19
JAN
2025
In the presence of
H.E. Dr. Diana Abdulkarim
Al Jahromi,
Higher Education Council,
Secretary General
Higher Education Council,
Secretary General
Virtual 3nd Conference in the Middle East on
AI in Higher Education
- Location : Zoom Conference
- Time : 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM | (GMT +3)
AI in Higher Education
AI plays key role in future of Higher Education, from personalised learning to autonomous generation of curriculums to support and empowerment of learners.
Chairman of the conference
Dr. Jassim Haji
President, IGOAI Community
Dr. Jassim Haji
President, IGOAI Community
Dr. Haji is a veteran in the field Information and Communications Technology with over 3 decades of robust experience in implementing IT strategies to move applications/infrastructure, formulating vision, improving vision/culture, innovation and change management . With hands on expertise in reorganizing operations, managing core infrastructure including servers, storage, network, collaboration, application, middleware products. Deft in IT infrastructure management, management of heterogeneous networks, information security and service delivery as well as it regulatory compliance. Proven ability to affect transformational change across a range of operational areas and create a sustainable difference to a business’s operational performance.
Manage large scale delivery assignments for various platform technologies coupled with established credibility in providing domain support for managing operations round the clock while establishing command center and security operation.
He is continuously conducting research in Artificial Intelligence and Organizational Change, exemplified by his publications on latest technologies and how to be leveraged operationally and economically in organizations. He lead the entire Information Technology department in Gulf Air and implemented numerous cutting edge projects and technologies. He managed to achieve over 40 prestigious awards including 15 distinguished CIOs (Chief Information Officer). He formerly served on the board of directors of a leading hospitality and tourism technology provider in the Middle East and on SITA Council representing Middle East and North Africa. He has the ability to implement processes for improving IT Services entailing continual service improvement, service operations, service transition and service design & strategy.
Speakers
Dr. Luluh Aldhubayi
Director of the AI Center, King Saud University
Prof. Ernesto Damiani
Senior Director of the Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems
Prof. Ernesto Damiani
Senior Director of the Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems
Ernesto Damiani is a Full Professor at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), Senior Director of the Robotics and Intelligent Systems Institute, and Director of Center for Cyber Physical Systems (C2PS) within Khalifa University (UAE). He is the leader of the Big Data area at Etisalat British Telecom Innovation Center (EBTIC), and President of the Consortium of Italian Computer Science Universities (CINI). He is also part of the ENISA Ad-Hoc Working Group on Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity. Ernesto's areas of interest include cyber-physical systems, Big Data Analytics, Edge/Cloud security and performance, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. Ernesto Damiani has pioneered model-driven data analytics. He has authored more than 660 Scopus-indexed publications and several patents. Ernesto has been a recipient of the Research and Innovation Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Homeland Security , of the Stephen Yau Award from the Service Society, of the Outstanding contributions Award from IFIP TC2, of the Chester-Sall Award from IEEE IES, of the IEEE TCHS Research and Innovation Award, and of a doctorate honoris causa from INSA – Lyon (France) for his contribution to Big Data teaching and research.
Dr. Chan Yeun
Cybersecurity Leader of Center for Cyber Physical Systems, Khalifa University
Dr. Chan Yeun
Cybersecurity Leader of Center for Cyber Physical Systems, Khalifa University
Dr. Chan Yeob Yeun holds M.Sc. (1996) and Ph.D. (2000) degrees in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London. After his Ph.D., he joined Toshiba TRL in Bristol, UK, and later became a Vice President at LG Electronics, Mobile Handset R&D Center, in Seoul, Korea (2005) where he was responsible for developing mobile TV technologies and related security. He left LG Electronics in 2007 and joined KAIST (Korea) until August 2008 and then Khalifa University of Science and Technology in September 2008.
Dr. Yeun is currently a researcher in Cybersecurity including IoT/USN security, cyber-physical system security, cloud/fog security and cryptographic techniques as an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a Deputy Director of Center for Cyber Physical Security. He also enjoys lecturing M.Sc. Cyber Security and Ph.D. Engineering courses at Khalifa University. He has published more than 130 journal articles and conference papers, nine book chapters and 10 international patent applications. He also serves on the editorial board of multiple international journals and on the steering committee of international conferences. He is a senior member of the IEEE.
Dr. Aamna AlShehhi
Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
Dr. Aamna AlShehhi
Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
Dr. Aamna AlShehhi joined Khalifa University as an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering in 2021 and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 2020. Her research interests include Statistical Analysis, Big Data analytics, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from the United Arab Emirates University (2009), and Master's in Computing and Information Science (2013), and a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering (2017) degrees from Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). During her Ph.D., Dr. AlShehhi was part of an exchange program for one semester at MIT (2015). Throughout her studies, her research was based on time series analysis, big data analysis, and machine learning modeling for weather forecasting for different weather stations in the UAE and Twitter data analysis in the context of the Arab world with a special focus on the UAE.
In 2017, Dr. AlShehhi joined Khalifa University and MIT as a post-doctoral fellow. She also joined the Imperial College London as an honorary research associate at the School of Public Health, Epidemiology & Biostatistics (inc MRC-PHE Centre). Her post-doc research focused on Causal Inference, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence for the medical domain. Her works centered on skin lesion analysis toward melanoma detection and screening of different drugs to repurpose a drug that can delay the onset and the progress of dementia. Aside from her academic project, Dr. AlShehhi collaborated with researchers from the Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research to build Deep Learning models for early-stage cancer detection using genomic data.
Dr Anthony Cioppa
Researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium
Dr Anthony Cioppa
Researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium
postdoc researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium and currently a visiting postdoc at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). I am funded by the FNRS and work under the supervision of Prof. Marc Van Droogenbroeck and Prof. Bernard Ghanem. My research interests are in the fields of computer vision, video analysis using AI, sports analysis, real-time processing, and video understanding. I graduated in Electrical Engineering in 2017 and completed my PhD in computer vision and AI at ULiège with support from the FNRS. I also organize international challenges on AI applied to sports and publish research papers on this topic.
Agenda
11:00 AM (GMT +3)
Start of Session
Dalal Buhumeida, Event MC
11:10 AM (GMT +3)
Inauguration Speech by:
H.E. Dr. Diana Abdulkarim Al Jahromi, Higher Education Council, Secretary General
11:20 AM (GMT +3)
Welcome note by Conference Chairman
Dr Jassim Haji, President, International Group of Artificial Intelligence
11:30 PM (GMT +3)
A New Era of Higher Education: AI Integration Across Disciplines
Dr. Luluh Aldhubayi, Director of the AI Center, King Saud University.
12:00 PM (GMT +3)
LLM in Students Assessment: Threats & Best Practices
Prof. Ernesto Damiani, Senior Director of the Khalifa University Center for Cyber Physical Systems
12:30 PM (GMT +3)
AI security for Education
Dr. Chan Yeun, Cybersecurity Leader of Center for Cyber Physical Systems, Khalifa University
01:00 PM (GMT +3)
Opportunities and Challenges of Generative AI in Higher Education
Dr. Aamna AlShehhi Assistant Professor, Khalifa University
01:30 PM (GMT +3)
AI for Sports for Education
Dr Anthony Cioppa, Researcher at the University of Liège (ULiège) in Belgium
01:55 PM (GMT +3)
Closing
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