data science

2018 Workshop on Statistics and Data Science

Nov 12, 08:30 - Nov 15, 17:00

Auditorium 0215 between Buildings 4 & 5

data science high dimensional statistics modeling biological processes physical processes

The Statistics Program at KAUST is proud to host the 2018 Workshop on Statistics and Data Science. This workshop gathers the leading experts on statistical data science to discuss the current needs, challenges and opportunities of modeling massive and high dimensional data, predicting complex biological and physical processes. The workshop will run from November 12-14. Talks and posters presentations will take place in Auditorium 0215 (between Buildings 4 & 5). View Workshop's Agenda.

The KAUST 2022 Workshop on Statistics

Oct 31, 09:00 - Nov 3, 17:00

B2 B3 A0215

statistics data science big data modeling complex data

The workshop will cover current trends in statistics and the statistical modeling of big and complex data. Over four days, it will have talks by leading experts as well as two poster sessions where students and postdocs will present their work. All talks will be given Auditorium 0215, between Buildings 2 and 3 at KAUST. Speakers Aritz Adin (Public University of Navarre) Ahmadou Alioum (Bordeaux School of Public Health) Denis Allard (INRAE) Vera Baladandayupathani (University of Michigan) Emily Hector (North Carolina State University) Eduardo Garcia Portugues (Carlos III University of Madrid)

Raphaël Huser

Associate Professor, Statistics

Statistics of extremes extreme-value theory spatio-temporal statistics data science machine learning copulas Environmental Statistics geostatistics applications to finance applications to neuroscience

Professor Huser develops novel statistical methodology and machine learning solutions to model and predict extreme events in various applications ranging from climate and earth sciences to finance and neuroscience.

Noura Alotaibi

Ph.D. Student, Statistics

Statistics of extremes spatial statistics data science

Noura Alotaibi is a Ph.D. candidate in the Extreme Statistics Research Group (XSTAT) under the supervision of Professor Raphaël Huser. Before joining KAUST, Noura obtained an MSc. degree in statistics from Ohio University, United States. Research interests Noura Alotaibi's research interests focus on Statistics of extremes and applications.