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Invitation to Seminar: Towards Secure and Privacy-Preserving Smart Power Grid
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CSE Student Won in Huawei ICT Competition 2022
Congratulations to the Qatari team who managed to win the “Outstanding Performance Award” in the regional Final of the Huawei ICT competition (Middle East) that was held in Oman from 20th to 22nd of December. The team consists of three students: Hassan Khan from our CSE department at QU, and two other students from HBKU and CCQ
The Huawei ICT competition aimed at nurturing ICT talents to contribute towards preparing the next generation of ICT leaders for the digital economy. This year’s competition featured 15 teams representing 11 countries across the Middle East and Central Asia. A total of 45 students competed in the finals from an initial entry of 19,231 students from 472 universities and colleges across the region.
Additionally, Qatar University received the award of “Excellent Academy” due to the great operation of the ICT academy and the number and level of students who have been certified.
Invitation to seminar: Restore to Analyze Biomedical Signal Restoration and Analysis
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CSE Team Wins Best UREP 2022 Presentation
A CSE team of undergraduate students, supervised by our faculty member Dr. Noora Fetais, won the Best Presentation award in the 14th Annual Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP) competition, which was held on 18th of October 2022. The winning project is titled “Intelligent and Immersive Cultural Game using Virtual Reality” and the team consists of the students Yahia Boray, Hesham Zaky, and Omar Osman.
UREP is one of the main programs offered by Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and designed to fulfil its aims in developing research infrastructure in Qatar by establishing the basis of scientific research at the undergraduate level. UREP provides a great opportunity for undergraduate students to experience scientific research and to engage in the various processes to build skills essential for the professional development of the students.
The developed game aims to preserve and spread cultural practices. It introduces new gaming mechanics, allowing user interaction with virtual game objects using hand gestures. The user’s objective is to hunt prey in their natural habitat which means that the player will physically change his location to hunt a specific prey using his falcon to mimic how the falcon hunts for its’ prey in the real world. This interaction with the real world, along with the incorporation of realistic graphics and mixed reality features, enhances the user’s experience and helps in preserving cultural practices.
Previous work tried to achieve the same goal by different approaches that led to different user segments and different usability cases. One major limitation in that work was the accessibility due to the use of specialized hardware. The hardware is accessible to only a small segment of users, and due to the challenges forced by the COVID19 situation reusing the hardware is prohibited in conferences or exhibitions.
As a result, not many will have access to the developed solution. The new implementation was designed to work on both Android and IOS to have a social interaction between the largest possible numbers of players. Other features that could also contribute to the goal of the project include building a virtual museum and displaying real falcons using the capabilities mixed reality has to offer.
Congratulations to the winning team!
