6/15/2020 Congratulations to Mr. Abderrazak Chahid, Ph.D. candidate, who is the Africa-Middle East Finalist at the 2020 EMBC Student Paper Competition. Abderrazak will present presented his work, in July in the 42 Annual Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference. His paper entitled "Feature extraction for multiclass classification: Application to hand gesture recognition" has been selected as the best scientific paper from Africa and the Middle East region.
4/21/2020 Congratulations to Wenqi for successfully defended her Master's thesis. Wenqi! Your zealous work has finally paid you, your academic accomplishments will bring you far in life. Treasure this moment of success and embrace the journey ahead. Good luck on your next adventure!
4/21/2020 Evangelos has successfully defended his MS thesis. Congratulations to Enagelos on scripting this chapter of his success story. Keep writing bigger, brighter things. Evangelos! You are brilliant, able, and ambitious. You shall always walk the glory road. Happy graduation :)
4/20/2020 Ph.D. student Mohamed Bahloul got a new journal paper accepted at the IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJEMB). OJEMB covers the development and application of engineering concepts and methods to biology, medicine and health sciences to provide effective solutions to biological, medical and healthcare problems. In their accepted work Professor, Laleg and his student Mohamed Bahloul developed a new two-element fractional-order Windkessel model to assess the aortic input impedance. The model comprises a resistor, Rp, connected in parallel to a fractional-order capacitor, C_alpha, accounting for the peripheral resistance, and the total arterial compliance, respectively. Results and analysis in this work indicate that fractional-order impedance yields a powerful tool for a flexible characterization of arterial hemodynamics.
4/19/2020 Professor Meriem Laleg is co-organizing two invited tracks at the 21st IFAC World Congress in Berlin, Germany, July 12-17, 2020. 4/19/2020 Ph.D. students from EMAN group have 3 papers accepted in the 42nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in conjunction with the 43rd Annual Conference of the Canadian Medical and Biological Engineering Society. 4/15/2020 Professor Meriem Laleg is very excited to announce that 8 of her research group papers have been accepted for presentation in IFAC World Congress 2020.
"Thank you to all my students and EMAN Group members for the hard work. See you in Berlin in July." Laleg said. 6/29/2019 For the last couple of years, Professor Meriem and her team have been working on developing a novel quantum-based method for signal and image processing. She introduced the concept during her Ph.D. This method allows the decomposition of the signal/image into set of functions given but the squared eigenfunctions of a semi-classical Schrodinger operator. We named the method SCSA for semi-classical signal processing.
5/15/2019 A new paper titled "Kalman Filter Based Estimation Algorithm for the Characterization of the Spatiotemporal Hemodynamic Response in the Brain" has been accepted in Control Engineering Practice Journal, Congratulations Zehor! 5/12/2019 Postdoc positions available for a signal processing project! Strong background in mathematics is recommended!
12/14/2018 Congratulations to our graduates, Dr. Zehor and MSc. Eng. Xingang. EMAN group is so proud of you. Good luck to all of you as you start the next phase of your life. Again, congratulations.   7/30/2018 Congratulations to Mr. Mohamed A. Bahloul, PhD student, who is the Africa-Middle East Finalist at the 2018 EMBC Student Paper Competition. Mohamed presented his work, on July 19th in Honolulu Hawaii, USA, in the 40th Annual Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference. His paper entitled "Three-Element Fractional-Order Viscoelastic Arterial Windkessel Model" has been selected as the best scientific paper from Africa and Middle East region.
7/29/2018 PhD students Mohamed Bahloul and Abderazak Chahid attended last week the the 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii. They have presented EMAN group and KAUST. 7/24/2018 Women in Data Science (WiDS) is like the Global Women's March for analytics; it's a phenomenon too big for just one city. WiDS is the largest data science conference on Earth—taking place in over 50 countries, it has attained more than 100,000 attendees and is tagged as a global movement.The annual conference aims to inspire and educate data scientists worldwide—regardless of gender—and support women in the field.
