Peeling back the layers of deep machine learning 1 min read · Fri, Apr 17 2020 News machine learning artificial intelligence Computer science A layer-based approach raises the efficiency of training artificial intelligence models.
Alumni Focus: Dimitrios Kleftogiannis 1 min read · Wed, Mar 11 2020 News Spotlight KAUST alumnus Dimitrios Kleftogiannis (Ph.D. '16, computer science) is a scientist studying cancer whose enthusiasm for his current research is infectious.
AI learns complex gene-disease patterns 1 min read · Sun, Sep 1 2019 News health artificial intelligence big data Computer science A deep learning model improves the ability to identify genes potentially involved in disease.
Querying big data just got universal 1 min read · Sun, Jun 23 2019 News big data algorithm Computer science A universal query engine for big data that works across computing platforms could accelerate analytics research.
New Data Mining approach makes recurring patterns easier to be spotted 1 min read · Wed, Jan 18 2017 News supercomputing infoclouds Frequent subgraph mining algorithm The ultimate answer is ScaleMine, cost-effective and agile scalable parallel frequent subgraph mining in a single large graph. Panagiotis Kalnis, Professor of Computer Science (CS), and the team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC), under the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering (CEMSE) Division signed this novel approach.
Divide and conquer pattern searching 1 min read · Tue, Dec 27 2016 News Computer science computing Searching for recurring patterns in network systems has become a fundamental part of research and discovery in fields as diverse as biology and social media. KAUST researchers have developed a pattern or graph-mining framework that promises to significantly speed up searches on massive network data sets. “A graph is a data structure that models complex relationships among objects,” explained Panagiotis Kalnis, leader of the research team from the KAUST Extreme Computing Research Center. “Graphs are widely used in many modern applications, including social networks, biological networks like
CEMSE Big Data Open Day shows off fascinating discoveries 1 min read · Thu, Dec 8 2016 News big data machine learning knowledge discovery supercomputing The fifth-anniversary event marked CEMSE's biggest successes and featured 20 KAUST discoveries, with more than 1,000 visitors from the community attending the event."Big data has many applications: to understand medicine better; to manage food supplies, and to connect objects. Data is at the center of everything," said Dean Mootaz Elnozahy of the University's Computer, Electrical, Mathematical Science and Engineering (CEMSE) Division at the CEMSE Big Data Open Day held on December 4, 2016.
Amin Allam (CEMSE PhD) wins the second prize in the DREAM Challenge 1B 1 min read · Mon, Aug 15 2016 News Spotlight algorithm artificial intelligence Computational biology Amin Allam (CEMSE PhD student in the InfoCloud group) supervised by Prof Panos Kalnis has won the second prize in the AstraZeneca-Sanger Drug Combination Prediction DREAM Challenge 1B. Amin Allam utilized Bayesian inference to achieve the 2nd place.
Zuhair Khayyat is presenting his work in XLDB 2016 1 min read · Sun, May 22 2016 News cloud computing big data Zuhair Khayyat is presenting his work in XLDB 2016.
InfoCloud celebrated the first 100 citations from an InfoCloud Student 1 min read · Tue, Mar 8 2016 News infoclouds InfoCloud celebrated the first 100 citations from an InfoCloud Student.
InfoCloud celebrated the year 2015 as the most productive year! 10 Full papers and 3 demos 1 min read · Mon, Feb 22 2016 News infocloud InfoCloud celebrated the year 2015 as the most productive year! 10 Full papers and 3 demos.
Dimitrios Kleftogiannis has defended his Ph.D. thesis 1 min read · Mon, Feb 8 2016 News bioinformatics machine learning Dimitrios Kleftogiannis has defended his Ph.D. thesis "Identification of enhancers in human: Advances in computational studies."
InfoCloud has published a paper "Accelerating SPARQL queries by exploiting hash-based locality and adaptive partitioning" in the VLDB Journal 2016 1 min read · Thu, Jan 7 2016 News infocloud InfoCloud has published a paper "Accelerating SPARQL queries by exploiting hash-based locality and adaptive partitioning" in the VLDB Journal 2016.
