Old News and Events
Academic Year 2020-2021
CSE student Mohammed Ashraf won the 2nd place in CyberStars Contest (Age category: 17-24).
CSE alumni Jasim AlSadi and Moath Mushtaha won the 2nd and the 3rd places in the CyberStars contest (age category:24 and above).
CSE department at Qatar University organized an online (virtual) mini-symposium in collaboration with the department of computer science, university of Aberdeen (UoA at UK), on Monday, September, 7th, 2020.
A workshop titled "What it means to be a Ph.D. student" at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) given by Dr. Tamer Elsayed, on Wednesday, Sep, 9th, 2020, at 4:00 pm.
The project of Dr. Abdulaziz Al-Ali and Dr. Qutaibah Malluhi has been awarded for the Concept Development Grant: Emergency Response (CD-ER) at Qatar University. The application title is ''Caution: Privacy-Preserving Crowdsourcing for Outbreak Management and Self Protection in Qatar''.
Thanks to CSE department advisory board members, and their valuable suggestions.
Congratulations to Dr. Moutaz Saleh and his team, Abdullah Al-Hussaini and Raseena Haris for winning won “The Outstanding Performance Award” in Huawei ICT competition Middle East 2019 - China.
Participation of Dr. AbdulAziz Buras in the judging process for the “Qatar Awards for Digital Business 2019”. Organized by the Ministry of Transport and Communication - Qatar.
CSE department organized the annual Computing Contest.
Qatar University - College of Engineering signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Huawei Technologies Investment Co Ltd – Qatar.
The Department of Computer Science and Engineering organized a course for the professional development of computer teachers at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, which has been sponsored by Google.
The department of Computer Science and Engineering will be organizing an IEEE International Conference on Informatics, IoT, and Enabling Technologies (ICIoT’20) aims at providing a forum for sharing ideas and new research advances among researchers and practitioners working on state-of-the-art solutions in informatics, artificial intelligence (AI), computer vision, Internet of Things (IoT), enabling technologies, security, Industry 4.0, and e-Health. ICIoT will be organized by Qatar University, 2-5 February 2020. The conference is expected to attract renowned researchers as Keynote Speakers, organize training sessions and tutorials, and present recent advances in the field. The conference will make a significant contribution to improving communications, security and healthcare systems in the state of Qatar and providing the appropriate technologies to support such goals. Discussions will take place on new systems, Artificial intelligence, IoT, e-Health platforms, and technologies. This international event will help create new opportunities for scientific exchange and collaborations among researchers of many Qatari institutions (e.g., academic, industry, and government) and beyond. This conference will discuss how digitization and new technologies will drive the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The last day of the Conference will be dedicated entirely to discuss best practices in the industry, and recommendations on the way forward.
Conference link: Click here.
Submit your paper: Click here.
Conference summary: Click here.
Academic Year 2017-2018
App for cars services developed by one of the Computer Science and Engineering graduate students
Congratulation to Dr. Abdelghani Karkar, who defended successfully his Ph.D. thesis today, Wednesday, December 20th, 2017, and passed with minor corrections.
CSE students visiting Huawei for information technology - China.
Congratulation to Dr. Abbes Amira and his team for reaching the final stage of the Dell EMC Envision the Future Competition in 2017. His project was among 27 finalists in a competition that has received 214 submissions from 11 countries. Teams from 5 countries only have reached the final stage. It is a great accomplishment at the regional level.
Project title: Automatic Aneurysm Segmentation on Reconfigurable SoC
Team members:
- Ealaf Hussein
- Maroua Filali
- Salma Shalaby
Abstract:
Aneurysm rupture is a leading cause of death; aneurysm segmentation is pivotal in fast and accurate diagnosis. Furthermore, it provides additional information in deciding the right size of the coil in case of endovascular treatment during the planning stage. 3DRA images have high resolution, thus implementing the segmentation algorithm in reconfigurable hardware is absolutely necessary to accelerate the entire process until visualization. This project aims to implement a real-time automated segmentation technique for a cerebral aneurysm on the ZYNQ system on chip (SoC) and visualize them in a 3D environment for treatment planning.
Academic Year 2016-2017
Gathering photo for all the department Members on Monday 21st November 2016.
Department of Computer Science and Engineering and KINDI Computing Research Lab would like to invite you to attend
Ethical Hacking Workshop (EHW-16)
- EHW is the first cyber-security workshop hosted by Qatar University.
- The workshop is open to all students, no prior knowledge is required.
- Learn about cyber-attacks and become aware of cyber-security threats.