This year's WiDS conference was held at Stanford University with more than 100 regional institutions all over the world participating, including KAUST. 6/15/2018 Congratulations to PhD student Mohamed Bahloul for his paper accepted in the IEEE 61st International Midwest Symposium on Circuits & Systems (MWSCAS). MWSCAS will be held in in Windsor, Canada, August 5-8, 2018. Mohamed will present his work on "Arterial Viscoelastic Model Using Lumped Parameter Circuit with Fractional-Order Capacitor"
6/14/2018 Ph.D student Mohamed A. Bahloul has been selected to atteind the 13th IEEE-EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging which will be held in Saint-Jacut de la Mer, Emerald Coast, Brittany France, 14-21 June, 2018. Founded in 1994, the IEEE EMBS International Summer School on Biomedical Imaging has become over the year the worldwide reference in the field and is proud of his 500 alumni. It is resolutely international (around 45 participants from more than twenty countries have participated to the previous editions) and accessible to young scientists. It is an open yet privileged place for exchanges and discussions of major on-going work. Informal and warm, at a location where the sea and the land merge in a time varying relation, this school brings together, every other year for ten days, the world’s greatest researchers and teachers in biomedical imaging. The participants are PhDs, post-doctoral students, engineers from industry, and already involved in some area of biomedical imaging. 6/9/2018 Please join us in congratulating the Ph.D student Mohamed A. Bahloul. He is a Finalist selected for the 2018 EMBS Student Paper Competition! The Finalists will present his papers in special judging sessions on Wednesday 18, July, 2018.
Best of luck to Mohamed in the final phase of the competition!
4/25/2018 Congratulation to W. Cai et al for their paper accepted in the 2nd IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications which will be hold in Copenhagen, Denmark, August 21-24, 2018.
In this paper authors propose a robust H-infinity approach for free space optical (FSO) beam pointing error systems. First, a deterministic discrete-time model for pointing error loss due to misalignment is presented. This model considers detector aperture size and optical beam width. Then, the control problem that guarantees the stability of the closed-loop pointing error and the attenuation of the disturbance is investigated through a robust H-infinity control framework. Finally, simulation results of the FSO link under the effects of a controlled weak turbulence condition are performed to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed robust pointing error approach. 4/25/2018 Congratulation to
Abderrazak for his paper accepted in the the IEEE, EMBS 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 17-21, 2018. 4/19/2018 Ph.D student, Mohamed A. Bahloul started his PhD with a big publishing at the IEEE, EMBS 40th International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference which will be held in Honolulu, Hawaii from July 17-21, 2018.
4/15/2018
 Last Thursday, Ph.D student Zehor Belkhatir has earned two letters "Dr" in front of her name. Zehor is now Dr Belkhatir !!
Many congratulations on this wonderful accomplishment. It has been a pleasure listening to her successfully present her dissertation. EMAN group members hope to her best wishes for this important milestone in her life and career. May there be many more to come.
Zehor received her Master degree from Ecole Polytechnique d’Alger, Algeria in 2012. Currently, she is pursued her Ph.D. degree at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia. Her research interests include control and estimation of a class of infinite dimensional systems described by partial differential equations and fractional differential equations.
Congratulations Dr. Zehor !
4/12/2018 All EMAN group members wish a good luck to our colleague Zehor Belkhatir in her Ph.D defense which will be next Thursday 12th Apr 2018 from 04:00 PM - 05:30 PM in Building 5, Level 5, Room 5220. 4/9/2018 EMAN group is very happy to welcome Prof. Bassam Bamieh. Prof. Bamieh is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Control, Dynamical Systems and Computation (CCDC) at at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research interests are in the fundamentals of Control and Dynamical Systems such as Robust, Optimal and Distributed Control, as well as the applications of systems and feedback techniques in several physical and engineering systems including shear flow transition and turbulence, and the use of feedback in thermoacoustic energy conversion devices. He is a past recipient of the AACC Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award, and the IEEE Control Systems Society G. S. Axelby Outstanding Paper Award (twice). He is a Fellow of the International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC) , and a Fellow of the IEEE. 3/27/2018
Prof. Meriem Laleg gave a talk in Big Data in Biodiversity and Health Workshop which held at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. She presents her research work in the field of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Data Analysis . 3/22/2018
“King Abdullah University is excited to partner with Stanford University to bring the Women in Data Science (WiDS) conference to KAUST, Saudi Arabia. The Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) Conference is an annual one-day technical conference based at Stanford, which brings together data scientists and professionals from around the globe to discuss the latest research and applications of data science in a broad set of domains. WiDS KAUST event will take place this year on the 22nd of March and feature vision talks by distinguished speakers from academia; panel discussions with female data scientists and researchers, and networking opportunities throughout the day.
