Dr. Issa Khalil is the Research Director of Cyber Security at the Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI). He earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from Purdue University in 2007. Dr. Khalil is an expert in security data analytics, network security, AI/ML security, privacy, cyber threat intelligence, and private data sharing. Dr. Khalil founded the National Cyber Security Research Lab (NCSRL) and led the design and deployment of one of the largest cyber ranges in the region. He has contributed to the Cyber Security Grand Challenge and the development of Qatar’s National Cyber Security Strategies.

His work includes over 120 publications in top-tier cybersecurity journals and conferences, alongside more than 12 U.S. patents and disclosures, four of which have been licensed to international security providers. His achievements have been featured in prominent outlets like the BBC and Qatar TV and have earned him prestigious awards, including the "Tech Team Award" from Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), the HBKU Research Excellence Award, and UAEU’s Outstanding Professor Award for his contributions to research, teaching, and service.

Rashad Al-Gaashani obtained his PhD in materials science from UKM, Malaysia, in 2012. He joined QEERI, HBKU, in February 2016 and is currently working as a scientist at the Water Center, serving as the lab focal point for the Water Innovation Lab. He has researched thin-film devices, microwave heaters, and metal oxide nanostructures.

Additionally, Al-Gaashani has extensively researched carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, activated carbon, biochar, zeolite, and limestone composite materials for wastewater treatment over the past seven years. His research is focused on developing new water filters, particularly high-quality activated carbon from biomass wastes for water treatment. Al-Gaashani has published over 24 peer-reviewed papers, which have been cited by 2703 papers, and has an h-index of 14.

Golibjon Berdiyorov is currently a senior scientist at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He obtained his Diploma in Physics at Tashkent State University, Uzbekistan in 1998. He defended his PhD thesis in 2007 at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His thesis was about computational study of parameters of superconducting materials under external electrictromagnetic fields. After his PhD he did postdoctoral research for several years, where he learned different computer simulation methods starting from first-principle density functional theory to continuum models for large scale simulations. 

His current research interest is in theoretical materials science for energy, wqater and environmental applications. In particular he is interested in predicting novel and functional materials for photovoltaics, water desalination and carbon capture and storage applications.

During his Assistant Professor position at King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, he was heavily involved in teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. 

Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is the Founding Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation. Before that, she was the Executive Director of the Translation and Interpreting Institute, which she founded in 2011. She also was an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar where she taught courses in writing composition, postcolonial literature, theories of translation, and Islamic feminism. Dr. Al-Malki holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of London-SOAS, where she also earned a master’s degree in English-Arabic Applied Linguistics and Translation.

Dr. Al-Malki’s research interests include the negotiation of identity between East and West, media representations of Arab women, and postcolonial literature. She has published numerous articles in academic journals in the United States and the UK. Her book, Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media (2012) is published by Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation and Bloomsbury Academic, UK. It was lauded as the first comprehensive study of the topic in the world. She also edited The Writer’s Craft: Teaching Creative Writing in Qatar, published as a part of an initiative honoring Doha as the Arab Capital of Culture in 2010.

Dr. Al-Malki is a sought-after public speaker and social commentator. She has been invited to speak at conferences and forums throughout the Middle East, United States, and the UK. Dr. Al-Malki was recognized as a QF Achiever in Qatar Foundation’s global campaign in 2011 and was featured in regional and international news and TV outlets, for example, CNN. She was the first Arab and Muslim to be invited as a Keynote Speaker at City University in New York after 9/11. She was also the first Qatari to be invited to address the Cheltenham Literature Festival. She has lectured at Durham University, SOAS, and Maryland University among others. In 2018, Dr. Al-Malki was selected by the Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs in Paris as “Personnalite d’Avenir Genre” (Future Personality for Gender Equality). Focusing on women's rights and Arab identity, Dr. Al-Malki strives to help deepen international understanding of Qatar and its evolving place in the world.

Before joining Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, one of Hamad Bin Khalifa University's three national research institutes, Dr. Hicham Hamoudi was a researcher at the International Center for Young Scientists (ICYS) International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics (MANA) within National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. He has a PhD degree in chemistry from the Paris-11 (Orsay) University (2009). Dr Hamoudi has a multifaceted background: he developed many techniques and instruments for surface science characterization. He has published 30 publications in various international journals.

Dr. Abdulazeem holds a PhD and a master's degree in Islamic Financial Law; three BAs in Islamic Law, Arabic Language and English Literature; and two higher studies diplomas in Islamic Law and Human Sciences. He has worked at universities as well as Islamic banks. He is currently a Professor of Islamic Finance at HBKU.

Laith Abu-Raddad is an adjunct professor of epidemiology and biostatistics at the College of Health and Life Sciences at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He also serves as a professor of population health sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University in Qatar. His expertise lies in infectious disease epidemiology, focusing on quantitative methods like mathematical modeling and biostatistics.

He has led several high-impact studies at the international and regional levels. He has published over 390 publications with a citation h-index of 97 and over 110,000 citations. His scientific research has been published in journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Lancet, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Lancet Microbe, JAMA, Nature Medicine, JAMA Internal Medicine, Nature Communications, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Hepatology, BMC Medicine, Science Translational Medicine, and AIDS.

He has been the principal investigator of several projects funded by various funding agencies and has acted as an expert advisor and consultant for several international organizations. His research work has been key in the formulation of public health policy at the regional and international levels. The findings of his research studies have received coverage in international media such as Aljazeera, the New York Times, the BBC, and the Economist.

Dr. Henning F. Horn is an Associate Professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s College of Health and Life Sciences. Dr. Horn received his PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the University of Cincinnati. After a postdoctoral fellowship with Professor Karen Vousden at the Beatson Institute for Cancer Research in Glasgow, United Kingdom, he joined the Institute of Medical Biology in Singapore, working with Professors Colin Stewart and Brian Burke.

In 2014, Dr. Henning F. Horn joined Hamad Bin Khalifa University and helped build the College of Health and Life Sciences research and teaching framework. He leads a research group focusing on two areas of health research; novel variants in male infertility to determine the cellular mechanisms leading to and the roles of several nuclear envelope proteins in cancer.