- Participate in the contest with your friends to investigate cybercrime and win big prizes.
Date: Nov. 26th, Dec. 3rd and Dec. 10th, 2016.
Timing: 9 am – 2 pm
Location: TBA
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Riley. Has been promoted to Associate Professor on 10th October 2016.
Dr. Sumaya Al-Maadeed (HoD) participated in the panel discussions in Digital Textbook Symposium which was held in Zayed University, Dubai on Thursday, 6th October 2016.
Dr. Tamer Elsayed will be giving a talk tomorrow Thursday (6th October 2016) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) at one of the graduate courses for MSc and Ph.D. students in CS. Here is the full information about the talk:
Speaker: Dr. Tamer Elsayed
Title: “Research Issues You MUST know!”
Date: Thursday, Oct 6th, 2016
Time: 4:45pm-7:00pm
Venue: HBKU, LAS Building, Class HALL A
Dr. Abdulaziz Al Ali, one of the CSE faculty members attended one of the forums in Tunisia, with a title “ ITU-ALECSO International Forum on "The Use of Cloud Computing Technology to improve Education in Arab Countries". The forum took a place on 05-06 October 2016, and here is a small description about it.
Description:
"The ALESCO-ITU International Forum aims to discuss the cloud computing technology benefits and challenges for Arab Educational and research institutions and to present the jointly prepared guidelines and policies for the effective development and deployment of cloud computing based solution for alike institutions, taking into account their current ICT status, context, and many other parameters."
Dr. Abdulaziz participated in the conference by providing his personal feedback for the forum committees regarding the implementation of cloud computing technologies for educational purposes in the Arab world.
Some of the department instructors attended a conference in 5th - 9th Sep 2016. Here is the conference information:
Conference name: (IWCMC 2016: 12th International Wireless Communications & Mobile Computing Conference).
Date of conference: Sep 5, 2016 - Sep 9, 2016.
Venue: Coral Beach Hotel, Paphos, Cyprus.
From the instructors who went, there is Dr. Mohammed Saleh and Eng. Heba Dawoud. And here is their paper abstract presented in the conference:
The rapid development of wireless communication imposes several challenges to support QoS for real-time multimedia applications such as video stream applications. Researchers tackled these challenges from different points of view including the semantics of the video to achieve better QoS requirements. The main goal of this research is to design a UDP protocol to realize a distributed sequential mapping scheme (DSM) with a cross-layer design and evaluate its accuracy under different network conditions. In DSM, the perceived quality of a multi-layer video is addressed by mapping each video layer into channel resources represented as queues or access categories (ACs) existing in IEEE 802.11e MAC layer. The experiments reported the efficiency of this scheme with the presence of different composite traffic models covering most known traffic scenarios using Expected Reconstructed Video Layers (ERVL) and packet loss rate as accuracy measures. In Experiments without ongoing traffic, ERVL continuously reported high values, while ERVL values dramatically vary when introducing ongoing different composite traffic models together with the testing video sessions between nodes.
Another instructor participated was Dr. Amr Mohammed, and here is his paper abstract:
Wireless electroencephalogram (EEG) sensors have been successfully applied in many medical and computer brain interface classifications. A common characteristic of wireless EEG sensors is that they are low powered devices, and hence an efficient usage of sensor energy resources is critical for any practical application. One way of minimizing energy consumption by the EEG sensors is by reducing the number of EEG channels participating in the classification process. For the purpose of classifying EEG signals, we propose a directed acyclic graph (DAG)-based channel selection algorithm. To achieve this objective, the EEG sensor channels are first realized in a complete undirected graph, where each channel is represented by a node. An edge between any two nodes indicates the collaboration between these nodes in identifying the system state, and the significance of this collaboration is quantified by a weight assigned to the edge. The complete graph is then reduced into a directed acyclic graph that encodes the knowledge of the non-increasing order of the channel ranking for each cognitive task. The channel selection algorithm utilizes this directed graph to find a maximum path such that the total weight of this path satisfies a predefined threshold. It has been demonstrated experimentally that channel utilization has been reduced by 50% in the worst case scenario for a three-state system and an EEG sensor with 14 channels, and the best classification accuracy obtained is 81%.
