Bayan Abusalameh

The Earth, Healing & Climate

Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:00:00 +0000

March 2026

This month felt different. We gathered under the theme of the Earth — its healing, its crises, and our place within it. Sacred seasons sat side by side: Bahá’í Ayyam I Há, Ramadan, Women’s Month, and Earth Month. All of it together created something that felt quietly significant — a reminder that care for each other and care for the world are not separate things.

About This Gathering

The Apartment Café is a women-centric community space designed to feel warm, familiar, and welcoming — just like being invited into someone’s living room. Each month, we set up a shared table with baked goods and drinks contributed by the women attending. Everyone brings something small — whether homemade or picked up along the way — and together we create a relaxed, café-style atmosphere. We pour coffee, make a plate, settle in, and talk.

Awards

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Fellowships

Amelia Earhart Fellowship (2024/25), Singapore
Faculty for the Future (2024/25 & 2025/26), Singapore
2048 Fellowship X Saint Levant (2022/23), London, UK
Chevening Scholarship (2020/21), London, UK

Awards

Speak Out for Engineering – Winner (IMechE, 2018)
Hult Prize Palestine Winner (2017)
Falling Walls Speaker Award (2017)

CV

Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

bayanabusalameh@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/bayanabusalameh · github.com/Bees996

Education

Harvard University — Cambridge, USA (Aug. 2025) NSF-IAIFI Summer School and Workshop

National University of Singapore — Singapore (Aug. 2024 – Present) PhD, Mechanical Engineering. Thesis: Identification of Nonlinear Dynamics using ML.

Imperial College London — London, UK (May 2022 – Sep. 2024) PhD (research transfer), Mechanical Engineering.

Queen Mary University of London — London, UK (Sep. 2020 – Aug. 2021) MSc Advanced Mechanical Engineering, Distinction (CGPA: 4.0/4.0). Thesis: 1U CubeSat Design.

MathExLab Internal Seminar

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0000

Internal Seminar Series — MathExLab

Interpretable AI for Nonlinear Structural Dynamics and a Benchmark for Nonlinear Mode Interaction

In this internal seminar, I presented my ongoing research on interpretable AI for nonlinear structural dynamics and benchmark design for nonlinear mode interaction.

Seminar Details


Speaker	Bayan Abusalameh
Role	PhD Student, MathExLab
Date	24 February 2026
Time	2:00 pm (SGT)

Abstract

I introduced a large controlled dataset for detecting nonlinearities in vibrating structures directly from raw time-series signals, together with a post-hoc interpretability pipeline based on Integrated Gradients, DeepLIFT, GradientSHAP, and DeepSHAP, as well as new quantitative metrics for testing attribution fidelity.

The Art of Relating: Dating, Love & The Self

Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:00:00 +0000

February 2026

February often turns our attention outward to romance. This month, we created a safe space to turn inward — and to discuss the reality of our hearts.

About This Gathering

The Apartment Café is a women-centric community space designed to feel warm, familiar, and welcoming — like being invited into someone’s living room. Each month, we gather around a shared table with baked goods and drinks contributed by the women attending. Whether homemade or picked up along the way, each small offering helps create a relaxed, café-style atmosphere where we pour coffee, make a plate, settle in, and talk.

Intentions & Sustainable Habits

Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:00:00 +0000

January 2026

The Apartment Café is back. After the holiday quiet, we returned to the table — and the room was full. There is something about January that invites honesty: about where we’ve been, where we want to go, and what we’re actually willing to carry forward.

This month we opened the space not only to women, but to allies as well. The conversation was richer for it.

About This Gathering

The Apartment Café is a women-centric community space designed to feel warm, familiar, and welcoming — just like being invited into someone’s living room. Each month, we set up a shared table with baked goods and drinks contributed by the people attending. Everyone brings something small — whether homemade or picked up along the way — and together we create a relaxed, café-style atmosphere. We pour coffee, make a plate, settle in, and talk.

Women's Health

Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:00:00 +0000

December

This month I shook things up a little. Our wonderful co-host Dian hosted the session at the Mandala Club Singapore — a beautiful change of setting that gave the afternoon a special feeling.

I made a card game with questions designed to prompt women to reflect on what they actually know about their own health. Each card came with information to go alongside it, so the session was both grounded and light — informative without being heavy. We moved through topics like bone density, muscle mass and growth in women, PCOS, endometriosis, and menopause. Questions that many of us had never thought to ask out loud, answered together.

Spirituality and Career

Sat, 08 Nov 2025 12:00:00 +0000

About This Gathering

Benchmarking Structural Nonlinearities with Interpretable Deep Learning

Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

By Bayan Abusalameh

TL;DR.

Linear oscillators are simple and elegant: each mode evolves independently, superposition holds, and responses remain fully predictable. Once nonlinearities enter—whether clearance, Coulomb friction, cubic stiffness (hardening or softening), or quadratic damping—the story changes. Resonances shift, signals distort, and energy begins to leak and exchange in unexpected ways.

Our benchmark captures this transition by generating controlled SDOF simulations that span both linear and nonlinear regimes, injecting realistic noise, and labeling each sample automatically. On top of this, we train neural networks and evaluate interpretability maps to reveal not only what the model predicts, but also why.

From Decoupled Linear Modes to Nonlinear Mode Interaction

Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Why superposition breaks, energy starts to slosh, and what to look for in data

TL;DR. In the linear regime, each mode is an independent damped oscillator—clean, decoupled, and predictable. As amplitudes grow (or when damping/forcing aren’t “nice”), cross terms re-couple the modal equations. Near internal resonance (e.g., 1:1, 2:1, 3:1 ratios), those cross terms become near-resonant drives, and you see energy exchange, sidebands, and new frequencies. That’s “mode interaction.” Our benchmark builds controlled simulations that span both regimes and labels interaction strength automatically.

IAIFI 2025 Summer School & Workshop — Harvard University

Mon, 04 Aug 2025 12:00:00 +0000

A Long Overdue Post

This summer, I had the incredible opportunity to participate in the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions (IAIFI) Summer School and Workshop at Harvard University — an experience that was as intense as it was inspiring.

Summer School

The summer school (August 4–8, 2025) was a deep dive into cutting-edge topics at the intersection of AI and physics, with lectures from world-class researchers:

Pali 2025 — Talks in Palestine

Sat, 10 May 2025 12:00:00 +0000

Honoured and Inspired: Meeting the Next Generation of STEM Trailblazers

During my trip to Palestine in May 2025, a few remarkable students reached out to ask if I would be willing to give some talks. What followed became one of the most rewarding and energizing experiences of my professional life.

Over just a few days, I had the absolute honour — and joy — of meeting some of the most inspiring young minds I’ve encountered. From brilliant scientists to future engineers, from passionate high schoolers to rising academic leaders, the experience left me both humbled and filled with hope.

Hello World

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +0000

This is my first post!

Test

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000

This is a test post.

WCCM 2024 — Vancouver, Canada

Sun, 21 Jul 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Wrapping up WCCM 2024 in Vancouver, Canada

The World Congress in Computational Mechanics (WCCM) 2024 was an incredible experience filled with groundbreaking research and inspiring discussions.

Short Course — Scientific Machine Learning

I had the privilege of assisting Dr. Gianmarco Mengaldo in his short course titled “Scientific Machine Learning: Application to Computational Mechanics.” Dr. Mengaldo explored the various applications of interpretable AI in engineering and weather, providing invaluable insights.

Plenary Sessions

I was particularly delighted to attend several impactful plenaries, including: