From Edge to Intelligence: Light-Driven Synaptic Devices for Adaptive Healthcare and Vision Systems Dayanand Kumar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Dec 7, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325 IoT light-driven synaptic devices
Will AI Replace Professors? Pavel Pevzner, Ronald R. Taylor Chair and Distinguished Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University of California, San Diego Dec 4, 12:00 - 13:00 B2/B3 A0215
Probabilistic Modelling and Analysis of Power System Dynamics and Stability Kazi N. Hasan, Senior Lecture, School of Engineering, RMIT University, Australia Nov 30, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 power grid
Robust Locomotion of Legged Robots with Closed-Loop Guarantees Mohamed Elobaid, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nov 23, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
Modeling, Analysis, and Control for Planning and Operation of Modern Mixed-Generation Power Systems Otavio Bertozzi, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nov 19, 09:30 - 10:30 B5, L5, R5209 mixed-generation power systems stability-aware modeling data-driven planning and operation renewable energy integration
Aligning the “Socio” in Socio-Technical Control: Trustworthy, Fair, and Efficient Resource Allocation with Karma Economies Ezzat Elokda, Postdoctoral Researcher, Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich Nov 16, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
Enabling Next Generation Wireless Communication through mm-Wave Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) Atif Shamim, Program Chair, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nov 9, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325 Next Generation Wireless Communication Systems 5G and beyond Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces
Urban Air Mobility Communications: Performance Analysis and Design Abdullah Abu Zaid, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nov 3, 14:00 - 16:00 B1 L2 2202 urban air mobility communications wireless communication
Performance Analysis for High Altitude Platform Station-Assisted Wireless Communication Networks Zhengying Lou, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Nov 2, 16:00 - 17:30 B1, L3, R3123 high altitude platform stations Non-Terrestrial Networks wireless communication networks
Cybersecurity Threats to Power Grid Operations from the Demand-Side Response Ecosystem Subhash Lakshminarayana, Associate Professor, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK Nov 2, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325
Integrated Silicon Photonics with Quantum Dot On-Chip Lasers Yating Wan, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Oct 26, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325
Learning-Based Observer Design for Nonlinear Systems with Convergence Guarantees Yasmine Marani, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Oct 14, 10:00 - 12:00 B3 L5 R5220
KAUST Robotics Bay Inauguration Oct 13, 14:00 - 15:30 B5 L2 R2800 robotics autonomous systems Mechatronics Multi-agent systems
Phase-Change Memory for In-Memory Computing Ghazi Sarwat Syed, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, Switzerland Oct 12, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325
Silicon-Based mm-Wave Phased-Arrays for 5G/6G and SATCOM Abdulrahman Alhamed, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Oct 5, 12:00 - 13:00 B9, L2, R2325
Programmable Matter: Liquid Metal for Reconfigurable Electronics and Logic Wedyan Babatain, Ibn Rushd Postdoctoral Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab Sep 28, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 liquid metal
Forays into modular drones: Sierpinsky tetrahedra, dodecahedra, and Alexander Graham Bell Eric Feron, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 21, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 modular drons
Geometric Sensor Fusion for Pose Estimation on Riemannian Manifolds Mohammed Hussain AlSharif, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Sep 18, 11:00 - 12:00 B1 L3 R3119
Mohammed Hussain AlSharif, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
Optical Frequency Combs: From Conventional Techniques to Emerging Approaches Aram Mkrtchyan, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 14, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
Innovative Multi-Band Antenna Designs for Internet of Sea Applications Hanguang Liao, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Sep 8, 14:00 - 16:00 B2, L5, R5209
Watching Earth from Space: Methane, Mangroves, and Sinkholes in Saudi Arabia Abdulrahman Aljurbua, Assistant Research Professor, KACST; Ibn Rushd Fellow, KAUST; Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Planetary Science, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Sep 7, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
(Ultra)wide Bandgap Semiconductors for Future of Moore’s Law Xiaohang Li, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Aug 31, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L3 R2325
Beyond Connectivity: Paving the Road to Perceptive and Intelligent Networks Hesham ElSawy, Associate Professor, School of Computing, Queen’s University Aug 26, 13:30 - 14:30 B1 L3 R3119 Intelligent Communication connectivity edge computing
Asymptotic Analysis of Precoding in Large-Scale Multi-User Systems Xiuxiu Ma, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Aug 25, 08:30 - 10:00 B1 L3 R3119 MIMO Massive MIMO
Hardware Centric Quantized Convolutional Neural Network and Algorithms Li Zhang, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jul 24, 09:00 - 10:00 B3 L5 R5209 machine learning accelerators FPGA
