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the 2015 ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications (TOMM) Nicolas D. Georganas Best Paper Award. And the best research paper of the 10th annual international conference on computer games multimedia & allied technologies (Singapore, 2016).

Dr. Sumaya Ali S A Al-Maadeed
Somaya Al-maadeed received her PhD degree in Computer Science from Nottingham, U.K., in 2004. Currently she is the head of Computer Science department at Qatar University (QU). She is also the coordinator of Computer Vision research group at Qatar University. She enjoys excellent collaboration with National, International institutions and industry. She was a visiting Academic at Northumbria University, UK. She organized several workshops and competitions related to computer vision and medical image analysis. She was selected as a participant in Current and Future Executive Leaders Program at Qatar Leadership Centre QLC (2012-2013) established in 2008 by an Emiri Decree. She published extensively in computer vision and pattern recognition. She is a principal investigator of several funded research projects generating approximately five million dollars in the last years. She attended workshops related to higher education strategy, assessment methods, and interactive teaching. She published and delivered workshops on teaching programming for undergraduate students. She supervised students through research projects related to community and industry. In 2015 she was elected as IEEE Chair for Qatar section.

Dr. Osama Halabi
Osama Halabi has been active in the academia since last 17 years. Presently, he is working as an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at Qatar University. Prior to joining Qatar University, he has participated in various organizations in various capacities such as Fujitsu Endowed Chair (Fujitsu Co.,) at Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology from 2001 to 2003, researcher in Virtual Systems Laboratory at Gifu University, Japan, from 2003 to 2006, assistant professor at Iwate University, Japan, from 2006 to 2010. He received M.Sc. degree in computer science from Shanghai University, and Ph.D. degree in Information Science from Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) in 1998, and 2001, respectively. His principal research interests include haptics, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), human-centered computing, robotics, interactive systems, laser graphics, and computer graphics. He has intensive experience in software development for haptic interfaces and virtual reality especially for medical training and simulation. Dr. Halabi has participated in many QNRF and Qatar university research projects and published more than 50 refereed technical papers in various international conferences and journals, three books, and one patent. Dr. Halabi was a recipient of the IEEE Information and Communication Systems Best Conference Paper Award in 2017, and many awards in prestigious technology completions such as Microsoft Imagine Cup. He is a member of IEEE, ACM, Virtual Reality Society of Japan (VRSJ), and The Society for Art and Science in Japan.