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Faculty News: Congratulations Prof. Gary Amy and Prof. TorOve Leiknes

KAUST · Dec 1

Professor Gary Amy will become KAUST's first Emeritus Professor on July 1, 2014, after serving as a founding faculty member and director of the Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC). Professor TorOve Leiknes has been named Interim Director of the WDRC, effective June 15, 2014, bringing expertise in membrane technology and wastewater treatment. Leiknes's international network will support the WDRC's global presence in water research. Why it matters: This transition highlights KAUST's ongoing commitment to water research and leadership in sustainable technologies.

From Individual to Society: Social Simulation Driven by LLM-based Agent

MBZUAI · Invalid Date

Fudan University's Zhongyu Wei presented research on social simulation driven by LLMs, covering individual and large-scale social movement simulation. Wei directs the Data Intelligence and Social Computing Lab (Fudan DISC) and has published extensively on multimodal large models and social computing. His work includes the Volcano multimodal model, DISC-MedLLM, and ElectionSim. Why it matters: Using LLMs for social simulation could provide new tools for understanding and potentially predicting social dynamics in the Arab world.