The last participant from the department was Dr. Khalid Abu Soud, and here is the abstract of his paper:
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are one of the emerging technologies in the 21st century. In structural health monitoring (SHM). WSNs are used as one of the vitally capable technologies in the SHM. The accelerometer module in the existing sensor nodes enables several novel applications. In this paper, a prototype for monitoring and detecting the damage for the real bridge using these sensor nodes are built. The prototype consists of sensor nodes, shaking table including its amplifier, and real bridge. The sensors are placed on a scaled down concrete bridge model that is mounted on a shaking table. The results are demonstrated in terms of acceleration on different nodes at a particular excitation frequency, in the case of normal, single-side damage, and double-side damage.
Academic Year 2015-2016
CSE department had an international dish day for the faculty member on 30/5/2016.
On 28/5/2016 Many of the CSE students won of the best senior project awards. All the presentations and demos showed the excellent quality of the work and the effort done by the students for the whole year.
Our CSE students Naram Mhaisen and Mohammed Khader got the Honors Best Academic Performance Award in the flagship Honors-end of-year event sponsored by ORYX GTL on Thursday the 26th of May 2016.
CSE students Tassnim Ismail, Dina Abunahia and Hala Abou El-Oula won the best poster award under the undergraduate student category for the year 2016.
The CSE department had its annual advisory board meeting this year on 23/5/2016. First the HoD of the department, Dr. Sumaya Al-maadeed welcomed the board members which consists of :
- Mr. Sami Al Shammari
- Eng. Noora Al-abdulla
- Mr. Abdulsalam Al-Yafei
- Mr. Yousef Al-Jaber
- Ms. Najat Abdulraheem
- Mrs. Dana Al-Abdullah
- Mr. Saud Al-Thani
- Mr. Jassim Bukshisha
Dr. Sumaya then gave a presentation about the department, and mentioned the changes in the department, in addition to that, the future planes of the department were discussed.
On May 2016, Dr. Uvais Qidwai and his research assistant Mohamed Shakir participated in 27th ITEX 2016 conference and exhibition event which was an internationally supported effort that was organized by the Malaysian Innovation and Design Society (MINDS. The posters were judged by a panel of referees from industry for their completeness, novelty, commercial potential and presentation. Over 400 entries from all over the world were presented in over 20 disciplines... Dr. Uvais was part of a team from University Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and the work they presented is related to "Wearable real-time seizure prediction system" in which they are able to predict the onset of seizure about 3 minutes in advance! for this work, they got Gold medal in the biotechnology and health category.
This year’s CarnegieApps Hackathon saw record participation, with 20 teams competing in the 24-hour regional programming competition at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMUQ).
Organised by CarnegieApps, a student-led club, and sponsored by Ooredoo, the Hackathon required participants to work around the clock to develop software for an innovative game, mobile application or web application. Team of one of our students Azharul Islam received the award for best design.
CSE department organized one of the important annual events in the university : Computing Contest Day, 7th May 2016. The event was sponsored by QABCO. Different schools participated in the contest, and the contest it ended by winning three male teams, two of them from Mohammed ben AbdelWahab school, and the third place for Nasser EL-Attya school.
In the research annual forum 2016 3rd May, Dr. Osama Halabi took the award of best faculty poster, and Eng. Farah El-Qawasma took the award of the 3MT contest – third position.
A project of Dr. Amr Mohammed titled as “Wireless Sensor Networks for Video Surveillance” won the best poster for QNRF project as part of the “Meeting of the minds annual research symposium” at CMU-Q. The project is in collaboration with Dr. Khaled Harras from CMU-Q, and the QU research assistant whose work won the award, his name is Mouhyemen Khan.
On 28/4/2016 some of the undergraduate students of CSE department participated in URC2016 Conference at Zayed University in Dubai. The HoD, Dr. Sumaya Al Ali joined the students to Dubai, where the students showed their senior projects in the poster session. Happily, a group of our students ( Moza Saad Al Mesaifri, Amna Sarhan Mehawesh, and Mooza Abdulla AlNisf) under the supervision of Prof. Ali Jaoua won the best poster presentation award.
On 26/4/2016, two of the CSE department graduate students: Farah AbdulMutaleb El-Qawasma, and Lubna Aliyan participated in the 3MT contest (three-minute thesis contest). The university gave all the graduate students in the university to participate in this contest, where the student needs to present his/her thesis in 3 minutes only using a presentation of a single static slide. Happily, Farah AbdulMutaleb El-Qawasma won third place in the contest.
The CSE department has its annual constituency meeting this year in 26/4/2016. First the HoD of the department, Dr. Sumaya welcomed the guests, then gave a presentation about the department, and mentioned the changes in the department, in addition to that, the future plans of the department was discussed.
