Dr. Hasan Kurban is an Assistant Professor at the College of Science and Engineering. He is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Computer Science and Data Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, and an Editor for Nature Scientific Reports.

Dr. Kurban earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science with a minor in Statistics from Indiana University, Bloomington, USA, in 2017. His research spans artificial intelligence, deep learning, software engineering, graph theory, and large-scale data analytics, with applications in diverse fields, including computational materials science, biology, sports analytics, education, public transportation, finance, and medicine.

Dr. Moin is a Lecturer at the College of Science and Engineering. Previously, he worked as a Research Associate and Technical Laboratory Coordinator at Texas A&M University at Qatar. He was honored as the Best Researcher at TAMUQ for the year 2010–11 and received the Star Award for 2022–23.

Dr. Moin has authored over 70 articles in various international conferences and journals. He holds the distinction of being an IEEE Senior Member. Dr. Moin’s professional interests are in the field of power electronics, electric drives, and multi-phase converters, with a specific focus on matrix converters. He is also involved in AI and machine learning. Presently, his h-index is 19, and his i10-index is 46.

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 an 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.

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.

Dr. Cong-Yi (CY) Wang is the Scientific Director of the Diabetes Research Center at the Qatar Biomedical Research Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Medical Immunology from Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China. He completed postdoctoral training in population genetics, genomics, and immunology of type 1 diabetes (T1D) at the University of Florida under Dr. Noel Maclaren, a pioneer in endocrinology and metabolism.

Dr. Wang was later recruited as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Center for Biotechnology and Genomic Medicine, Medical College of Georgia (now Augusta University), where he studied genetic and environmental factors influencing T1D risk. He was also appointed Scientific Director of the Georgia Exoteric and Molecular Laboratories at the Medical College of Georgia Health Science Center after his tenure as Assistant Professor.

In 2014, Dr. Wang was recruited by the Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, as a tenured professor. At Tongji Hospital, he established the Center for Biomedical Research, Tongji Biobank, and the Tongji SPF Animal Center. He served as Director of the Center for Biomedical Research, Tongji Biobank, and the National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases, as well as Associate Director of Sponsored Program Administration.

Dr. Wang’s research focuses on the genetic and epigenetic mechanisms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes. His team investigates the crosstalk between different cell types and metabolic organs, by which he aims to identify diet-derived metabolites or small molecules that could be employed to prevent or treat metabolic disorders such as obesity and insulin resistance.

Dr. Emine Filiz Kölmek is an Assistant Professor of Sustainable Urbanism at the College of Islamic Studies. Her research focuses on Islamic aesthetics, Ottoman architecture, urban transformation, and sustainability. She has contributed to scholarly discussions on the spatial organization of Topkapı Palace and methodological approaches for analyzing Islamic art and architecture. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed books and presented at international conferences, with ongoing work on sustainability in urban transformation and meaning in Islamic architecture.

Dr. Kölmek holds a PhD in Architecture from Middle East Technical University (METU), where she graduated with a perfect 4.0 GPA. She earned her MA in Interior Architecture and her BA in Urban Design and Landscape Architecture from Bilkent University with a full scholarship. She is a recipient of the HBKU-CIS Research Cluster Grant for a book project on Islamic aesthetics, a collaborative research initiative led by HBKU faculty.

With more than ten years of professional experience, Dr. Kölmek worked as an urban designer and landscape architect at Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, leading key urban transformation projects, including Hıdırlık, İsmetpaşa, and AtıfbeyI; and contributing to Türkiye’s largest initiative, the New Mamak Project. She also taught architecture and design at Yıldırım Beyazıt University.

Dr. Mohammad Ismail Albakri is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Science and Engineering. Dr. Albakri earned his PhD in Engineering Mechanics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) in 2017. Before Joining Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Dr. Albakri held academic positions at Tennessee Technological University and Texas A&M University at Qatar.

Dr. Albakri’s research interests span the areas of smart materials and applied mechanics with a particular emphasis on additive manufacturing and nondestructive evaluation. Dr. Albakri is the founder of the Smart Materials and Structures Research laboratory where his research group combines analytical, numerical, data-driven, and experimental approaches to conduct research at the forefront of functional materials, mechanics, and manufacturing.

Dr. Albakri has authored numerous publications in leading scientific journals and has presented his work at prestigious conferences. He is also the recipient of several research and teaching awards in recognition of his achievements.