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March 2024

Top honors for KAUST students at OMOUS-2024

1 min read · Fri, Mar 15 2024

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We are happy to share the achievement of KAUST students, Kerven Durdymyradov and Charles Edward Sexton, at the Open Mathematical Olympiad for University Students (OMOUS-2024) held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, from March 3-8, 2024. In the individual competition over 500 contestants from from Bulgary, China, Indonesia, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan competed, and more than 50 teams competed in the team competition. Charles Sexton won a bronze medal in the individual category and his team led by Kerven, won a silver medal in the team competition. Kerven is a Ph.D

November 2023

Kidney Matchmaking Receives Algorithm Boost

1 min read · Tue, Nov 14 2023

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Simulations that match patients with chronic kidney disease to suitable donors will enhance the efficacy of the new Saudi National Kidney Donor Exchange Program.

August 2023

November 2022

Decision Trees with Hypotheses

1 min read · Sun, Nov 20 2022

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New book Decision Trees with Hypotheses by Mohammad Azad, Igor Chikalov, Shahid Hussain, Mikhail Moshkov, and Beata Zielosko has been published online.

December 2021

Workshopping ways to revolutionize in-Kingdom kidney care

1 min read · Sun, Dec 19 2021

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The KAUST Saudi National Kidney Paired Donation Workshop, organized by Professor Michał Mańkowski with support from the KAUST CEMSE Division, brought together 12 of the Kingdom's top experts in kidney transplantation to discuss the future of this complex and highly important surgical procedure.

July 2021

Alumni Focus: Michal A. Mankowski

1 min read · Thu, Jul 29 2021

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KAUST Alumnus Michal Mankowski's first encounter with KAUST was in 2015 when he joined the university as a VSRP student. Then, in 2016, he started his Ph.D. program and defended it in the year 2020, and then he continued as a Pos tdoc under prof. Mikhail Moshkov. He worked on multi-objective optimization and applied operations research in the healthcare domain. Together with his PI, they published a book describing a novel framework on multi-objective optimization using dynamic programming (2021). Michal is joining Erasmus Univerys Rotterdam, Netherlands as an Assistant Professor of Operations

March 2021

First joint publication between KAUST and MBSC seeks to improve treatment options for chronic kidney disease in Saudi Arabia

1 min read · Tue, Mar 9 2021

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Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is among the most common causes of death in Saudi Arabia. According to the 2018 edition of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation’s annual Financing Global Health report, the prevalence of CKD among the Kingdom’s general population stands at 5.44% and accounts for a 4.04% mortality rate.

February 2021

New Book of Postdoc Michal Mankowski and Professor Mikhail Moshkov is published by Springer

1 min read · Tue, Feb 16 2021

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New book "Dynamic Programming Multi-Objective Combinatorial Optimization" by Michal Mankowski and Mikhail Moshkov is published by Springer.

March 2020

New book of Mikhail Moshkov "Comparative Analysis of Deterministic and Nondeterministic Decision Trees" is published by Springer

1 min read · Mon, Mar 16 2020

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Mikhail begun to write this book more than 30 years ago in Lobachevsky State University of Nizhni Novgorod, continued in University of Warsaw, University of Silesia in Katowice, and Stanford University, and finished last year in King Abdullah University of Science and Technology.

February 2020

April 2019

The First KAUST-MBSC Joint Workshop

1 min read · Sun, Apr 28 2019

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Our team has co-organized the first joint workshop between KAUST and Prince Mohammad Bin Salman College (MBSC). Presenters from both institutions will introduce their research projects in areas such as Game Theory, Operations Research, Finance, and Business & IT Operations. For more details see the full program.

May 2018

Our new book came out! Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining

1 min read · Fri, May 25 2018

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Our new book titled "Extensions of Dynamic Programming for Combinatorial Optimization and Data Mining " by AbouEisha, H., Amin, T., Chikalov, I., Hussain, S., Moshkov, M. has been published. About the book: "Dynamic programming is an efficient technique for solving optimization problems. It is based on breaking the initial problem down into simpler ones and solving these sub-problems, beginning with the simplest ones. A conventional dynamic programming algorithm returns an optimal object from a given set of objects. This book develops extensions of dynamic programming, enabling us to (i)

April 2018

PhD Defense | Mohammad Azad, April 10th 2018

1 min read · Tue, Apr 10 2018

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PhD defense of our colleague Mohammad Azad. Thesis title: Decision and Inhibitory Trees for Decision Tables with Many-valued Decisions. Decision trees are one of the most commonly used tools in decision analysis, knowledge representation, machine learning, etc., for its simplicity and interpretability. We consider an extension of dynamic programming approach to process the whole set of decision trees for the given decision table which was previously only attainable by brute-force algorithms. We study decision tables with many-valued decisions (each row may contain multiple decisions) because

