Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Abdallah is a Professor and founding faculty member at the College of Science and Engineering and serves as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Quality Assurance at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Abdallah earned his BSc. from Cairo University in 1996, followed by his MSc and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2016, he held academic positions at Cairo University and Texas A&M University at Qatar.

Dr. Abdallah’s research focuses on leveraging AI in smart cities, wireless networks, and smart grids, with a particular emphasis on network optimization and security. He has received several awards, including the Research Fellow Excellence Award from Texas A&M University at Qatar and multiple Best Paper Awards at IEEE conferences. He also received the Nortel Networks Industrial Fellowship for five consecutive years (1999-2003). Dr. Abdallah has served in key editorial roles for top IEEE journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, and in leadership positions for several major IEEE conferences. He has authored over 220 papers, co-authored four book chapters, and holds four patents.

Dr. Tareq Al-Ansari is an associate professor at the College of Science and Engineering, head of the sustainable development division, and executive director of the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute. He acquired a BEng. in Mechanical Engineering from the University College London and an MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development from the University of Cambridge. He completed his PhD in Sustainable Development and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London.

Laith Abu-Raddad is an adjunct professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He also serves as a professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University in Qatar. His expertise lies in infectious disease epidemiology, focusing on quantitative methods like mathematical modeling and biostatistics.

He has led several high-impact studies at the international and regional levels. He has published over 390 publications with a citation h-index of 97 and over 110,000 citations. His scientific research has been published in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Lancet Microbe, JAMA, Nature Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, Nature Communications, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Hepatology, BMC Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, and AIDS.

He has been the principal investigator of several projects funded by various funding agencies and has acted as an expert advisor and consultant for several international organizations. His research work has been key in the formulation of public health policy at the regional and international levels. The findings of his research studies have received coverage in international media such as Aljazeera, the New York Times, the BBC, and the Economist.

Dr. Rashid Yahiaoui is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Language, Culture and Communication at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He has a PhD in Translation Studies from London Metropolitan University, UK, and a Master in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Salford, UK. Dr. Yahiaoui has a wealth of experience lecturing in translation and interpreting, EFL, and academic writing. He also has extensive experience as a professional interpreter, working for the Foreign Office and National Health Service in the UK for over 10 years.

Dr. Amer Al-Adwan is currently an associate professor of audiovisual translation in the Department of Language, Culture and Communication at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He received his BA in English Language and Literature from Yarmouk University, Jordan in 2003, and his MA in Applied Translation in 2005 from the University of Exeter, UK. He also obtained his doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester in 2009. Before joining HBKU in 2014, he worked as an assistant professor at Jordan University and Applied Science University, Jordan, where he taught several courses in translation and intercultural studies. He also worked for a few international institutions, including BBC Arabic and Aljazeera English, as a translator and a subtitler.  

Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Before that, she was the Executive Director of the Translation and Interpreting Institute, which she founded in 2011. She also was an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar where she taught courses in writing composition, postcolonial literature, theories of translation, and Islamic feminism. Dr. Al-Malki holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London-SOAS, where she also earned a master’s degree in English-Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation.

Dr. Al-Malki’s research interests include the negotiation of identity between East and West, media representations of Arab women, and postcolonial literature. She has published numerous articles in academic journals in the United States and the UK. Her book, Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media (2012) is published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Academic, UK. It was lauded as the first comprehensive study of the topic in the world. She also edited The Writer’s Craft: Teaching Creative Writing in Qatar, published as a part of an initiative honoring Doha as the Arab Capital of Culture in 2010.

Dr. Al-Malki is a sought-after public speaker and social commentator. She has been invited to speak at conferences and forums throughout the Middle East, United States, and the UK. Dr. Al-Malki was recognized as a QF Achiever in Qatar Foundation’s global campaign in 2011 and was featured in regional and international news and TV outlets, for example, CNN. She was the first Arab and Muslim to be invited as a Keynote Speaker at City University in New York after 9/11. She was also the first Qatari to be invited to address the Cheltenham Literature Festival. She has lectured at Durham University, SOAS, and Maryland University among others. In 2018, Dr. Al-Malki was selected by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris as “Personnalite d’Avenir Genre” (Future Personality for Gender Equality). Focusing on women's rights and Arab identity, Dr. Al-Malki strives to help deepen international understanding of Qatar and its evolving place in the world.

Dr. Henning F. Horn is an Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Health and Life Sciences. Dr. Horn received his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Cincinnati. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Karen Vousden at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, United Kingdom, he joined the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore, working with Professors Colin Stewart and Brian Burke.

In 2014, Dr. Henning F. Horn joined Hamad Bin Khalifa University and helped build the College of Health and Life Sciences research and teaching framework. He leads a research group focusing on two areas of health research; novel variants in male infertility to determine the cellular mechanisms leading to and the roles of several nuclear envelope proteins in cancer.