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CSE Students Achieve Top Honors at Huawei ICT Competition 2025–2026 Innovation Track

The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) Department at Qatar University is proud to announce the remarkable achievement of its students in the Huawei ICT Competition 2025–2026 – Innovation Track.

CSE teams delivered outstanding performance, demonstrating strong teamwork, confident presentations, and advanced technical expertise. Their success reflects not only their dedication and innovative mindset, but also the high-quality academic preparation and mentorship fostered within the department.

🏆Winning Teams:

🥇1st Place : Team Aber

Students: Abdelrahman Kotb, Yahya Abdulselam, and Aiman Alhetari

Instructor: Dr. Moutaz Saleh

🥈2nd Place: Team Vora

Students: Anas Rustom, Mazen Essam Soliman Assayed, and Huzayfa Khamis

Instructor: Eng. Abdulahi Hassen

The Huawei ICT Competition is a globally recognized platform that brings together talented students to design and implement innovative, AI-driven solutions to real-world challenges. The Innovation Track emphasizes creativity, technical excellence, and the ability to transform ideas into impactful technological applications.

We are especially proud that the winning teams will represent Qatar at the Regional Final Stage in March 2026, competing alongside teams from approximately 14 countries across the Middle East and Central Asia (ME&CA) region. This achievement marks a significant milestone on the path toward the Global Final Stage.

The CSE Department extends its sincere congratulations to all participating students and their dedicated instructors. We remain committed to empowering future ICT leaders and supporting initiatives that promote innovation, excellence, and meaningful global engagement.

CSE Students Achieve Top Honors at Huawei ICT Competition 2025–2026 – Innovation Track

CSE Students Secure First Place at Snoonu Hackathon 2026

A team of Computer Science students proudly represented the CSE community by winning first place at the inaugural Snoonu Hackathon in Qatar, a high-intensity innovation challenge that brought together university students and recent graduates from across the country. The winning team consisted of Mazen Elsayed, Mohamed Alfaiad, Hamza Moussa, and Mohamed Asad.

The hackathon focused on solving real operational and product-level challenges within the super-app ecosystem, under strict time constraints. During the competition, the team designed and implemented a real-time, map-based routing algorithm that supports multiple pickups and multiple drop-offs, significantly improving order grouping and dispatch efficiency to reduce both delivery time and operational cost. This achievement reflects the strong problem-solving skills, innovation mindset, and execution capabilities of CSE students when applied to real-world challenges.

The CSE department congratulates the team on this outstanding accomplishment and looks forward to seeing their continued success in future competitions and projects.

CS students won the first place at the inaugural Snoonu Hackathon in Qatar 2026

Computer Engineering Practicum Demo Day & Contest (4th Edition)

Our Computer Engineering students showcased their course project during the Practicum Demo Day on December 4th, where innovative Building Automation System (BAS) projects were demonstrated and evaluated as part of the 4th edition of the Computer Engineering Practicum Contest.

The event featured 21 female teams and 10 male teams presenting cost-effective and hardware-based smart building solutions. Through hands-on project work, students applied key engineering skills including soldering, PCB design, 3D printing, circuit integration, and system prototyping, translating theory into real-world smart building applications.

The jury panel included faculty members from multiple disciplines, including Dr. Ahmed Ahmed (Architecture Department), Eng. Amelle Bedair, and Eng. Farah El-Qawasma (Computer Science & Engineering Department), highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of the projects and their real-world relevance.

Female Contest Winners
🥇 1st Place: KHALIFA STADIUM by Ayah Tello, Amina Hamid, Rawan Alsati, and Raghad Abed

1st place winners-Females

🥈 2nd Place: HEALTHTECH SMART HOSPITAL by Alla Al-Meraikhi, Hoor Moustafa, Rawan Mohamed, and Noora Al-mansouri

2nd place winners- Females

🥉 3rd Place: TRIOFITNESS GYM by Alya Yousef, Shamma Al-Hajri, and Najd Al-Turki.