Design of Neuromorphic Object Detection Systems Diego Augusto Silva, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jul 16, 16:00 - 17:00 B3 L5 R5209 event-based object detection neuromorphic vision systems efficient deep learning architectures
Towards Scalable and Efficient Semantic Video Search Mattia Soldan, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jul 13, 18:00 - 19:00 B4 L5 R5209 video-language grounding semantic video retrieval multimodal alignment
Towards Efficient AI Hardware: Software-Hardware Co-Design for In-Memory Computing Accelerators Olga Krestinskaya, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jun 29, 08:00 - 10:00 Zoom Meeting 980 9796 2723; B4 L5 R5220
Computer Vision for Video Editing Learning to Cut, Classify, Assemble, and Generate Alejandro Pardo, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jun 23, 10:00 - 12:00 Click here to join the Ph.D. defense via Zoom
Developing Novel Fabrication Techniques and Device Modeling for High-Efficient III-Nitride Micro-Sized Light Emitting Diodes Zhiyuan Liu, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Jun 3, 10:00 - 12:00 B2 L5 R5209
FMCW Radar Applications for Automotive and Biomedical Applications Vijith Varma Kotte, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering May 15, 15:00 - 17:00 B1 L3 R3119 deep learning Signal processing MIMO radars sensors
Signal Alignment: a Practical Way to Communicate Under Unpredictable Interference Nikolaos Sidiropoulos, Louis T. Rader Professor Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Virginia, USA May 14, 13:30 - 14:30 B1 L3 R3119 wireless communication
The Internet of Fiber-Optic Things and Smart Sensing Juan Manuel Marin Mosquera, Ph.D Candidate (former), Electrical and Computer Engineering May 14, 10:00 - 11:30 B1 L3 R3119
Carrier- and Trap-Resolved Photo-Hall Effect: Unlocking the 145-Year-Old Secret in Hall Effect Oki Gunawan, Research Staff Member, IBM Research, USA May 12, 10:00 - 11:00 B5 L5 R5209 advanced semiconductors
Structuring Sound and Vibration by Metasurfaces Badreddine Assouar, Professor, Director of Research at French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS), University of Lorraine, France May 11, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
High-Mobility Back-End-of-Line Compatible Indium Oxide Thin-Film Transistors for Monolithic 3D Integration Na Xiao, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering May 6, 16:00 - 18:00 B2 L5 R5209 advanced semiconductors thin-film transistors
Current and Future Challenges and Solutions in AI & HPC System and Thermal Management Dr. Gamal Refai-Ahmed, Senior Fellow & Chief Architect, AMD Member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering Life Fellow, Canadian Academy of Engineering Fellow, Engineering Institute of Canada Fellow & Distinguished Lecturer, IEEE Life Fellow, ASME May 6, 13:00 - 17:00 B4 L5 R5209
The 2025 Iberian Blackout: Anatomy of a Grid Collapse Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering May 6, 09:00 - 11:00 B9 L2 R2322 renewable energy resilience power grid
AI for Chips and Chips for AI Mehdi Saligane, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Brown University, USA May 4, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 artificial intelligence AI semiconductors innovation LLM
Autonomy at the Edge of Capabilities: Uncertain Environments, Limited Resources, Difficult Missions Melkior Ornik, Assistant Professor, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign May 4, 10:30 - 11:30 B5 L5 R5209
Future of Semiconductors Forum 2025 | KAUST May 4, 08:00 - May 5, 17:00 Building 20 semiconductor advanced semiconductors smart health photonics
Efficient Antenna-on-Chip with Optimized Artificial Magnetic Conductor Performance for 6G mm-Wave Applications Yiyang Yu, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 30, 15:30 - 17:30 B3 L5 R5209 Electrically Small Antenna Design antenna design on-chip antennas 6g wireless systems
Control and Estimation Designs Using Model-Based and Model-Free Approaches for Water Quality Monitoring in Process Systems Fahad Aljehani, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 30, 10:00 - 12:00 B1 L4 R4214 machine learning algorithm optimal control Control Theory Reinforcement Learning
Design and Process Development of Graphene-Based Geometric Diodes for Enhanced Performance Heng Wang, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 29, 14:00 - 16:00 B2 L5 R5220 Thz rectennas Graphene geometric diodes semiconductors nano devices artificial intelligence
Harnessing Multi-modal AI and Machine Learning for Next-Generation 6G Networks Asmaa Abdallah, Research Scientist, Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 27, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325 LLM machine learning 6G wireless communication Digital signal processing
Metasurface Based Optical Metrology Systems: Design, Fabrication, and Implementations Arturo Burguete Lopez, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 27, 11:00 - 13:00 B3 L5 R5209 Metasurfaces integrated optics
Bridging the Digital Divide Gap: Next-G Approach Towards Connecting the Unconnected Fahad Salem Alqurashi, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering Apr 21, 13:00 - 14:30 B 4/5, L0, R0215
GaN-based VCSELs and Future of Semiconductor Lasers Tatsushi Hamaguchi, Professor, Innovation Center for Semiconductor and Digital Future Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00 B9 L2 R2325
Adaptive Unbound Resilient Electronics for Organic and Reconfigurable Architectures Realizing Fully Flexible 3D-IC Systems for Extreme, Evolving, and Embedded Environments Muhammad Hussain, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University, United States Apr 20, 12:00 - 13:00 B2 L5 R5220
