Jawaher Kaldari is a second-year Ph.D. student at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She received her bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2021 and her master’s degree in Cybersecurity from Hamad Bin Khalifa University in 2024. She was elected to the IEEE honor societies Eta Kappa Nu (2020) and Tau Beta Pi (2021). Her current research focuses on Quantum Reinforcement Learning, alongside work in Quantum Machine Learning (QML) and physical layer security.

Johanne Medina is a research associate at Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). She holds a BSc. in Computer Engineering and an MSc. in Data Science and Engineering both from Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Aside from her interest in academic research, Johanne also provides expertise in full-stack web and app development, data management, and specialization in AI and Machine Learning. In her work in QCRI, her areas of focus include mobile learning in personalized education, social media analytics, and user personas, utilizing Large Language Models.

Sarra Mestiri holds a master's degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Sorbonne University of Paris. With over 7 years of research and academic experience spanning Tunisia, France, and Qatar, she has demonstrated expertise in biochemistry and molecular biology. While conducting research in France, Sarra identified novel NF-κB inhibitors through high throughput screening, offering potential regulation for diseases like cancer, auto-immune conditions, and chronic inflammation. Her work also delved into the ATR-CHK1 signaling pathway's role in DNA replication dynamics during replicative stress.

Relocating to Qatar in 2019, Sarra joined the Translational Cancer Research Facility at the National Center for Cancer Care and Research/Hamad Medical Corporation as a Research Associate. Her focus included characterizing immune responses in cancer patients, identifying dynamic biomarkers of response, and generating antigen-specific T cells for cancer therapy. In 2024, she became a Senior Research Associate in Dr. Fares Al-Ejeh's team, dedicating her efforts to identifying clinically actionable potential biomarkers in Qatar's population for Cancer Precision Medicine. With a commitment to advancing cancer research, Sarra Mestiri brings a wealth of experience and expertise to her current role.

Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad is a Research Assistant at QCRI. His work focusses on Data Centric AI, Data Wrangling, and Foundation Models such as LLMs. He graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.Sc. in Information Systems. Shahmeer’s experience includes developing systematic approaches to improve data quality and discoverability and creating tools leveraging these algorithms. He has contributed to various projects such as a Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system for tabular data for data wrangling and cleaning, a cross modality data discovery system for structured and unstructured data, and benchmarking the capabilities of LLMs in various data cleaning and querying tasks.

Born and raised in Argentina, Dr. Juan Manuel Murias completed his undergraduate degree in Physical Education and an MSc in Exercise Physiology in his hometown. After moving to Montreal, Canada in 2003, Juan Manuel completed a second MSc at McGill University, followed by a PhD in Integrative Physiology of Exercise (Western University, London, Canada) and Postdoctoral training focusing on vascular control at the same institution.

Following a 10-year appointment at the University of Calgary (Canada), in May 2023 Juan Manuel joined the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University as an Associate Professor. Juan Manuel’s research examines how adequate manipulation of the metabolic stress (i.e., intensity) of endurance exercise contributes to maximizing central (e.g., cardiac output, blood volume, conduit arteries) and peripheral (e.g., microcirculation, muscle metabolism) responses that affect cardiovascular components responsible for oxygen transport and distribution at rest and during exercise. Recent work also incorporates the evaluation of central and peripheral measures of neuromuscular fatigue. Although Juan Manuel’s work is applied to different groups ranging from clinical populations to trained individuals, his research has a special focus on how sex and age contribute to the characteristics of adaptations within the cardiovascular and neuromuscular systems.