Male Contest Winners
🥇 1st Place: SMART GARAGE by Galal Ban Amr, Abdelaziz Alkathiri, and Abdelhafid Smatti

1st place winners- Males

🥈 2nd Place: AUTOMATED HOMESTEAD by Mohammed Alharbi, Jassim Fakhroo, and Taha Muthair

2nd place winners- Males

🥉 3rd Place: SYNAPSE TOWER by Faleh Al-Harami, Hamad Al Motawaa, Sulaiman Yousef, and Rufus John

3rd place winners- Males

👏 Congratulations to all participating students on their outstanding work, and sincere thanks to the jury members and course instructors, Eng. Naveed Nawaz and Eng. Leila Gastli, for organizing the event.

Special thanks to Prof. Uvais Qidwai and Prof. Elias Yaacoub for awarding the winners, and Prof. Amr Mohamed (Head of the Department) for the continued support and guidance.

Some of the projects presented

CSE SDP Contest Day Fall 2025

On December 2nd 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-SDP-Fall 2025 Contests Day  

CE Rank 1

Project title: RAWI: Museum Guide Robot 

Students: Sundus Al-Qadi, Aisha Al-Naimi, Reema Al Bouainain

Supervisor: Dr. Mohammed Al-Sada

CE Rank 2

Project title: Petriscope: Embryo Imaging System 

Students: Duaa Ahmad, Yusra Bashir, Khadija Ashfaq 

Supervisor: Prof. Uvais Qidwai

CE Rank 3

Project title: Wasel: An Innovative Smart School Bus System 

Students: Lolwa Taymour, Ghalya Al-Jobara, Lulwa Almalki, Wejdan Al-Marri 

Supervisor: Dr. Hela Chamkhia

 

CS Rank 1

Project title: Bussma | بصمة : Community Initiatives Management System

Students: Menatalla Abdulhamid, Maryam Alsheikh, Taleela Al-Muhannadi, Razan Alchikh

Supervisor: Prof. Saeed Salem

 

CS Rank 2

Project title: YAQEEN: Search Engine for Responses to Misconceptions of Islam

Students: Bashayer Al binali, Shama Al-Ahmed 

Supervisor: Prof. Tamer Elsayed

CS Rank 3

Project title: GuardLook: Robust Solution for Social Engineering Awareness and Email Security 

Students: Omar Amin, Ali Zair, Muhammad Shehryar Qureshi, Syed Subzwari

Supervisor: Dr. Mohammad Saleh

QU Students Win First Place at the AIX Summit Hackathon!

A talented team of Qatar University students, including two from our CSE department, has proudly won first place at the AIX Summit Hackathon, organized by Risin Ventures and sponsored by Ooredoo and Qatar Development Bank (QDB). The event was held at the Qatar Science & Technology Park (QSTP) and brought together top innovators to develop AI-driven solutions to real-world challenges.

The winning team, including Ahmed Khedr Elsheshtawy (First-Year Computer Science), Saalim Adesina (First-Year Computer Science), and Zaid Abubaker Al Samarie (Second-Year Medicine), developed an AI-powered application that automates the generation of due diligence reports for startups. The tool assesses the investment potential of emerging businesses by integrating modern web frameworks such as React and leveraging large language models (LLMs) like Google Gemini to analyze key financial and operational data.

This innovation aims to make investment analysis faster and more reliable, supporting investors and analysts in making data-driven decisions.

Congratulations to the team for representing Qatar University with excellence and innovation! 👏🎓

QU Students Win Award at QDB Hackathon at QSTP

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.

CSE students are awarded with first place in CENG Capstone Design Competition 2025- Best Prototype, Most Creative Design.

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.

CSE students are awarded with second place in CENG Capstone Design Competition 2025- Best Prototype, Most Creative Design.

 

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.

CSE students are awarded with third place in CENG Capstone Design Competition 2025- Best Prototype, Most Creative Design.

 

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. 

CSE students are awarded with first place in CENG Capstone Design Competition 2025- Best Marketable Design

 

Finally, the Dean’s Award for Services for the academic year 2025 was received by Prof. Junaid Qadir for Faculty Members Category.

Prof. Junaid Qadir received the Dean’s Award for Services for Faculty Member Category.
 
Congratulations to all of the awarded CSE members! We are very proud of all of you!