CSE PhD Candidate Receives Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award at International Conference
Marwa Essam, a Computer Science PhD candidate in our CSE department, supervised by Dr. Tamer Elsayed, has received the “Best Doctoral Consortium Paper Award”, based on her paper that summarizes her PhD proposal, at the 43rd European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2021) that was just held last week. ECIR is one of the top conferences in the IR field, and is ranked at the “A” level in the CORE conference ranking.
CSE participates in Milipol 2021
Milipol 2021 was held in DNCC, Doha, to showcase the latest military software and hardware for homeland security system. Our department faculty member Prof. Sumaya AlMaadeed and her team showcased the food-and-medicine delivery robot, “NARSA”, designed to help people during the COVID pandemic. NARSA was completely built right from the product design to the prototype by Prof. Somaya’s team of engineers and students from Qatar University and personnel from Qatar military. The robot was presented as part of a collaboration program with Huawei.
His Royal Highness the Emir of Qatar and the Prime Minister of Qatar also graced the occasion.