machine learning

Hayssam Dahrouj

Senior Research Scientist at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)

Karen Sanchez

Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Karen Sanchez is a Postdoctoral Researcher in the IVUL lab at KAUST, specializing in deep learning, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) for healthcare applications. Her research focuses on video understanding, domain adaptation, generative AI, and methods for preserving patient privacy.

Hani A. Al Majed

M.S. Student
Electrical and Computer Engineering Master's student at KAUST under the supervision of Professor Bernard Ghanem, with expertise in machine learning workflow automation, physics-informed neural operators, and AI for Science, particularly in chemistry applications. Passionate about leveraging AI to solve complex scientific problems.

Ahmad Sait

M.S. Student, Computer Science
Ahmad Sait is a Master's student in the Computer Science program at KAUST. Before joining KAUST, Ahmad obtained his Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia. Ahmad is also a KAUST Academy graduate from the AI track, having been under the supervision of Prof. Naeemullah Khan. The Academy provided him with seven opportunities to assist in teaching students enrolled in subsequent cohorts.

Saleh AlJazzar

Research Fellow at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) .

Muhammad Esmat

Visiting student at, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Yasser Jaber

Visiting Student Researcher ,Machine Learning Engineer at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology).
Syed Abidullah Fareed

Syed Abidullah Fareed

Visiting Student (former), Information Science Lab

Ahsan Mehmood

Intern (former), Information Science Lab
Visiting student at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Abdulkarem Badiea Alshaibani

Visiting Student at the Information Science Lab at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST).

Reproducibility in Computer Science - Part 1

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B9 L3 R3223

Roy Maxion will give three lectures focusing broadly on different aspects of an increasingly important topic: reproducibility. Reproducibility tests the reliability of an experimental result and is one of the foundations of the entire scientific enterprise. We often hear that certain foods are good for you, and a few years later we learn that they're not. A series of results in cancer research was examined to see if they were reproducible. A startling number of them - 47 out of 53 - were not. Matters of reproducibility are now cropping up in computer science, and given the importance of computing in the world, it's essential that our own results are reproducible -- perhaps especially the ones based on complex models or data sets, and artificial intelligence or machine learning. This lecture series will expose attendees to several issues in ensuring reproducibility, with the goal of teaching students (and others) some of the crucial aspects of making their own science reproducible. Hint: it goes much farther than merely making your data available to the public.

Reproducibility in Computer Science - Part 2

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B9 L3 R3223

Roy Maxion will give three lectures focusing broadly on different aspects of an increasingly important topic: reproducibility. Reproducibility tests the reliability of an experimental result and is one of the foundations of the entire scientific enterprise. We often hear that certain foods are good for you, and a few years later we learn that they're not. A series of results in cancer research was examined to see if they were reproducible. A startling number of them - 47 out of 53 - were not. Matters of reproducibility are now cropping up in computer science, and given the importance of computing in the world, it's essential that our own results are reproducible -- perhaps especially the ones based on complex models or data sets, and artificial intelligence or machine learning. This lecture series will expose attendees to several issues in ensuring reproducibility, with the goal of teaching students (and others) some of the crucial aspects of making their own science reproducible. Hint: it goes much farther than merely making your data available to the public.

Reproducibility in Computer Science - Part 3

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B9 L3 R3223

Roy Maxion will give three lectures focusing broadly on different aspects of an increasingly important topic: reproducibility. Reproducibility tests the reliability of an experimental result and is one of the foundations of the entire scientific enterprise. We often hear that certain foods are good for you, and a few years later we learn that they're not. A series of results in cancer research was examined to see if they were reproducible. A startling number of them - 47 out of 53 - were not. Matters of reproducibility are now cropping up in computer science, and given the importance of computing in the world, it's essential that our own results are reproducible -- perhaps especially the ones based on complex models or data sets, and artificial intelligence or machine learning. This lecture series will expose attendees to several issues in ensuring reproducibility, with the goal of teaching students (and others) some of the crucial aspects of making their own science reproducible. Hint: it goes much farther than merely making your data available to the public.

A new class of random field models for data on networks

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B9 L2 R2322 H1

Random fields are popular models in statistics and machine learning for spatially dependent data on Euclidian domains. However, in many applications, data is observed on non-Euclidian domains such as street networks. In this case, it is much more difficult to construct valid random field models. In this talk, we discuss some recent approaches to modeling data in this setting, and in particular define a new class of Gaussian processes on compact metric graphs.

CEMSE Big Data Open Day shows off fascinating discoveries

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The fifth-anniversary event marked CEMSE's biggest successes and featured 20 KAUST discoveries, with more than 1,000 visitors from the community attending the event."Big data has many applications: to understand medicine better; to manage food supplies, and to connect objects. Data is at the center of everything," said Dean Mootaz Elnozahy of the University's Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at the CEMSE Big Data Open Day held on December 4, 2016.

