Sanaa Al Farsi
Senior Software Engineer
Sanaa Al Farsi
Senior Software Engineer
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Cybersecurity

Dr. Nadir Durrani
Senior Scientist
Dr. Nadir Durrani
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
PhD in Natural Language Processing
MSc in Computer Science
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Arabic Language Technologies
Biography
Dr. Nadir Durrani is a Senior Scientist at the Arabic Language Technologies (ALT) where he works on several projects such as Interpretability (NeuroX), Machine Translation (Shaheen), Speech Synthesis (NatiQ) and language processing tools for Arabic (Farasa).
PhD in Natural Language Processing
University of Stuttgart/IMS
2012
MSc in Computer Science
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences/CRULP
2007
BS in Computer Science
National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences
2004
- Explainable AI: Analyzing deep NLP Models (with a focus on diagnostic classifiers
- linguistic correlation analysis
- unsupervised methods
- clustering methods
- ablation analysis
- similarity analysis
- causation and behavioral studies).
- Machine Translation: Neural and Statistical MT (with focus on reordering
- domain adaptation
- transliteration
- dialectal translation
- pivoting
- closely related and morphologically rich languages
- simultaneous translation
- eye-tracking for MT evaluation).
Senior Scientist
Arabic Language Technologies, Qatar Computing Research Institute
2021 - Present
Scientist
Arabic Language Technologies, Qatar Computing Research Institute
2015 - 2020
Post-doctoral
Informatics, University of Edinburgh
2012 - 2014
Research Intern
Watson Center, IBM
2012 - 2012
Research Staff
IMS, University of Stuttgart
2008 - 2012
Research Officer
CRULP, NUCES
2004 - 2007
Research Consultant
PAN Localization, STEA
2005 - 2005
- 2017; Best innovation award for Arabic-English Speech Translation; ARC; Doha/Qatar
- 2016; Best Arabic-English Machine Translation Systems; IWSLT; Seattle/USA
- 2014; GSCL Best Doctoral Thesis Award; Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik; KOVENS - Hildesheim/Germany
- 2014; Best Machine Translation Systems for several European languages; WMT; Baltimore/USA
- 2013; Best Machine Translation Systems for several European languages; WMT; Sofia/Bulgaria
- 2012; IMS Best Doctoral Thesis Award; Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung; Stuttgart 2012; Stuttgart/Germany
- 2012; PhD with Magna Cum Laude; Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung; Stuttgart/Germany
- 2008; Scholarship for Doctoral Studies; Higher Education of Pakistan; Lahore/Pakistan
- 2007; MS with Silver Medal; FAST-NUCES; Lahore/Pakistan

Dr. Mohamed Elshirif
Post Doc
Dr. Mohamed Elshirif
Post Doc
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah
Senior Scientist
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah
Senior Scientist
Educational Qualifications
Visiting Scientist at CSAIL
Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Cybersecurity
Biography
Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before that, Dr. Al-Sabah was an Assistant Professor at the computer science and engineering department at Qatar University. Her research interests lie in the areas of network security and privacy enhancing technologies, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology. She has published papers that were featured in various magazines such as Wired and New Scientist, and was awarded the Education Excellence Day Platinum Award for PhD holders in Qatar in 2014. Dr. Al-Sabah obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2013 and later spent 16 months at MIT as a visiting scientist.
Visiting Scientist at CSAIL
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA
March 2014 - June 2015
Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
June 2013
M.A.Sc., Computer Networks
Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada
May 2007
B.S., Computer Science
American University in Cairo, Egypt
June 2004
- Network Security
- Privacy Enhancing Technologies
- Cryptocurrency
- Blockchain
Senior Scientist
QCRI (cyber security)
May 2019 - present
Scientist
QCRI (cyber security)
Mar 2018 - May 2019
Assistant Prof
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
Sept 2013 - Feb 2018
Lecturer
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
2007 - 2013
Teaching Assistant
Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)
2005 - 2007
Accepted to appear in 34th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection,
Elsevier Computers and Security,
Elsevier Computers and Security,
Impact: CSUR has a high impact factor. An earlier version of this paper has been used as assigned reading in a Computer Security course at University of California, Berkeley
24th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2015. [Impact: This paper received significant media attention, and was featured in more 15 news articles. This paper has also been used as an assigned reading in various computer security courses in various leading universities such as John Hopkins University, University of Waterloo, and University of California, Berkeley]
20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,
13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013. [Impact: This paper received Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2013.]
19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2012.
11th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society,
DefenestraTor: Throwing Out Windows in Tor. 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2011.
Conextaware RAON Middleware for Opportunistic Networks. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing,
- Third prize in the Regular Poster Presentation Category under the ICT pillar. Qatar Foundation
- Annual Research Conference Proceedings 2016 (QF ARC 2016).
- Qatar University Publication Award, 2016.
- Platinum Education Excellence Day Award for PhD holders by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 2014.
- Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award. 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013.
- Qatar University PhD Fellowship (2008-2013).
- Qatar University M.S. Fellowship (2005-2007).
- Outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science, American University in Cairo, 2003
- Outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science, American University in Cairo, 2004
- Qatar Ministry of Education B.S. Scholarship (1999-2004)
- Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser award - Second Top National High School
- Student (science division) 1999.

Mr. Mahmoud Gajem
Research Support Engineer
Mr. Mahmoud Gajem
Research Support Engineer
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Lolwa Al Maadid
Software Engineer
Lolwa Al Maadid
Software Engineer
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Mr. Khalid Kunji
Research Associate
Mr. Khalid Kunji
Research Associate
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Ms. Ji Lucas
Senior Software Engineer
Ms. Ji Lucas
Senior Software Engineer
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence
Dr. Giovanna Vantini
Software Engineer
Dr. Giovanna Vantini
Software Engineer
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute

Dr. Eman Fituri
Director of Educational Initiatives
Dr. Eman Fituri
Director of Educational Initiatives
Entity
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Division
Management
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