The university and the CSE department hosted a workshop called “Empowering Connected Health in Qatar through Intelligent Medical Devices and IoT” from 19/4/2016-21/4/2016. The workshop is organized by different organizations ( Qatar Foundation, British counsel, Qatar University, Brunel University, and others). The program of the workshop was divided into 3 days with different keynote speeches which are:
- Healthcare Delivery in Qatar
- IoT, Big Data, Wireless Networks in Healthcare Applications
- Sensors Technologies and Applications in Healthcare
- Communication Challenges in Connected Health Systems
- Empowering Connected Health through Smart Embedded Computing
- Intelligent Systems for Healthcare
And different oral sessions per day The different topics covered in these sessions are:
- IoT, Security and Wireless Sensor Networks in Healthcare Applications
- Smart Wearable and Imaging Devices in Connected Health
- Smart Biosensors for Connected Health
- Intelligent Systems for Connected Health
- Healthcare Systems and Delivery
The innovators’ council in the Qatari scientific club have a monthly meeting to discuss some of the important subjects. Their last session was titled “Engineering Innovation”. It was the pleasure of Dr. Ayman Erbed the coordinator of the computer engineering program, and one of the department alumni’s, Eng Ali Al Dous to join the Qatari Scientific Club in their session. The session ended by honoring Dr. Aiman and Eng. Ali for their participation.
The university and the CSE department hosted a workshop called “Big Data Management “ from 3/4/2016-5/4/2016. The workshop is organized by different organizations ( Qatar Foundation, British counsel, Qatar University, Brunel University, Al Jazeera Chanel (Qatar), and IBM (Qatar). The program of the workshop was divided into 3 days with different sessions per day. The different topics covered in this workshop are:
- Data Processing, Management, Classification, Visualization.
- Big Data Analysis, and Visualization in AV Environment.
- Big Data Future Research Directions, and Emerging Technologies.
CSE faculty members participated in QNRF ARC’16 for (poster session in ICT pillars category). Prof. Sebti Foufou and his team won the first prize with a poster title: Introducing variability in Data Center Networks, and the team members are Zina Chkirbene, Sebti Foufou, and Ridha Hamila.
In addition to that, Dr. Mashael, Dr. Aiman and their teams won the third prize. The poster title is QUTor: QUIC-based Transport Architecture for Anonymous Communication Overlay Networks, and the other team members:: Raik Aissaoui, Ochirkhand Erdene-Ochir.
Many of CSE faculty members have been awarded the 9th cycle NPRP projects who are Prof. Abbes Amera, Prof. Abdelaziz Bouras, Prof. Sebti Foufou, Dr. Abdelkarim Errdi, and Dr. Rachid Hajidij.
CSE graduated students Aisha Saeed Al_Mansoori, Alkhzami Salman Al-Harami, and Rawda Mohammed AlMesallam under the supervision of Prof. Abbes Amira won the first place in the Computer Science & Engineering discipline in the 5th GCC Engineering Students Design Competition 2016. For their project: “An Intelligent Sensing System for Healthcare Applications”.
From 21/3/2016 to 23/3/2016, our department participated in the opening day for the high school students to show the programs we have in the department. And to answer the students’ questions about both CS and CE programs.
On 17/3/2016, a workshop called “ Classification and Diagnosis of Tissue Patterns in Colorectal Tumors” was held under the umbrella of CSE. The event gathered some of the CSE dept. faculty members, undergraduate, and graduate students and interested people in the topic of the workshop.
ON 10/03/2016, a workshop titled “Digitization of Arabic Manuscripts and Cultural Heritage” was held under the umbrella of CSE. The event gathered some of the CSE dept. faculty members, graduate students and interested people from QU library, and QNL.
Empowering Connected Health in Qatar through Intelligent Medical Devices and IoT
19 – 21 April 2016, Qatar University, Doha –Qatar
• Workshop organizer
Professor Abbes Amira
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Qatar University
Email: Professor Abbes Amira
Workshop on “Big Data Management”
03 – 05 April 2016, Qatar University, Doha –Qatar
• Workshop organizer
Professor Jihad Al Ja’am
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Qatar University
Email: Professor Jihad Al Ja'am
The department holds the oracle academy day on 21/2/2016. The event was held in the Research Complex – RC (Gas Processing Center).
The agenda for that day:
Many faculty members and ITs people attended the workshop and here are some pictures for the event:
In 2/17/2016 and 2/18/2016, under the department umbrella, the student's events committee hold a social day event that gathers the faculty members with the students, where funny activities and good food were served.
