Dr. Antonio V. da Silva Jr is a Lecturer at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Science and Engineering and an Adjunct Lecturer in the Division of Arts and Sciences at TAMUQ. He joined Hamad Bin Khalifa University in August 2024 and has been working at TAMUQ since September 2021. His main research interests are partial differential equations, especially in locally integrable structures and Cauchy-Riemann geometry. Dr. da Silva Jr has been invited as a speaker to various international conferences in Austria, Brazil, and Spain.

Mohamed Nounou is a Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. He received the B.S. degree (Magna Cum Laude) from Texas A&M University, College Station, TX in 1995 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, in 1997 and 2000, respectively. Before joining HBKU, he was a Professor at Texas A&M University at Qatar for 18 years. He also worked for the industry at PDF Solutions, a consulting company in San Jose, California.

His research interests are in the area of process systems engineering with a particular emphasis on data-driven techniques for improved process operations. He is the author of a book and numerous book chapters and papers in prestigious journals and conferences. He also served on the editorial boards of several journals and the organizing committees for various conferences. He is currently an Associate Editor for the Network Modeling Analysis in Health Informatics and Bioinformatics journal.

Dr. Nounou is also a dedicated teacher. He received both the College-Level and University-Level Distinguished Achievement Awards in Teaching at Texas A&M University in 2011 and 2012, respectively, and the Faculty Excellence Award in 2013. He is a senior member of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Dr. Mohammed Al-Hashimi is a Professor of Chemistry at the College of Science and Engineering with an extensive background in both academic and industrial settings. He earned his MSci Honors degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry in 2003 and a PhD in 2007 from Queen Mary University of London, UK. Following his doctoral studies, Dr. Al-Hashimi worked as a Senior Development Chemist at Evotec in Oxfordshire, UK, and later joined the Chemistry department at Imperial College London as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2012, he transitioned to Qatar University as an Assistant Professor before joining Texas A&M University at Qatar in 2013.

Dr. Al-Hashimi’s research focuses on the design and synthesis of organic semiconductor materials for optoelectronic applications, including field-effect transistors, photovoltaic devices, light-emitting diodes, and sensors. His expertise also extends to the synthesis of recoverable and reusable homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysts. Currently, he supervises a research team of six postdoctoral research assistants and twelve undergraduate students, with funding from the Qatar National Research Fund.

With over 100 peer-reviewed publications, four patents, and an h-Index of 36, Dr. Al-Hashimi’s contributions have been widely recognized. He serves on the editorial boards of Current Organic Chemistry and Current Organocatalysis. Among his many accolades are the Donald C. Bradley Prize, ASPIC Prize, Lefevre Prize, ACMME Research Prize, and the TAMUQ Faculty Research Excellence Award. He was recently named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

Professor Marwan Khraisheh has dedicated his career to advancing education, research, and innovation in engineering and sustainability. After earning his PhD in mechanical engineering from Washington State University in 1996, he spent years in the U.S. building expertise in advanced manufacturing and materials before returning to the region in 2008.

As the founding dean of Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, he had the opportunity to work with MIT to help establish graduate programs in sustainable technologies and build a strong academic and research community. In 2014, he joined Qatar Foundation to lead the Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), where he worked alongside a team of 120 researchers addressing energy, water, and environmental challenges. At HBKU, he contributed to research, innovation, and digital learning initiatives, and later, as Chair of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar, he focused on developing programs in smart and sustainable manufacturing.

In August 2024, he returned to HBKU to support faculty development and help establish a new mechanical engineering program within the College of Science and Engineering.

Professor Khraisheh has received several international recognitions, including the US National Science Foundation CAREER Award and the SME’s Eugene Merchant Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineer Award. He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and a member of the International Academy for Production Engineering (CIRP).

Throughout his career, he has contributed to national and international strategic initiatives, including Qatar’s National Development and Manufacturing Strategies, and has served on committees supporting education, research, and innovation.

Dr. Reem Ali is a postdoctoral researcher in the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She received her PhD degree in Oncology from the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom.

