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Dr.Ameni Boumaiza

Dr. Ameni Boumaiza

Scientist

Office location

HBKU Research Complex, South Building B2-RDC-C001

Dr. Ameni Boumaiza

Scientist

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Computer Science (Graduated with honors from the Jury)

MS in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (“Awarded Summa cum Laude")

Entity

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute

Biography

Dr. Ameni Boumaiza is currently working as a Scientist at Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI), Hamad Bin Khalifa University. She is serving as a Project Lead of the PV Adoption and Trade project under the Energy Management Program and has worked on several projects funded by the Qatar National Research Fund. Her primary research focus is on Solar Energy management and smart systems based on AI. She has completed several studies on solar PV adoption, techno-economic modeling of energy systems and energy trading applications based on the Blockchain technology.

Prior to joining HBKU/QEERI, Dr. Ameni Boumaiza received a full PhD merit-based scholarship from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research in France. She got her PhD in 2013 in Computer Engineering from the French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation INRIA and the University of Lorrain, France and from the Computer Vision Center CVC in UAB Barcelona, Spain. She has held various positions in academia and industry in France. She was a part of the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission Institute CEA-List and the Vision and Content Engineering Lab LVIC in Saclay, Paris, France. Having benefited from closed interactions with laboratories, companies such as CEA-LVIC, INRIA, Thales, she got a strong background in artificial intelligence, renewable energy systems, computer vision, machine learning and robotics.

Her scientific research focuses on strategies addressing energy systems, artificial intelligence, robotics, image processing data science with an emphasis on data mining and machine learning and evaluative techniques to create solutions to complex challenges. She is specialized in software development modeling, simulation, testing, and quality assurance. She managed complex technical BI projects and collaborated directly with global engineering and research teams to create business intelligence solutions, and identify and assess new technologies prior to the software implementation. 

PhD in Computer Science (Graduated with honors from the Jury)

University of Lorrain, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation INRIA; Nancy FRANCE.

2013

MS in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science (“Awarded Summa cum Laude")

INRIA the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation University of Lorraine, ENSI; FRANCE.

2009

Engineer Degree in Computer Science (“Awarded Summa cum Laude")

INRIA the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation, University of Lorraine-ENSI; FRANCE.

2009

  • Renewable Energy
  • Blockchain Technology
  • Energy Trading Applications
  • Techno-economic Modeling
  • Smart Cities
  • Techno-economic Modeling
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Neurosciences
  • Computer Vision
  • Image Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Software Development
  • Data Mining
  • Robotics
  • Image Processing
  • Smart Systems Modelling
  • Design and Development

Project lead, Scientist

Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, HBKU

Current Position

Software Engineer

Power International Holding, Qatar

2015 - 2017

Computer Vision Engineer/Postdoctoral Researcher

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) Paris-France

2013 - 2015

Researcher Engineer

INRIA Grand-Est Nancy-France

2010 - 2013

Assistant Professor

University of Mathematics and Computer Science, UFR France, Master 2 MIAGE, Models Engineering, Data Mining, Information System Analysis

2010 - 2013

Book

“Graphics Recognition and Spotting in Graphical Documents Based on a Galois Lattice Structure”, “French Academic Press (January 1, 2014)”.

Book Chapter

Ameni Boumaiza. Antonio Sanfilippo, “A GIS Agent Based Modeling Environment for Blockchain Based Energy Trading”, Recent advances in Renewable Energy Technologies, Elsevier 2022.

Ameni Boumaiza, M. Sajjad, A. Sanfilippo, N. Mohandes, “Energy Trading Blockchain Framework Agents Modeling Approach”, Springer Special issue, International Conference on Sustainable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Desert Climate.

Invention Disclosure

Antonio P. Sanfilippo, Ameni Boumaiza, Nassma Mohandes, 2018 “Method and System for Automating Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis and Multi-Criteria Decision Making”, filed 2 August 2018.

