Dr. Halima Bensmail
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Dr. Halima Bensmail

Principal Scientist

Dr. Halima Bensmail is part of the research team at the Qatar Center for Artificial Intelligence, a research group of QCRI at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.

Selected publications

AI Foundational Optimizations2026

Particles Don’t Care About Z: Towards Scaling Entropy Estimation of Unnormalized Densities

Safa Messaoud, Skander Charni, Elaa Bouazza, Ali Pourghasemi, Halima BensmailICML (2026)
AI for Drug Suitability2025

Machine Learning-Driven Insights and Predictions for CO2 Adsorption in Metal-Organic Frameworks

Skander Charni, Raeesh Muhammad, Abdulkarem I. Amhamed, Brahim Aissa, Halima BensmailInternational Conference on Thermal Engineering (ICTEA) (2025)
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AI for Drug Suitability2025

Tisslet: Tissues-based Learning Estimation for Transcriptomics

Ahmed Miloudi, Aisha Al-Qahtani, Thamanna Hashir, Mohamed Chikri, Halima BensmailBMC bioinformatics (2025)
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AI for Drug Suitability2023

Multi-omics and machine learning reveal context-specific gene regulatory activities of PML::RARA in acute promyelocytic leukemia

William Villiers, Audrey Kelly, Xiaohan He, James Kaufman-Cook, Abdurrahman Elbasir, Halima Bensmail, Paul Lavender, Richard Dillon, Borbála Mifsud, Cameron S. OsborneNature Communications (2023)
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AI for Drug Suitability2023

OutSingle: a novel method of detecting and injecting outliers in RNA-Seq count data using the optimal hard threshold for singular values

Edin Salkovic, Abdelkader Baggag, Ahmed Gamal Rashed Salem, Halima Bensmail*, Mohammad AminSadeghi Bioinformatics (2023)
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