAIA Institute. The primary goal of DS3 was to provide a series of courses and practical sessions covering the latest advances in the field of data science. Five hundred students, postdoctoral fellows

Ph.D. student Michał Mańkowski wins poster award at the 18th Annual American Society of Transplant Surgeons Symposium

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Michał Mańkowski, a Ph.D. student in the University's Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) division, won the Poster of Distinction Award at the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) 18th Annual State of the Art Winter Symposium. The event, which was held in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., from January 11 to 14, also voted Mańkowski's soapbox presentation as the symposium's best solution on how more lives can be saved through transplantation. Mańkowski presented on behalf of Professor Sommer Gentry, his supervisor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.