Professors discuss big data and human health in latest Sci-Café

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​Professors Takashi Gojobori, Xin Gao and Robert Hoehndorf spoke about big data and human health at the Sci-Café event held on February 27. Their talk, which was moderated by James Calvin, Vice President for Academic Affairs, aimed to answer the question, "Can Big Data Solve My Health Problems?" This event was open to all members of the KAUST community.

Facebook AI new language explained by KAUST Professor Xiangliang Zhang

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That is not a Messenger troll, but the actual conversation between two chatbots by the Facebook AI Research (FAIR). The two robots, Bob and Alice, were thought the art of negotiation apples and books. They had been instructed to work out how to negotiate between themselves and improve their bartering as they went along. But, after leaving the pair alone, they start talking in this uncompressible but yet effective vocabulary.

Computing solutions for biological problems

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Xin Gao’s research is building bridges between computer science and biology.

Tweaking tools to track tweets over time

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Computer model learns to identify Twitter users’ evolving interests by analyzing their Tweets.

Accelerating the grapevine effect

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By looking at classical gossip algorithms from a novel perspective, KAUST Professor Peter Richtarik has found a way to significantly speed up gossip-based information sharing, and in the process, he discovered new applications for this efficient mathematical approach. Gossip involves the sharing of information between individuals in a network and can be applied mathematically in both human social networks and data networks, such as distributed sensors. “A network is a collection of nodes, each connected to other nodes via links,” explains Richtarik. “In social networks, for instance

KAUST Professor Peter Richtárik wins Distinguished Speaker Award

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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.

Less chat leads to more work for machine learning

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Deep analysis of the way information is shared among parallel computations increases efficiency to accelerate machine learning at scale.

Machine learning models gather momentum

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New methods for training machine learning models are quicker and more accurate than current approaches, previously considered state-of-the-art.

Approximating a kernel of truth

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Machine learning tasks using very large data sets can be sped up significantly by estimating the kernel function that best describes the data.

Flattening the sentimental curve

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-By Meres J. Weche, KAUST News As municipal, regional and national governments have mandated longer and more restrictive isolation time periods to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and "flatten the curve," KAUST Associate Professor of Computer Science Xiangliang Zhang works on flattening the "emotional curve." Zhang's research focuses on developing reliable algorithms to analyze complex data sets through machine learning and artificial intelligence. Her research group specifically uses computer models to analyze social media posts on Twitter to study people's interests. When the

Tracking the Curve: Analyzing the Emotional Response to COVID-19

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Hashtags like #covid19 and #coronavirus help us stay up to date on the developments of the new coronavirus pandemic. But beyond breaking news, tweets also offer a glimpse into the emotional side of the COVID-19 crisis.

KAUST Prospective Student: Damilya Saduakhas

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Damilya Saduakhas, 21 years old, from Kazakhstan, obtained a B.Sc. degree in mathematics from the Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan. Damilya has been selected as a young scientist to participate in the summer Data Lab from Yessenov Foundation and will join KAUST in the fall of 2020 as an M.S./Ph.D. candidate in the KAUST Stochastic Processes and Applied Statistics Research group under the supervision of Professor David Bolin.

Meet KAUST prospective student: Pratik Nag

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Pratik Nag will join KAUST this fall as a Ph.D. candidate and member of the KAUST Environmental Statistics research group under the supervision of Professor Ying Sun. Pratik holds a master's degree in statistical quality control and operation research, and a bachelor's degree in statistics, from the Indian Statistical Institute and the University of Calcutta, India.

Computers excel in chemistry class

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Machine learning models can rapidly and accurately estimate key chemical parameters related to molecular reactivity.

KAUST Environmental Statistics group publishes book exploring multivariate statistical analysis

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The KAUST Environmental Statistic (ES) research group has recently published a book titled "Statistical Process Monitoring Using Advanced Data-Driven and Deep Learning Approaches." The book is the outcome of the Core Research Grant (GRG) project led by KAUST Professor Ying Sun, Associate Professor of Statistics.

Deep learning in the emergency department

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Harnessing the power of deep learning leads to better predictions of patient admissions and flow in emergency departments.

Professor Ghanem wins 2020 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers

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Bernard Ghanem, KAUST associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, recently received the 2020 Abdul Hameed Shoman Award for Arab Researchers for ''Machine Learning and Big Data.''

Training an AI eye on the Moon

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Machine learning accelerates the search for promising Moon sites for energy and mineral resources.

KAUST paper wins 2020 Computational Optimization and Applications Best Paper Award

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KAUST Professor of Computer Science Peter Richtárik and his former student Nicolas Loizou, currently a postdoctoral researcher at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute and soon to take up an assistant professorship position at Johns Hopkins University, recently received the 2020 Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP) Best Paper Award.

Deeper defense against cyber attacks

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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.

Can machine learning help predict disease spread?

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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.

AI helps diagnose post-COVID lung problems

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A new AI diagnostic tool developed by KAUST scientists allows doctors to visualize lung damage caused by COVID-19 in more detail.

Extreme analysis of seizures

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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.

