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KAUST postdoctoral fellow Carolina Euán received the Sylvia Esterby Presentation Award from the International Environmentrics Society (TIES) for her talk on a spatio-temporal model applied to drought data in Mexico. The research, conducted with KAUST Associate Professor Ying Sun, focuses on modeling dependence between processes observed in two categories, such as dry or rainy days. Euán joined KAUST in 2016 after completing her Ph.D. in statistics from the Research Center in Mathematics (CIMAT), Guanajuato, Mexico. Why it matters: This award recognizes the quality of environmental statistics research being conducted at KAUST and its applicability to understanding complex environmental phenomena in the region and beyond.
KAUST · Environmental Statistics · Drought · Spatio-temporal model · Mexico
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KAUST Ph.D. student Manal Al-Qahtani won a best poster presentation award. The award was presented in the late summer of 2016. The announcement was made on the KAUST website. Why it matters: Showcases the achievements and talent within KAUST's Ph.D. program.
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KAUST alumnus Jagdish Chandra Vyas (Ph.D. '17) received a Student Presentation Award at the Seismological Society of America (SSA) Annual Meeting for his poster "Mach Wave Coherence in the Presence of Source and Medium Heterogeneity." Vyas's Ph.D. research at KAUST, under the direction of Professor Martin Mai, focused on analyzing the effects of rupture complexity and heterogeneities in Earth structure on near-source ground motions. He is currently a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Why it matters: This award recognizes the high-caliber research being conducted at KAUST and its impact on the field of seismology.
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KAUST Ph.D. student Ghulam Qadir received a best poster award at the GRASPA 2019 conference in Italy. The winning poster, titled "Estimation of Spatial Deformation for Non-stationary Processes via Variogram Alignment," was based on Qadir's Ph.D. research project. The research focuses on developing covariance models for multivariate nonstationary random fields with applications to environmental data. Why it matters: This award recognizes KAUST's contribution to environmental statistics and highlights the university's commitment to advancing research in this area.
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KAUST Ph.D. student Sheikha Alardhi won the sustainable energy and fuels poster award at the 2017 Spring Meeting and Exhibit of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) in Strasbourg, France. Alardhi's poster was titled "Ab initio Assessment of Bi1-xRExCuOS (RE=La, Gd, Y, Lu) Solid Solution for Water Splitting". Her poster came in first place among 77 student and postdoctoral fellow posters. Why it matters: This award recognizes promising research in sustainable energy and highlights KAUST's contributions to the field.