Professor Meriem Laleg is a memeber of WiDS team and she is participating in this event.
3/22/2018 Dr. Bacem Ben Nasser got a paper accepted, last February. His paper entitled "Razumikhin-type Theorems on Practical Stability of Dynamic Equations on Time Scales" was accepted at by IFAC Conference on Analysis and Design of Hybrid Systems(ADHS 18), Oxford, UK, July 11-13, 2018. Congratulations Dr. Bacem!
3/21/2018 Doctoral student Zehor Belkhatir continues her excellent work. She got a IEEE Control Systems Letters accepted, last January. In this letter Zehor et. all proposed an estimation algorithm for the characterization of multiple point
inputs for linear fractional order systems. First, using polynomial
modulating functions method and a suitable change of variables the
problem of estimating the locations and the amplitudes of a
multi-pointwise input is decoupled into two algebraic systems of
equations. The first system is nonlinear and solves for the time
locations iteratively, whereas the second system is linear and solves
for the input's amplitudes. Second, closed form formulas for both the
time location and the amplitude are provided in the particular case of
single point input. Finally, numerical examples are given to illustrate
the performance of the proposed technique in both noise-free and noisy
cases. The joint estimation of pointwise input and fractional
differentiation orders is also presented. Furthermore, a discussion on
the performance of the proposed algorithm is provided. 3/4/2018 Dr. Mohamed Ghattassi got a paper accepted on January 25 2018. His paper entitled "State observer design for Direct Contact Membrane Distillation Parabolic systems" was accepted at the 2018 AMERICAN CONTROL CONFERENCE. Congratulations Dr. Mohamed.
3/1/2018
In July 2017, Associate Professor Taous Meriem Laleg Kirati joined the Computational Bioscience Research Center (CBRC). Her expertise in applied mathematics, control systems and signal analysis is a welcome addition to the interdisciplinary nature of the Center. Since joining CBRC, she has been closely working with other CBRC faculty to answer questions from in the biological domain. Currently, she is collaborating with Professor Vladimir Bajic on developing novel computational methods for identification of genomic signals based on signal processing and machine learning.
2/11/2018 EMAN group is very happy to welcome Pro. Yacine Chitour. He has been associate professor at University Paris Sud between 1997 and 2004 and full professor there since then. He is the head of the iCODE institute, initiative of research in science of University Paris-Saclay since 2014. His interests are in geometric control, switching systems, control of PDEs and subriemannian and applied differential geometry.
Prof. Yacine Chitour will give a talk about: Stabilisation of linear control systems subject to persistent excitation.
1/3/2018
Muhammad is an applied math #KAUSTclass2017 Ph.D. graduate was glad to come all the way from California, where he now works for a startup, to attend the ceremony and to see his advisor, colleagues, and friends.
11/9/2017
EMAN group is very happy to welcome Dr. Ahmed Chemouri. He is a tenured research scientist in Automatic control and Robotics for the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), at the Montpellier Laboratory of Computer Science, Robotics and Microelectronics (LIRMM). His research interests include nonlinear (adaptive and predictive) control and their applications in robotics (underactuated robotics, parallel robotics, underwater robotics, humanoid robotics and wearable robotics).
Dr. Chemouri will give
- A seminar in Robotic Control Systems Challenges, Design, and Experiments on Thursday November 9th.
- A short course in Advanced motion control of marine vehicles on Tuesday November 14th.
 
11/7/2017
Prof. Meriem will be giving a talk at KAUST-NSF Research Conference on Environmental Monitoring: Foundations and Applications, organized held in KAUST on November 6-8, 2017.
Talk: Towards Sustainable Smart Desalination Systems
The rising population around the world is placing increased pressure on the already limited natural freshwater resources. To satisfy rising demands, many countries rely on seawater desalination to meet their fresh water needs. However, alternatives to the conventional energy intensive thermal desalination methods have to be developed for a sustainable future. Membrane distillation (MD) is an example of emerging technology for sustainable water desalination. In this talk, Prof. Meriem presents feedback strategies that help in optimizing and controlling the MD process and also designing algorithms to automatically detect performance deterioration such as fouling.
