Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering Division
Faculty
The MCSE Division includes the following members of the KAUST faculty:
Dr. Vladimir Bajic – 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)
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Dr. Victor Manuel Calo - Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering; Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Calo’s research interests include the computational aspects of fluid dynamics, solid mechanics, phase separation, fluid-structure interaction, geomechanics, high-performance computing, and geometrical modeling. (Ph.D., Stanford University, United States)
Web site: http://www.ices.utexas.edu/~victor
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Dr. Markus Hadwiger - 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)
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Dr. Ibrahim Hoteit - Assistant Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Hoteit’s research interests are in the theoretical developments of advanced data assimilation methods for the estimation of the state of large dimensional nonlinear systems. He is also involved in the development of oceanic and atmospheric data assimilation systems. (Ph.D., Université Joseph Fourier, France)
Web site: http://www.ecco.ucsd.edu/~ihoteit/
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Dr. Panos Kalnis - 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
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Dr. Aslan Kasimov - 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://www-math.mit.edu/~kasimov/index.html
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Dr. David Ketcheson - Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
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://kaust.edu.sa/davidketcheson
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Dr. David Keyes - Dean, Mathematical and Computer Sciences and 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
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Dr. Taous-Meriem Laleg-Kirati - Assistant Professor, Computer 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)
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Dr. Niloy J. Mitra - 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
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Dr. Mikhail Moshkov - 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)
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Dr. Helmut Pottmann - 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/
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Dr. Hany Ramadan - 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
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Dr. Alyn Rockwood - 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)
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Dr. Ravi Samtaney - 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)
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Dr. Basem Shihada - 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
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Dr. Georgiy Stenchikov - Professor, Environmental Science and Applied Mathematics and Computational Science
Dr. Stenchikov’s research interests are in multi-scale modeling of environmental processes and numerical methods, global climate change, climate downscaling, atmospheric convection; assessment of anthropogenic impacts and geoengineering; air-sea interaction, evaluating environmental consequences of catastrophic events like volcanic eruptions, nuclear explosions, forest and urban fires, and air pollution, transport of aerosols, chemically and optically active atmospheric tracers, their radiative forcing and effect on climate. (Ph.D., Moscow Physical Technical Institute, Russia)
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Dr. Shuyu Sun - Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computational Science; Assistant Professor, Earth Sciences and Engineering
Dr. Sun’s research interests are in the numerical solution of partial differential equation systems with engineering applications. He has been working in the computational modeling of single-phase and multi-phase flow in reservoir engineering, and contaminant transport in groundwater, bays and estuaries. Other areas of Dr. Sun’s research work include computational angiogenesis in biomedical engineering. (Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, United States)
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Dr. Raul Tempone - Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics and Computer 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)
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Staff
Mr. Naseer Aijaz, Executive Secretary
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Ms. Antonia Forshaw, Secretary
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Ms. Aida Hoteit, Graduate Program Coordinator
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Ms. Liliana Rivera, Administrative Manager
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