Haitham Abu-Rub is a Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. He received two PhDs, one in Electrical Engineering from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland, in 1995, and another in Humanities from Gdansk University, Poland, in 2004.

Abu-Rub has research and teaching experience at many universities in several countries, including Qatar, Poland, Palestine, USA, and Germany. He served for five years as the Chair of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Program at Texas A&M University at Qatar and for ten years as the Managing Director of the Smart Grid Center at the same university.

Abu-Rub is the recipient of many national and international awards and recognitions, including the Fulbright and Alexander von Humboldt scholarships. His research group includes many PhD students and postdoctoral fellows.

Abu-Rub has published over 600 journal and conference papers, three patents, eight books, and eight book chapters. He has offered numerous keynote speeches at many conferences, training courses for industry engineers, and special courses for students.

Abu-Rub is a Fellow of IEEE and Co-Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics.

Dr. Fella Lahmar is a Program Director of Comparative Education and Assistant Professor of Education whose research bridges comparative education, Islamic educational thought and practice, and decolonial methodologies. Her work examines how education reform and curriculum politics shape learners’ ethical and aesthetic formation, leadership, and inclusion in Muslim-majority and Muslim-minority contexts, with particular attention to knowledge hierarchies and culturally grounded pedagogies.

She leads competitively funded research spanning education, accessibility, and indigenous heritage. As Leading Principal Investigator on a Qatar Research, Development and Innovation Council (QRDI)–funded project on Inclusive Islamic Education for Deaf learners, she is developing and evaluating scalable, Deaf-centred models of accessible Islamic learning. She is also Principal Investigator for Higher Education and Accessibility in Qatar, a Ministry-authorised, sector-wide study mapping institutional accessibility and accommodations to inform a practical national roadmap. In addition, she led the Algeria strand of the UKRI–AHRC-funded Decolonising Education for Peace in Africa (DEPA) programme, examining indigenous arts and heritage as resources for educational transformation within a 14-country collaboration.

Dr Lahmar is a Senior Fellow (SFHEA) and Fellow (FHEA) of Advance HE (UK), and holds a PhD in Education and an MA in Educational Research Methods from the University of Nottingham, and an MA in Islamic Studies from Loughborough University.

Amna Zaman is an S.J.D. candidate and doctoral research fellow at the College of Law. Her dissertation focuses on the regulation of cross-border data flows (CBDFs) as an industrial strategy and its impact on international economic governance. Through her research, she examines how countries regulate CBDFs to advance industrial policies, cybersecurity, and economic interests, assessing their implications for international trade and legal frameworks.

She holds an LL.M. in International Law and Foreign Affairs from HBKU and has practiced law with a focus on corporate and family law. In addition to her legal practice, she has taught at the University of London, sharing her expertise with aspiring legal professionals.

She currently serves as an expert consultant with the International Labour Organization (ILO) project office in Qatar, contributing to the organization’s initiatives aimed at improving labor standards in Qatar and promoting social justice.

Hamoudah Al-Zaini is an S.J.D. candidate at the College of Law. His dissertation examines the impact of digital products on international trade law, arguing that the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is inadequate due to its outdated classification system. His research explores the technological neutrality of GATS, the feasibility of its application to digital products, and recent efforts by the WTO and other international bodies to modernize trade regulations for the digital economy.

Hamoudah holds a Juris Doctor (JD) from HBKU and an MBA from Qatar University, with extensive professional experience in banking and financial services. He has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector, having worked at HSBC and currently serving at the Qatar Financial Centre Authority (QFCA), where he oversees compliance frameworks and regulatory risk management.

His research interests include international trade law, law and political economy, and law and technology. Hamoudah’s work has been published by Oxford University Press and Data Studies in Business and Economics.

Sehrish Javid is an S.J.D. candidate and Doctoral Fellow in the IPDD Project at the College of Law. Her research focuses on the role of Special Economic Zones (SEZs) in facilitating digital development, with particular emphasis on their legal frameworks and how they contribute to technological advancement. Her dissertation examines how these zones create opportunities for digital transformation, facilitate cross-border partnerships, and integrate emerging technologies into global economic structures.

Sehrish holds an LLB, an MA in Near and Middle Eastern History from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), and an MSc in South Asian Studies with Persian from the University of Oxford. Her academic background equips her with a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the intersection of law, economic policy, and digital development.

Her research interests span international economic law, digital governance, and the regulatory challenges posed by evolving technological landscapes. Through her work, she aims to contribute to legal scholarship on SEZs and offer insights into how regulatory frameworks can be adapted to support digital economies.

Dr. Abdallah Alhaj Sulaiman is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Translational Oncology Research Center at Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI), working in Dr. Vladimir Katanaev’s group. He earned his PhD in Biological and Biomedical Sciences from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Qatar, where he studied chromatin remodeling and stress response signaling.

He holds an MSc from the American University of Beirut (AUB), Lebanon, where he was among the first to report the presence of the colistin resistance gene mcr-1 in water sources in the country. He also earned a Bachelor of Science from Mansoura University, Egypt. His research revealed a novel role for the histone H2B Arg95 residue in recruiting the transcription factor Spt16 to regulate rapamycin-induced cell cycle arrest.

Dr. Alhaj Sulaiman served as a consultant at HBKU’s College of Health and Life Sciences (CHLS), contributing to projects involving CRISPR-based bacterial detection and studying GLUT3 regulation in PRDX1-null cells and its role in arsenite sensitivity. He was awarded first place by jury in Season 15 of Stars of Science.

Ameneh Yousef Saif Al-Hosseini is an S.J.D. candidate at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Law. Her dissertation focuses on the legal framework of smart contracts in the raw materials supply chain across Arab countries, examining the legal implications of integrating advanced technologies into traditional legal systems.

She holds both an LL.B. and an LL.M. from Qatar University, where she specialized in international construction contracts and received the Excellence Award for her Master’s thesis. Beyond academia, Ameneh brings over a decade of experience as a Senior Legal Counsellor at Qatar Primary Materials Company, where she provides strategic legal guidance and serves as a Trustee on the Board of Directors.

Her academic contributions include a published book review in Arab Law Quarterly and experience as a teaching assistant at Qatar University’s College of Law. Ameneh’s research bridges the fields of law and technology, with a focus on digital innovation in international trade. Her work reflects a strong interdisciplinary approach and a deep commitment to advancing legal discourse.

Ali Safa (Member, IEEE) is an Assistant Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. He earned his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, and his Ph.D. in AI-driven processing for extreme edge applications from KU Leuven, Belgium, in collaboration with the IMEC R&D Center, Leuven, Belgium. In Spring 2023, he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), USA.

He has authored and co-authored more than 40 research articles in international journals and conferences. He is also the author of a Springer book on the application of Neuromorphic Computing to Sensor Fusion and Drone Navigation tasks. His research interests include Edge AI, continual learning, and sensor fusion for robot perception.

Muhammed Yakup Inan is an Academic Affairs Specialist at the College of Islamic Science. He graduated from the Faculty of Political Science at Istanbul Medeniyet University and earned his MA in Gulf Studies from Qatar University. He also completed a four-year madrasa curriculum in Istanbul.

Before joining CIS, he worked as a Research Assistant at Qatar University and as a Social Studies Teacher and Extracurricular Program Coordinator at Qatar Foundation’s Pre-University Education (PUE) department. Inan has been actively involved in various educational projects, symposiums, and research initiatives.