9/29/2017
The accepted paper will be presented by Abderrazak Chahid at the 13th IEEE BioCAS, to be held on October 19-21 in in Turin, Italy. Abderrazak will present a new adaptive enhancement method for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) image. The new method is based on adaptive selection of a filtering parameter by a grid segmentation of the noisy input image. The preliminary results provides very encouraging insight and show good potential in MRI noise removal while preserving the small details.
9/29/2017 The accepted abstract will be presented by Abderrazak Chahid at the 34th Annual Scientific Meeting ESMRMB 2017 CONGRESS, to be held on October 19-21 in Barcelona, Spain. Abderrazak will present the results of his work on water suppression technique. The novel proposed method is based on the Semi-Classical Signal Analysis (SCSA) of the Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) in vivo. The MRS signal is usually dominated by the water peaks, 1000 times stronger comparing to other signals of interest, which limits the detection and quantification of the small metabolites. 9/20/2017 The accepted paper proposes an on-line estimation algorithm of the source term in a first order hyperbolic PDE is proposed. This equation describes heat transport dynamics in concentrated solar collectors where the source term represents the received energy. This energy depends on the solar irradiance intensity and the collector characteristics affected by the environmental changes. Control strategies are usually used to enhance the efficiency of heat production; however, these strategies often depend on the source term which is highly affected by the external working conditions. Hence, efficient source estimation methods are required. The proposed algorithm is based on modulating functions method where a moving horizon strategy is introduced. Numerical results are provided to illustrate the performance of the proposed estimator in open and closed loops. 5/31/2017 Dr. Shahrazed PhD dissertation was about the Control of Hyperbolic Heat Transfer Mechanisms: Application to the Distributed Concentrated Solar Collectors
5/9/2017 Professor Laleg-Kirati joined KAUST in 2011 after being a postdoc and a researcher at INRIA Bordeaux in France. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics in 2008 from INRIA and Versailles University. Professor Laleg-Kirati’s work is in the general area of mathematical control theory, systems modeling and their applications...More 4/10/2017 Control of Hyperbolic Heat Transfer Mechanisms: Application to the Distributed Concentrated Solar Collectors.Date: Thursday 13th Apr 2017Time:01:00 PM - 03:00 PMLocation: Building 2, level 5, room 5220
4/10/2017 Nouha has joined our group as an internship student. 3/22/2017 A paper accepted for publication in Automatica 2017.
3/2/2017 Manuscript Accepted for Presentation and Publication in the in The 20th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control being held in Toulouse, France in July 2017. 3/1/2017 Manuscript Accepted for Publication in the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, March 2017. 2/1/2017 The abstract entitled "Adaptive Magnetic Resonance Image signal enhancement using squared eigenfunctions of the Schrodinger operator " presents a new Magnetic Resonance (MR) image enhancement method using an adaptive technique based on spatial noise level. The proposed method will speed up the existing method, so-called Semi-Classical Signal Analysis (SCSA), especially with the MRI acceleration techniques by reducing the acquisition time and it will ensure better image quality. 1/21/2017 Two research papers from EMANG are accepted for presentation and publication in The American Control Conference 2017 being held in Seattle, WA, USA in May 2017
10/3/2016 A manuscript from EMANG is accepted for publication in Journal of Process Control 9/19/2016 A manuscript from EMANG is accepted for publication in Inverse Problems in Science & Engineering Journal. 9/17/2016 A manuscript from EMANG is accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology 9/5/2016 A manuscript from EMANG is accepted for publication in Desalination 8/31/2016 A manuscript from EMANG is accepted for publication in Journal of Process Control 8/11/2016 EMANG member Zehor Belkhatir wins The Best Session Presentation Award
7/24/2016 One paper from EMANG is accepted for presentation and publication in 55th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) 2016 7/13/2016 EMANG PI, Prof. Meriem Laleg gives research seminar in Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
7/10/2016 A manuscript from EMANG is accepted for publication in NMR in Biomedicine journal 7/9/2016 A paper from EMANG is accepted for presentation and publication at MSC 2016
5/31/2016 A journal paper from EMANG is accepted for publication in International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing
3/30/2016 One journal paper from EMANG was accepted for publication in Inverse and Ill-posed Problems Journal.
3/27/2016 Two full papers from EMANG group were accepted for presentation and publication in 2nd IFAC Workshop on Control of Systems Goverened by Partial Differential Equations (CPDE16).
3/25/2016 One journal from EMANG published in ELSEVIER Solar Energy. 3/24/2016 Two abstracts were accepted for communication at SIAM Conference for Non-linear Waves and Coherent Structures 2016.