Journals

Ameni Boumaiza, Antonio Sanfilippo, Nassma Mohandes, 2020 “Modeling Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Residential PV Adoption”, Energy Strategy Reviews, Elsevier (submitted November 2020)

Ameni Boumaiza, M. Sajjad, A. Sanfilippo, N. Mohandes, 2019 “Energy Trading Blockchain Framework Agents Modeling Approach”, Springer Special issue, International Conference on Sustainable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Desert Climate, ICSEWEN 2019.

Ameni Boumaiza, S. Abbar, N. Mohandes and A. Sanfilippo, 2018 "Modeling the Impact of Innovation Diffusion on Solar PV Adoption in City Neighborhoods." International Journal of Renewable Energy Research, vol. 8, no. 3, 2018, p.1749+.

Ameni Boumaiza, 2015 "A survey on sentiment analysis and visualization." Journal of Emerging Technologies in Web Intelligence, vol. 7, no. 1, 2015, p. 35+.

IEEE Conferences

Boumaiza A., Sajjad M., Sanfilippo A., 2020 “Agents-based Modeling for a Transactive Energy Trading Blockchain Framework”. 2020 Proceedings of European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference, EUPVSEC 2020.

Sajjad M., Boumaiza A., Sanfilippo A., 2020 “An optimal Agent-based Behaviors Model for Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading linked to Blockchain”. 2020 Proceedings of European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference EUPVSEC 2020.

Ameni Boumaiza, M. Sajjad, A. Sanfilippo, N. Mohandes, 2019 “Energy Trading Blockchain Framework Agents Modeling Approach”, International Conference on Sustainable Energy-Water-Environment Nexus in Desert Climate, ICSEWEN 2019.

Ameni Boumaiza, Antonio Sanfilippo, Nassma Mohandes, 2019 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Renewable Energy Applications. The 36th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition in Marseille, France.

Ameni Boumaiza, S. Abbar, N. Mohandes and A. Sanfilippo, 2018 "Innovation diffusion for renewable energy technologies," 2018 IEEE 12th International Conference on Compatibility, Power Electronics and Power Engineering (CPE-POWERENG 2018), Doha, 2018, pp. 1-6.

Ameni. Boumaiza, S. Abbar, N. Mohandes and A. Sanfilippo, 2018 "Modeling innovation diffusion for renewable energy technologies in city neighborhoods," 2018 9th International Renewable Energy Congress (IREC), Ham Mamet, 2018, pp. 1-6.

Antonio Sanfilippo, Ameni Boumaiza and Nassma Mohandes, 2019 Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis in Residential PV Adoption. The International Conference on Innovative Applied Energy (IAPE’19), 14-15 March, 2019, St Cross College, University of Oxford, UK – KEYNOTE TALK

N. Mohandes, Ali Elrayyah, Antonio Sanfilippo, Ameni Boumaiza, 2018 Impact of PV Power Loss/Gain on PV Power Cost and PV Adoption. The 35th European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition in Brussels, Belgium.

N. Mohandes, Ali Elrayyah, Antonio Sanfilippo, Ameni Boumaiza , 2018 Impact of PV Power Loss/Gain on PV Power Cost and PV Adoption, IAPE 2018.

Ameni Boumaiza, 2016 A Survey on Sentiment Analysis and Visualization, Qatar Foundation Annual Research Conference ARC 2016.

Ameni Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone. 2012 Impact of a Codebook Filtering Step on a Galois Lattice Structure for Graphics Recognition. 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Nov 2012, Tsukuba International Congress Center, Japan. pp.4, 2012.

Ameni Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone. 2012 Symbol Recognition using a Galois Lattice of Frequent Graphical Patterns. 10th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Mar 2012, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. 2012.

Ameni Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone. 2011 A Novel Approach for Graphics Recognition based on Galois lattice and Bag of Words representation, 10th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition - ICDAR 2011, Sep 2011, Pekin, China. IEEE, pp.829-833, 2011.

Ameni Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone, 2011 Classification de symboles avec un treillis de Galois et une representation par sac de mots, "ORASIS" International Congress for researchers in computer vision, 2011 France.

