Publications
Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.
2026
12 publicationsAI-Human Interaction2026
It's Not How They Talk, It's Who They Are: Learning Style, Not Interaction Modality, Predicts AI Newbies’ Engagement with Educational Chatbots
Trang Xuan, Joni Salminen, Jack Tillotson, Waleed Akhtar, Thanh Van Bui, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Johanne Medina, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen — Journal of Educational Technology Systems (2026)
AI-Human Interaction2026
What it means to learn with GenAI: Theorising student teachers’ perspectives on learning with GenAI through Q methodology research
Youmen Chaaban, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J Jansen — European Journal of Teacher Education (2026)
AI Foundational Optimizations2026
Rapid disaster damage assessment using deep adversarial sliced Wasserstein domain adaptation
Fatma AlNaimi, Abdulaziz Al-Homaid, Ferda Ofli, Abdelkader Baggag — Neural Computing and Applications (2026)
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 Bensmail — ICML (2026)
Humanitarian AI2026
DisasterVQA: A Visual Question Answering Benchmark Dataset for Disaster Scenes
Aisha Al-Mohannadi, Ayisha Firoz, Yin Yang, Muhammad Imran, Ferda Ofli — Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2026)
AI-Human Interaction2026
Agentic Engagement with Educational AI Chatbots Among Pre-service Teachers: A Mixed-Method Study in Qatar
Youmen Chaaban, Soon-Gyo Jung, Bernard J Jansen — Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice (2026)
AI Foundational Optimizations2026
ISilDR: Isometric Seriation-based Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Cluster Analysis
Rene Cutura, Sophie Sadler, Quynh Quang Ngo, Michaël Aupetit, Michael Sedlmair — IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2026)
AI-Human Interaction2026
From Priming Modalities to Educational AI Chatbot Engagement: A Study of 67 Learners
Trang Xuan, Joni Salminen, Ilkka Kaate, Farhan Ahmed, Danial Amin, Rajat Patil, Soon-Gyo Jung, Jinan Y. Azem, Bernard J. Jansen — International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (2026)
AI-Human Interaction2026
Understanding User Engagement with Cross-Platform Social Media Content Created by Humans Versus AI: An Evaluation of ChatGPT in Content Marketing
Kholoud Aldous, Joni Salminen, Ali Farooq, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard Jansen — ACM Transactions on the Web (2026)
Fanar GenAI Platform2026
FanarGuard: A Culturally-Aware Moderation Filter for Arabic Language Models
Masoomali Fatehkia, Enes Altinisik, Husrev Taha Sencar — EACL (2026)
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-Human Interaction2026
AI representing personas representing user groups: Applying the agency theory to examine interaction challenges of conversational personas as decision-making tools
Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Ilkka Kaate, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Jinan Y. Azem, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Danial Amin, Bernard J. Jansen — Decision Support Systems (2026)
2025
8 publicationsAI Foundational Optimizations2025
Uncertainty-Aware LLMs Fail to Flag Misleading Contexts
Tianyi Zhou, Johanne Medina, Sanjay Chawla — NeurIPS 2025 – Reliable ML Workshop (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
Examining Student Teachers’ Agency in an AI-Supported Learning Environment: Q Methodology Research
Youmen Chaaban, Soon-Gyo Jung, Johanne Medina, Jinan Y. Azem, Joni Salminen, Bernard J. Jansen — International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
Cipherbot: An AI-Powered Educational Assistant for Conversational Q&A About Course Material
Jinan Azem, Soon-Gyo Jung, Johanne Medina, Kholoud K. Aldous, Joni Salminen, Bernard J Jansen — International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
Investigating the Usability of an Educational AI Chatbot by Middle School Teachers and Students for Enhanced Learning
Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Jinan Y. Azem, Johanne Medina, Salar M. Khan, Amani Alabed, Bernard J. Jansen — International Conference on Foundation and Large Language Models (FLLM) (2025)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Explaining the role of Intrinsic Dimensionality in Adversarial Training
Enes Altinisik, Safa Messaoud, Husrev Taha Sencar, Hassan Sajjad, Sanjay Chawla — ICML (2025)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Deep learning, transformers and graph neural networks: a linear algebra perspective
Abdelkader Baggag, Yousef Saad — Numerical Algorithms (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
What is User Engagement?: A Systematic Review of 241 Research Articles in Human-Computer Interaction and Beyond
Bernard J. Jansen, Kathleen Guan, Joni Salminen, Khloud Aldous, Soon-gyo Jung — Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
Cipherbot: A Learning Platform for AI-Augmented Education
Soon-Gyo Jung, Johanne Medina, Kholoud Aldous, Jinan Azem, Joni Salminen, Bernard J Jansen — Proceedings of the Augmented Humans International Conference (2025)
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