January 2018

Michal's poster distinction award

1 min read · Mon, Jan 22 2018

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Our PhD Student, Michal Mankowski presented his work in collaboration with the Epidemiology Research Group in Organ Transplantation (Johns Hopkins Univ.) at the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) Winter Symposium. He received Poster of Distinction Awards and gave a soapbox presentation, a short proposal to save more lives through transplantation, on behalf of prof. Sommer Gentry. photo credits: https://twitter.com/ERGOT_JH/status/952574287155810304

June 2017

New paper in EJOR by M. Azad and M. Moshkov

1 min read · Sun, Jun 11 2017

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Our new article titled Multi-stage optimization of decision and inhibitory trees for decision tables with many-valued decisions by Mohammad Azad and Mikhail Moshkov has been accepted by European Journal of Operational Research.

April 2017

PhD Defense | Talha Amin, April 12th 2017

1 min read · Wed, Apr 12 2017

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PhD defense of our colleague Talha Amin. Thesis title: Design and Analysis of Decision Rules Via Dynamic Programming The areas of machine learning, data mining, and knowledge representation have many different formats used to represent information. Decision rules, amongst these formats, are the most expressive and easily-understood by humans. In this thesis, we use dynamic programming to design decision rules and analyze them. The use of dynamic programming allows us to work with decision rules in ways that were previously only possible for brute force methods. Our algorithms allow us to

March 2017

PhD Defense | Hassan AbouEisha, March 5th 2017

1 min read · Sun, Mar 5 2017

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PhD defense of our colleague Hassan AbouEisha. Thesis title: Optimization of Algorithms Using Extensions of Dynamic Programming During this presentation, we discuss questions related to the complexity of various important problems such as: multi-frontal solvers of hp-adaptive finite element method, sorting and majority. The use of dynamic programming as a viable tool to study optimal algorithms for these problems will be advocated. The main approach used to attack these problems is modeling classes of algorithms that may solve this problem using a discrete model of computation then defining

October 2016

Prof. Moshkov's keynote speech at Houston

1 min read · Thu, Oct 20 2016

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The 5rd International conference on Biometrics and Biostatistics, was held during October 20-21, 2016 at Houston, Texas, USA based on the theme “Exploring Advances in Biometrics & Biostatistics". Professor Moshkov gives a keynote speech titled: "Extensions of dynamic programming for machine learning and knowledge representation".

June 2016

PhD Defense | Shahid Hussain, June 22 2016

1 min read · Wed, Jun 22 2016

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Thesis title: Extensions of Dynamic Programming: Decision Trees, Combinatorial Optimization, and Data Mining This thesis is devoted to the development of extensions of dynamic programming to the study of decision trees. The considered extensions allow us to make multi-stage optimization of decision trees relative to a sequence of cost functions, to count the number of optimal trees, and to study relationships: cost vs cost and cost vs uncertainty for decision trees by construction of the set of Pareto-optimal points for the corresponding bi-criteria optimization problem. The applications

May 2016

PhD Research Proposal Defense | Hassan Abou Eisha, May 1st 2016

1 min read · Sun, May 1 2016

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Hassan successfully defended his PhD research proposal "Optimizing Algorithms using Extensions of Dynamic Programming". Congratulations! https://trees.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/aboueishah.aspx

April 2016

March 2016

Our paper considered best paper at MLDAS, Doha, Qatar | March 15 2016

1 min read · Tue, Mar 15 2016

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Our paper Restricted Multi-Pruning of Decision Trees by Mohammad Azad, Shahid Hussain, Igor Chikalov, and Mikhail Moshkov was considered best paper at MLDAS 2016 ( http://www.mldas.org/index.php) - Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium organized in Doha, Qatar by Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and by The Boeing Company.

May 2012

New book Three Approaches to Data Analysis

1 min read · Thu, May 31 2012

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In this book, the following three approaches to data analysis are presented; 1.) Test Theory, founded by Sergei V. Yablonskii (1924-1998); the first publications appeared in 1955 and 1958. 2.) Rough Sets, founded by Zdzisław I. Pawlak (1926-2006); the first publications appeared in 1981 and 1982. 3.) Logical Analysis of Data, founded by Peter L. Hammer (1936-2006); the first publications appeared in 1986 and 1988. See more about it