Highlights

Awards, recognition, projects, professional service, and more.

Awards and Recognition

LOD 2022 — Best Paper Special Mention
"Source Attribution and Leak Quantification for Methane Emissions", 8th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science.
Sep 2022
Springer
Microsoft Patent Cubes (3)
Awarded by Microsoft for my three published patent applications.
2021–2022
Patent applications
Microsoft Global Hackathon — 1st place, Hack for Space; 2nd place, Hack for Sustainability Executive Challenge
Oct 2021
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SEG Machine Learning Challenge — 2nd place
With my team at Microsoft, using the open-source seismic-deeplearning library I helped build on my earlier facies benchmark code. Sponsored by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) and Chevron.
Oct 2020
Challenge
Georgia Tech CSIP Outstanding Research Award
Center for Signal and Information Processing, Georgia Institute of Technology.
Dec 2018
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B.S. with First Honors, King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM)
KFUPM's highest graduation honor. Awarded a fully funded KFUPM scholarship for the M.S. and Ph.D.
2011
KFUPM

Service

IEEE ICIP 2020 — Area Chair, Machine Learning and Computer Vision
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing.
2020
ICIP 2020
Journal and conference reviewer
Regular reviewer for journals including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Neural Computing and Applications, and SEG's Interpretation, and conferences including the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), and the IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP).
2014–2020