Zainab A. Homoud

M.S. Student, Bioengineering
Research Interest Studying : Brain time series, fMRI, EEG, Signal Processing and Machine Learning for better Mental Disease Diagnosis and Consciousness Study. Previous Education Undergraduate study (B.S) in Biomedical Engineering and Health Science at the Joint program of North Carolina State University and UNC Chapel Hill.

Xin Gao

Program Chair, Computer Science
Professor Gao is a world-leading expert in developing novel AI solutions for challenges in biology, biomedicine, and health and wellness, with a focus on AI-based drug development, large language models in biomedicine, biomedical imaging analysis, and omics-based disease detection and diagnostics.

Souhaib Ben Taieb

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics
Dr. Souhaib Ben Taieb is an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at University of Mons (UMONS) in Belgium. He is also an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. From 2016 to 2018, Souhaib was a Lecturer in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. In 2015, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Spatio-Temporal and Data Science Group at KAUST. He was a visiting scholar at several international institutions, including the School of Earth

Samuel Horváth

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
Samuel Horváth is a Ph.D. candidate at Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), studying under the supervision of Professor Peter Richtarik in his research group. Education and Early Career Samuel studied Financial Mathematics at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia and obtained his bachelor in 2017. Then, he joined the MS/PhD program in Statistics and Optimization at KAUST in 2017. In 2018, he had an internship (Machine Learning Intern) at Exponea for 3 months. Research Interest His research interest include Optimization for Big Data
Sameh Abdulah

Sameh Abdulah

Sameh Abdulah > Appointments, Roles and Affiliations, Hierarchical Computations on Manycore Architectures
Dr. Sameh Abdulah specializes in HPC, scalable algorithms, and climate modeling, with innovations receiving the ACM Gordon Bell Prize for Climate Modelling.

Raphaël Huser

Associate Professor, Statistics
Professor Huser develops novel statistical methodology and machine learning solutions to model and predict extreme events in various applications ranging from climate and earth sciences to finance and neuroscience.

Pratik Nag

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
Pratik Nag is a Ph.D. candidate at the KAUST Environmental Statistics research group under the supervision of Professor Ying Sun. Before joining KAUST, Pratik obtained a master's degree in statistical quality control and operation research from the Indian Statistical Institute, India. Research Interests Pratik's research interests focus on machine learning, artificial intelligence and statistical techniques to solve problems related to spatio-temporal processes. Education Profile Master's degree in Statistical Quality Control and operation research, Indian Statistical Institute, India

Peter Richtarik

Professor, Computer Science
Professor Richtárik specializes in big data optimization and machine learning. He is known for his work on randomized coordinate descent algorithms, stochastic gradient descent and federated learning.

Matthew Sainsbury-Dale

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Statistics
Matthew obtained his PhD in 2024 from the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia, with a thesis titled "Efficient Inference for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Statistical Models Using Basis-Function and Deep-Learning Methods", which received the Examiners Commendation for Outstanding Thesis. He is now a postdoctoral researcher at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working in the XSTAT group under Prof. Raphaël Huser's supervision. Education and Early Career Matthew obtained his PhD in 2024 from the University of Wollongong (UOW), Australia. He joined KAUST as a

Jesper Tegner

Professor, Bioscience
Jasper Tegner is an M.D./Ph.D., innovator and professor with over 350 publications, dedicated to exploring the interconnected mechanisms underlying life, intelligence and the mind. His research aims to advance fundamental progress in artificial intelligence by moving beyond engineering to understand the intrinsic modes of operation within cells, between cells and within the brain.

Fouzi Harrou

Research Scientist, Statistics
Dr. Harrou received an M.Sc. degree in telecommunications and networking from the University of Paris VI and the Ph.D. degree in systems optimization and security from the University Technology of Troyes (UTT), France. He was an Assistant Professor at UTT for one year and was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Automotive and Transport Engineering, Nevers, France, for one year. He was also a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the Systems Modelling and Dependability Laboratory, UTT, for one year. He is currently a Research Scientist with the Division of Computer, Electrical, and

Djidenou Montcho

Ph.D. Student, Statistics
Djidenou (Hans) Montcho is a Ph.D. candidate In Statistics at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), studying under the supervision of Professor Håvard Rue in his research group. Education and Early Career Hans obtained his Bachelor Degree in Applied Mathematics at the Federal University of Rio Grande in Brazil. He graduated with a Master of Science from the Federal University of Sao Carlos and the University of Sao Paulo. He has worked as a data scientist for a large credit bureau in Brazil. Research Interest His research interest is mainly in Bayesian and

Amine Bejaoui

Amine Bejaoui was an MS/Ph.D. student in the Communication Theory Lab (CTL) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed-Slim Alouini at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Amine Bejaoui obtained his engineering degree with majors in Economics and Scientific management from Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie (EPT) , Tunisia, in 2015. Research Interest The scientific interests of Amine Bejaoui lies in the area of statistics, machine learning and the applications of Random Matrix Theory. Education Profile M.Sc. in Statistics, KAUST, Aug 2018 – Present