Computational Sciences Group

Research

The overarching goal of the KAUST Computational Sciences Group (CSG) is enabling accurate and efficient simulations for scientific and visual computing. Towards this goal, we develop new principled computational methods based on solid theoretical foundations, and contribute to a broad range of topics covering algorithmics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer graphics and physics-based modeling, differential equations, mathematical modeling, and numerical analysis.
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[02/2024] Our work on computing realistic fluid dynamics for gaming applications has been featured by AAAS's EurekAlert!.
[01/2024] Our work on Ecoclimates: Climate-response Modeling of Vegetation is featured by Two Minute Papers.
[01/2024] Our work on Rhizomorph: The Coordinated Function of Shoots and Roots is featured by Two Minute Papers.
[11/2023] Professor Michels named to 2024 Capital 40 under 40 list.
[07/2023] Our work that will be presented at SIGGRAPH 2023 in Los Angeles on Rhizomorph: The Coordinated Function of Shoots and Roots has been featured by Purdue CS and Phys.org.
[04/2023] Professor Michels has been appointed as a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
[03/2023] Professor Michels serves as a member of the technical papers committee of this year's ACM SIGGRAPH which will be hosted at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
[09/2022] Professor Michels serves as a conference chair of this year's ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics SCA hosted at Durham University in Durham, UK.
[06/2022] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2022 introducing A Fast Unsmoothed Aggregation Algebraic Multigrid Framework for the Large-Scale Simulation of Incompressible Flow has been included in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer and used as the trailer's cover. It is also featured by KAUST Discovery, AAAS's EurekAlert!, Tech Xplore, and Two Minute Papers.
[04/2022] Han Shao has been elected to the AMCS Dean's List highlighting his outstanding achievements in numerical simulation.
[03/2022] Our group is hosting the KAUST Masterclass on Visual Computing on March 29-30, 2022.
[02/2022] This year, Professor Michels serves as a member of the technical papers committee of ACM SIGGRAPH which will be hosted at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
[01/2022] Our work on Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity which has been presented at presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 is featured by Two Minute Papers.
[12/2021] Our work on Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems which has been presented at presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 is featured by Two Minute Papers.
[10/2021] Our three contributions to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 in Tokyo on Weatherscapes: Nowcasting Heat Transfer and Water Continuity, Ships, Splashes, and Waves on a Vast Ocean, and Learning to Reconstruct Botanical Trees from Single Images are featured in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer.
[10/2021] Our work on Ships, Splashes, and Waves on a Vast Ocean which will be presented at presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2021 is featured by Two Minute Papers.
[08/2021] Our work presented at SIGGRAPH 2021 on Fire in Paradise: Mesoscale Simulation of Wildfires is featured by KAUST Discovery, Phys.org, AAAS's EurekAlert!, and The Engineer.
[08/2021] This year, Professor Michels serves as a member of the technical papers committee of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia which will be hosted at the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo, Japan.
[07/2021] Our work Fire in Paradise: Mesoscale Simulation of Wildfires has been selected as part of the back cover of the ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2021. It is also featured by Two Minute Papers and 80 LEVEL.
[02/2021] Our work presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 on Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now is featured by KAUST Discovery, Phys.org, and AAAS's EurekAlert!.
[01/2021] Our work on Surface-Only Ferrofluids presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 is featured by KAUST Discovery, Phys.org, AAAS's EurekAlert!, and Two Minute Papers. It has also been the Biomedical Picture of the Day.
[01/2021] Libo Huang was awarded a CEMSE Student Research Excellence Award highlighting his outstanding work on fluid dynamics.
[11/2020] Our work integrated in Maple 2020 based on an ACM SIGSAM award-winning research paper and a special issue publication in the Journal of Symbolic Computation is featured by KAUST CEMSE.
[11/2020] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 on Stormscapes: Simulating Cloud Dynamics in the Now is featured in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer.
[08/2020] This year, Professor Michels serves as a member of the technical papers committee of ACM SIGGRAPH Asia which will be hosted online.
[08/2020] Professor Michels serves as the poster chair of this year's ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics SCA hosted online.
[05/2020] Professor Michels was selected as a member of the top-class jury for the German AI Award 2020.
[03/2020] The IsLinearizable command implemented according to our linearizability algorithm has been integrated as standard in Maple 2020 in which it can be used for solving ordinary differential equations.
[10/2019] Professor Michels was awarded an Artificial Intelligence Grant of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia as part of its Academic Expat Program endowed with 1.25 million euros.
[07/2019] Our work On the Accurate Large-scale Simulation of Ferrofluids has been selected as the front cover of the ACM Transactions on Graphics, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2019.
[07/2019] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles On the Accurate Large-scale Simulation of Ferrofluids has been overviewed by Libo Huang for 80 LEVEL.
[07/2019] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles on Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems has been overviewed by Torsten Hädrich for 80 LEVEL.
[07/2019] Our work On the Accurate Large-scale Simulation of Ferrofluids to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 is featured by Two Minute Papers, KAUST Discovery and later by Phys.org, AAAS's EurekAlert!.
[05/2019] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles on Synthetic Silviculture: Multi-scale Modeling of Plant Ecosystems is featured in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer.
[05/2019] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2019 in Los Angeles On the Accurate Large-scale Simulation of Ferrofluids is featured in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer.
[02/2019] Professor Michels was selected as a member of the top-class jury for the German AI Award 2019.