2/1/2016 Paper accepted for publication in ISMRM 24th Annual Meeting and Exhibition proceedings 1/28/2016 Two paper from EMANG accepted for publication in prestigious American Control Conference (ACC) 1/22/2016 PhD Candidate from EMANG gives seminar at University of California San Diego (UCSD) 1/10/2016 Two journal papers are accepted for publication in prestigious peer-reviewed journals 12/3/2015 PhD student at EMANG, Zehor Belkhatir presents PhD thesis proposal 11/12/2015 Fadi Eleiwi from EMANG successfully defends his PhD thesis 11/8/2015 Prof Kamal Youcef Toumi from MIT visits EMANG 10/29/2015 Abeer Aldoghaiter from EMANG successfully defends PhD thesis. 10/19/2015 Prof Enrique Zuazua from Spain visited EMANG. He also gave a three day short course on the control of PDEs. 8/27/2015 Paper accepted for publication in SIAM Scientific Computing Journal 8/1/2015 EMAN group got four papers accepted at Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC) which will be held in Sydney from September 21st to September 23rd and one Paper accepted at the conference on decision and control (CDC) which will be held in Osaka December 15th to December 18th 2015 6/8/2015 Prof. Meriem Laleg has been elevated to the rank of senior member of IEEE 5/27/2015 The paper entitled: An Optimal iterative algorithm to solve Cauchy problem for Laplace equation, by Usman M. Majeed and T.M. Laleg-Kirati won the best paper award at the 3rd International Conference on Control, Engineering & Information Technology sponsored by IEEE. 1/18/2015 Three papers have been accepted by prestigious American Control Conference (ACC 2015) being held in Chicago this year. 1/10/2015 Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Director, Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics UCSD, visited EMANG. 6/20/2014 Dr. Sarah Mechhood joinded EMAN Group as a post doc 3/27/2014 Prof Ortigueira visit EMAN Group for two week. 3/23/2014 Associate Vice Chancellor for Research and Director Cymer Center for Control Systems and Dynamics, UCSD visits EMAN Group at KAUST. 3/10/2014 Two papers accepted by ECC. 3/10/2014 Prof Roger W. Brockett, An Wang Research Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, visits EMAN Group for two week. 2/13/2014 Prof. Meriem-Laleg delivers a seminar at California State University Northridge, CSUN. 10/7/2013 Prof. Helffer from University of Paris-Sud 11 visits EMAN group for one week. 8/10/2013 One paper has been accepted by the International Conference on Fractional Signals and Systems 2013 (FSS 2013). 7/30/2013 One paper has been accepted by the 3rd International Conference on Systems and
Control (ICSC'13). 4/13/2013 Prof. O.Gibaru from Arts et Métiers ParisTech visits EMAN group for one week. 4/10/2013 Prof. W.Perruquetti from Ecole centrale de Lille visits EMAN group for one week. 4/8/2013 Prof. M. Djemaï from University
of Valenciennes (France) visits EMAN group for one week. 3/6/2013 Dr. A. Chemori from the University of Montpellier 2 and CNRS visits EMAN group for one week. 3/3/2013 Prof. W. Rundell from Texas A&M
University visits EMAN group for three days. 3/2/2013 Prof. H. Serrai from the King Abdullah
International Research Medical Centre (KAIMRC) visits EMAN group for one day. 2/24/2013 One paper has been published by Mathematics of control, signals and systems (MCSS) . 2/21/2013 Two papers have been accepted by the 11th International Conference on Mathematical and Numerical Aspects of Waves (WAVES 2013). 1/27/2013 Prof. M.D. Ortigueira from Faculty of Science and Technology of New University of Lisboa visits EMAN group for three days. 11/10/2012 Prof. Y.F. Tang from Chinese Academy of Sciences and Dr. J.F. Huang from Qingdao University visit EMAN group for one week. 10/7/2012 Prof. W.Perruquetti from Ecole centrale de Lille and Prof. O.Gibaru form Arts et Métiers ParisTech visit EMAN group for one week. 7/29/2012 Ayman Karam defended his MS entitled Nonlinear Neural Network Approach for fMRI Data Analysis 7/23/2012 Fernando Diaz defended his MS thesis entiteled: Detection of Cardiovascular Anomalies: An observer-based approach |