KAUST wins the “Nobel” of high-performance computing for climate modeling 1 min read · Fri, Nov 22 2024 News Clip News HPC climate projections extreme computing computational simulations uncertainty quantification KAUST has been awarded the “Nobel" prize of high-performance computing—the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling—in partnership with the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, U.S. and other partner institutions.
A high-resolution boost for global climate modeling 1 min read · Sun, Sep 15 2024 News Clip News New statistical approach enables fast approximations of global surface temperatures at unprecedented spatial and temporal resolution.
KAUST Launches Four Pioneering Centers of Excellence to Address Key National and International Priorities 1 min read · Sun, Sep 15 2024 News Clip News KAUST has launched four pioneering Centers of Excellence to advance research and development in alignment with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, focusing on the critical areas of Health and Wellness, Renewable Energy, Sustainable Food Security, and Generative AI, thereby reinforcing the University’s role as a global leader in applied science and its commitment to delivering impactful solutions that drive national economic objectives.
KAUST Center of Excellence for Generative AI 1 min read · Thu, Sep 12 2024 News Clip News KAUST has established the Center of Excellence for Generative AI to position Saudi Arabia as a leader in this transformative technology, aligning with Vision 2030's goals for human capital development and economic diversification while focusing on research and applications that span health, sustainability, energy, and future economies, ultimately aiming to cultivate talent and foster innovative solutions tailored to the Kingdom’s needs.
KAUST Center of Excellence for Smart Health 1 min read · Thu, Sep 12 2024 News Clip News The KAUST Center of Excellence for Smart Health (KCSH), founded to address the evolving health needs of Saudi Arabia’s aging population, is pioneering smart-health technologies through interdisciplinary collaboration, focusing on areas like One Health, Healthy Aging, smart diagnostics, and bioinformatics, ultimately aiming to enhance healthcare outcomes and economic health in the Kingdom.
Adapting AI to identify Arabic dialects 1 min read · Thu, Aug 29 2024 News Clip News KAUST researchers, led by intern Srijith Radhakrishnan, have developed an innovative model for Arabic dialect identification using a parameter-efficient approach that fine-tunes the Whisper speech recognition model, achieving high accuracy with minimal resources and paving the way for broader applications in fields like healthcare and multimodal communication.
Powering the future of the Internet of Things 1 min read · Wed, Aug 28 2024 News Clip News A self-powered system that combines high-speed data transfer with continuous energy harvesting is set to revolutionize the Internet of Things.
Gold-Medal Sensors: KAUST Racing Toward High-Tech Athletic Excellence For KSA 1 min read · Thu, Aug 8 2024 News Clip News King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) is sprinting ahead in sports training innovations, forging meaningful collaborations and developing cutting-edge wearable sensors to revolutionize athletic regimens and injury prevention. These advancements offer game-changing insights to support peak performance and health, aligning with Saudi Vision 2030’s goal of achieving both regional and worldwide excellence in professional sports.
KAUST Researchers Earn Dual Bell Finalist Selections 1 min read · Thu, Aug 1 2024 News Clip Awards KAUST has achieved a historic double finalist selection for the ACM Gordon Bell Prize and the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modeling, recognizing two innovative research projects in collaboration with global partners that demonstrate the power of interdisciplinary teamwork in high-performance computing and climate science.
Finer forecasting to improve public health planning 1 min read · Wed, Jul 31 2024 News Clip News A method for forecasting high-dimensional functional time series could improve the accuracy of mortality predictions across multiple populations.
KAUST team selected as ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling finalists 4 min read · Tue, Jul 23 2024 News A new exascale climate emulator marks a significant advancement as the first to generate, display and evaluate hourly emulations. This breakthrough secured an interdisciplinary research team from KAUST, working alongside the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research in the U.S. and other partner institutions, a spot as a finalist for the prestigious Gordon Bell Prize in Climate Modelling.
KAUST pushes Saudi to forefront of 6G technologies 1 min read · Thu, Jul 18 2024 News Clip News With more than 50 billion devices expected online by 2025, KAUST's partnership with Ericsson is advancing critical telecommunications technologies like free-space optics and reconfigurable intelligent surfaces, paving the way for revolutionary improvements in 5G and emerging 6G networks.
Counting the seeds of success 1 min read · Tue, May 28 2024 News Clip News A willingness to try anything and an adventurous spirit have taken Justine Braguy on a journey from plant science Ph.D. student to CEO of AI startup Thya Technology.
Professor Marc Genton receives the prestigious 2024 Don Owen Award 1 min read · Sun, May 12 2024 Awards News Environmental Statistics wind energy KAUST Professor Marc Genton, a pioneer in environmental statistics, was awarded the prestigious 2024 Don Owen Award for his outstanding contributions to research, consultation, and service to the statistical community.
CEMSE New Faculty: Maurizio Filippone, Associate Professor, Statistics 1 min read · Wed, Apr 3 2024 Spotlight News Newly appointed to KAUST, Professor Filippone drives innovation in statistical modeling to advance sustainable solutions and address societal challenges.
