Invitation to workshop: Privacy-aware Dehydration Monitoring on Wearable Devices
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Qatar-Japan-Research-Collaboration Workshop on: Wearable Multimodal Telexistence Robot for Knowledge Transfer and Collaboration
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Workshop: Security and Robustness of Machine Learning
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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/.
Invitation to Stakeholder Gathering and Research Workshop: Machine Learning Applications in Power Grids
Computing Club Organizes AI Week
Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Ali (Assistant Professor in the CSE Department, and Director of KINDI Center for Computing Research) participated in the AI Week event organized by the Computing Club at Qatar University by giving a talk titled: “Machine Learning: the good, the bad, and the unexpected” with an audience of more than 80 students and attendees. The talk covered: basic principles of supervised Machine Learning; what is inside the “black box” by demonstrating a few examples of simple yet effective algorithms; what to consider when training an algorithm; and how machine learning affects our lives today. The talk covered recent success stories, the culture machine learning has left on industries and researchers today, and concluded with the lessons learned and what to look for as we march forward in this data-driven era.