Sanaa Al Farsi

Senior Software Engineer

Sanaa Al Farsi

Senior Software Engineer

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Cybersecurity

Dr. Nadir Durrani

Dr. Nadir Durrani

Senior Scientist

Phone

4 541 441

Office location

RC-B1-1131

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

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

Phone

4 542 257

Office location

A148

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

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

Mr. Khalid Kunji

Research Associate

Mr. Khalid Kunji

Research Associate

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Ms. Ji Lucas

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