Ameni Boumaiza, Salvatore Tabbone. 2011 Symbol Spotting Based on the Galois Lattice Structure, 11th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, DAS 2011.

  • 2021; Awarded Project, QNRF (PI-NPRP 13th Cycle, January 2021).
  • 2013; Ph. D in Computer Science: Graduated with honors from the Jury; France.
  • 2010; Full Ph-D 3-years Scholarship Grant from the Ministry of Higher Education and Research and the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation INRIA, France and the Eureka SCANPLAN Project (Barcelona, Spain).
  • 2009; Major in MS in Artificial Intelligence, Data Decision Analytics, Robotics and Computer Science, INRIA the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation INRIA University of Lorraine, ENSI; France.
  • 2009; Major in Computer Science Engineering; Tunisia, France.
  • 2009; Full Engineer-Internship Abroad Scholarship & Grant from the National School in Computer Science, ENSI-Tunisia and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, France.
  • 2009; Full Master Internship Abroad Scholarship Grant from the National School in Computer Science, ENSI-Tunisia and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, the National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation INRIA France.

Sanaa Al Farsi

Senior Software Engineer

Sanaa Al Farsi

Senior Software Engineer

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Cybersecurity

Dr. Nadir Durrani

Dr. Nadir Durrani

Senior Scientist

Phone

4 541 441

Office location

RC-B1-1131

Dr. Nadir Durrani

Senior Scientist

Educational Qualifications

PhD in Natural Language Processing

MSc in Computer Science

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Arabic Language Technologies

Biography

Dr. Nadir Durrani is a Senior Scientist at the Arabic Language Technologies (ALT) where he works on several projects such as Interpretability (NeuroX), Machine Translation (Shaheen), Speech Synthesis (NatiQ) and language processing tools for Arabic (Farasa).

PhD in Natural Language Processing

University of Stuttgart/IMS

2012

MSc in Computer Science

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences/CRULP

2007

BS in Computer Science

National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences

2004

  • Explainable AI: Analyzing deep NLP Models (with a focus on diagnostic classifiers
  • linguistic correlation analysis
  • unsupervised methods
  • clustering methods
  • ablation analysis
  • similarity analysis
  • causation and behavioral studies).
  • Machine Translation: Neural and Statistical MT (with focus on reordering
  • domain adaptation
  • transliteration
  • dialectal translation
  • pivoting
  • closely related and morphologically rich languages
  • simultaneous translation
  • eye-tracking for MT evaluation).

Senior Scientist

Arabic Language Technologies, Qatar Computing Research Institute

2021 - Present

Scientist

Arabic Language Technologies, Qatar Computing Research Institute

2015 - 2020

Post-doctoral

Informatics, University of Edinburgh

2012 - 2014

Research Intern

Watson Center, IBM

2012 - 2012

Research Staff

IMS, University of Stuttgart

2008 - 2012

Research Officer

CRULP, NUCES

2004 - 2007

Research Consultant

PAN Localization, STEA

2005 - 2005

  • 2017; Best innovation award for Arabic-English Speech Translation; ARC; Doha/Qatar
  • 2016; Best Arabic-English Machine Translation Systems; IWSLT; Seattle/USA
  • 2014; GSCL Best Doctoral Thesis Award; Gesellschaft für Sprachtechnologie und Computerlinguistik; KOVENS - Hildesheim/Germany
  • 2014; Best Machine Translation Systems for several European languages; WMT; Baltimore/USA
  • 2013; Best Machine Translation Systems for several European languages; WMT; Sofia/Bulgaria
  • 2012; IMS Best Doctoral Thesis Award; Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung; Stuttgart 2012; Stuttgart/Germany
  • 2012; PhD with Magna Cum Laude; Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung; Stuttgart/Germany
  • 2008; Scholarship for Doctoral Studies; Higher Education of Pakistan; Lahore/Pakistan
  • 2007; MS with Silver Medal; FAST-NUCES; Lahore/Pakistan
Dr. Mohamed Elshirif

