Bernard Ghanem

Professor of ECE and CS

Chair/Director of Center of Excellence in Generative AI (GenAI)

Deputy Director of AI Initiative (former)

PI of Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL)

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Al Khawarizmi Building (Bldg 1), Room 2125

Thuwal 23955-6900, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

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I am currently a Professor of ECE and CS at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) and Chair/Director of the Center of Excellence in Generative AI (GenAI). I lead the Image and Video Understanding Lab (IVUL) at KAUST. My research interests are broadly in computer vision and machine learning broadly, and specifically in large-scale video understanding, 3D understanding, and foundations of machine learning. 


I was a graduate research assistant at the Computer Vision and Robotics Lab (CVRL) at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. My advisor was Professor Narendra Ahuja, who heads CVRL. My PhD work focused on modeling dynamic textures from video for the purpose of non-trivial synthesis, recognition, compression, extraction, and activity recognition. While I was doing my PhD, I worked on other things too, including efficient optimization schemes (e.g. in normalized graph cuts), sparse representation and dictionary learning, and ways of using human perceptual information in computer vision applications.


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