CACM Arabia Workshop 2020
Program

Workshop Start and Welcome Note

Recorded Introductory Message 

Andrew A. Chien - CACM Editor-in-Chief

Introduction and Opening Remarks

CACM Arabia Organization Team

Keynote I - The Qatar Computing Research Institute

Ahmed Elmagarmid - QCRI, Qatar

Introduced By: Mohamed Mokbel 

Session I: Applications

Session Chair: Mohamed Mokbel 

• Supporting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with Data and AI

Ingmar Weber (QCRI), Ferda Ofli (QCRI), Muhammad Imran (QCRI) and Masoomali Fatehkia (QCRI)

• Automotive Embedded Systems Technology in Egypt and Arab Region

Mohamed Abdo Hay (Ain Shams University) and Sherif Hammad (Ain Shams University)

• On-Edge Driving Maneuvers Detection in Challenging Environments from Smartphone Sensors

Norhan Abd Elgawad (E-JUST), Ahmed El Mahdy (E-JUST), Walid Gomaa (E-JUST), Amin Shoukry (E-JUST) and Wael Noufal (BlinkApp)

• Traffic-Aware Routing in the Ever Changing Roads of Qatar

Sofiane Abbar (QCRI), Rade Stanojevic (QCRI), Shadab Mustafa (Karwa Technologies) and Abdullah Sohaib (Karwa Technologies)

• The Tanbih Mega-project at QCRI: Fighting the Fake News by Promoting Media Literacy and Critical Thinking

Preslav Nakov, Giovanni Da San Martino, Yifan Zhang, Alberto Barrón-Cedeño, Shaden Shaar, Ramy Baly, Seunghak Yu, Jisun An, Haewoon Kwak, Hamdy Mubarak, Ahmed Abdelali, Firoj Alam, Israa Jaradat, Salvatore Romeo, Kareem Darwish and Gianmarco De Francisci Morales (team from QCRI)

• Question & Answers

Break

Keynote II - Mobile Wireless Networking Research in the Arab Region: Challenges and Opportunities

Moustafa Youssef - Alexandria University, Egypt

Introduced By: Sherif Aly 

Session II: Health

Session Chair: Tamer ElBatt

• Precision Medicine: The Future is Multi-Modal - A Perspective from Qatar

Faisal Farooq (QCRI), Raghvendra Mall (QCRI), Joao Palotti (QCRI) and Mohammed Saad (QCRI)

• Biomedical Computing Research Trends in Arabia

Seif Eldawlatly (German University in Cairo and Ain Shams University) and Ahmed Morsy (Cairo University)

• Using Mixed Reality to Support Remote Learning for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder 

Yasmin Abdelaal (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Asma Osman Hassan (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Younss Ait Mou (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Kamran Khowaja (Hamad Bin Khalifa University), Mohamad H Fadi Hijab (Hamad Bin Khalifa University) and Dena Al-Thani (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

• Analyzing the Most Influencing Factors in Limiting the Spread of COVID-19 Disease

Rasha Awawdeh (Jordan University of Science and Technology), Shatha Melhem (Jordan University of Science and Technology), Nour Alqudah (Jordan University of Science and Technology), Tibra Al-Smadi (Jordan University of Science and Technology) and Ahmad Mustafa (Jordan University of Science and Technology)

• Machine Learning for Disease Prediction

Walaa Alkady (Ain Shams University), Khaled ElBahnasy (Ain Shams University) and Walaa Gad (Ain Shams University)

• Question & Answers

Break

Keynote III: On Establishing a Research-Oriented University Practices

Mootaz Elnozahy - KAUST, Saudi Arabia

Introduced By: Sherif Aly 

Session III: Arabic NLP

Session Chair: Christine Bassem

• Arabic Natural Language Processing in the Arab World

Kareem Darwish (QCRI) and Nizar Habash (New York University Abu Dhabi)

• Arabic Speech Processing: The Past, Present, and Future

Ahmed Ali (QCRI), Shammur Chowdhury (QCRI), Mohamed Afify (Microsoft Advanced Technology Lab Cairo), Wassim El Hajj (American University Beirut),  Hazem Hajj (American University Beirut),  Tuka Alhanai (New York University Abu Dhabi), Mourad Abbas (Center of Scientific and Technical Research for the Development of Arabic Language)