[11/2018] Torsten Hädrich was selected to participate in the Junction hackathon, the largest hacking event in Europe and part of the Major League Hacking.

[10/2018] Our work on Conjugated Polymers as a New Class of Dual-Mode Matrices for MALDI Mass Spectrometry and Imaging published in JACS is featured by KAUST Discovery, and later by Phys.org, AAAS's EurekAlert!, and the COMPAMED Magazine addressing advances in medical technology.
[09/2018] The cover image of our work published in JACS on Conjugated Polymers as a New Class of Dual-Mode Matrices for MALDI Mass Spectrometry and Imaging has been selected as a supplementary cover for the journal.
[09/2018] Our work on Teaching UAVs to Race: End-to-End Regression of Agile Controls in Simulation presented at the UAVision workshop in conjunction with ECCV2018 has been awarded the workshop's award based on paper content and the presentation. It was also featured by KAUST News.
[09/2018] The Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics at the Belarusian State University (BSU) recognizes Dr. Lyakhov as a Visiting Professor. In this role, Professor Lyakhov will strengthen research and educational collaborations between KAUST and BSU.
[09/2018] Our work on Conjugated Polymers as a New Class of Dual-Mode Matrices for MALDI Mass Spectrometry and Imaging published in JACS has been selected to be featured in JACS Spotlights and, based on recommendations by ACS journals' editors, also in ACS Editors' Choice. It is available as an open access paper.
[08/2018] Our work published in Energy & Environmental Science on Concentrated Mixed Cation Acetate "Water-in-Salt" Solutions as Green and Low Cost High Voltage Electrolytes for Aqueous Batteries was selected as an outstanding "hot article" by the editors, and, as a consequence, is made available as an open access paper for the upcoming months.
[07/2018] We are hosting a symposium on Recent Advances in Solving Stiff Phenomena at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics at Times Square in New York City.
[06/2018] We are hosting a workshop on Social Robots at the ACM PETRA Conference on Corfu, Greece.
[01/2018] Professor Michels participates as a panelist in the Salon Sophie Charlotte of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in January 2018 in Berlin.
[06/2018] We are organizing a workshop on Social Robots at the upcoming ACM PETRA Conference in June 2018 on Corfu, Greece. The abstract submission deadline is March 2, 2018.
[01/2018] Leonie Neuhäuser is giving a workshop for local school students on German culture and language.
[12/2017] We are organizing a symposium on Recent Advances in Solving Stiff Phenomena at the upcoming World Congress on Computational Mechanics in July 2018 in New York City, US-NY. The abstract submission deadline is January 15, 2018.
[12/2017] Professor Michels received the first Procter & Gamble Faculty Award for his contributions to the consumer goods industry.
[11/2017] Our work presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 in Bangkok on Interactive Wood Combustion for Botanical Tree Models is featured on EurekAlert! by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
[11/2017] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH Asia 2017 in Bangkok on Interactive Wood Combustion for Botanical Tree Models is featured in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer.
[10/2017] Professor Michels has been elected into AGYA at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
[10/2017] We established a new course on Fourier and Wavelet Theory (AMCS 394C) starting for the first time in the spring semester 2018 at KAUST.
[10/2017] Our work presented at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles on Stiffly Accurate Integration for Elastodynamic Problems is featured in UC News.
[09/2017] Professor Michels is giving a keynote at this year's symposium of the Max Planck Society in Berlin.
[07/2017] We received ACM SIGSAM's Distinguished Paper Award for our contribution on Algorithmic Linearizability of Ordinary Differential Equations.
[05/2017] Our work to be presented at SIGGRAPH 2017 in Los Angeles on Stiffly Accurate Integration for Elastodynamic Problems is featured in the conference's Technical Papers Trailer.
[04/2017] We are hosting together with our colleagues the KAUST Research Conference on Visual Computing this April on campus. Professor Michels will act as co-conference chair.
[02/2017] Kick-off of our KAUST-SdV student exchange program with the German National Merit Foundation under the patronage of the German Federal Foreign Office.
[12/2016] We are offering a course at SIGGRAPH Asia 2016 in Macau on Discrete Computational Mechanics for Stiff Phenomena.
[10/2016] We established a new course on Advanced Computational Physics (CS 290C) starting for the first time in the spring semester 2017 at KAUST.

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CALL FOR APPLICATION: Postdoctoral Researcher

The Computational Sciences Group is currently searching for a bright and enthusiastic postdoctoral researcher with expertise in numerical simulations. The researcher for this opening will work at KAUST to investigate and develop principled computational methods targeting simulation tasks in the fields of Visual Computing and Computer Graphics. Previous experience in these fields is a plus. The scope of the advertised position includes

publishing high impact work in order to build a substantial resume and strong international collaborations,
engaging with hand-picked KAUST researchers from all around the world,
mentoring and collaborating with KAUST graduate students as well as visiting students and researchers,
excellent total compensation, including accommodation, family health benefits, and a substantial salary,
living in a vibrant, multi-cultural campus town at the shores of the Red Sea.

Potential applicants should have

a doctoral degree with excellent academic credentials,
relevant research skills and experience in related fields demonstrated by high quality publications,
solid English communication skills (oral and written).

Applications are being accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled. To apply, please send your CV including a list of publications to Professor Michels (dominik.michels@kaust.edu.sa).

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