Dr. Reem completed her first postdoctoral fellowship at the Wellcome Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, where she continued her work on identifying biomarkers for PARP inhibitor resistance in endometrial cancers. She also worked on targeting the base excision repair pathway in breast and ovarian cancers. She developed an interest in PARP inhibitors and studied the mechanisms of resistance to this first FDA-approved DNA repair inhibitor in humans.

Dr. Eyad Ahmad Masad currently serves as the Vice President for Research at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, overseeing the continued growth of HBKU’s research ecosystem. Prior to joining HBKU as a Professor at the College of Science and Engineering, he spent 20 years at Texas A&M University and the branch campus in Qatar, where he held key leadership roles. Dr. Masad contributed to establishing the Qatar Foundation as a hub of research excellence. He is a distinguished member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Dr. Masad is recognized globally for his work in multi-scale characterization and modeling of infrastructure materials. Dr. Masad served in various leadership roles in professional organizations such as the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), the Transportation Research Board (TRB), and the Academy of Pavement Science and Engineering (APSE).

Dr. Masad is on the editorial boards of many international journals. He is the recipient of several national and international awards in recognition of his leadership, academic, and research achievements, such as the Francis C. Turner Award (2022) from the Transportation and Development Institute of ASCE, the Monismith Lecture Award (2022) from the Geo-Institute of ASCE, and the James Laurie Prize (2019) from ASCE.

Aldana Al-Sulaiti is a PhD student in Computer Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). She earned her Bachelor's degree in Information Systems from Carnegie Mellon University in 2019 and her Master's degree in Cybersecurity from HBKU in 2025. Her research interest is in investigating quantum-enhanced approaches to machine learning.

Dr. Sami El-Borgi is a Professor of mechanical engineering at the College of Science and Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. His field of research spans areas of structural health monitoring, continuum mechanics, fracture and contact mechanics, nonlinear vibration, finite element analysis, metamaterials, and smart manufacturing. He has published around 120 papers in high-impact journals in addition to one US patent. Over the last two decades, he has collaborated with well-known and reputable scholars in the fields of nonlinear vibration, fracture mechanics, contact mechanics, and finite element analysis.

Professor El-Borgi has been awarded numerous research grants with funding provided by the Tunisian Ministry of Higher Education, the Qatar National Research Fund, the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. State Department, and the European Commission. In collaboration with Virginia Tech in 2003, he introduced a Master’s program in Computational Mechanics and a PhD program in Applied Mechanics at Tunisia Polytechnic School, University of Carthage, Tunisia. Prof. El-Borgi also serves as a reviewer for more than 60 international journals and is a member of the editorial board of a few engineering journals. In recognition of his services to the higher education sector, the Republic of Tunisia awarded him the Presidential Order of Merit of Education in 2008.

Dr. Mohammed R. Shaker is a Scientist at the Neurological Disorders Research Center, Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He earned his PhD in Neuroscience from Korea University, Seoul, in 2017, and was subsequently awarded the prestigious Brain Korea 21 Plus Fellowship. He then joined the Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology (AIBN) at The University of Queensland, where he advanced organoid models for the study of human brain and spinal cord development.

Dr. Shaker’s research integrates patient-derived induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) with organoid platforms, focusing on neurological disorders, e.g. white matter diseases and neural tube defects. His work has garnered multiple national and international accolades, such as fellowships from the Children’s Hospital Foundation and the European Leukodystrophy Association. Dr. Shaker continues to explore innovative 3D culture systems and computational approaches to accelerate breakthroughs in neuroregeneration and disease modeling. His pioneering research remains at the forefront of precision medicine and translational neuroscience.

Dr. Jasni earned her BSc and MSc in General Biotechnology from the University of Calicut, India. She completed her PhD in Genomics and Precision Medicine from Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar, under the supervision of Dr. Ayman Al Haj Zen. During her PhD, she characterized the functions of coronary artery disease GWAS gene candidates in the human aortic smooth muscle cell phenotype switching model of atherosclerosis.

In 2024, she joined Dr. Julie Decock’s team at QBRI as a Postdoctoral researcher. Her current research focuses on cancer-testis antigens and their role as biomarkers and therapeutic targets in Pediatric Solid Tumors.