Leveraging state-of-the-art techniques in artificial intelligence (AI), scientists at the College of Science and Engineering (CSE) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), have proposed a novel AI-enabled system that can be used to diagnose cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) based on retinal (innermost, thin, light sensitive layer of eye) images and bone health data. 

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), with the support of the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and in partnership with the Al-Attiyah Foundation, recently held an international workshop “Clean Hydrogen – Qatar’s Role in a Net-Zero World”. 

Youth with the drive to make the world more just, equal, and inclusive are finding a progressive educational space to think creatively and innovatively through Maker Majlis – a platform under the College of Islamic Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). 

The idea behind the Maker Majlis initiative is to find ways for youth to connect Islamic values with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and work as a collective to identify problems and solutions. 

Graduate students in the Master of Arts in Islam and Global Affairs program at the College of Islamic Studies (CIS), Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), recently organized a community dialogue initiative at Doha’s Innovation Café. 

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), in collaboration with Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) and Qatar National Library (QNL), hosted the inaugural International Workshop on Arabic Big Data and AI (IWABigDAI) from May 11-12. 

Scientists at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), in partnership with Qatari stakeholders and Turkish partners, have successfully built a cyber security defense platform named ‘WARNING’ for predicting and detecting security threats against enterprises and critical infrastructures.

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), part of Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), is enhancing its corrosion research capabilities with the commissioning of a new testing facility for examining hydrogen interaction with metals. 

Established under QEERI’s Corrosion Center, the facility will contribute to the development of knowledge-based predictive models. These will help Qatar’s major industries cope with the challenges related to materials integrity towards establishing a hydrogen economy.  

What is cholesterol?

Cholesterol is a type of lipid that is endogenously synthesized in most mammalian organisms and in the animal kingdom in general. It is composed of carbons and hydrogen atoms linked by covalent bonds and is classified as an unsaturated type of lipid because it contains double bonds. Cholesterol occurs in foods of animal origin such as egg yolk, meat, liver, and cow brain. 

World Parkinson’s Day takes place on April 11 every year to raise awareness of Parkinson’s disease. Neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s, are projected to surpass cancer as the most common group of medical conditions by 2040. 

Dr. Logan Cochrane, Associate Professor at the College of Public Policy (CPP), has published a chapter titled ‘State Power and Citizen Agency: Reframing the Power Narrative in State-Society Relations in Ethiopia’ in a comprehensive, interdisciplinary survey of contemporary research related to the Horn of Africa. The chapter features in the “Routledge Handbook on the Horn of Africa”, edited by Jean-Nicolas Bach and other leading scholars.