Research Grants & Industry Experience

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Internationally Funded Projects

  1. Fortifying Online e-‎commerce ‎Recommendation ‎Systems Against ‎Obfuscated Attacks‎
  2. Context-Aware ‎Multimedia Information ‎System for e-Health ‎Decision Support
  3. Named entity recognition ‎for Arabic (NERA)‎
  4. Machine Translation of ‎Spoken Arabic into ‎English
  5. Expert System Integrated ‎with Multimedia ‎information system for ‎improved Grapes ‎management (GRAPEX)‎

Locally and Internally Funded Projects

  1. A cloud-based platform ‎for Arabic speech audio ‎transcription using Deep ‎learning ‎
  2. An Intelligent Voice-‎Based Navigation ‎Assistant for the Visually ‎Impaired
  3. AR, VR, and AI-‎Enhanced Metaverse for ‎Tailored and Inclusive ‎Education: ‎Empowering ‎Special Needs Youth in ‎the UAE‎
  4. Adopting the Course ‎Complexity & Cognitive ‎Analysis in STEM ‎Education to Enhance ‎the Employability ‎Matrix: Developing a ‎Micro-Credential AI ‎System
  5. Adopting the Course ‎Complexity & Cognitive ‎Analysis in STEM ‎Education to Enhance ‎the Employability ‎Matrix: Developing a ‎Micro-Credential AI ‎System
  6. Exploiting Treebank ‎Resources for Extending ‎a Rule-Based Arabic ‎Parser Coverage
  7. Using Machine Learning ‎to Improve Arabic ‎Named Entity ‎Recognition
  8. Arabic English ‎Conceptual Interlingua ‎‎(AECI)‎
  9. Arabic Lexical Error ‎Diagnosis of Language ‎Learners in Intelligent ‎Language Tutoring ‎Systems

PI & Co-PI of international/local and academic/industrial driven projects with high profile collaborators

 

Period 

Source 

Grant Title 

Role 

Participants

Value 

 

 

International Fund

 

 

 

2024/9-2025/08

NSERC Alliance Catalyst

Fortifying Online e-commerce Recommendation Systems Against Obfuscated Attacks

research collaborator

Rasha Kashef (PI)

$25,000 (CAD)

2009/5~2011/4

British Council Funded PMI 2 Strategic Alliances and Partnerships project/Research Co-operation in Gulf States, UK.

Context-Aware Multimedia Information System for e-Health Decision Support

CO-PI

Hissam Tawfik,UK

Atulya Nagar,UK

Saad Amin

£33225 (UK Pound)

2006/9~2007/8

FAST Search & Transfer Inc./Microsoft, Germany

Named entity recognition for Arabic (NERA)

PI

Petra Maier-Meyer, Germany

 Hafsa Raza

45,000 USD

2001/3~2004/11

MoSR, Egypt-NSF, USA 

Machine Translation of Spoken Arabic into English

Co-PI

Lori Levin, USA

Azza Abdel Monem

50,000 USD

1996/4~1997/3

US-AID, MoLAR, Egypt

Expert System Integrated with Multimedia information system for improved Grapes management (GRAPEX)

PI

Soliman Idrees

Mostafa Mahmoud

25,000 USD

 

 

Local Fund

 

 

 

2024/10-2026/09

Zayed University, UAE

A cloud-based platform for Arabic speech audio transcription using Deep learning 

Co-PI

Fatna Belqasmi (PI), Manar Alkhatib, Walid Magdy

297.5K  (UAE Dirham)

2023/09-2024/08

Zayed University, UAE

An Intelligent Voice-Based Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired

Co-PI

 Samia Loucif (PI), Fatna Belqasmi, Manar Alkhatib

‎‎299,400‎‎

(UAE Dirham)

2023/09-2025/08

Research Incentive Grant, Liwa College, UAE

AR, VR, and AI-Enhanced Metaverse for Tailored and Inclusive Education: Empowering Special Needs Youth in the UAE

Co-PI

Azza Abdel Monem (PI), Rouhi Faisal‎, Ahmed Al Gindy, Valery Psyche

120,000

(UAE Dirham)

2023/1~ 2024/12

Towards Enhanced Malware Threat Mitigation Using Generative AI

Adopting the Course Complexity & Cognitive Analysis in STEM Education to Enhance the Employability Matrix: Developing a Micro-Credential AI System

Co-PI

Suleiman Yerima

(PI)

Vinod P.

Sally McClean

5,647 AE (UAE Dirham)

2022/12~ 2024/1

Mohammed Bin Rashid Smart Learning Program R&D Seed Fund 2022, UAE

Adopting the Course Complexity & Cognitive Analysis in STEM Education to Enhance the Employability Matrix: Developing a Micro-Credential AI System

Co-PI

Rasha Abousamra (PI)

Osama Hosam Eldeen

Ahmed Said Ghonim

250,000 AE (UAE Dirham)

2011/12~2014/11

National Research Foundation (NRF), UAE

Exploiting Treebank Resources for Extending a Rule-Based Arabic Parser Coverage

PI

Josef van Genabith, Ireland

Ali Farghaly, USA

Mohammed Attia 

Khaled Ezz

200,000 AE (UAE Dirham)

2010/4~2012/11

The British University in Dubai, UAE

Using Machine Learning to Improve Arabic Named Entity Recognition

PI

Sherief Abdallah

Mohammed Shoaib

Mai Oudah

68,000 AE (UAE Dirham)

2010/4~2012/11

The British University in Dubai, UAE

Arabic English Conceptual Interlingua (AECI)

PI

Farhad Oroumchian

Asma Damankash

Sinan Al-Sheikh

50,000 AE (UAE Dirham)

2008/2~2009/1

British University in Dubai, UAE

Arabic Lexical Error Diagnosis of Language Learners in Intelligent Language Tutoring Systems

PI

Aly Fahmy

Rana Aref

41,500 AE (UAE Dirham)

 

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