Going likelihood-free with neural networks 1 min read · Tue, Jan 30 2024 News A neural network-based approach offers an extremely fast and highly accurate alternative to the "gold standard" of likelihood estimation for statistical modeling of complex datasets.
KAUST 2023 Workshop on Statistics showcases cutting-edge research and real-world applications 1 min read · Thu, Nov 23 2023 News The KAUST 2023 Workshop on Statistics showcased the significant impact of statistics and data science in various fields, including health, the environment, and renewable energy, emphasizing their importance in shaping a better and more sustainable future.
Neural networks give deeper insights 1 min read · Wed, Nov 22 2023 News A "deep" many-layered neural network does the heavy lifting in calculating accurate predictions from large complex environmental datasets.
Real-time modeling a step closer to reality 1 min read · Thu, Oct 26 2023 News An efficiency upgrade for an already fast approximation method enables accurate near-real-time modeling of complex systems and large datasets.
Lab-grown skin helps unlock secrets of mpox virus infection 1 min read · Sun, Oct 22 2023 News Skin organoids offer a powerful platform for drug discovery in the ongoing fight against the virus formerly known as monkeypox.
KAUST celebrates 5000 days of education and research 1 min read · Tue, Oct 10 2023 News KAUST: Pushing the Frontiers of Science and Technology
Top honors for KAUST extSTAT group at EVA 2023 1 min read · Wed, Sep 13 2023 Awards News KAUST extSTAT Research Group wins prestigious awards at EVA 2023 Conference in Milan.
Penalizing complexity for better stats 1 min read · Mon, Sep 11 2023 News Applying a penalty for increasing complexity provides better control over flexible statistical models.
Professor Paula Moraga receives the Letten Prize 2023 for Young Researchers 1 min read · Wed, Jun 21 2023 News Spotlight KAUST Assistant Professor of Statistics Paula Moraga recently received the Letten Prize 2023 for Young Researchers. Established in 2018, the Letten Prize is a collaboration between the Letten Foundation and the Young Academy of Norway.
Balancing renewable energy systems in Saudi buildings 1 min read · Mon, Jun 19 2023 News Weather variability and extreme events affect the optimal design and operation of renewable energy systems, particularly for striking a trade off between life cycle cost and carbon dioxide emissions.
KAUST STAT Program graduates secure faculty positions at prominent U.S. universities 1 min read · Wed, Apr 19 2023 News KAUST graduates are characterized by the rigor of their Ph.D. programs, the long hours spent in the lab and classroom, juggling professional and personal commitments, achieving a work-life balance and, more recently, the ability to adapt to a global pandemic.
Professor Marc Genton receives the Royal Statistical Society’s Barnett Award for 2023 1 min read · Wed, Mar 29 2023 Spotlight News KAUST Distinguished Professor of Statistics Marc Genton has received the Royal Statistical Society’s (RSS) 2023 Barnett Award.
KAUST Ph.D. student’s paper recognized by the American Statistical Association 1 min read · Mon, Mar 27 2023 News Spotlight KAUST Ph.D. statistics student Paolo Victor Redondo was selected as a runner-up in the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Statistics in Imaging Section 2023 Distinguished Student Paper Award Competition
A little competition improves statistics 1 min read · Mon, Mar 6 2023 News A competition on spatial statistics showcases the global state of the art in analyzing vast spatial datasets.
Professor Huser receives the Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator Award 2022 1 min read · Sun, Nov 20 2022 Awards News KAUST Associate Professor of Statistics Raphaël Huser has been awarded the Abdel El-Shaarawi Early Investigator (AEEI) Award 2022 from The International Environmetrics Society (TIES), an association of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
A skewed model for imbalanced health data 1 min read · Thu, Nov 10 2022 News An asymmetric statistical model provides a better fit for imbalanced data with rare "positives," such as longitudinal health datasets.
Deep neural networks that “get” spatial dependence 1 min read · Mon, Nov 7 2022 News A deep-learning technique could offer accurate large-scale predictions in the field of geospatial statistics.
Better health from better data 1 min read · Tue, Aug 23 2022 News statistics geospatial statistics health surveillance The fast-developing science of geospatial statistics offers new insights into diverse health challenges, from cancer hotspots to problems of air pollution and the spread of COVID-19. Three new projects should yield a better understanding of what causes disease in Saudi Arabia and how to fight it. KAUST also stands to make a real contribution to the region by improving health in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The field of geospatial statistics and health surveillance, known as GeoHealth, uses data from multiple sources to create disease maps of geographical areas. When information is
A model for millions of locations 1 min read · Tue, Aug 23 2022 News climate change Environmental Statistics modeling statistics CEMSE statisticians developed a framework which enables modeling of a range of meteorological and environmental datasets from up to 2 million locations globally.
KAUST Ph.D. candidate wins ISBA-BayesComp poster award at the International Society for Bayesian Analysis 2022 1 min read · Sun, Aug 21 2022 News Bayesian computational statistics Esmail Abdul Fattah, a KAUST Ph.D. candidate in statistics, won a poster award in the "junior-BayesComp-ISBA" category at the 30th meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA 2022) held from June 26 to July 1 in Montreal, Canada.
