Faculty
CEMSE's world class faculty work to support the University's talented international students and researchers. Our faculty have previously held positions at prestigious institutions such as MIT, Columbia University, National University of Singapore and the Vienna University of Technology to name but a few. The CEMSE Division includes the following members of the KAUST faculty:
Dean, Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering; Named Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Keyes' research interests include scientific computing, parallel algorithms, parallel performance analysis, computational aerodynamics, computational radiation transport, computational combustion, and optimization. (Ph.D., Harvard University, United States)
Web site:
http://www.columbia.edu/~kd2112/kaust E-mail:
david.keyes@kaust.edu.sa Professor of Electrical Engineering
Modeling, design, and performance evaluation of wireless and satellite communication systems with emphasis on multi-hop/cooperative and MIMO communication systems, opportunistic scheduling schemes, and cognitive radio systems
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E-Mail: slim.alouini@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Computational electromagnetics with emphasis on well-conditioned integral equations (IEs), fast solution of time-domain IEs, and development of hybrid methods for analyzing wave interactions with complex and realistic structures.
Email:
hakan.bagci@kaust.edu.sa Director, Computational Bioscience Research Center; Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Bajic's primary interest is in the facilitation of biological discoveries through the use of sophisticated bioinformatic systems combined with data modeling methods, with an emphasis on inference of new information not explicitly present in biomedical data. (D.Eng.Sc., University of Zagreb, Yugoslavia)
E-mail: vladimir.bajic@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Professor Calo's research interests include several computational
aspects of geomechanics, fluid dynamics, flow in porous media, phase
separation, fluid-structure interaction, solid mechanics,
high-performance computing and visualization.
E-mail: victor.calo@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Professor Claudel's research interests are in control and estimation of distributed parameter systems, cyberphysical systems monitoring, and the use of wireless sensor networks for environmental applications.
E-mail: christian.claudel@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Microsystems fabrication with special interest in polymer resists, polymer specific patterning and microfabrication techniques, polymer nanocomposite development, and microfluidics.
Email:
ian.foulds@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering; Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Fratalocchi’s research focuses on linear and nonlinear waves in disordered systems, with applications in energy, medicine and materials science. (Ph.D., University of Rome, Italy)
Website:
http://www.primalight.org E-mail:
andrea.fratalocchi@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Gao’s research interests are in bioinformatics and computational biology. He is interested in designing algorithms and developing machine learning techniques to solve problems in structural biology, systems biology, and biological sequence analysis. Dr. Gao has served on program committee and the review process of several international conferences and journals.
E-mail:
xin.gao@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Hadwiger's research interests are in scientific visualization, especially petascale visualization and scientific computing, volume visualization, medical visualization, interactive segmentation and image processing, GPU-based algorithms, and general-purpose computations on GPUs. (Ph.D., Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
E-mail:
markus.hadwiger@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Earth Science and Engineering, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences.
Research interests: theory and applications of advanced data assimilation and uncertainty quantification approaches for large scale fluid earth systems; Ocean modeling and Red Sea circulation. (PhD, Université Joseph Fourier, France)
E-mail:
ibrahim.hoteit@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Integration of advanced nanomaterials with nanofabrication into ultra low or no power electronics and nano-systems to build integrated nanotechnology for energy, environment and medical applications.
Email: muhammad.hussain@kaust.edu.sa
Associate Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Kalnis focuses on databases. Among other areas, he is interested in efficient query processing of very large datasets (e.g., data warehousing), highly distributed databases (e.g., peer-to-peer systems) and data processing that requires a lot of computational power (e.g., multi-core processors). (Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Web site:
http://cs.stanford.edu/people/kalnis E-mail:
panos.kalnisy@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Kasimov is interested in analysis and numerical solution of partial differential equations in connection with problems of compressible flow, shock and detonation dynamics, combustion, fluid dynamics, nonlinear waves, hydrodynamic instability, traffic flow and congestion phenomena, multi-phase flow, and fluid flow interaction with elastic boundaries. (Ph.D., University of Illinois, United States)
Web site:
http://web.kaust.edu.sa/faculty/aslankasimov E-mail:
aslan.kasimov@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Ketcheson's research interests are in the areas of numerical analysis and hyperbolic PDEs. His work includes development of efficient time integration methods, wave propagation algorithms, and modeling of wave phenomena in heterogeneous media. (Ph.D., University of Washington, United States)
Web site:
http://www.kaust.edu.sa/davidketcheson E-mail: david.ketcheson@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Design and implementation of micro/nanosystems for applications in biological, biomedical,and technical fields with special emphasis on the use and development of magnetic materials and sensors.
