CSE faculties and students awarded at CENG 2025 End of Year Event
The CSE faculties and students have proudly received several awards in several competitions at the College of Engineering End of Year event that was held on May 26, 2025.
The graduation projects competition included two categories: Best Prototype Most Creative Design, and Best Marketable Design. The first place in the Best Prototype Most Creative Design category was awarded to the project titled “Nusmi3uk: An Arabic sign language system” from the Computer Science program. This project was developed by the students Fatema Elzahraa Elrotel, Hams Gelban, Rouaa Naim, and Sara Said under the supervision of Dr. Mohammad Saleh.
The second place in the same Best Prototype Most Creative Design category was awarded to the project titled “Prosthetic Arm with Neural Interface” from the Computer Engineering program. This project was developed by the students Amnath Abdeen, Sifna Nasar, Vasiliki Maria Gerokosta, and Yomna Mohamed under the supervision of Dr. Loay Ismail.
The third place in the same Best Prototype Most Creative Design category was awarded to the project titled “Transforming Hand Rehabilitation: The Development of Soft Actuators, Extended Reality (XR) Environments, and Doctor-Patient Interaction Platform” that was a multidisciplinary senior design project. This project was developed by the students Fatma Elbadrawy, Ferial Marzouk, Ekram Omar, and Lama Albanna from Computer Science Program, in addition to Noor Bahzad, Asma Al-Sadi, Haya Al-Kaabi, and Deema Al-Jabir from industrial and systems engineering. The project is supervised by Dr. Osama Halabi, Dr. Faisal Al-Jaber, and Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada.
In the Best Marketable Design category, the first place was awarded to project titled “RESCUE: Radar-based Emergency Swarm for Critical Under-rubble Estimation”. The team included the students Jeham Al-Kuwari, Sultan Al-Harami, Turki Al-Ahzam, and Mohammed Al-Sada from Computer Engineering Program. The project is supervised by Prof. Amr Mohamed.
Finally, the Dean’s Award for Services for the academic year 2025 was received by Prof. Junaid Qadir for Faculty Members Category.
CSE PhD Student and Team Win First Place at ICMHI 2025 for Surgical Gesture Recognition Research
Dehlela Shabir, a PhD student at the CSE, Prof. Khaled Shaban, and Dr. Nikhil Navkar from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) have been awarded the first place in the student essay competition – PhD session, for their paper titled “Deep Learning-Based Gesture Recognition for Enhanced Laparoscopic Suturing Skill Evaluation and Training” at the 9th International Conference on Medical and Health Informatics (ICMHI 2025), held in Kyoto, Japan, from May 16-18, 2025.
ICMHI is an international platform for scientists, engineers, and technologists to showcase innovations in medical and health informatics, with topics ranging from biomedical data mining and medical image processing to cloud computing and personalized treatment. The paper is part of an ARG-awarded project, developed in collaboration with the Department of Surgery at HMC. The project focuses on improving skill acquisition in laparoscopic surgeries through automated gesture recognition using deep learning.
The team is working on several tasks aimed at advancing automation in surgical education and practice, including robotic minimally invasive surgery, mixed reality training, and the emerging concept of a surgical metaverse.
CSE SDP Contest Day 2025
On May 6th 2025, the highly anticipated senior project presentations took place at the state-of-the-art new engineering building H07. These remarkable projects, the culmination of tireless efforts by talented students, were subjected to rigorous evaluation by examiners from the CSE department. After careful deliberation, outstanding projects from each program, Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE), emerged victorious. Exceptional teams of those winners will be chosen to proudly represent our department in the upcoming college contest. We eagerly anticipate the success that awaits our representatives as they compete at the college level, confident in their abilities, to make our department proud once again.
Winning Projects in CSE-SDP23 Contests Day
CE Rank 1
Project title: Prosthetic Arm with Neural Interface Project
Students: Fathima Amnath Abdeen, Fathima Sifna Nasar, Vasiliki Maria Gerokosta, and Yomna Mohamed.
Supervisor: Dr. Loay Ismail
https://youtu.be/JHST3RjuddQ?si=6PGYPgJSmk6IR-sz
CE Rank 2
Project title: Flood Detection System in Tunnels
Students: Saqer Almurikhi, Osama Abdelaziz, Fawaz Al-Soufi , and Rashid Alyafei
Supervisor: Prof. Elias Yaacoub.
https://youtu.be/vcikOIaNsf0?si=gGQJ26aR0Aa6_HrR
CE Rank 3
Project title: RESCUE: Radar-based Emergency Swarm for Critical Under-rubble Estimation
Students: Jeham Al-Kuwari , Sultan Al-Harami, Turki Al-Ahzam , and Mohammed Al-Sada
Supervisor: Prof. Amr Mohammed
https://youtu.be/9RumqAZ3ZIE?si=nbu_crTaCJHgwdoU
CS Rank 1
Project title: Nusmi3uk: An Arabic sign language system
Students: FatemaElzahraa Elrotel , Hams Gelban, Rouaa Naim, and Sara Said
Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Saleh
https://youtu.be/GsrZH-9SL_c?si=8dZ9UFo1X1gWv3M7
CS Rank 2
Project title: JerboLab: An Educational Standalone Self-Hosted Home Lab for Hands-On Learning and Development
Students: Mohamed Salih, Abdollah Kandrani Abdulla Al-malki, and Sultan Al-Saad
Supervisor: Dr. Moutaz Saleh
https://youtu.be/MMNVCxRqDXE?si=snuKyRRaHtQ-MM8O
CS Rank 3
Project title: FitMate – Your Partner in Prime”.
Students: Shatha Alhazbi , Sharifa Al-Ansari, Shamaim Hamid, and Fatma Almohanadi
Supervisor: Prof. Saeed Salem
https://youtu.be/682FWHcVia0?si=V8W4ArdNnjJAPMlv
CSE Team Shines at Innovators in Education with AI-Powered Project “Faheem”
A team from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering earned the first place at the “Innovators in Education” event, organized by the College of Education in partnership with the Colleges of Engineering and Business at Qatar University, and proudly sponsored by ExxonMobil.
The award-winning team, comprising Dr. Saleh Alhazbi and senior students Marwan Sayed and Osama Hardan, presented their groundbreaking project titled “Faheem: An AI-Powered Platform to Learn Coding.”
Faheem is a smart educational platform that transforms the way students learn programming by offering an engaging and personalized experience. It includes concise instructional videos, automatically generated quizzes, and an AI-powered chatbot that interacts with learners in natural language. The platform also provides hands-on coding exercises, step-by-step guidance, performance evaluation, and adaptive feedback tailored to each student’s level—creating a fully immersive and individualized learning journey.
Warm congratulations to the team on this remarkable accomplishment!
