“Overconfident but underprepared” can be ascribed to the current state of AI in healthcare. For the past five years, there has been a proliferation of work into the study, evaluation, and application of AI across the healthcare spectrum for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in areas such as cardiology, psychiatry, dermatology, and stroke with promising results. The discourse around AI in healthcare is so pervasive today that its impact on current medical research work cannot be ignored, especially in areas such as diagnostic radiology. 

Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) is proud to announce that translator, Kholoud Amr, won third prize in the category of translation from English into Arabic in this year’s edition of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (SHTAIU) for her translation of the Arabic HBKU Press book, The Buried Giant, by 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature winner, Kazuo Ishiguro.

A professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE) has been appointed to one of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s most prominent advisory panels. 

Dr. Roberto Di Pietro, a professor at Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE), has been named the Association for Computing Machinery’s (ACM) Distinguished Scientist "for his outstanding scientific contributions to computing". Dr. Roberto is among only other 50 scientists, and the only one in the Middle East and North Africa region, to be selected for the honor by the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society in 2019.

A student from Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s (HBKU) College of Science and Engineering (CSE) was among the winners at the 2019 workshop on NLP4IF co-located with Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), held in Hong Kong from November 3 to 7. 

The College of Public Policy (CPP) has recently become a Gold Member of The Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis, which is affiliated to the International Comparative Policy Analysis Forum (ICPA). 

Founded in 2010, the ICPA is an international network of scholars dedicated to advancing and encouraging the exchange of ideas, research, and other activities relating to comparative analytical policy studies.

When we speak of public policy in the Arab World, many would have heard of this branch of learning, yet perhaps fewer would be able to associate with it.

But this trend is quickly changing as nations worldwide become increasingly aware of the service policy pays at the micro and macro levels. The field, which is gaining traction in the global pursuit towards peace and prosperity, is critical for governments not only looking to align with their moral compass, but also implement workable and comprehensive frameworks for the betterment of their societies.

Faculty from the College of Islamic Studies (CIS) recently delivered a short course to students at Prince Songkla University (PSU) in the Kingdom of Thailand. Dr. Mohamed El Gammal, associate professor at CIS, and Dr. Fethi Ahmed, a research coordinator at the CIS’ Research Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics (CILE), led a course on ‘Contemporary Applications of Maqasid al-Sharia,’ at the Pattani campus of the College of Islamic Studies at PSU, from June 17 to 21. During the course, Dr.

A recurrent theme emerged from a series of workshops and public lecture recently presented at Hamad Bin Khalifa University by Dr. Salman Sayyid, Professor of Decolonial Thought and Social Theory at the University of Leeds, and that is the need to question the structural foundation of Islamic Studies as a discipline. It is no surprise. Decolonial thought is about challenging Western colonial power, which perpetuates domination through knowledge production.

Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), a member of Qatar Foundation, celebrated the graduation of its Class of 2019 during a ceremony held at Qatar National Convention Centre on Saturday, May 4, attended by Her Excellency Sheikha Hind bint Hamad Al Thani, Vice Chairperson and CEO of Qatar Foundation, and Chairperson of HBKU’s Board of Trustees.