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Participation of CSE Department in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

awareness forum

Prof. Jihad Al Ja’am, Dr. Saleh Alhazbi, and the Ph.D student

Ms. Amal AlMohamad from the dept. of Computer Science and

Engineering have presented their research outcomes as part of

QNRF participation in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

awareness forum organized by the Ministry of Public Health on

Friday April 26th , 2019..

Dr. Saleh presented his UREP project outcome, Faheem, a

tablet-based application to help improve the Arab autistic

children receptive language. