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BAYESCOMP Group Secures CRG Funding to Revolutionize Latent Variable Modeling

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The KAUST Bayesian Computational Statistics and Modeling (BAYESCOMP) Research Group is pleased to announce the award of a 2025 Competitive Research Grant (CRG) for the project: "Advancing scalable Bayesian methods for latent variable modelling." The project is funded at USD $900,000 for 36 months, with the research program officially commencing in April 2026.
StochNum and Math4UQ participants SNSL Workshop 2025

New CRG award to develop scalable methods for partially observed stochastic optimal control

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KAUST Stochastic Numerics has been awarded a $900,000 Competitive Research Grant (CRG) for a 36‑month project on efficient hierarchical approximations for partially observed stochastic optimal control, co-led with Prof. Ibrahim Hoteit and including subawards to EPFL (Prof. Fabio Nobile) and WIAS Berlin (Prof. Christian Bayer).

KAUST innovators named to MIT Technology Review Arabia’s Innovators Under 35 MENA list

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Recognizing research at KAUST focused on intelligent systems for future cities.

Ying Sun wins Young Researcher Award

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KAUST Assistant Professor of Statistics Ying Sun won the 2016 Abdel El-Shaarawi Young Researcher (AEYR) Award from the International Environmetrics Society (TIES) in June. The society was founded by El-Shaarawi, an Egyptian-born and Canadian-trained statistician, and the award was established by the board of TIES in 2002 to honor young statisticians who have made excellent contributions to the development of statistical and/or quantitative methods for environmental science research. Sun received the award on July 18 at the 26th Annual Conference of the International Environmetrics Society in

Professor Sun receives the Environment Early Investigator Award 2017

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Ying Sun, Professor of Statistics in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences & Engineering Division (CEMSE) of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the 2017 Early Investigator Award by the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).

Assistant Professor Ying Sun wins American Statistical Association award

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​​​​Ying Sun, KAUST assistant professor of applied ​mathematics and computational science​, won the 2017 Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR) Early Investigator Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA). Sun received her award at the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM), held from July 29 to August 3 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Sun's award recognizes her important contributions to the field of environmental statistics that help to address major problems like climate change and environmental pollution. At KAUST, Sun leads the Environmental Statistics Group in the

Prof Xiaohang Li is recognized by the prestigious Harold M. Manasevit Young Investigator Award!

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Prof Xiaohang Li is recognized by the prestigious Harold M. Manasevit Young Investigator Award!

KAUST faculty members receive the King Prize for Honoring Inventors and the Gifted

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KAUST Professors Atif Shamim and Osman Bakr received the Custodian of the King Prize for Honoring Inventors and the Gifted, which was organized by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST).

Postdoc Carolina Euan received Sylvia Esterby Presentation Award from TIES

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Carolina Euán, a postdoctoral fellow in KAUST Associate Professor Ying Sun's Environmental Statistics research group, recently received the Sylvia Esterby Presentation Award from the International Environmentrics Society (TIES) at the 28th Annual TIES Conference 2018 held from July 16 to 21, 2018, in Guanajuato, Mexico. Euán won the award for her talk entitled "Bernoulli Vector Autoregressive Model with Applications to Spatio-temporal Drought Events in Mexico."

AAAS honors KAUST Professor David Keyes as elected Fellow

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KAUST Professor David Keyes has been elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world's largest general scientific society. Keyes was honored for fundamental research contributions at the interface of parallel computing and numerical analysis and his service to the mathematical sciences profession. The Fellows, announced on November 27, 2018, were recognized during the week of February 18 at the AAAS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C., where they received an official certificate and the AAAS Fellows' gold and blue rosette pin, the colors of which

KAUST alumna wins ADIPEC Young Engineer of the Year Award

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KAUST alumna Shamael Al-Shuhail won the prestigious Abu Dhabi International Exhibition & Conference (ADIPEC) Young Engineer of the Year Award at ADIPEC 2018 held in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

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MERGE Group is delighted and proud to announce that Ph.D Student Otavio Jose Dezem Bertozzi Junior has been announced the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for the academic year 2021-2022. This award recognizes Teaching Assistants (TAs) who demonstrate superior instructional skills while serving in the classroom or laboratory. This award is based on nominations from graduate students of the CEMSE Division. Otavio currently serves as a TA for the Cyber-Physical System course (ECE263), taught by Professor Eric Feron. Congratulations Otavio!

Professor Bolin earns American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator Award

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Prof. David Bolin has been selected for the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics and the Environment Early Investigator (ENVR) Award for his outstanding contributions to environmental statistics.

Dean's Award 2022

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Jelena Skenderija and Alexis Koulidis from MERGE Group have been announced as the recipients of the Dean's Award 2022 in Recognition of Outstanding Academic Performance and Contributions. Both Jelena and Alexis were presented with a certificate at the Dean's Award Celebration Dinner that was held at the Al Marsa Restaurant to celebrate the Energy Resources and Petroleum Engineering Program (ERPE) Awardees on June 16, 2022. Congratulations Jelena & Alexis.

Oil & Gas Middle East Awards 2023

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The Oil & Gas Middle East (ME) Awards 2023 was held on March 2 at the Grosvenor House, Dubai. The event celebrated the brilliant individuals, initiatives, and businesses shaping the Middle East’s oil and gas sector. The awards recognized and rewarded individual excellence, corporate prowess, and projects that have taken strides to become future-ready within the energy sector. This year, organizers received a record number of nominations, surpassing 140 from nearly 50 companies. They are excited to celebrate the success of the projects, initiatives, individuals, and companies that have shaped