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.

Dr. Mutaz al-Khatib is currently Associate Professor of Methodology and Ethics at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), as well as the first-of-its-kind MA program in Applied Islamic Ethics at the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He is a founding member of the Journal of Islamic Ethics and the Studies in Islamic Ethics book series, where he also serves as editor-in-chief of the latter. He holds a BA in Islamic Studies from Damascus (1997) and in Arabic Literature from Al-Azhar University. 

Al-Khatib was a founding member of al-Multaqā al-Fikrī li-l Ibdā’ (Intellectual Forum for Innovation, 1999), and the anchor of “Al Sharia wa-l Ḥayāt” program on Al Jazeera Channel (2004 -2013). He was also the Editor-in-Chief of the "Islam and Contemporary Affairs" section on IslamOnline.net (2003-2008). 

He was a visiting fellow at ZMO in Berlin (2006) and a visiting scholar at the Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin (2012-2013), as well as a Visiting Lecturer at the American University of Beirut, the Islamic University of Beirut, and Qatar University. He has presented lectures at various reputable academic institutions, including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, Princeton University, University of Florida, University of California, University of Tübingen, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, and Lund University. 

He is a reviewer for a number of journals and has authored and edited several books and over 40 academic articles on Ḥadīth criticism, Islamic Ethics, Islamic intellectual history, Maqāṣid (the higher objectives of Sharia), and Islamic Law. He has also published extensively in Arabic-language newspapers and magazines.

Dr. Joseph Lumbard is Associate Professor of Quranic Studies at CIS. He has previously taught at the American University of Sharjah, Brandeis University, and the American University in Cairo. He also served as Advisor for Interfaith Affairs to the Jordanian Royal Court. He received his PhD in Islamic Studies from Yale University and has studied with scholars in Morocco, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, and Iran. His scholarship contributes to the fields of Islamic philosophical theology, Sufism, and Quranic studies. He served as author, translator, and general editor for The Study Quran (HarperOne 2015), which has been heralded as one of the most important contributions to Islamic studies in the English language. His current research incorporates aspects of Quranic studies, philosophy, and theology to focus upon the development of epistemologies in Islam.

Dr. Alexandre Caeiro is an Associate Professor at CIS. He was trained in sociology and in Islamic studies in France, the Netherlands, and Egypt. His research deals broadly with the transformations of Islamic law in modern contexts. He is currently working on the legal history of Gulf sheikhdoms, focusing on the interaction between emirs, shari’a judges, merchants, and British agents in the context of the development of an oil economy and modern state institutions.

Dr. Dheen Mohamed is Program Director of the PhD program in Islamic Studies and Professor of Comparative Religion and Contemporary Quranic Studies at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He earned his BA (Hons.), MA, and PhD in Theology and Philosophy from al‑Azhar University. Before joining HBKU in 2013, he served as Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Qatar University (QU) and held senior academic roles as Dean, HoD, and Director of Academics at the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI). His teaching and research span comparative religion, Sufism (taṣawwuf), contemporary Qur’anic studies, Islamic philosophy, and Islamic thought. Recent publications include the chapter “Introduction to Islam” in Contemporary Islamic Perspectives in Public Health (Cambridge University Press, 2025), and peer‑reviewed articles in Afkar (2024) and the Journal of Islamic Thought and Civilization (2024). He has supervised more than 35 graduate theses and contributed to curriculum design at IIUI, QU, and HBKU. At CIS, he works at Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization (CMCC) and contributes to the Digital Sīrah Initiative.

Ms. Rowaida Ziad Taha earned her Bachelor’s degree in Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology from Jordan University of Science and Technology, College of Science (JUST). In 2008, she joined Weill Cornell Medical College, Doha, Qatar, as a Research Technician. Her work was mainly on projects related to stem cell and cancer biology research, those which included a variety of molecular and cellular biology techniques. In 2010, she worked at Shafallah Medical Genetics Center (SMGC) as a Research Assistant focusing on delineating the spectrum and distribution of Family Mediterranean Fever (FMF) among Arab patients and on mutation identification for MEFV, to assist research into the genotype-phenotype correlation of these patients. In 2014, Ms. Taha joined QBRI as a Research Associate. She has mainly contributed to several variation verifications and sequencing validation for genes pertaining to Autism Spectrum Disorders.