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AI Foundations & Systems

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Advances core AI by strengthening algorithms and visual intelligence, while building smart data layers for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems.

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Fanar

Fanar

Fanar is an Arabic AI Large Language Model developed by the Qatar Computing Research Institute at Hamad Bin Khalifa University, a member of Qatar Foundation for Education, Science, and Community Development. It is sponsored by the Qatari government through the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. Fanar bridges Arabic language and culture with the latest advancements in AI, aligning with Qatar National Vision 2030 and the objectives of the Digital Agenda 2030.

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Rapid disaster damage assessment using deep adversarial sliced Wasserstein domain adaptation

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ISilDR: Isometric Seriation-based Dimensionality Reduction for Visual Cluster Analysis

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Fanar GenAI Platform2026

FanarGuard: A Culturally-Aware Moderation Filter for Arabic Language Models

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