E-mail: jurgen.kosel@kaust.edu.sa Peter Markowich
Distinguished Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Laleg-Kirati works on new methods for signal analysis based on semi-classical quantification with an application to the analysis of the arterial blood pressure. She also has experience in applied mathematics, particularly in solitons and scattering theory, in modeling, identification, control and fault detection, and in signal processing, including the analysis of seismic signals. (Ph.D., INRIA, Pans-Rocquencourt and Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines University, France)
E-mail:
meriem.kirati@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Mitra's research interests are in geometric modeling, geometry processing, shape analysis, shape-preserving deformations, scan alignment, and visualization. Dr. Mitra works on detection of symmetry and structural regularity in three-dimensional geometry, and also in application of geometry processing in architectural design and other art forms. (Ph.D., Stanford University, United States)
Web site:
http://graphics.stanford.edu/~niloy/research E-mail:
niloy.mitra@kaust.edu.sa
Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Moshkov's research interests include the study of time complexity of algorithms in such computational models as deterministic and nondeterministic decision trees and acyclic programs with applications to combinatorial optimization, fault diagnosis, pattern recognition, machine learning, data mining and analysis of Bayesian networks, and the analysis and design of classifiers based on decision trees, reducts, decision-rule systems, and lazy learning algorithms. (Ph.D., Saratov State University, D.Sc., Moscow State University, Russia)
E-mail:
mikhail.moshkov@kaust.edu.sa
Professor, Electrical Engineering
Professor Ooi has published more than 220 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. His research interests are primarily in the theoretical and experimental study of semiconductor nanostructures and monolithic integration of photonic devices for fiber-optic communication, sensor, and biomedical imaging applications.
E-mail: boon.ooi@kaust.edu.sa Director, Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Research Center; Named Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Pottmann's research interests are in applied geometry and visual computing, in particular, geometric modeling, geometry processing, geometric computing for architecture and manufacturing, robot kinematics, 3D computer vision and visualization. (Ph.D., Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Web site:
http://www.geometrie.tuwien.ac.at/geom/fg4/ E-mail:
helmut.pottmann@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Ramadan's work focuses on operating systems, concurrent programming, databases, as well as software and hardware for parallel programming. (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, United States)
Web site:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~ramadan E-mail:
hany.ramadan@kaust.edu.sa
Associate Director, Geometric Modeling and Scientific Visualization Research Center; Professor, Applied Mathematics
Dr. Rockwood's research is focused on developing new modeling techniques for industrial design and animation, volume meshing for FE analysis, a new basis for image processing, and engineering applications of Clifford Algebra. (Ph.D., University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
E-mail:
alyn.rockwood@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering
Development of devices, circuits, systems and algorithms to enable inexpensive portable analytical platforms for industrial, environmental and biomedical applications.
E-mail: khaled.salama@kaust.edu.sa Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering; Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Samtaney operates at the intersection of applied mathematics, physics, and engineering, from fundamental processes in fluid mechanics (shocks, turbulence, ablation, ionization, etc.) to numerical methods and large-scale computing (adaptive meshing, scalable solvers, software engineering, etc.). (Ph.D., Rutgers University, United States)
E-mail:
ravi.samtaney@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Professor Atif Shamim's research is focused on applications like personal area network, automotive radars, wearable and implantable wireless sensors, wireless powering and renewable energy.
Email:
atif.shamim@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Dr. Shihada's research covers a wide range of topics in broadband wired and wireless communication networks, including wireless Metropolitan Area Networks such as Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802.16 networks, Fiber-Wireless (FIWI) network integration, and optical networks. (Ph.D., University of Waterloo, Canada)
Web site:
http://www.shihada.com E-mail:
basem.shihada@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering
Dr Sundaramoothi’s research interests include medicine (diagnosing disease using data from non-invasive imaging devices or image-guided surgery) and developing visual recognition systems for autonomous vehicles or accident avoidance systems.
E-mail:
ganesh.sundaramoorthi@kaust.edu.sa Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Tempone has been working in a posteriori error estimates for stochastic differential equations (SDEs). These equations have been used extensively in many areas of application, including, among others, chemistry, biology, physics as well as social sciences and finance. Dr. Tempone has pursued related research for deterministic differential equations producing novel results, namely the analysis of convergence rates of adaptive algorithms for ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations (PDEs). (Ph.D., Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden)
E-mail:
raul.tempone@kaust.edu.sa
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Dr. Vigneron's research focuses on Complexity of algorithms for motion planning, description of shape, and proximity search; applications to biology, engineering and robotics. (Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
E-mail:
antoine.vigneron@kaust.edu.sa Associate Professor, Computer Science
Professor Wonka's research interests lie in visualization, remote sensing and computer graphics with a focus on modeling and analysis of urban and geospatial data.
E-mail:
peter.wonka@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Wu focuses on Effective medium theory for elastic metamaterials and wave propagation in strongly scattered random elastic media; metamaterials for elastic waves; electromagnetic waves in random media. (Ph.D., Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
E-mail: ying.wu@kaust.edu.sa Assistant Professor, Computer Science
Professor Zhang's research is focused on developing algorithms for machine learning and data mining to discover knowledge from complex and large-scale data sets for diverse applications and to design autonomic computing systems.
E-mail: xiangliang.zhang@kaust.edu.sa