Extreme analysis of seizures 1 min read · Mon, Jun 27 2022 News neuroscience machine learning human health statistics CEMSE researchers Matheus Guerrero, Raphaël Huser and Hernando Ombao developed a new approach for analyzing seizures in epilepsy patients by applying extreme value theory to real EEG seizure data.
New database to "SpUR" on cancer research 1 min read · Sun, May 29 2022 News human health cancer Computer science Xin Gao's team developed an interactive web portal where cancer scientists can interrogate how RNA splicing in noncoding parts of genes fuels the growth of different types of tumors.
AI helps diagnose post-COVID lung problems 1 min read · Sun, May 29 2022 News human health Imaging machine learning Computer science A new AI diagnostic tool developed by KAUST scientists allows doctors to visualize lung damage caused by COVID-19 in more detail.
Professor Bolin earns American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator Award 1 min read · Thu, May 26 2022 News award statistics environment Prof. David Bolin has been selected for the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator (ENVR) Award for his outstanding contributions to environmental statistics.
Finding Terra Incognita 1 min read · Thu, Apr 28 2022 News extreme weather modeling modeling climate science statistics A new study addresses the difficulty in modeling atmospheric turbulence at sub-kilometer resolution, which is challenging due to atmospheric variability, meteorology and changeable terrain such as mountains and cities.
Can machine learning help predict disease spread? 1 min read · Sun, Apr 17 2022 News human health machine learning statistics Machine learning techniques can provide accurate forecasting of the spread of viruses during pandemics. Under the supervision of Ying Sun and Fouzi Harrou, Yasminah Alali developed an approach that removes human bias and assumptions, predicting pandemic evolution more accurately.
Getting the tail straight 1 min read · Sun, Apr 3 2022 News Environmental Statistics big data modeling statistics KAUST’s Extreme Statistics Group has developed an improved statistical model for analyzing environmental data of extreme events, such as heavy rainfall or strong wind data.
SRSI student success story at Ibdaa 2022 1 min read · Sun, Mar 20 2022 Awards News environmental applications data analysis computational methods Faisal Fadi Hasan Almulla, who worked last year under the mentorship of Dr. Fouzi Harrou and Professor Ying Sun as part of the annual KAUST Saudi Research Science Institute (SRSI) summer program, won two awards at the National Olympiad for Scientific Creativity — Ibdaa 2022.
KAUST research wins Radar Challenge at the IEEE Radar Conference 1 min read · Sun, Mar 6 2022 News KAUST M.S. Graduate Rudi Coppola, KAUST Research Scientist Dr. Sajid Ahmed, and KAUST Distinguished Professor Dr. Mohamed-Slim Alouini won first prize at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Radar Challenge 2021. Their work titled "Road Users Classification Based on Bi-Frame Micro-Doppler with 24-GHz FMCW Radar," presents a case study for a 24 Gigahertz (GHz) frequency modulated continuous wave radar module.
Decrypting the interdependence of cryptocurrencies 1 min read · Tue, Mar 1 2022 News big data modeling statistics A team of KAUST statisticians has analyzed the price movements of the top five cryptocurrencies to further understand their market behavior. Their model will help investors assess the risks of investing in cryptocurrencies.
Competition sheds light on approximation methods for large spatial datasets 1 min read · Thu, Jan 20 2022 News extreme statistics modeling big data statistics Marc Genton, Huang Huang and colleagues from KAUST organized a global competition with 21 competing teams to compare different approximation methods for analyzing large spatial datasets.
Getting to the bottom of deadly weather 1 min read · Sun, Jan 9 2022 News human health Environmental Statistics climate change statistics Cold still causes far more deaths than heat in India. A study of the correlation between temperature and mortality in the Indian city of Pune has found that cold, rather than heat, is by far the bigger killer.
Finding true protein hotspots in cancer research 1 min read · Wed, Dec 8 2021 News proteins statistics cancer human health Novel statistical methods help tell the difference between "false positives" and true detections of protein domain hotspots that could be linked to cancer.
KAUST-KFUPM collaboration wins top honors at STC AIoT Hackathon 1 min read · Mon, Nov 29 2021 News IoT agriculture artificial intelligence drones A team composed of KAUST and King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) students was one of three winning teams of this year’s Saudi Telecom Company (STC) AIoT (AI & IoT) Hackathon. The KAUST entry, AgriDoctor, a proposed autonomous, sustainable, intelligent agriculture system, was a standout pick for the competition judges from a pool of 110 project submissions and 350 participants.
Deeper defense against cyber attacks 1 min read · Sun, Nov 28 2021 News cybersecurity machine learning Deep learning statistics To address the growing threat of cyberattacks on industrial control systems, a KAUST team including Fouzi Harrou, Wu Wang and led by Ying Sun has developed an improved method for detecting malicious intrusions.
