Ph.D. Dissertation Defense

Jan 11 - Jan 17, 2026

KAUST-CEMSE-PhD-Dissertation-Defense-Sara-Rojas-Martinez-From-Images-to-Neural-Scenes-Efficient-Rendering-Robust-Editing-and-Human-Aware-Reconstruction

From Images to Neural Scenes: Efficient Rendering, Robust Editing, and Human-Aware Reconstruction

Sara Rojas Martinez, Ph.D. Student, Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jan 12, 04:00 - 06:00

Zoom Meeting ID 97415296117

machine learning 3D reconstruction visual computing

Dec 7 - Dec 13, 2025

Overcoming Catastrophic Forgetting: From Efficiency to Safety

Lama Alssum, Ph.D. Student, Computer Science

Dec 11, 14:00 - 15:00

B3 L5 R5220

AI machine learning Computer Vision

Jul 13 - Jul 19, 2025

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

Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2025

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

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Apr 30 - May 6, 2023

Query Localization in Long-form Videos

Mengmeng Xu (Frost), Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 4, 07:30 - 09:00

KAUST

Apr 9 - Apr 15, 2023

Towards Designing Robust Deep Learning Models for 3D Understanding

Abdullah Hamdi, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Apr 10, 17:00 - 19:00

B3 L5 R5220

deep neural networks

Jan 22 - Jan 28, 2023

Towards Richer Video Representation for Action Understanding

Humam Alwassel, Ph.D., Computer Science

Jan 23, 18:30 - 20:30

B2 L5 R5209

Computer Vision machine learning Human Activity Recognition

May 24 - May 30, 2020

Indoor 3D Scene Understanding Using Depth Sensors

Jean Lahoud, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 28, 16:00 - 18:00

KAUST

Computer Vision 3D object detection Deep learning

Mar 29 - Apr 4, 2020

Understanding a Block of Layers in Deep Neural Networks: Optimization, Probabilistic and Tropical Geometric Perspectives

Adel Bibi, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Mar 30, 18:00 - 20:00

KAUST

Computer Vision machine learning optimization

Jun 9 - Jun 15, 2019

Efficient Localization of Human Actions and Moments in Videos

Victor Escorcia, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

Jun 11, 15:00 - 16:00

B3 L5 R5220

Computer Vision machine learning artificial intelligence

May 12 - May 18, 2019

Sim-to-Real Transfer for Autonomous Navigation

Matthias Mueller, Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering

May 14, 16:00 - 17:00

B2 L5 R5220

Computer Vision UAV robotics machine learning