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Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid
Executive Director at Qatar Computing Research Institute
Dr. Ahmed K. Elmagarmid founded the Qatar Computing Research Institute in 2010 and has served as its Executive Director since. Prior to joining Qatar Foundation, Dr. Elmagarmid served as a chief scientist in Hewlett-Packard and Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University.
Selected publications
Fanar GenAI Platform2026
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Minhaj Ahmad, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Anas Al-Nuaimi, Enes Altinisik, Ehsaneddin Asgari, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur Chowdhury, Fahim Dalvi, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani, Mohamed Elfeky, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohamed Eltabakh, Asim Ersoy, Masoomali Fatehkia, Mohammed Qusay Hashim, Majd Hawasly, Mohamed Hefeeda, Mus’ab Husaini, Keivin Isufaj, Soon-Gyo Jung, Houssam Lachemat, Ji Kim Lucas, Abubakr Mohamed, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Basel Mousi, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmad Musleh, Mourad Ouzzani, Amin Sadeghi, Husrev Taha Sencar, Mohammed Shinoy, Omar Sinan, Yifan Zhang arXiv:2603.16397 (2026)
AI & Data Discovery2025
HCT-QA: A Benchmark for Question Answering on Human-Centric Tables
Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Zan A Naeem, Michael Aupetit, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohamed Eltabakh, Xiasong Ma, Mourad Ouzzani, Chaoyi Ruan — arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.20047 (2025)
Fanar GenAI Platform2025
Fanar: An Arabic-Centric Multimodal Generative AI Platform
Fanar Team: Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Firoj Alam, Enes Altinisik, Ehsannedin Asgari, Yazan Boshmaf, Sabri Boughorbel, Sanjay Chawla, Shammur Chowdhury, Fahim Dalvi, Kareem Darwish, Nadir Durrani, Mohamed Elfeky, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohamed Eltabakh, Masoomali Fatehkia, Anastasios Fragkopoulos, Maram Hasanain, Majd Hawasly, Mus’ab Husaini, Soon-Gyo Jung, Ji Kim Lucas, Walid Magdy, Safa Messaoud, Abubakr Mohamed, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Basel Mousi, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmad Musleh, Zan Naeem, Mourad Ouzzani, Dorde Popovic, Amin Sadeghi, Husrev Taha Sencar, Mohammed Shinoy, Omar Sinan, Yifan Zhang, Ahmed Ali, Yassine El Kheir, Xiaosong Ma, Chaoyi Ruan — arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.13944 (2025)
AI Foundational Optimizations2024
A pragmatic perspective on AI transparency at workplace
Ghanim Al-Sulaiti, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Lokendra Chauhan, Ji Lucas, Sanjay Chawla, Ahmed Elmagarmid — AI and Ethics (2024)
AI & Data Discovery2023
Cross Modal Data Discovery over Structured and Unstructured Data Lakes
Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mayuresh Kunjir, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad — Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2023)
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