2019-01-29: Gave a one-hour talk on Pointwise CNNs in an IVUL's group meeting
2018-12-18: Gave a one-hour talk on Scan2Mesh in an IVUL's group meeting
2018-12-13: Passed the qualifying exam for the Computer Science PhD program
2018-10-31: One oral paper (VQA models' robustness) accepted to AAAI19
2018-10-02: Gave a two-hour talk on Capsule Networks in an IVUL's group meeting
2018-08-08: Volunteered as an orientation leader to help new KAUST students
2018-08-06: Gave a two-hour hands-on PyTorch Tutorial in an IVUL's group meeting
2018-07-31: Volunteered to manage and be in charge of the IVUL's website
2018-06-18: Attended CVPR18 to present an oral paper with Adel Bibi
2018-06-10: Started my PhD degree at KAUST with Bernard Ghanem
2018-05-28: A VQA paper was accepted to the Visual Dialog Workshop in CVPR18
2018-04-12: Successfully defended my Master’s thesis in front of the committee
2018-03-14: Submitted a paper (DNNs' Robustness) to ECCV18 which was rejected
2018-03-06: One oral paper (Gaussian Network Moments) accepted to CVPR18
2018-01-28: Became the TA for the computer vision course by Bernard Ghanem
2017-12-15: Graduated from KAUST with an MSc in Computer Science
2017-06-22: Gave a talk on Understanding DNNs in an IVUL's group meeting
2017-05-29: One paper (VQABQ) accepted to the 2nd VQA workshop in CVPR17
2017-05-02: Began using Shaheen II, the supercomputer, for the 2nd VQA challenge
2017-03-23: Gave a two-hour talk on Transfer Learning in an IVUL's group meeting
2017-03-17: Submitted one paper (VQABQ) to ICCV17 which was later rejected
2017-01-07: Attended the Winter Enrichment Program WEP 2017 at KAUST
2016-11-03: Completed the Coursera-Stanford course on Machine Learning
2016-08-25: Volunteered for the Back to School Project in Thuwal and Qadimah
2016-08-21: Started my Master's degree at KAUST and joined IVUL's research group
Background
PhD Student; Computer Science (Computer Vision). Pursuing a PhD at KAUST, aiming to advance artificial intelligence by understanding deep neural networks. Part of the Image and Video Understanding Laboratory (IVUL) in the Visual Computing Center (VCC), advised by Bernard Ghanem. Received an MSc in Computer Science from KAUST and a BSc in Software Engineering from KFUPM. A curious scholar with a passion for learning, eager to understand the world and be at the forefront of the unknown.