artificial intelligence

Najmeddine Dhieb

Yasmeen Alsaedy

M.S. Student, Computer Science
She is an AI researcher specializing in generative AI and deep learning. With a strong academic foundation and hands-on experience in machine learning, data science and artificial intelligence, she is passionate about advancing AI applications in real-world scenarios. She has contributed to cutting-edge projects, published research, and collaborated on innovative solutions that bridge the gap between AI theory and practice. Her expertise includes designing and implementing advanced data models, AI-driven visual/text computing, and deep learning architectures.

Yasser Jaber

Visiting Student Researcher ,Machine Learning Engineer at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology).
Syed Abidullah Fareed

Syed Abidullah Fareed

Visiting Student (former), Information Science Lab

Ahmed Youssef Ragab Radwan

Visiting Student (former), Information Science Lab
Visiting student at the Information Science Lab, in the Electrical Engineering Department, CEMSE, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

The 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon Kickoff Symposium at KAUST

The 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon Kickoff Symposium 2023

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B20 Auditorium

We are pleased to invite you to the second SAAI (Super Artistic AI) Factory Hackathon 2023, a program chaired by Christoph Faulhaber (Conceptual Artist, Film Maker) and Mohamed Elhoseiny (Computer Science Faculty at KAUST). About SAAI Factory Hackathon Established in 2021, SAAI Factory has been an initiative and one of the first contemporary art-based hackathons on Artificial Intelligence. The hackathon provides a framework for hackers, artists, coders, designers, tech evangelists, creatives, and developers from all disciplines to come together and explore the possibilities opened up by

CEMSE New Faculty: Mohamed Elhoseiny, Assistant Professor of Computer Science

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Prior to joining the KAUST CEMSE Division earlier this year, Mohamed Elhoseiny received his Ph.D. degree from Rutgers University, New Brunswick in 2016, before spending over two years working as a postdoctoral researcher at Facebook in the company’s AI research wing. Elhoseiny joins the Division as an assistant professor of computer science based in the KAUST Visual Computing Center (VCC). He will also act as the PI of the KAUST Computer Vision, Content AI (Vision-CAIR) Research Group. Outside of his duties at KAUST, he is also acting as an artificial intelligence (AI) research consultant for Baidu Research, Silicon Valley AI Lab.

AI uses your imagination

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The psychology of human creativity helps artificial intelligence imagine the unseen.

KAUST-Stanford neural network paper accepted for presentation at ECCV 2020

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A novel KAUST-Stanford University research paper by Panos Achlioptas (Stanford), Ahmed Abdelreheem (KAUST), Fei Xia (Stanford), Mohamed Elhoseiny (KAUST) and Leonidas Guibas (Stanford) was accepted for presentation at the 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2020).

Computer learns to write captions with feeling

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Mohamed Elhoseiny and his PhD student Youssef Mohamed are teaching AI to capture the full spectrum of human emotions when annotating artwork in order to reduce emotional bias in computer-generated captions.

Youssef S. Mohamed

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Education Youssef Mohamed is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the Visual Computing Center (VCC)/Vison-CAIR at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed Elhoseiny Bachelor's Degree in Communication and Information Engineering, University of Science and Technology in Zewail City, Cairo, Egypt (2013-2018) Master's Degree in Computer Science, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia (2019-2022) Research Interests I am interested in developing AI that is aware of the Emotional and Cultural aspects of human intelligence. We study human
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Mohamed Elhoseiny

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Professor Elhoseiny’s research focuses on developing affective artificial intelligence that understands and generates novel visual content. He has contributed to and led numerous seminal works of affective AI art creation.

Lia Coleman

Lia Coleman is a researcher and artist at VISION-CAIR, the Creative AI Research lab at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) of King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). Education and Early Career Lia Coleman received her B.Sc. in Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2017. Since then, she has worked as a computer vision engineer, and is now researching novel art generation using GANs with Prof. Mohamed Elhoseiny of KAUST. In addition to her technical accomplishments, Lia is also a talented multidisciplinary artist. She has exhibited her work at MIT's

Eslam Abdelrahman BAKR

Ph.D. Student, Computer Science
Eslam BAKR is a Computer Science Ph.D. candidate at the Visual Computing Center (VCC)/Vison-CAIR at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under the supervision of Professor Mohamed Elhoseiny. Education and Early Career BS in Computer Engineering, Cairo University,(Sep 2012-Jul 2017)Studied programming, computer architecture, electronics, communications, waves, and computer networks. M.Sc in Computer Engineering, Cairo University,(Mar 2019-May 2022) Work Experience: TA at Zewail City of Science and Technology, (Sep 2020-21) Instructor at Faculty of Computer Science, Ain