It was a pleasure hosting and meeting Amjad Masad at QCRI for an insightful discussion on harnessing generative AI to tackle real-world social impact challenges.

Pakistan: 2023 Monsoon Snapshot: Since 25 June, according to NDMA, 215 people died 320 injured 5,769 houses damaged 1260 animals perished Check OCHA Snapshot here: bit.ly/45XtCTU #monsoon2023 #ochapakistan #FloodsInPakistan

Delighted to have presented at the UN Development's social media analysis course event today! Engaging Q&A with 127 participants from across the globe representing various United Nations orgs. At QCRI, we take pride in supporting the UN with AI tech for crisis magmt & capacity-building.

On Int'l Day for #Disaster Risk Reduction, we applaud those using innovative #geospatial methods to support disaster relief❤️‍🩹#DRRDay We highlight QCRI, which mapped damage, missing people, & shelter demand w/#AI & #socialmedia in Türkiye 👉 bit.ly/3OmnnDa

Honored to be recognized as one of the world's top 2% most-cited scientists by Stanford University, both for the career-long and single-recent-year rankings of 2023. It's a privilege to stand alongside other colleagues from QCRI, جامعة حمد بن خليفة and Qatar Foundation.

Just went through an intense thunderstorm with hail in #Qatar. This was one of the most sudden storms I've ever witnessed. It's a stark reminder that climate change is real. Hoping for the safety of everyone on the roads, especially delivery workers on motorbikes. #QatarStorm

Dr. Ahmed Elmagarmid inaugurates the E-Analytics Innovation Lab course, a collaborative effort by UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and QCRI in Doha. Hosting the DPPA Innovation Cell in Qatar is a great honor, and we eagerly anticipate nurturing mutually beneficial collaborations. Martin Waehlisch

Presenting the research and systems developed at QCRI to our United Nations guests from UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs - Monitoring internal displacement via satellite - SIHA: Improved healthcare - Monitoring critical facilities during disasters using LLMs - Fehris: Content management - Prompting LLMs

It was a pleasure hosting our friends from UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs at QCRI for the fourth edition of the E-Analytics training course. 35+ UN staff participated in the 4-day event. United Nations Martin Waehlisch Ahmed Elmagarmid ferda ofli Alya Ahmed Saif Al Thani جامعة حمد بن خليفة Qatar Foundation

Exciting news! Our paper on Flood Insights won the Deployed Application Award at the AAAI-IAAI conference in Vancouver! We fuse remote & social sensing and geospatial data for impact assessments during floods. Kudos to the amazing team: Zainab, Umair, Aya, Rizwan, ferda ofli

Hamad Bin Khalifa University’s Qatar Computing Research Institute #QCRI, together with the Innovation Cell of the Policy and Mediation Division at the United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs #UNDPPA, marked six years of collaboration in pioneering new

📚 معهد قطر لبحوث الحوسبة والأمم المتحدة يحتفلان بمرور 6 سنوات من الابتكار المشترك. اقرأ المزيد: hbku.edu.qa/ar/news/annual…

Great to have presented at the UN Development Surge Data Hub training program. Shared insights from our work on Flood Insights, Rapid Damage Assessment, Needs Assessment, Landslide detection, and more. Qatar/QCRI is privileged to contribute to United Nations capacity-building efforts.

Now out at #ICWSM24: "Analyzing Mentions of Death in COVID-19 Tweets" Joint work with Divya Mani Adhikari Muhammad Imran Umair Qazi ojs.aaai.org/index.php/ICWS… We analyze tweets mentioning a personal death, such as "my father died of covid". (1/2)

Happy to share I was awarded the 2nd Best GIS Work and Presentation at the GIS Technology Day, organized by the Center of GIS & the Ministry of Municipality. I showcased the use of AI and GIS to enhance crisis response using remote and social sensing data. QCRI

Honored to speak at Harvard University about our new project on Anticipatory AI for Humanitarian Actions at the Climate Resilient Development workshop. Thoroughly enjoyed the lively discussion and insightful questions from the audience QCRI Harvard University Salata Institute Qatar Foundation

It was a pleasure speaking at this important event. Thanks so much for the invitation Abdurhman Albasir and UNDP Libya.

Alperen's Alperen Kantarcı work, 'Bias-aware face mask detection dataset', is now available @ Multimedia Tools & Applications Journal! Paper: link.springer.com/10.1007/s11042… Dataset: github.com/Alpkant/BAFMD Joint work with HBKU/QCRI ferda ofli Muhammad Imran

The World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH 7) brought together global leaders to tackle pressing health challenges. Our participation reflects QCRI’s commitment to improving health outcomes worldwide and driving positive change in the healthcare sector. جامعة حمد بن خليفة

With OpenAI, we investigate LLMs' capabilities in processing social sensing crisis data, including how they handle disaster types, interpret diverse info types, perform in non-English regions, and which linguistic features impact their performance. Paper: arxiv.org/pdf/2412.10413