Publications

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

2022

1 publications
AI for Disease Analysis2022

Genetic predisposition to cancer across people of different ancestries in Qatar: a population-based, cohort study

Mohamad Saad, Younes Mokrab, Najeeb Halabi, Jingxuan Shan, Rozaimi Razali, Khalid Kunji, Najeeb Syed, Ramzi Temanni, Murugan Subramanian, Michele Ceccarelli, Said I Ismail, Wadha Al-Muftah, Radja Badji, Hamdi Mbarek, Dima Darwish, Tasnim Fadl, Heba Yasin, Maryem Ennaifar, Rania Abdellatif, Fatima Alkuwari, Muhammad Alvi, Yasser Al-Sarraj, Chadi Saad, Eleni Fethnou, Fatima Qafoud, Eiman Alkhayat, Nahla Afifi, Sara Tomei, Wei Liu, Stephan Lorenz, Najeeb Syed, Hakeem Almabrazi, Fazulur R Vempalli, Ramzi Temanni, Tariq Abu Saqri, Mohammedhusen Khatib, Mehshad Hamza, Tariq Abu Zaid, Ahmed El Khouly, Tushar Pathare, Shafeeq Poolat, Rashid Al-Ali, Omar Albagha, Souhaila Al-Khodor, Mashael Alshafai, Ramin Badii, Lotfi Chouchane, Xavier Estivill, Khalid Fakhro, Hamdi Mbarek, Younes Mokrab, Jithesh V Puthen, Karsten Suhre, Zohreh Tatari, Arash Rafii Tabrizi, Davide Bedognetti, Lotfi ChouchaneThe Lancet Oncology (2022)
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2021

4 publications
AI & Data Discovery2021

RPT: relational pre-trained transformer is almost all you need towards democratizing data preparation

Nan Tang, Ju Fan, Fangyi Li, Jianhong Tu, Xiaoyong Du, Guoliang Li, Sam Madden, Mourad OuzzaniProceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2021)
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AI & Data Discovery2021

Deep Learning for Blocking in Entity Matching: A Design Space Exploration

Muhammad Ebraheem, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Shafiq Joty, Mourad Ouzzani, Nan TangProceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2021)
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AI-Human Interaction2021

Data-driven personas

Bernard J. Jansen, Joni Salminen, Soon-gyo Jung, Kathleen GuanSpringer Nature (2021)
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AI for Disease Analysis2021

Germline genetic contribution to the immune landscape of cancer

Rosalyn W. Sayaman, Mohamad Saad, Vésteinn Thorsson, Donglei Hu, Wouter Hendrickx, Jessica Roelands, Eduard Porta-Pardo, Younes Mokrab, Farshad Farshidfar, Tomas Kirchhoff, Randy F. Sweis, Oliver F. Bathe, Carolina Heimann, Michael J. Campbell, Cynthia Stretch, Scott Huntsman, Rebecca E. Graff, Najeeb Syed, Laszlo Radvanyi, Simon Shelley, Denise Wolf, Francesco M. Marincola, Michele Ceccarelli, Jérôme Galon, Elad Ziv, Davide Bedognetti ImmunityImmunity (2021)
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2020

3 publications
AI Foundational Optimizations2020

Steering Distortions to Preserve Classes and Neighbors in Supervised Dimensionality Reduction

Benoît Colange, Jaakko Peltonen, Michael Aupetit, Denys Dutykh, Sylvain LespinatsProceedings of NeurIPS (2020)
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AI for Drug Suitability2020

Comprehensive review and assessment of computational methods for predicting RNA post-transcriptional modification sites from RNA sequences

Zhen Chen, Pei Zhao, Fuyi Li, Yanan Wang, A. Ian Smith, Geoffrey I. Webb, Tatsuya Akutsu, Abdelkader Baggag, Halima Bensmail, Jiangning SongBriefings in Bioinformatics (2020)
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AI for Drug Suitability2020

BCrystal: An interpretable sequence-based protein crystallization predictor

Abdurrahman Elbasir, Raghvendra Mall, Khalid Kunji, Reda Rawi, Zeyaul Islam, Gwo Yu Chuang, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail BioinformaticsBioinformatics (2020)
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2019

2 publications
AI Foundational Optimizations2019

Toward Perception-Based Evaluation of Clustering Techniques for Visual Analytics

Michael Aupetit, Michael Sedlmair, Mostafa M. Abbas, Abdelkader Baggag, Halima BensmailProceedings of the IEEE Visualization Conference (2019)
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AI for Drug Suitability2019

DeepCrystal: A Deep Learning Framework for Sequence-based Protein Crystallization Prediction

Abdurrahman Elbasir, Balasubramanian Moovarkumudalvan, Khalid Kunji, Prasanna R. Kolatkar, Halima Bensmail, Raghvendra MallIEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM) (2019)
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2018

7 publications
AI for Disease Analysis2018

Comparison and assessment of family- and population-based genotype imputation methods in large pedigrees

Ehsan Ullah, Raghvendra Mall, Mostafa M. Abbas, Khalid Kunji, Alejandro Q. Nato, Halima Bensmail, Ellen M. Wijsman, Mohamad SaadGenome Research (2018)
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AI & Data Discovery2018

DeepER–Deep Entity Resolution

Muhammad Ebraheem, Saravanan Thirumuruganathan, Shafiq Joty, Mourad Ouzzani, Nan TangProceedings of the VLDB Endowment (2018)
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AI-Human Interaction2018

Automatically Conceptualizing Social Media Analytics Data via Personas

Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Bernard JansenProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2018)
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AI-Human Interaction2018

Assessing the Accuracy of Four Popular Face Recognition Tools for Inferring Gender, Age, and Race

Soon-gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Joni Salminen, Bernard JansenProceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (2018)
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AI Foundational Optimizations2018

Multidimensional Projection for Visual Analytics: Linking Techniques with Distortions, Tasks, and Layout Enrichment

Luis Gustavo Nonato, Michael AupetitIEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (2018)
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Humanitarian AI2018

CrisisMMD: Multimodal twitter datasets from natural disasters

Firoj Alam, Ferda Ofli, Muhammad ImranProceedings of the international AAAI conference on web and social media (2018)
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AI for Drug Suitability2018

RGBM: Regularized gradient boosting machines for identification of the transcriptional regulators of discrete glioma subtypes

Raghvendra Mall, Luigi Cerulo, Luciano Garofano, Veronique Frattini, Khalid Kunji, Halima Bensmail, Thais S. Sabedot, Houtan Noushmehr, Anna Lasorella, Antonio Iavarone, Michele CeccarelliNucleic Acids Research (2018)
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2017

2 publications
AI-Human Interaction2017

Automatic Persona Generation (APG)

Soon-gyo Jung, Joni Salminen, Haewoon Kwak, Jisun An, Bernard J. JansenProceedings of the 2018 Conference on Human Information Interaction&Retrieval – CHIIR '18 (2017)
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AI-Human Interaction2017

Persona Generation from Aggregated Social Media Data

Soon-Gyo Jung, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Moeed Ahmad, Lene Nielsen, Bernard J. JansenProceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2017)
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2016

1 publications
AI & Data Discovery2016

Rayyan—a web and mobile app for systematic reviews

Mourad Ouzzani, Hossam Hammady, Zbys Fedorowicz, Ahmed ElmagarmidSystematic Reviews (2016)
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