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Contact Information

Name Kilichbek Haydarov
Professional Title PhD Student in Computer Science, KAUST
Email kilichbek.haydarov@gmail.com
Website https://kilichbek.github.io/webpage/

Professional Summary

I build emotion-aware multimodal AI: models that understand and respond to human emotion across images, dialogue, speech, and brain signals. Research interests: multimodal learning, affective vision and language, generative models, and neuroscience + AI.

Experience

  • 2025 - 2025

    Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

    Teaching Instructor
    KAUST Academy
    • STEPs Program: Introduction to Python
  • 2023 - 2024

    Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

    Teaching Assistant
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Spring 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024
    • CS283 Deep Generative Models
    • CS326 Low-Resource Deep Learning
  • 2019 - 2020

    Seoul, South Korea

    Research Intern (Part-Time)
    Intelligent Media Lab
    • Anomaly Detection: studied anomalous behaviors in videos.
    • Energy Forecasting: assisted in building an energy forecasting pipeline for residential areas.
  • 2019 - 2019

    Seoul, South Korea

    Teaching Assistant
    Sejong University
    • Data Structures and Algorithms

Education

  • 2022 - Present

    Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

    PhD
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Computer Science
    • Supervisor: Prof. Mohamed Elhoseiny
    • Member of the Vision-CAIR group and KAUST NeuroAI
  • 2020 - 2021

    Thuwal, Saudi Arabia

    MS
    King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Computer Science
    • Thesis: “Towards Affective Vision and Language”
    • Committee: Mohamed Elhoseiny (advisor), Peter Wonka, Dominik L. Michels
  • 2016 - 2020

    Seoul, South Korea

    BS
    Sejong University
    Computer Science and Engineering

Publications

Services

  • Workshop co-organizer: 5th Workshop on Closing the Loop between Vision and Language (CLVL), ICCV 2023, Paris, France
  • Reviewer: ICCV 2023, CVPR 2023, NeurIPS 2025
  • Co-organizer: SAAI25 Factory, Hackathon on Art and AI for Saudi high-school students, KAUST, April 2025
  • Tutorial: using text-to-image generation models, SAAI21 Factory, Hackathon on Art and AI, KAUST, June 2021

Honors and Awards

  • 2025
    KAUST Dean's Award
    KAUST

    For academic achievements within the CS department.

  • 2023
    1st Prize, 2nd SAAI Factory Hackathon (Art + AI)
    SAAI Factory

    Our Art + AI project received the top prize.

  • 2022
    Top 15, Global AI Summit AI Artathon
    Global AI Summit, Riyadh

    Our work was showcased at the Global AI Summit and Dubai Expo.

  • 2021
    NeurIPS Workshop on ML for Creativity and Design
    NeurIPS 2021

    Our artworks on “AI constructing emotional experience from the text” were showcased.

  • 2020
    KAUST Fellowship
    KAUST

    Fully funded fellowship for the duration of graduate studies.

  • 2019
    2nd Runner-up, SW & AI Hackathon
    Sejong University

    Our team built a chatbot that assists students on the university campus.

  • 2019
    3rd Runner-up, SW Coding Competition
    Sejong University
  • 2019
    1st Runner-up, SW & AI Hackathon
    Sejong University

    Our team built a recommender system that helps students choose courses.

  • 2019
    National Program for Excellence in Software Scholarship
    Seoul, South Korea

    80% tuition fee waiver based on excellence in the CS program.

  • 2017
    Special Scholarship
    Sejong University

    40% tuition fee waiver for university achievement.

  • 2016
    Honours Scholarship (×4)
    Sejong University

    60–80% tuition fee waiver for top-3 academic performance in the CS department (2016–2019).

  • 2016
    Foreign Student Scholarship (×5)
    Sejong University

    60–80% tuition fee waiver based on academic performance (2016–2019).