Academic Year 2014-2015
The GCC Robotics Challenge is a yearly challenge for the Gulf Cooperation Council Countries. The challenge is organized by the IET alongside with the IEEE and the SACGC (Kuwait). The first version of this contest was held in December 2015. Local rounds were organized in each GCC country. The Qatar round was organized by the Department of the Computer Science and Engineering, Qatar University on December 5, 2015. Seven teams registered but 6 teams showed up on the competition day: four teams from Qatar University, and two teams from College of the North Atlantic, Qatar.
The winners of the Qatar round were the students: Omran Adnan Alrashid Abazeed, Naram Sultan Mhaisen, and Youssef Al Hariri and accordingly they deserved to represent Qatar in the finals in Kuwait.
The runner up team was also from Qatar University, the students: Mohd Khidir, Anas Resres, Ayman Kababji, Laith Alsaghir and Khalid Rezk. The third place was won by a team from the College of the North Atlantic, Qatar.
The final round was held in Kuwait on December 12, 2015. The Qatar-round winners were unfortunately denied visa to enter Kuwait, and hence Qatar was represented by three students from the runner up team. The event was held in Holiday Inn, Kuwait and the organization was very good. However, the organizers failed to properly communicate some last-minute changes in the rules/tasks to Qatar organizers. As a result, Qatar team was seriously affected and scored fourth place. The winners were the Kuwaiti team and the runner up were Omani team while the third place was secured by the KSA team.
Dr. Tamer Elsayed, Maram Hasanain (PhD student at CSE) and Walid Magdy (QCRI), achieved the best paper award at AIRS 2015 (11th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference) that was held at Australia for their paper entitled “Improving Tweet Timeline Generation by Predicting Optimal Retrieval Depth”, Dec 2015.
CSE-QU team, ranked 2nd at TREC (Text REtrieval Conference) 2015 international research competition, USA, in the Microblog track (tweet real-time filtering task – mobile notification scenario) among 14 research teams from all over the world. The QU team includes Reem Suwaileh (MSc student) and Maram Hasanain (Ph.D. student), and Dr. Tamer Elsaye, Nov 2015.
In the site visit of the academic review team of the Master of Science in Computing program, Nov 2015.
The CSE department offered GCC Robotics Challenge training workshops for QU teams, Nov 2015.
Prof. Jihad got a USA patent in his NPRP project on “PLUG AND PLAY TANGIBLE USER INTERFACE SYSTEM”. The project team: Hafidh; Basim; Al Osman; Hussein; Karime; Ali; El Saddik; Abdulmotaleb; Alja'am Jihad; Jaoua Ali M; Dandashi Amal; Saleh Moutaz S. Oct 2015
Dr. Tarek Elfouly, got a patent in this project “Method and Apparatus for simple angle of arrival estimation”.
Dr. Nasir Rajpoot won the Best Paper award at the MICCAI (premier conference on medical imaging) workshop on Patch-based Medical Imaging (PMI'15) in Munich on his paper entitled "A Spatially Constrained Deep Learning Framework for Detection of Epithelial Tumor Nuclei in Cancer Histology Images".
The CSE department organized the 12th IFIP International Conference on PLM PLM'15, Oct 2015.
The CSE department participated in the Academic Orientation Yahala –Sept 2015.
Dr. Amr Mohamed, got the Best paper award in IEEE NTMS conference, Paris, July, 2015.
CSE department had another annual event which is Course Project Award, June 2015.
Dr. Mohammed Samaka, Winning the “Best Faculty Poster Award”, Qatar University. May, 2015.
CSE department organized one of the important annual events in the university : Computing Contest Day, May 2015.
The CSE department visited the start-ups Digital Incubation Center of Ministry of Information and Communication Technologies. May 2015.
Prof Mohsen Guizani, Prof has being awarded for the Qatar University Scientists 2015 Scopus Awards Winners as announced today. April 2015.
The CSE department Organized Robotics Training Workshops (High school students and their mentors), March 2015.
MS Thesis student, Ms. Wadha Jabir Al-Marri, for being awarded the Best Paper presented at the 7th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications supervised by Dr Qutaibah Malluhi - SISAP 2014 in Los Cabos, Mexico. Dec2014.
The CSE department organized the 11th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications AICCSA'2014, Nov 2014.
Prof. Abbes Amira, 2014 IEEE/ACS AICCSA got a prize for the best paper award (Ph.D. forum),Nov 2014.
A team for CSE department won the 1st place in the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Qatar. The team is supervised by Dr. Uvais Qidwai (CSE Dept).
CSE department participated in the Engineering Week 2014”, April 2014.
