Publications

Peer-reviewed research from QCAI, published in leading international venues.

2024

6 publications
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 ChawlaICLR (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 ImranAAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2024)
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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 SaadJournal of Clinical Medicine (2024)
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AI-Human Interaction2024

Identifying and converting questions into statements

Jim Jansen, Soon-gyo JungUnited States Patent and Trademark Office (2024)
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AI-Human Interaction2024

Rendering survey responses as personas

Soon-gyo Jung, Jim Jansen, Joni Salminem, Hind AlmerekhiUnited States Patent and Trademark Office (2024)
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AI Foundational Optimizations2024

A pragmatic perspective on AI transparency at workplace

Ghanim Al-Sulaiti, Mohammad Amin Sadeghi, Lokendra Chauhan, Ji Lucas, Sanjay Chawla, Ahmed ElmagarmidAI and Ethics (2024)
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2023

9 publications
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 Foundational Optimizations2023

Classes are Not Clusters: Improving Label-Based Evaluation of Dimensionality Reduction

Hyeon Jeon, Yun-Hsin Kuo, Michael Aupetit, Kwan-Liu Ma, Jinwook SeoIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2023)
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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 andCommunications (ISNCC) (2023)
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AI-Human Interaction2023

Employing large language models in survey research

Bernard J. Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen Natural Language ProcessingJournal (2023)
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AI-Human Interaction2023

Understanding Audiences, Customers, and Users via Analytics

Bernard J. Jansen, Kholoud K. Aldous, Joni Salminen, Hind Almerekhi, Soon-gyo JungSpringer International Publishing AG (2023)
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AI & Data Discovery2023

Cross Modal Data Discovery over Structured and Unstructured Data Lakes

Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Mayuresh Kunjir, Ahmed Elmagarmid, Mohammad Shahmeer AhmadProceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2023)
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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, WWWProceedings of the ACM Web Conference 2023 (2023)
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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 TorralbaIEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (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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2022

5 publications
AI 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 JKullo Circulation: Genomic and Precision Medicine (2022)
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AI for Disease Analysis2022

Including diverse and admixed populations in genetic epidemiology research

Amke Caliebe, Fasil Tekola‐Ayele, Burcu F. Darst, Xuexia Wang, Yeunjoo E. Song, Jiang Gui, Ronnie A. Sebro, David J. Balding, Mohamad Saad, Marie‐Pierre DubéGenetic Epidemiology (2022)
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AI-Human Interaction2022

Method and system for rapid analysis of customer information

Jim Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni SalminenUnited States Patent and Trademark Office (2022)
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AI-Human Interaction2022

Method of demographic information generation from name

Jim Jansen, Soon-gyo Jung, Joni SalminenUnited States Patent and Trademark Office (2022)
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AI for Disease Analysis2022

Untargeted Metabolomics Profiling Reveals Perturbations in Arginine-NO Metabolism in Middle Eastern Patients with Coronary Heart Disease

Ehsan Ullah, Ayman El-Menyar, Khalid Kunji, Reem Elsousy, Haira R. B. Mokhtar, Eiman Ahmad, Maryam Al-Nesf, Alka Beotra, Mohammed Al-Maadheed, Vidya Mohamed-Ali, Mohamad Saad, Jassim AlSuwaidi Metabolites (2022)
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