optimization

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)

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Existing RDF engines are designed for specific hardware architectures; porting to a different architecture (e.g., GPUs) entails enormous implementation effort. We explore sparse matrix algebra as an alternative for designing a portable, scalable and efficient RDF engine.

El Houcine Bergou

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ‌InfoCloud
As of January 2019, El Houcine Bergou is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Panagiotis Kalnis in his research group. Prior to this, he spent a year as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Optimization and Machine Learning group of Professor Peter Richtárik. Education and Early Career Dr. Bergou has a PhD degree in numerical methods for least squares problems with application to data assimilation from the National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (INPT) in