Dr. Fadel Tissiris Professor at College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He graduated in Biology from the University Sidi Mohammed ben Abdellah, Fes, Morocco and earned a PhD degree from Free University of Brussels. Fadel Tissir was appointed at the University of Louvain, and the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS) in 2005 and was promoted to the rank of Professor and Research Director FNRS in 2017.

His research focuses on the cellular and molecular mechanisms implicated in development and diseases of the nervous system. He has been active in the field of developmental neuroscience for more than 20 years with emphasis on the role of planar cell polarity (PCP) and cytoskeletal proteins in health and diseases. He discovered the core component of PCP signaling, engineered constitutive and conditional mutant mice for PCP genes and uncovered their function in the developing and mature system.

Iman Ghazal holds a bachelor’s degree (BA) from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She majored in Childhood and Social Institutions and minored in Psychology.

She then completed a one-year graduate certificate program in Autism and Behavioral Science from Fanshawe College, Ontario. After graduating she moved to Saudi Arabia and started her career as an Early Intervention Specialist and a Clinical Research Coordinator at the Center for Autism Research – King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. During that time she worked alongside a multi-disciplinary team in early diagnosis and intervention for cases with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD.) Additionally, she was involved in different research and training projects including the educational consultancy, ABA and the Early Start Denver Model training programs, and the Language Environment Analysis (LENA) research study. She then completed a master’s in Special Education from the Department of Psychological Sciences, College of Education, Qatar University. Ghazal joined HBKU’s Qatar Biomedical Research Institute’s (QBRI’s) ASD Epidemiology Research team as a senior research associate in October 2016.

Mohammed Shinoy is a Software Engineer at QCRI working on converting research outcomes to production-quality software. He received his Master’s in Mechanical and Mechatronics from the University of Waterloo. 

Dr. Laoucine Kerbache is the Acting Dean for School of Economics and Management (SEM) and Professor of logistics and supply chain management. He is also a Founding Member of the Engineering Management and Decisions Science (EMDS) division in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He holds a PhD, an MSc, and a BSc degree in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His research areas span interfaces of industrial engineering, operations research, operations management, logistics, and supply chain management with a special focus on modeling and optimization of problems relative to industrial facilities and service organizations.

Over the last 35 years, Dr. Kerbache has been in academia for 24 years at HEC Paris where he was a Professor of operations management, logistics, and supply chain management. He also held various academic and managerial positions including Associate Dean in charge of the PhD Program, and Dean and CEO of HEC Paris in Qatar.

He has been very active in research theses/dissertations and has published over 150 publications in top-tier international journals and a significant number of academic textbooks. In addition, he is an active member of numerous academic and research professional organizations such as INFORMS, POMS, MSOM, IEEE, EUROMA, IEOM, etc.

Dr. Tareq Al-Ansari is an associate professor at the College of Science and Engineering, head of the sustainable development division, and executive director of the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute. He acquired a BEng. in Mechanical Engineering from the University College London and an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Sustainable Development and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.

Marco Agus is an Associate Professor in the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained an MSc and PhD from the University of Cagliari, Italy. He has also worked as a Research Engineer at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia, and as a Research Scientist at the Center of Research, Development, and Advanced Studies (CRS4), in Cagliari, Italy.

Marco Agus's research interests span different domains in visual computing, from haptics and visual rendering for medical applications to real-time exploration of massive models, to machine learning methods for electron microscopy biology data and indoor environments. He taught courses at several important visual computing venues, including IEEE CVPR, ACM SIGGRAPH, and Eurographics, and he regularly acts as a committee member, reviewer, chair, and associate editor for top journals and conferences in the visual computing domain.

Dr. Adel Elomri is an Associate Professor in the Division of Engineering Management and Decision Sciences at the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He holds a PhD and MSc with highest honors in supply chain and operations management from École Centrale Paris (CentraleSupélec), France, and a BS with highest honors in industrial engineering from the National Engineering School of Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia.

Dr. Adel Elomri is a scholar in operations management and supply chains, with expertise and research interests at the intersection of operations research, economics, and sustainability. His research explores how complex supply chains can be designed and managed, and his findings have been widely published, attracting significant funding. Dr. Elomri’s work spans three key areas: sustainable supply chain management, smart supply chains, and healthcare operations management.

Dr. Zubair Shah is an Assistant Professor in the College of Science and Engineering specializing in artificial intelligence and big data analytics with a focus on health informatics. He holds an MS degree in Computer System Engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Italy, and a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia. Before joining HBKU, Dr. Shah was a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, from 2017 to 2019.

Dr. Shah's research focuses on applying AI to healthcare, particularly in developing AI-driven applications that enhance disease diagnosis and prediction. He has secured critical funding from HBKU Innovation Center and QNRF to advance these efforts, including work on diabetes management and multimodal AI systems combining electronic health records (EHR), medical imaging, and multi-omics data. His team has developed innovative deep-learning techniques, including methods for identifying IDH mutations from histopathology slides and exploring the use of generative models like GANs and neural diffusion for medical data augmentation.

Dr. Shah has published extensively in leading international journals and conferences, and his research also explores the potential of foundation AI models in healthcare, contributing significantly to advancements in AI-powered medical diagnostics.

Dr. Hira Amin is an Assistant Professor at the College of Public Policy at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. After completing her PhD in History at the University of Cambridge, she has been involved in various interdisciplinary projects. Her research interests broadly fall into two categories: the first is social, cultural, and religious transformations in the modern Muslim world; the second is social inclusion, accessibility, and disability.

She has undergone training in systems thinking, LEGO Serious Play, participatory co-design, and strategic foresight at the Institute for the Future. She is currently working on multiple research grants that utilize these various tools and methods, such as education for sustainability and global citizenship, strategic foresight in culture, identity, and education, and systems mapping the disability diagnostics landscape in Qatar.

Seerin Nizam is a Program Manager at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) and an Associate Member of the Chartered Accountants of Sri Lanka, the Institute of Public Accountants of Australia, the Institute of Financial Accountants of the UK, and the Institute of Chartered Professional Managers of Sri Lanka. Additionally, he is a Senior Member of the Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka. Seerin holds a Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) in International Business from the University of the West of Scotland.

With over 15 years of work experience, including 9 years in Qatar, Seerin specializes in budgeting and reporting, financial planning, analytics and strategies, and procurement. Most recently, he served as a Management Accountant within the Budgeting and Reporting team at Qatar Foundation.