CSE Calendar

• Speaker:Raed Hijer - Senior Principal Engineer & Product Technologist, Dell

• Location: ESB-1055

• Time: 12:30pm – 2:00pm

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning have become more pervasive in recent years. Enterprises across different industries are applying ML/DL to gain actionable insights from their ever increasing data to enhance their operational efficiency, increase productivity and become more competitive. Academia is also engaged to prepare and equip the future generation workforce with this highly demanded skill of these emerging technologies. The session will cover the basics of AI, ML & Deep Learning, their workflow, challenges, Use cases, Ecosystem and hardware required to build a successful AI Project.

• Speakers:
Allison Matlack, PnT Communications Manager, Red Hat
Jennifer Krieger Chief Agile Architect, Red Hat
Denise Dumas Vice-President in Global Software Engineering, Red Hat

• Location: ESB-0037

• Time: 11:00am - 12:30pm

This talk will be dedicated to discussion about what it takes to be successful in the world of Open Source. The discussion will cover, among others, the personal stories of the presenters in their professional journey, the challenges they faced, and how they were overcoming them. It will also cover the particular characteristics of open source communities as well as trends in the IT sector. The discussion will be interactive which means the audience will be able to ask questions and shape the focus of the session.

• Speaker: Prof. Wei Zhao - Chief Research Officer, American University of Sharjah

• Location: ESB-0037 CEN Auditorium

• Time: 1:00pm – 01:45pm

Based on the complexity theory, computing problems can be classified as "easy" and "hard". Easy ones are those in which the computation time is bounded by a polynomial of input size. The majority of computing applications today are in this category. In the future, we must focus on hard problems. One approach is to use non-semiconductor-based physical devices; initial work in quantum computers would fall within this category. Another approach is to develop heuristic algorithms with much lower complexity; this is very much an objective of "Artificial Intelligence" development. The third approach is to leverage properties inherently located within input data, hence improving the computation efficiency.

• Speaker: Dr. Saber Feki - Lead of HPC Computational Scientists Team at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) Supercomputing Core Laboratory

• Location: Lecture Hall B (Main Building)

• Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm

The world is faced today with increasingly large and challenging scientific, engineering, economical and societal problems. Meanwhile, supercomputers are evolving at a rapid pace. Scientists and engineers are using this universal tool to tackle these challenges spanning across a large variety of disciplines. I will provide an overview of some of the scientific discoveries and industrial success stories enabled by KAUST Supercomputing Core Lab’s supercomputing facilities. I will highlight the role of the support team in a supercomputing laboratory in their interaction with scientist and other labs. I will conclude with a discussion on future architectures targeting a mixed workload including simulation, big data analytics and artificial intelligence.

• Lecture Hall A (Main Building)

• Time: 9:00am – 1:30pm

• Speaker: Alp Geckalan - Program Manager of SAP Training and Development Institute

• Location: EB1-112 (Engineering Building 1)

• Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

SAP’s Dual Study Program is run in collaboration between SAP and participating universities and provides students with the opportunity to take major-specific SAP trainings and certification during academic years by establishing an extracurricular collaboration. Students graduate from the program as SAP Associate Consultants, which gives them a competitive edge against other university graduates in pursuing various career paths among SAP’s globally positioned customers and partners.

• Speaker: Martin Hilgeman - MEA Technical Director, High Performance Computing (HPC) , DELL EMC

• Location: Lecture Hall A (Main Building)

• Time: 2:00pm – 3:00pm

With all the advances in massively parallel and multi-core computing with CPUs and accelerators, it is often overlooked whether the computational work is being done in an efficient manner. This efficiency is largely being determined at the application level and therefore puts the responsibility of sustaining a certain performance trajectory into the hands of the user. It is observed that the adoption rate of new hardware capabilities is decreasing and lead to a feeling of diminishing returns. At the same time, the well-known laws of parallel performance are limiting the perspective of a system builder. The presentation tries gives an overview of these challenges and what can be done to overcome them. The overview will be amended by a few case studies and optimization strategies on real applications.

• Location: EB1-030

• Time: 5:00pm – 5:30pm

The National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) in UAE is a federal authority responsible for creating a Cyber Secured environment that enables the unimpeded progress of the UAE. Protecting our nation’s infrastructure requires constant vigilance and creative and innovative solutions to keep pace with the continuous and rapid development, which is characteristic of cyberspace environment. They will be organizing the Cyber Quest competition for University students. The talk will introduce the program to the students, announce the exact dates of the quest activities, and encourage student participation in the competitio.

• Speaker: Dr. Muhammad Wasim Raad - Head of RFID Lab, Computer Engineering Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) Saudi Arabia

• Location: EB1-119

• Time: 9:30am – 11:00am

The talk will shed light on the ongoing research in telemedicine utilizing RFID & biosensors for well-being of elderly suffering from Alzheimer in addition to presenting the state of the art advances in IoT for healthcare.

• Speaker: Dr. Haris Javaid - Senior Software Engineer, Google

• Location: EB1-115

• Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Many-core platforms inherently offer high performance for diverse application domains. However, the challenge is to optimize such a platform for high performance as well as low power consumption. In this talk, I will introduce a few recent hardware/software optimization techniques for many-core architectures targeted at multimedia applications such as audio, video and graphics.

