HBKU Student Innovation Fund Winners 2021

The Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) Innovation Center is pleased to announce the winners of the Student Innovation Fund 2021.
The Student Innovation Fund aims to support local students with industry-driven innovations, targeted at increasing the local capacity, responsiveness, and private enterprise.
The winners of the Student Innovation Fund 2021 include:

Project Title	Project Investigator (PI)	Project Summary
Project Title: Eye-Tracking System for Training Cardiologists to Better Interpret Electrocardiograms	Project Investigator (PI): Mohammed Tahri Sqalli, PhD Candidate, College of Science and Engineering.	Project Summary: Our project aims to develop a proactive artificial intelligence and augmented reality-based eye-tracking system to train cardiology professionals to better interpret electrocardiograms. The system’s goal is to innovate in terms of how training for ECG interpretation is provided to medical practitioners generally and cardiologists specifically. The system also aims to contribute towards the transition from classical methodologies of training to more digitalized ones leading towards the preparedness for medicine 2.0.
Project Title: Building and Developing a Self-Sufficient Geothermal Central Air Conditioning System for Qatar	Project Investigator (PI): Mohammad Zaher Serdar, PhD Student, Master of Science in Sustainable Environment, College of Science and Engineering Omer Abedl-Rahman Ahmed Abedrabboh, PhD Student, Master of Science in Sustainable Energy, College of Science and Engineering	Project Summary: High cooling loads are a pressing challenge in Qatar with multidimensional aspects: economic, social, and environmental; thus, limiting the effectiveness of sustainable development efforts. This challenge costs Qatar more than $1.5 billion annually and ranks it as the highest carbon footprint per capita. Furthermore, these problems are projected to increase in the future due to climate change impacts. To address this challenge, we are developing a system that will harness Qatar's ignored geothermal capacity and employ it as a self-sufficient cooling system suitable for slashing the loads and ensuring sustainable and resilient cooling even during outages.

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Project Title:

Eye-Tracking System for Training Cardiologists to Better Interpret Electrocardiograms

Project Investigator (PI):

Mohammed Tahri Sqalli, PhD Candidate, College of Science and Engineering.

Project Summary:

Our project aims to develop a proactive artificial intelligence and augmented reality-based eye-tracking system to train cardiology professionals to better interpret electrocardiograms. The system’s goal is to innovate in terms of how training for ECG interpretation is provided to medical practitioners generally and cardiologists specifically. The system also aims to contribute towards the transition from classical methodologies of training to more digitalized ones leading towards the preparedness for medicine 2.0.

Project Title:

Building and Developing a Self-Sufficient Geothermal Central Air Conditioning System for Qatar

Project Investigator (PI):

Mohammad Zaher Serdar, PhD Student, Master of Science in Sustainable Environment, College of Science and Engineering

Omer Abedl-Rahman Ahmed Abedrabboh, PhD Student, Master of Science in Sustainable Energy, College of Science and Engineering

Project Summary:

High cooling loads are a pressing challenge in Qatar with multidimensional aspects: economic, social, and environmental; thus, limiting the effectiveness of sustainable development efforts. This challenge costs Qatar more than $1.5 billion annually and ranks it as the highest carbon footprint per capita. Furthermore, these problems are projected to increase in the future due to climate change impacts. To address this challenge, we are developing a system that will harness Qatar's ignored geothermal capacity and employ it as a self-sufficient cooling system suitable for slashing the loads and ensuring sustainable and resilient cooling even during outages.