Publications
Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.
2025
18 publicationsAI Foundational Optimizations2025
Distortion-aware Brushing for Reliable Cluster Analysis in Multidimensional Projections
Hyeon Jeon, Michael Aupetit, Soohyun Lee, Kwon Ko, Youngtaek Kim, Ghulam Jilani Quadri — IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2025)
Humanitarian AI2025
AI-Driven Disaster Response and Displacement Monitoring
Noora Al-Emadi, Muhammad Imran, Yin Yang, Ingmar Weber, Fabjan Lashi, Gaia Rigodanza, Ivana Hajžmanová, Ferda Ofli — Communications of the ACM (2025)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Can LLMs Detect Their Confabulations? Estimating Reliability in Uncertainty-Aware Language Models
Tianyi Zhou, Johanne Medina, Sanjay Chawla Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence — Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2025)
Humanitarian AI2025
Analysing Satellite Imagery Classification under Spatial Domain Shift across Geographic Regions
Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli — International Journal of Computer Vision (2025)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
ArnoldiGCL: Graph Contrastive Learning via Learnable Arnoldi-Based Guided Spectral Chebyshev Polynomial Filters
Mustafa Coşkun, Abdelkader Baggag, Mehmet Koyutürk — Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
When Personas Talk to You: Evaluating the Evolution of User Personas from Static Profiles to Conversational User Interfaces
Ilkka Kaate, Joni Salminen, Soon-Gyo Jung, Trang Thi Thu Xuan, Jinan Y Azem, João M Santos, Bernard J Jansen — Proceedings of the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (2025)
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 Bensmail — International Conference on Thermal Engineering (ICTEA) (2025)
Humanitarian AI2025
Benchmarking Object Detectors under Real-World Distribution Shifts in Satellite Imagery
Sara Al-Emadi, Yin Yang, Ferda Ofli. Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition — (CVPR) (2025)
AI for Disease Analysis2025
Comprehensive Analysis of Rare Variants Associated with Genetic Predisposition to Non-BRCA Familial Breast Cancer Among Arabs
Ehsan Ullah, Hikmat Abdel-Razeq, Sana Bentebbal, Abdullah Shaar, Nehad Alajez, Mohamad Saad, Julie V — Decock Clinical Cancer Research (2025)
Humanitarian AI2025
Evaluating Robustness of LLMs on Crisis-Related Microblogs across Events, Information Types, and Linguistic Features
Muhammad Imran, Abdul Wahab Ziaullah, Kai Chen, Ferda Ofli — WWW 2025 – Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference (2025)
AI-Human Interaction2025
Human-centred artificial intelligence in progressive education: unravelling the benefits and challenges in Qatar’s HEIs
Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Ali Farooq, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Aldous, Pilira Stella Msefula, Amani Alabed, Salar M. Khan, Richard O’Kennedy The Future of Education Policy in the State of Qatar, Singapore: — Springer Nature (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 W Guan, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Soon-Gyo Jung — Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2025)
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)
AI Foundational Optimizations2025
Measuring the Validity of Clustering Validation Datasets
Hyeon Jeon, Michael Aupetit, DongHwa Shin, Aeri Cho, Seokhyeon Park, Jinwook Seo — IEEE Transaction on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2025)
AI for Disease Analysis2025
Genome‐Wide Association Study for Resting Electrocardiogram in the Qatari Population Identifies 6 Novel Genes and Validates Novel Polygenic Risk Scores
Nahin Khan, Abdullah Shaar, Khalid Kunji, Atlas Khan, Mohamed Elshrif, Mohammed Bashir, Mohammed Thamer Ali, Ayman Al Haj Zen, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Georges Nemer, Akl C. Fahed, Mohamad Saad — Journal of the American Heart Association (2025)
AI for Drug Suitability2025
Tisslet: Tissues-based Learning Estimation for Transcriptomics
Ahmed Miloudi, Aisha Al-Qahtani, Thamanna Hashir, Mohamed Chikri, Halima Bensmail — BMC bioinformatics (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-Human Interaction2025
PersonaCraft: Leveraging language models for data-driven persona development
Soon Gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Kholoud Khalil Aldous, Bernard J. Jansen — International Journal of Human Computer Studies (2025)
2024
2 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2024
PopMLvis: a tool for analysis and visualization of population structure using genotype data from genome-wide association studies
Mohamed Elshrif, Keivin Isufaj, Khalid Kunji, Mohamad Saad — BMC Bioinformatics (2024)
AI & Data Discovery2024
RetClean: Retrieval-Based Data Cleaning Using LLMs and DataLakes
Zan Ahmad Naeem, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad, Mohamed Y Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Nan Tang — Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2024)
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