InfoCloud has published a paper "Progress and challenges in bioinformatics approaches for enhancer identification" in Briefings in Bioinformatics 2015 1 min read · Fri, Dec 4 2015 News machine learning bioinformatics Computer science InfoCloud has published a paper "Progress and challenges in bioinformatics approaches for enhancer identification" in Briefings in Bioinformatics 2015.
InfoCloud has published a paper "Karect: accurate correction of substitution, insertion and deletion errors for next-generation sequencing data" in Bioinformatics 1 min read · Tue, Nov 3 2015 News bioinformatics InfoCloud has published a paper "Karect: accurate correction of substitution, insertion and deletion errors for next-generation sequencing data" in Bioinformatics
In collaboration with QCRI, InfoCloud published a paper "Lightning fast and space efficient inequality joins" in VLDB 2015. 1 min read · Tue, Sep 1 2015 News algorithm In collaboration with QCRI, InfoCloud published a paper "Lightning fast and space-efficient inequality joins" in VLDB 2015.
InfoCloud is presenting three demo papers in VLDB 2015 1 min read · Sat, Aug 1 2015 News InfoCloud is presenting three demo papers in VLDB 2015.
In collaboration with the National University of Singapore, InfoCloud published a paper in Oxford University Press 1 min read · Wed, Jul 15 2015 News pathogens In collaboration with the National University of Singapore, InfoCloud published a paper in Oxford University Press on "Hi-Jack: a novel computational framework for pathway-based inference of host-pathogen interactions.
In collaboration with QCRI and MIT, InfoCloud published a paper in SIGMOD 2015 on "BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing" 1 min read · Sun, May 31 2015 News big data In collaboration with QCRI and MIT, InfoCloud published a paper in SIGMOD 2015 on "BigDansing: A System for Big Data Cleansing."
Emaad Manzoor has defended his master thesis 1 min read · Sun, May 10 2015 News machine learning Emaad Manzoor has defended his master thesis on "Scheduling Broadcasts in a Network of Timelines" and will join Stony Brook University for Ph.D.
InfoCloud published in Nucleic acids research paper "DEEP: a general computational framework for predicting enhancers." 1 min read · Thu, Jan 8 2015 News computational methods InfoCloud published in Nucleic acids research paper "DEEP: a general computational framework for predicting enhancers."
InfoCloud published in the VLDB Journal a paper "ACME: A scalable parallel system for extracting frequent patterns from a very long sequence" 1 min read · Mon, Dec 1 2014 News bioinformatics automatic tuning mechanism InfoCloud published in the VLDB Journal a paper "ACME: A scalable parallel system for extracting frequent patterns from a very long sequence."
InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "Grami: Frequent subgraph and pattern mining in a single large graph" 1 min read · Sat, Mar 1 2014 News Frequent subgraph mining InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "Grami: Frequent subgraph and pattern mining in a single large graph".
InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "RACE: a scalable and elastic parallel system for discovering repeats in very long sequences" 1 min read · Mon, Aug 26 2013 News RACE InfoCloud published a paper in VLDB 2014 on "RACE: a scalable and elastic parallel system for discovering repeats in very long sequences."
The Mizan paper got accepted to the 8th ACM European conference on Computer Systems-EuroSys 2013 1 min read · Wed, Feb 27 2013 News large-scale graph processing The Mizan paper got accepted to the 8th ACM European conference on Computer Systems-EuroSys 2013.
InfoCloud in collaboration with MIT is organizing the 2013 ACM-SIGMOD programming contest 1 min read · Wed, Jan 23 2013 News SIGMOD InfoCloud in collaboration with MIT is organizing the 2013 ACM-SIGMOD programming contest.
InfoCloud has openings for new members 1 min read · Fri, Dec 14 2012 News Infocloud has openings for faculty members, research scientists, postdoctoral fellows, Ph.D. and masters students, and internships.
Dr. Essam Mansour presented the paper entitled "ERA: Efficient Serial and Parallel Suffix Tree Construction for Very Long Strings" at VLDB 2012 1 min read · Wed, Aug 29 2012 News suffix tree Dr. Essam Mansour presented the paper entitled "ERA: Efficient Serial and Parallel Suffix Tree Construction for Very Long Strings" at VLDB 2012.
Congratulation to our winner!! 1 min read · Thu, May 24 2012 News SIGMOD Amin Allam wins the Fourth Annual Sigmod Programming Contest
