Dr. Ehsan Pourkarimi obtained his undergraduate degree from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary. 

After receiving a Cancer Research Fellowship, he moved to the United Kingdom to join Professor Anton Gartner at the Wellcome Trust Center for Gene Regulation and Expression at the University of Dundee. During his post-doctoral work, Dr. Pourkarimi focused his research on understanding the effect of chromatin modifiers in cellular response during acute stress conditions. He then moved to New York City and worked as a Research Associate in the lab of Dr. Iestyn Whitehouse at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center where he studied DNA replication.

Dr. Lina Majed is an Assistant Professor at the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She obtained her Master's and PhD degrees in Human Movement Science from Paris-Saclay University. Her research area focuses on a multidisciplinary approach to preferred motor behaviors. She is currently examining characteristics of gait patterns as related to health and the influences of culture and environments on gait. 

She has a keen interest in understanding the interplays between physical activity, preferred motor behaviors, health, and well-being. Dr. Lina is the leader of the national task force on the Qatar ‘Active Healthy Kids Report Card’ (part of a Global Alliance) in collaboration with several governmental and academic institutions. She has contributed to the National Physical Activity Guidelines for Qatar. With more than 10 years of academic experience, she has published several high-impact journal publications with direct relevance to Qatar and its population's health.

Dr. Rashid Yahiaoui is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Department of Language, Culture and Communication at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences of Hamad bin Khalifa University, Qatar. He has a PhD in Translation Studies from London Metropolitan University, UK, and a Master in Translation and Interpreting from the University of Salford, UK. Dr. Yahiaoui has a wealth of experience lecturing in translation and interpreting, EFL, and academic writing. He also has extensive experience as a professional interpreter, working for the Foreign Office and National Health Service in the UK for over 10 years.

Dr. Amer Al-Adwan is currently an associate professor of audiovisual translation in the Department of Language, Culture and Communication at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU). He received his BA in English Language and Literature from Yarmouk University, Jordan in 2003, and his MA in Applied Translation in 2005 from the University of Exeter, UK. He also obtained his doctorate in Translation and Intercultural Studies from the University of Manchester in 2009. Before joining HBKU in 2014, he worked as an assistant professor at Jordan University and Applied Science University, Jordan, where he taught several courses in translation and intercultural studies. He also worked for a few international institutions, including BBC Arabic and Aljazeera English, as a translator and a subtitler.  

Dr. Mohamed Mahmoud Abdallah is a Professor and founding faculty member at the College of Science and Engineering and serves as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and Quality Assurance at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Dr. Abdallah earned his BSc. from Cairo University in 1996, followed by his MSc and PhD from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. From 2006 to 2016, he held academic positions at Cairo University and Texas A&M University at Qatar.

Dr. Abdallah’s research focuses on leveraging AI in smart cities, wireless networks, and smart grids, with a particular emphasis on network optimization and security. He has received several awards, including the Research Fellow Excellence Award from Texas A&M University at Qatar and multiple Best Paper Awards at IEEE conferences. He also received the Nortel Networks Industrial Fellowship for five consecutive years (1999-2003). Dr. Abdallah has served in key editorial roles for top IEEE journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Communications, and in leadership positions for several major IEEE conferences. He has authored over 220 papers, co-authored four book chapters, and holds four patents.

Jim is a principal scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, a professor in the College of Science and Engineering, Hamad bin Khalifa University, and an Adjunct Professor at the College of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University. He is a graduate of West Point and has a Ph.D. in computer science from Texas A&M University, along with master’s degrees from Texas A&M (computer science) and Troy State (international relations).

Dr. Husrev Taha Sencar is a principal scientist at QCRI's cybersecurity group. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at TOBB University, Ankara, Turkey. During 2012-2015, he served as the local director of the Center for Cyber Security at NYU Abu Dhabi. Taha is a renowned digital forensics expert specializing in source attribution and forensic data recovery. His research at QCRI focuses on building AI-powered solutions to address security challenges and improving the robustness of AI models. He earned his PhD from the New Jersey Institute of Technology in 2004.

Dr. Ericsson attended both Uppsala and Stockholm University and obtained his PhD from Stockholm University in 1992. He then moved to the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA), where he worked on the transcriptional regulation of cholesterol metabolism. 

Dr. Ericsson established his own independent research group in 1998 at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, focusing on the post-translational regulation of a family of transcription factors critical for cholesterol and lipid metabolism, i.e. the SREBP family of proteins. In 2009, Dr. Ericsson became an SFI Stokes Professor at University College Dublin, where his group continued their work on the transcriptional and post-translational regulation of lipid metabolism. Dr. Ericsson has been an Associate Professor at HBKU since May 2019.

Mourad Ouzzani is the Research Director of the Research Engineering Group whose mission is to productize QCRI's research. The group has produced several products some of which have been commercialized through different channels. These include SIHA, a system for integrated health analytics, QARTA, an AI-enabled map engine, Zaman, a smart bilingual news app for the Arab world, SAQR a social media analytics platform with a focus on Arabic, Fehris, a powerful personal content management system, and NxPalin, a system for explainable, transparent, and Fair AI.

Mourad conducts research in data management and analytics with a focus on data integration, data cleaning, and more recently data-centric AI. Mourad has played a key role in establishing the data analytics group (now QCAI) within QCRI. He was the project lead of Rayyan, the leading systematic reviews web and mobile app, which is being used by more than 250K users worldwide. Rayyan has since graduated from QCRI to a startup, Rayyan Systems Inc.  Mourad’s research work has led to numerous publications in top tier venues including PVLDB, TKDE, SIGMOD, and ICDE. Mourad has been PI or CoPI in more than 15 grant proposals funded by NSF, NIH, DHS, and other funding agencies.