Noora Al-Emadi is a Senior Software Engineer at the Qatar Computing Research Institute of Hamad Bin Khalifa University. In her current role, she specializes in computer vision, focusing on object detection from satellite imagery. Her experience spans several domains, including urban informatics, social media analytics, applied machine learning, and mobile application development.

Noora is pursuing a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Qatar University and a Master’s in Data Science and Engineering from HBKU. Her diverse technical background and her ongoing PhD research reflect her commitment to advancing innovation and technology. Through her work at QCRI and her academic endeavors, she continues to adapt to and shape the rapidly evolving fields of data science and emerging technologies.

Dr. Khaled Mahmoud is Senior Scientist in Water Chemistry and Nanotechnology at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI). Prior joining QEERI, he worked as Research Officer in Biosensors and Nanobiotechnology at the Biotechnology Research Institute/National Research Council (CNRC), Montreal, Canada. He was the Director of Science & Technology at Bio Vision Technology Inc., Montreal, and an Assistant Professor at Faculty of Engineering, Port Said University. He obtained his PhD in Materials Science from University of Saskatchewan, Canada (2007) and MSc in Analytical Chemistry from Suez Canal University, Egypt (2003) 

Dr Mahmoud research interest focus on the engineering and synthesis of functionalized nanomaterials for multidisciplinary applications including sustainable water treatment, energy storage, solar energy, environmental monitoring, nanocatalysis, and enhanced oil recovery applications. He is specialized in the synthesis and surface functionalization of 2D- carbon nanomaterials including MXene, graphenes, cellulose nanocrystals, and metal oxides.

Dr. Mahmoud is a member of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), Cellulose and Renewable Materials, ACS Colloids and Surface Sciences. He is co-author of 46 peer-reviewed papers, 5 book chapters, 2 patents, and 3 patent applications. He is recipient of The Excellence Award, NRC Montréal, Canada (2011); NSERC fellow, CNRC Canada.

Dr. Abdelilah Arredouani joined QBRI in March 2012 as a Scientist in the Diabetes Research Center. He holds a PhD in Biomedical Sciences from the Faculty of Medicine at University of Louvain-La-Neuve in Belgium. Prior to joining QBRI he worked in Netherlands at the Department of Neurosciences in Erasmus Medical Center in Rotterdam, in United Kingdom at the Department of Pharmacology in Oxford University, and in Qatar at the Department of Physiology and Biophysics in Weill Cornell Medicine. During his PhD, he studied the contribution of the calcium stores in the endoplasmic reticulum to glucose-induced calcium response and insulin secretion from the pancreatic beta cell in the context of type 2 diabetes.

Dr. Arredouani was a key player in the discovery of the NAADP receptor, the two pore channels, and Ned-19, a specific antagonist of the NAADP. Since joining QBRI in 2012, Dr. Arredouani has been involved in projects related to the identification of biomarkers to predict type 2 diabetes using systems biology approaches. He has published in high impact peer-reviewed journals including Nature, Nature Chemical Biology, Current Biology, Diabetes and JBC.
 

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.

Dr. Issa Khalil is the Research Director of Cyber Security at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. Dr. Khalil is an expert in security data analytics, network security, AI/ML security, privacy, cyber threat intelligence, and private data sharing. Dr. Khalil founded the National Cyber Security Research Lab (NCSRL) and led the design and deployment of one of the largest cyber ranges in the region. He has contributed to the Cyber Security Grand Challenge and the development of Qatar’s National Cyber Security Strategies.

His work includes over 120 publications in top-tier cybersecurity journals and conferences, alongside more than 12 U.S. patents and disclosures, four of which have been licensed to international security providers. His achievements have been featured in prominent outlets like the BBC and Qatar TV and have earned him prestigious awards, including the "Tech Team Award" from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), the HBKU Research Excellence Award, and UAEU’s Outstanding Professor Award for his contributions to research, teaching, and service.

Dr. Bouhali received his PhD in Science from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles in 1999. Since 1994 he has participated in the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment program at the Large Hadron Collider Project (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear and Particle Physics (CERN). He was also a member of the fixed target experiment HERMES at the Deutsches Electronen Synchrotron (DESY) and a member of the AMANDA/ICECUBE neutrino telescopes at the South Pole. His field of expertise includes: charged particle detectors, high energy and medical physics and high performance computing. He is Director of Research Computing and Research Associate Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar.

He is the founder of the TAMU-Q Advanced Scientific Computing (TASC) Center. He is affiliated with the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) in the computational Science and Engineering group. He also chairs the HPC committee at Education City. He has served on many national and international committees, chaired conferences and workshops. In 2015 he received the Faculty Dean’s Distinguished Achievement Award.

Rashad Al-Gaashani obtained his PhD in materials science from UKM, Malaysia, in 2012. He joined QEERI, HBKU, in February 2016 and is currently working as a scientist at the Water Center, serving as the lab focal point for the Water Innovation Lab. He has researched thin-film devices, microwave heaters, and metal oxide nanostructures.

Additionally, Al-Gaashani has extensively researched carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, activated carbon, biochar, zeolite, and limestone composite materials for wastewater treatment over the past seven years. His research is focused on developing new water filters, particularly high-quality activated carbon from biomass wastes for water treatment. Al-Gaashani has published over 24 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited by 2703 papers, and has an h-index of 14.

Dr. Monem Beitelmal is a Principal Scientist at the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute. Dr. Monem previously served as an associate professor of mechanical engineering with the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Santa Clara University (SCU) from January 2009 till December 2013. Before joining SCU, Dr. Beitelmal spent eight years at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories in Palo Alto California. As a member of the HP Labs Smart Data Center research team, his research work covered various areas in energy and sustainability from smart thermal control in systems and data centers to district cooling systems. At SCU, Dr. Beitelmal taught several undergraduate and graduate courses such as thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, modern instrumentation, thermal systems design, energy conversion, equilibrium thermodynamics and gas dynamics.

Golibjon Berdiyorov is currently a senior scientist at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained his Diploma in Physics at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan in 1998. He defended his PhD thesis in 2007 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His thesis was about computational study of parameters of superconducting materials under external electrictromagnetic fields. After his PhD he did postdoctoral research for several years, where he learned different computer simulation methods starting from first-principle density functional theory to continuum models for large scale simulations. 

His current research interest is in theoretical materials science for energy, wqater and environmental applications. In particular he is interested in predicting novel and functional materials for photovoltaics, water desalination and carbon capture and storage applications.

During his Assistant Professor position at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, he was heavily involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. 

Dr. Abdulazeem holds a PhD and a master's degree in Islamic Financial Law; three BAs in Islamic Law, Arabic Language and English Literature; and two higher studies diplomas in Islamic Law and Human Sciences. He has worked at universities as well as Islamic banks. He is currently a Professor of Islamic Finance at HBKU.