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QCRI to launch Center for Artificial Intelligence (Q-CAI) Initiative plans to ramp up development of artificial intelligence technologies to position Qatar as a global leader in AI.
QCRI welcomes 2018 summer interns
Projects will include developing a TEDTalk visualization, deep maps and a voice ID speaker recognition system.
QCRI and Turkish scientists to build pre-emptive cyber security platform
Project to build defensive platform to detect emerging cyberattacks awarded $1.65m grant.
MIT-CSAIL researchers visit Doha for annual QCRI research meeting
Meeting updates joint research projects between the two institutions and features 'genius grant' recipient Professor Regina Barzilay, as keynote speaker.
QCRI’s Advanced Transcription System snares ARC’18 Best Innovation Award Her Highness Sheikha Moza bint Nasser presents accolade for system that automatically converts speech to text using state-of-the-art speech recognition techniques.
QCRI signs three-year MoU with the Berlin Big Data Center
MoU will promote collaboration via an exchange of research, academic materials, faculty and research scholars.
Hundreds attend QCRI's first Creative Space Fair
Attendance at inaugural event shows 'buoyant interest' in computing in Qatar.
Boeing partners with QCRI to host fifth annual MLDAS
Machine Learning and Data Analytics Symposium (MLDAS) brings diverse group of data science experts to Qatar.
QCRI scientists develop algorithm to detect brain cancer markers
Method that can identify main regulators of separate brain tumors recently published in journals Nucleic Acids Research and Nature.
Research by QCRI's Jim Jansen among most influential of decade: top journals
QCRI Social Computing group's principal scientist achieves rare honor.
#Halal now a lifestyle definition on Instagram
The word “halal” is becoming a lifestyle term associated with health and fashion around the globe, new study of Instagram posts led by QCRI’s Yelena Mejova has found.
QCRI’s Mohamed Mokbel named Distinguished Scientist by world’s largest computing society ACM
Chief scientist among only 43 scientists globally - and the only one from the Middle East - to be selected for the honor in 2017.
QCRI’s Ingmar Weber wins UN award for joint gender equality research Joint research with scientists from Oxford and Princeton universities snares Data2X Big Data for Gender Challenge Award from the United Nations Foundation.
Qatar girls embrace technology to tackle obesity
Mothers are also more likely to use social media to learn about a healthy lifestyle than fathers, new study finds.
In the Media
MIT/QCRI system uses machine learning to build road maps
22/04/2018
Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven’t mapped all of it yet. Specifically, mapping roads can be difficult and tedious: even after taking aerial images, companies still have to ...
Improving disaster response efforts through data
08/02/2018
Extreme weather events put the most vulnerable communities at high risk. How can data analytics strengthen early warning systems and and support relief efforts for communities in need? The size and ...
Your sloppy bitcoin drug deals will haunt you for years
28/01/2018
Perhaps you bought some illegal narcotics on the Silk Road half a decade ago, back when that digital black market for every contraband imaginable was still online and bustling. You might already ...
Events
2018
QCRI Summer Internship Program
06/05/2018
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Hamad Bin Khalifa Research Complex
Each year, Qatar Computing Research Institute organizes a summer internship program for undergraduate students studying computer science, computer engineering and other disciplines. The internship is unpaid, and QCRI does not provide any visa support.
Past Events
27/03/2018
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Artificial Intelligence for Oncology: Learning to Cure Cancer from Images and Text A talk by Professor Regina Barzilay, MIT CSAIL Winner of 2017 MacArthur ‘genius grant’ At Education City Student ...
QCRI & MIT-CSAIL Annual Project Review 2018
27/03/2018
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Executive Overview Sessions Open to public Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 Time: 9:00AM – 3:00PM Venue: HBKU Research Complex Multipurpose Room To view full agenda, please click here . To RSVP, ...
News
QCRI to launch Center for Artificial Intelligence (Q-CAI)
14/05/2018
Initiative plans to ramp up development of artificial intelligence technologies to position Qatar as a global leader in AI.
QCRI hosts humanitarian data skills workshop
09/05/2018
Joint event with UNOCHA's Centre for Humanitarian Data, the Qatar Red Crescent Society and Education Above All Foundation held to devise common practices for data use in humanitarian action.
QCRI welcomes 2018 summer interns
06/05/2018
Projects will include developing a TEDTalk visualization, deep maps, learning from time series sensor data, real-time detection of phishing domains and developing a voice ID speaker recognition system.
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Dr. Ahmed K. Elmagarmid
Executive Director
+Computing has brought disruptive innovation to our daily lives - transforming the way we interact with each other, enabling new discoveries, accelerating development of global society. At QCRI we have created a vibrant research environment that facilitates this progression and that positions Qatar as a leader in advancing research and technology.
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Dr. Abdellatif Saoudi
Managing Director
+We are building a new model for research in the region through QCRI – one that not only stimulates a vibrant research environment but more notably one that has relevance and impact locally with global appeal.
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Dr. Stephan Vogel
Research Director
+Being part of a research institute in start-up mode, helping to build a strong team doing world class research, and at the same time experiencing a different environment in terms of culture and language, geography and climate.
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Dr. Nan Tang
Senior Scientist
+I joined QCRI because the institute is heading in the direction where I want to be.
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Dr. Preslav Nakov
Senior Scientist
+I was excited by the challenge QCRI offered: help build a new world-class institute. I am glad to see it growing as a stimulating international research environment.
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Dr. Sofiane Abbar
Senior Software Engineer
+I was amazed by the QCRI vision and its ambition to be one of the best research labs in the world. That's why I wanted to be a part of this project.
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Dr. Wei Gao
Scientist
+QCRI is a brand-new research institute committing to world-class research in my area of expertise, which offers me unprecedented opportunities to embrace exciting challenges.
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Dr. Ingmar Weber
Research Director
+I’m very excited to be in Doha and to be part of QCRI and to have a chance to contribute to its exciting and ambitious mission.
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Dr. Ashraf Aboulnaga
Research Director
+QCRI is an ambitious and energetic place that is on track to become a top research center worldwide. I want to be part of making that happen.
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Dr. Issa Khalil
Principal Scientist
+QCRI is a wonderful place to work in the Middle East as it both satisfies my career goals and my family needs.
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Dr. Essam Mansour
Scientist
+I am proud to contribute to the growing effort of establishing QCRI as a world-class research institute in applied computing by developing theories and systems of high impact for both academia and industry.
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Research Highlight
QCRI’s Advanced Transcription System snares ARC’18 Best Innovation Award+
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