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CENG/CSE and CBE organized the Disruptive Technology Applications Stakeholders Workshop
In collaboration with Qatar Rail, the NPRP SupplyLedger project’s team, led by Prof. Abdelaziz Bouras from CSE, organized an Industrial Stakeholders Workshop at Qatar Rail headquarters. The workshop focused on the impact of Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, and other disruptive technologies impacting the industry and business sectors.
Welcoming speech was delivered by Dr. Khalid Kamal Naji, Dean of CENG at QU in the presence of H.E. Dr. Abdulla Bin Abdulaziz Turki Al Subaie, Minister of Municipality MD & CEO of Qatar Rail who inaugurated the event.
The workshop witnessed the presence of executives from large-scale organizations such as Dr. Mohammed Yousef Al-Mulla, Managing Director and CEO of Qatar Petrochemical Company “QAPCO”, and Eng. Ahmed AL Ansari, Senior Advisor for engineering management of Public Works Authority “Ashghal”. A keynote speech was delivered by Prof. Abdelaziz Bouras highlighting the current Industry 4.0 challenges and requirements from the research perspective, to better integrate those disruptive technologies.
Panel Discussion session gathering experts from industry (Mr. Basil Ayass, Education & Healthcare Lead at Google Cloud, Dr. Guillaume Alinier, Director of Research at Hamad Medical Corporation, and Mr. Mansour Al-Mahmoud, Head of Business Products at Qatar Energy) as well as from academia (Dr. Lotfi Belkhir, Chair of eco-entrepreneurship at McMaster University in Ontario/Canada) took place right after in a hybrid mode, and was followed by a large online audience. The panel addressed important questions and issues, such as “How is digital transformation taking place in your sector?”, “The specific technologies that are disrupting your sector”, “What are the challenges your sector is probably facing?”, “Is there any development or initiative in Qatar related to regulation with regards to disruptive technologies?”, “Which new competencies/skills/abilities are needed?”, and “how to fulfil them in the local context?”. Feedback was also given from the participants on the use of some of the current disruptive technologies (AI, Blockchains, 5G).
Project Investigators from the SupplyLedger project, Dr. Ibrahim Khalil from RMIT (Melbourne) and Prof. Belaid Aouni from QU College of Business, contributed to the discussions and highlighted the advancement of the project from the Blockchain implementation perspective.
The event was concluded by answering some selected questions queried by the audience. For more details, please visit https://www.supplyledger.qa/events/.
KINDI-CSE talks
The KINDI Center for Computing Research and the CSE department are organizing a series of Talks on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity where renowned keynote speakers are invited to discuss the latest trends and challenges, along with their latest research work and achievements in these areas.
| Title | Speaker | Link | Password | Announcement link | Date |
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Artificial Intelligence for Biometric Technologies and Systems |
Prof. Vincenzo Piuri |
2Mp3xCJS |
November 4, 2021 |
CSE Researchers Receive Awards in QU Annual Research Forum and Exhibition
Three researchers from our CSE department have received awards in QU Annual Research Forum and Exhibition 2021. The event brings together students, researchers and academics from the University’s colleges, research centers and institutions, in addition to partners and stakeholders, to assess, review and discuss QU’s research outputs and activities.
The device is developed as part of a collaborative research project titled “Smart assistive tools for people with visual impairments”. Visually impaired users can easily wear it on their head and utilize the device to get assistance for navigation, object recognition, obstacle detection, and text recognition especially in indoor areas. The developed system can provide real-time guidance and notification to the user.
Moreover, Nandhini Subramanian (Research Assistant), Jayakanth Kunhoth (PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant), Prof. Somaya Al Maadeed (Supervisor and Lead PI of the project), and Prof. Ahmed Bouridane (Professor at University of Sharjah, UAE) won the Best Research Poster Award (Faculty and PostDoc Category) for the poster titled “Stego-eHealth: An eHealth System for Secured Transfer of Medical Images Using Image Steganography”.
The work aims to secure the medical data of the patients using image steganography when transferring through untrusted channels. At the sending end, the medical images are embedded in a normal natural scene image and at the receiving end the embedded medical image is extracted for easy access. This work was part of QNRF NPRP11S-0113- 180276 project led by Prof. Somaya.
Congratulations to all the winners!
CSE Faculty Receives QU Research Excellence Award
Prof. Somaya Al-Maadeed has been granted the QU Research Excellence Award in Sciences & Engineering. The awards is were presented at the Qatar University Annual Research Forum & Exhibition 2021 by Dr. Hassan Al-Derham, the president of Qatar University.
The Research Excellence Award was established to publicly recognize, encourage, and promote the sustained research of QU faculty members and researchers that has significant impact on society, industry, and related disciplines, meeting the vision and mission of the University. The award in 2021 is granted to faculty members and researchers based on their research during the past 5 years, i.e., since January 2016 to present.
Congratulations Dr. Somaya!
A new patent received by CSE faculty
Inventors from Qatar University: Dr Armstrong Nhlabatsi, Eng. Rachael Fernandez, Eng. Alaa Hussein, Dr. Noora Fetais, and Dr Khaled Khan received a new patent titled: “Threat-Specific Security Risk Evaluation for Networked Systems”.
Existing security risk evaluation approaches do not consider specific security requirements of individual organizations in the security risk evaluation. This patent has defined a threat-specific risk evaluation approach that uses various security attributes of the cloud as well as the organization-specific security requirements. The patented approach allows a security administrator of the cloud provider to make fine-grained decisions for selecting mitigation strategies in order to protect the outsourced computing assets of individual organizations based on their specific security needs against specific threats. On the other hand, the proposed approach enables security administrators to compute a range of more effective organization-specific countermeasures with respect to the importance of security requirements and threats. The experimental evaluation results demonstrate that effective security solutions vary due to specific threats prioritized by different organizations for an application in the cloud. Further, the proposed approach is not limited to only the cloud-based systems, but can easily be adopted to other networked systems. We have also developed a software tool to support the proposed approach. This patented approach is an improved technique for monitoring the security of network. The team hopes this invention will make evaluation of network security risk more effective and robust.
Congratulations to the patent team!
Qatar Seeds for the Future 2021
Under the endorsement of Qatar Communication Regulatory Authority, Huawei Technologies organized its 4th edition of “Seeds for the Future” program over 8-day online training from 23 to 30 August 2021 for Qatar top students to obtain valuable cutting-edge ICT knowledge developed by Huawei’s Headquarters. The program offered a rich experience involving technology courses including 5G, cloud computing, AI, IoT, leadership course, and participation in “Tech4Good” group project.
This year 31 students from QU, HBKU, and CCQ have participated in the program and so proudly QU students represented by CSE department have achieved the highest number of distributed awards. Following is the complete list of our CSE-QU student winners for each award category:
Best Tech4Good Project: Abhigyan Kishor, Fatemeh Ahmadizdeh, Ziad Abdelazim Sabry Abdelazim, Ifran Ahmed Rafi, Kulsum Kader, Noof Mohammed Ali Hassan Qassmi, Sofia Basha
Daily Best Student: Moslem Al Qawasmi, MahnoorAkhund, ZainehAbughazzah
Best Team Leader: Kulsum Kader
Best Performance: Amira Radwan Menisy Abdalla, Fatma Elnahas
Social Media: Moslem Al Qawasmi
Top 5 Students: Islam Hamdi, Sofia Basha
Big congratulations for all our wining students and wishing them the bright future in their study and beyond!