• Automatic Translation of Dialectal Variants of Arabic: Challenges and Future Directions

Hassan Sajjad (QCRI) and Houda Bouamor (Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar)

• Arabic Dialects Processing

Mourad Abbas (Center of Scientific and Technical Research for the Development of Arabic Language)

• Hate Speech Detection in Arabic Twittersphere: A Deep Learning Approach

Raghad Al-Shalan (Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University) and Hend Alkhalifa (king Saud University)

• A Review and Analysis of Word Embeddings for the Arabic Language

Sandra Rizkallah (Cairo University), Amir Atiya (Cairo University), Samir Shaheen (Cairo University) and Hossam Mahgoub (AlKhawarizmy Software)

• Question & Answers

Industrial Keynote

Introduced by: Tamer ElBatt

• Part I: Managing $1 billion worth of Investment: Maximizing on Artificial Intelligence Power

Motaz El-Saban - Raisa Energy, Egypt

• Part II: Autonomous Vehicles:  Generative Adversarial Networks and Adversarial Attacks

Ibrahim Sobh - Valeo, Egypt

Session IV: AI and Data Analytics

Session Chair: Sherif Aly

• The National AI Strategy for Qatar

Ashraf Aboulnaga (QCRI), Sanjay Chawla (QCRI) and Ahmed Elmagarmid (QCRI)

• Customer Data Analytics for Arabic Region : Architecture, Opportunities, and Open Research Challenges

Soumia Benkrid (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique)

• Data Cleaning Research at QCRI

Mourad Ouzzani (QCRI), Saravanan Thirumuruganathan (QCRI), Ahmed Elmagarmid (QCRI) and Nan Tang (QCRI)

• Digital Egypt: From Digitization to Digital Transformation, A Process-driven Approach

Nehal Afifi (Egyptian E-learning University) and Ahmed Awad (Nile University)

• The Data on Data Science: Emerging Trends from the Arab Region

Nouri Sakr (American University in Cairo)

• Question & Answers

Break

Keynote IV: Resilient Machine Learning for Automated Mobility

Lina Karam - LAU, Lebanon

Introduced By: Mohamed Mokbel

Session V: Security

Session Chair: Cherif Salama

• Cyber Security in the UAE: Local Research, Global Impact

Christina Pöpper (New York University Abu Dhabi), Michail Maniatakos (New York University Abu Dhabi) and Ozgur Sinanoglu (New York University Abu Dhabi)

• Cybersecurity: Global and Local Trends, and Future Directions

Sherif El-Kassas  (American University in Cairo)

• Cybersecurity Research @HBKU

Roberto Di Pietro (Hamad Bin Khalifa University)

• Cyber Security Research in Qatar

Issa Khalil (QCRI), Husrev Sencar (QCRI) and Ting Yu (QCRI)

• Securing Data in the Cloud

Tamer Mostafa Abdelkader (Ain Shams University)

• Question & Answers

Break

Keynote V: Smart Cities of the Future – A Perspective and a Roadmap for Research and Innovation

Taieb Znati - UAE University, United Arab Emirates

Introduced By: Moustafa Youssef

Session VI: Education and Research Experience

Session Chair: Moustafa Youssef

• The Landscape of Computer Science Education and Research in Morocco

Ahmed Bouajjani (Paris Diderot University), Karima Echihabi (Mohammed V University), Mohammed Erradi (Mohammed V University and Mohammed VI Polytechnic University) and Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL)

• Human++: Human-Centric Technology for a Better Future

Slim Abdennadher (German University in Cairo)

• Computer Science and Engineering Program: Learned Lessons from Developing Many Programs and Curricula in Egypt

Walaa Medhat (Nile University) and Ahmed Hassan (Nile University)

• iHub Contributing to the Egyptian Innovation Ecosystem in the Past Decade

Maged Ghoneima (Ain Shams University)

• An Arabic Digital Humanities Platform

Hassina Aliane (Research Center on Scientific and Technical Information)

• COVID-19 Ad-hoc Remote Learning – Quality Assessment, Analysis and Lesson Learned

Wael Badawy (Nile University)

• Question & Answers