visual computing

Dominik L. Michels receives the first Procter & Gamble Faculty Award

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Dominik L. Michels, Computer Science and Mathematics faculty in the Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Science and Engineering Division (CEMSE) and head of the Computational Sciences Group within the Visual Computing Center (VCC), recently received the first Procter & Gamble (P&G) Faculty Award.

Mastering a prickly problem in ferrofluids

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Computer simulation accurately captures the beguiling motion of a liquid magnetic material.

Ferrofluid surface simulations go more than skin deep

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Computer models efficiently and accurately simulate the magnetic responses of ferrofluids by considering only the fluid’s surface.

Cloud simulations get a dose of realism

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A focus on the fundamental physics of cloud formation leads to highly realistic simulations of different types of clouds.

Wildfire simulation heats up

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Computational models capture the capricious behavior of forest fires.

Dominik L. Michels appointed Associate Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics

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KAUST faculty member Dominik L. Michels has recently been promoted to associate professor of computer science and applied mathematics.

Jorge Alejandro Amador Herrera

Research Interest His research interests include scientific and visual computing, numerical simulations, machine learning, and the modelling of natural phenomena. He works on physically-based simulations. Honors and Awards During his studies at UNAM, Alejandro has been awarded many times. In 2013, he received the UNAM Scholarship from the university. He was also awarded the Telmex Foundation Scholarship from 2013 to 2016, and the CONACYT Fellowship from 2017 to 2018. He graduated with summa cum laude in 2018. Alejandro has also received multiple awards from his participation in academic

Dominik L. Michels

Associate Professor, Computer Science
Professor Michels is a leading computer scientist who proactively designs strategies to face upcoming digitization challenges. His outstanding research has been recognized by the scientific community within and beyond KAUST.

Dmitry Lyakhov

Dmitry Lyakhov is a Research Scientist at the Visual Computing Center (VCC) in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), working with Professor Dominik Michels in the Computational Sciences Group (CSG). Education and Early Career Dmitry Lyakhov graduated from Belarusian State University with a master's degree in Theoretical Physics and, later on, a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He is also an alumnus of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus and visiting scholar of von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. In 2018, he received a Nanodegree in Machine Learning. Before joining KAUST