Publications
Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.
2025
2 publicationsFanar 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
8 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)
AI Foundational Optimizations2024
S²AC: Energy-Based Reinforcement Learning with Stein Soft Actor Critic
Safa Messaoud, Billel Mokeddem, Zhenghai Xue, Linsey Pang, Bo An, Haipeng Chen, Sanjay Chawla — ICLR (2024)
Humanitarian AI2024
(Won Deployed Application Award) Flood Insights: Integrating Remote and Social Sensing Data for Flood Exposure, Damage, and Urgent Needs Mapping.
Zainab Akhtar, Umair Qazi, Aya El-Sakka, Rizwan Sadiq, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran — AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2024)
AI for Disease Analysis2024
Genetic Susceptibility to Arrhythmia Phenotypes in a Middle Eastern Cohort of 14,259 Whole-Genome Sequenced Individuals
Fatima Qafoud, Mohamed Elshrif, Khalid Kunji, Asma Althani, Amar Salam, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Nidal Asaad, Dawood Darbar, Mohamad Saad — Journal of Clinical Medicine (2024)
AI-Human Interaction2024
Identifying and converting questions into statements
Jim Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung — United States Patent and Trademark Office (2024)
AI-Human Interaction2024
Rendering survey responses as personas
Soon-gyo Jung, Jim Jansen, Joni Salminem, Hind Almerekhi — United States Patent and Trademark Office (2024)
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)
2023
9 publicationsAI 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. Osborne — Nature Communications (2023)
AI Foundational Optimizations2023
Classes are Not Clusters: Improving Label-Based Evaluation of Dimensionality Reduction
Hyeon Jeon, Yun-Hsin Kuo, Michael Aupetit, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jinwook Seo — IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2023)
AI-Human Interaction2023
Measuring Engagement Through Remote Interactions of Customers: Introducing METRIC
Jinan Y. Azem, Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Bernard J. Jansen International Symposium on Networks, Computers and — Communications (ISNCC) (2023)
AI-Human Interaction2023
Employing large language models in survey research
Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen Natural Language Processing — Journal (2023)
AI-Human Interaction2023
Understanding Audiences, Customers, and Users via Analytics
Bernard J. Jansen, Kholoud K. Aldous, Joni Salminen, Hind Almerekhi, Soon-gyo Jung — Springer International Publishing AG (2023)
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)
Humanitarian AI2023
Mapping Flood Exposure, Damage, and Population Needs Using Remote and Social Sensing: A Case Study of 2022 Pakistan Floods
Zainab Akhtar, Umair Qazi, Rizwan Sadiq, Aya El-Sakka, Muhammad Sajjad, Ferda Ofli, WWW — Proceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (2023)
Humanitarian AI2023
Incidents1M: A Large-Scale Dataset of Images with Natural Disasters, Damage, and Incidents
Ethan Weber, Dim P. Papadopoulos, Agata Lapedriza, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad Imran, Antonio Torralba — IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2023)
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 Amin — Sadeghi Bioinformatics (2023)
2022
1 publicationsAI for Disease Analysis2022
Validation of Polygenic Risk Scores for Coronary Heart Disease in a Middle Eastern Cohort Using Whole Genome Sequencing
Mohamad Saad, Ayman El-Menyar, Khalid Kunji, Ehsan Ullah, Jassim Al Suwaidi, Iftikhar J — Kullo Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine (2022)
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