Dr. Khurom Kiyani
I am a senior research fellow currently working at the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas at the Ecole Polytechnique, and as an Associate Fellow (visiting scientist) at the University of Warwick. Much of my current research focuses on statistical signal processing and data analysis of large complex data sets to shed light on the workings of dynamical systems both in the natural and social setting.
My work is interdisciplinary and the four areas of research that I currently focus on are (see research themes for more details):
- Astrophysical plasma turbulence
- The investigation of anisotropic astrophysical plasma turbulence from multispacecraft, multi-instrument observations in the near-Earth solar wind. The transition from kinetic to fluid descriptions of collisionless plasmas through Hall-magnetohydrodynamics;
- Human Crowd dynamics
- Hardware accelerated optical flow, multiple camera stereo vision, data fusion and novel computer vision algorithms for the study of densely populated human crowd dynamics;
- Statistical data analysis
- Scale-invariant stochastic processes. Stationarity testing and dealing with non-stationary signals. Wavelet methods; especially the Discrete Wavelet Transform and it's variants (Wavelet Packet and Undecimated/Stationary translation-invariant Wavelet Transforms).
- Econometrics and scaling laws
- Statistical scale-invariance and scaling laws for the study of robust stylised facts in highly non-Gaussian data sets from high-frequency foreign exchange markets.
Recent published articles
- Khurom H. Kiyani, Kareem T. Osman and Sandra C. Chapman, Dissipation and heating in solar wind turbulence: from the macro to the micro and back again, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. 373 20140155 (2015) -- article link
- R. Meyrand, K. H. Kiyani and S. Galtier, Weak Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence and Intermittency, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 770 R1 (2015). Cover article -- article link, arXiv preprint link
- Emmanuel Aldea and Khurom H. Kiyani, Hybrid Focal Stereo Networks for Pattern Analysis in Homogeneous Scenes, in Computer Vision - ACCV 2014 Workshops, pp. 695-710, Springer International Publishing (2014) -- article link, arXiv preprint link
- Emanuel Aldea, Davide Marastoni, and Khurom H. Kiyani, Spatio-Temporal Consistency for Head Detection in High-Density Scenes, In Computer Vision-ACCV 2014 Workshops, pp. 665-679, Springer International Publishing (2014) -- article link, preprint link
- K. T. Osman, K. H. Kiyani, S. C. Chapman, B. Hnat, Anisotropic Intermittency of Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Astrophys. J. Lett. 783:L27 (2014) -- article link, arXiv preprint link
- K. T. Osman, W. H. Matthaeus, K. H. Kiyani, B. Hnat, and S. C. Chapman, Proton Kinetic Effects and Turbulent Energy Cascade Rate in the Solar Wind, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 201101 (2013) -- article link, arXiv preprint link
- K. H. Kiyani, S. C. Chapman, F. Sahraoui, B. Hnat, O. Fauvarque, and Yu. V. Khotyaintsev, Enhanced magnetic compressibility and isotropic scale invariance at sub-ion Larmor scales in solar wind turbulence, Astrophysical Journal 763 (10), (2013) -- article link, arXiv preprint link
Contact details
Address:
Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
Ecole Polytechnique
Palaiseau
France
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Recent news
Theme issue of Royal Society Philosophical Transactions A
Dissipation and heating in solar wind turbulence
Edited by: Khurom H. Kiyani, Kareem T. Osman & Sandra C. Chapman
May 2015, Volume 373, Issue 2041
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Front cover article for the Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Weak magnetohydrodynamic turbulence and intermittency
Authors: R. Meyrand, K. H. Kiyani and S. Galtier
May 2015, Volume 770, R1