• Speakers: Shane O'Donnell - Education Project Manager, SAP

• Location: EB1-030

• Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

During this talk the speaker will:

• Present SAP dual study program

• Introduce the SAP HANA platform

• Discuss the importance of SAP HANA certification

• Explain the SAP HANA track and its offering at AUS

SAP will be offering the training and certification for free for the first round in May 2017.

• Location: EB1-030

• Time: 5:00pm – 5:30pm

The National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) in UAE is a federal authority responsible for creating a Cyber Secured environment that enables the unimpeded progress of the UAE. Protecting our nation’s infrastructure requires constant vigilance and creative and innovative solutions to keep pace with the continuous and rapid development, which is characteristic of cyberspace environment. The talk will discuss the Cyber Quest competition for University students in April 2017. The talk will introduce the program to the students and encourage their participation in the competition.

• Location: Lecture Hall B (Main Building)

• Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm

Come over and hear about Imagine Cup, which is a global competition that empowers the next generation of tech students to team up and use their creativity, passion and knowledge of technology to create applications that shape how we live, work and play. Every year tens of thousands of students from across the globe compete for cash, travel and prizes and for the honor of taking home the Imagine Cup! This can also be a good opportunity for students to get involved and learn more about career opportunities for students. So regardless of your major do pass by to learn more!

• Speakers: Paolo Ticali - Technical Account Manager & Scott Griffiths - Education Solutions Consultant, VMware

• Location: EB1-030

• Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

During this talk the speakers will:

• Present VMware products,

• Discuss the importance of VMware certifications,

• Introduce a new program targeting the employment of new graduates,

• Discuss the VMware IT Academy and the course offerings.

• Speaker: Dr. Essam Mitwally – Regional Director - MEA, Turkey & India, Quanergy FZ LLC (Dubai Internet City, HQ: Sunnyvale, Ca.):

• Location: EB1-116

• Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm

LiDAR (Light Detection And Ranging) Technology is similar to RaDAR (Radio Detection And Ranging), but instead of using radio microwaves, LiDAR sensors use light/laser pulses in the infrared band, and is based on Time of Flight measurements. LiDAR is the most accurate perception sensor that provides 3D object detection, measurement, tracking and classification of the surroundings. LiDAR was a niche technology for more than two decades, but is now emerging in several industries such as automotive, security, transportation, smart cities, industrial automation, mapping, robotics drones, agriculture, and mining. Much R&D in those verticals is currently being conducted. In this seminar, we shall provide an overview of the LiDAR technology as developed by Quanergy in Silicon Valley - San Francisco. The breakthrough by Quanergy is in bringing the size and cost considerably low to become practical for consumer markets, and in evolving from mechanical to the world’s first solid state lidar S3 (the Winner of the CES 2017 Best of Innovation Award for Vehicle Intelligence, and planned for use in Mercedes and most of autonomous cars by 2020). Similar to GITEX and CISCO Live events, we shall conduct a live demo of our LiDAR based physical security product Q-Guard used for intrusion detection in any weather and lighting conditions. It is the most effective sensor for securing critical infrastructures.

• Speaker: Prof. Chen Jimin – Professor & Director of 3D Printing Technology Center, Institute of Laser Engineering, Beijing University of Technology

• Location: EB1-030 (Engineering Auditorium)

• Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm

Digital medical 3D printing technology is a new hi-tech which combines traditional medical and digital design, computer science, bio technology and 3D print technology. It is closely related to people's livelihood and may change people's lives, health habits, health care as well as the traditional business model of the medical areas in the near future. Along with the progress of technology, the application of 3D printing in medical field is becoming more and more popular. Basically the application focuses on the three aspects. The printed 3D model is the simple application. The surgery makes use of the model to plan the processing before operation. The second is customized operation guide such as implant guide. It helps doctor to operate with special tools rather than the normal medical tools. These printed guide make the operation easy and time saving while operation. The third application of 3D printing in medical area is to print artificial bone or even organ inside human body. This is a big challenge we face at present time. In this paper we introduced an application of 3D printing technology in tumor operation. Currently for tumor treatment main methods are surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy. However, these methods are not satisfactory. Radioactive rays kill cancer cells as well as normal tissues. A radioactive seed implantation treatment technology has been introduced to treat tumor. It implants the tiny radioactive seeds into tumor and kill cancer cells only. The problem is to position the seeds in tumor exactly. Traditionally the digital laminography was used frequently during invasive procedure. It is expensive and cost time. We use 3D printing to print guide for this operation. Method puncture needle - localization guided by printed guide was performed in face tumors and prepared for operation. It is concluded that the new type guide is dominantly advantageous.

• Speaker: Mrs. Jehan Abdulkarim –Director - Marketing and Communications, Accenture MENA

• Location: EB1-030 (Engineering Auditorium)

• Time: 5:00pm – 5:45pm

During this talk the speaker will: Introduce the Accenture Hackathon. This Hackathon is organized in collaboration with Expo 2020, Etisalat, Facebook and Google. Winning teams might automatically be considered for an internship with Accenture! To learn more about this exciting event, please join us at the talk.

• Speaker: Mr. Nikos Zaharioudakis – Principal Architect & Instructor, Red Hat

• Location: EB1-030 (Engineering Auditorium)

• Time: 5:00pm – 5:45pm

During this talk the speaker will:

• Introduce the new Red Hat Academy and Red Hat Technical Certifications

• Show how the Academy and Certifications can better help you find jobs and advance your career

• Present statistics on the market share of Red Hat products in the Middle East

• Announce discounts on Red Hat Technical Certifications

• Present the concept of System Administration and Cloud Computing