Dr. Mohamed Elshirif

Post Doc

Dr. Mohamed Elshirif

Post Doc

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah

Senior Scientist

Phone

4 542 257

Office location

A148

Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah

Senior Scientist

Educational Qualifications

Visiting Scientist at CSAIL

Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Cybersecurity

Biography

Dr. Mashael Al-Sabah is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute. Before that, Dr. Al-Sabah was an Assistant Professor at the computer science and engineering department at Qatar University. Her research interests lie in the areas of network security and privacy enhancing technologies, cryptocurrency, and blockchain technology. She has published papers that were featured in various magazines such as Wired and New Scientist, and was awarded the Education Excellence Day Platinum Award for PhD holders in Qatar in 2014. Dr. Al-Sabah obtained her PhD from the University of Waterloo, Canada in 2013 and later spent 16 months at MIT as a visiting scientist.

 

 

Visiting Scientist at CSAIL

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, USA

March 2014 - June 2015

Ph.D. ("Dissertation Title: \Network Performance Improvements for Low-Latency Anonymity Networks")

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada

June 2013

M.A.Sc., Computer Networks

Ryerson University, Toronto, ON, Canada

May 2007

B.S., Computer Science

American University in Cairo, Egypt

June 2004

  • Network Security
  • Privacy Enhancing Technologies
  • Cryptocurrency
  • Blockchain

Senior Scientist

QCRI (cyber security)

May 2019 - present

Scientist

QCRI (cyber security)

Mar 2018 - May 2019

Assistant Prof

Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)

Sept 2013 - Feb 2018

Lecturer

Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)

2007 - 2013

Teaching Assistant

Qatar University (Computer science and engineering department)

2005 - 2007

Accepted to appear in 34th International Conference on ICT Systems Security and Privacy Protection,

Elsevier Computers and Security,

Elsevier Computers and Security,

Impact: CSUR has a high impact factor. An earlier version of this paper has been used as assigned reading in a Computer Security course at University of California, Berkeley

24th USENIX Security Symposium, August 2015. [Impact: This paper received significant media attention, and was featured in more 15 news articles. This paper has also been used as an assigned reading in various computer security courses in various leading universities such as John Hopkins University, University of Waterloo, and University of California, Berkeley]

20th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security,

13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013. [Impact: This paper received Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award at the Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, 2013.]

19th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, October 2012.

11th ACM Workshop on Privacy in the Electronic Society,

DefenestraTor: Throwing Out Windows in Tor. 11th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2011.

Conextaware RAON Middleware for Opportunistic Networks. Elsevier Pervasive and Mobile Computing,

  • Third prize in the Regular Poster Presentation Category under the ICT pillar. Qatar Foundation
  • Annual Research Conference Proceedings 2016 (QF ARC 2016).
  • Qatar University Publication Award, 2016.
  • Platinum Education Excellence Day Award for PhD holders by HH the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, 2014.
  • Andreas Ptzmann Best Student Paper Award. 13th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, July 2013.
  • Qatar University PhD Fellowship (2008-2013).
  • Qatar University M.S. Fellowship (2005-2007).
  • Outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science, American University in Cairo, 2003
  • Outstanding academic achievement in Computer Science, American University in Cairo, 2004
  • Qatar Ministry of Education B.S. Scholarship (1999-2004)
  • Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser award - Second Top National High School
  • Student (science division) 1999.
Mr. Mahmoud Gajem

Mr. Mahmoud Gajem

Research Support Engineer

Mr. Mahmoud Gajem

Research Support Engineer

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Lolwa Al Maadid

Software Engineer

Lolwa Al Maadid

Software Engineer

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Mr. Khalid Kunji

Mr. Khalid Kunji

Research Associate

Mr. Khalid Kunji

Research Associate

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Ms. Ji Lucas

Ms. Ji Lucas

Senior Software Engineer

Ms. Ji Lucas

Senior Software Engineer

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute

Division

Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Giovanna Vantini

Software Engineer

Dr. Giovanna Vantini

Software Engineer

Entity

Qatar Computing Research Institute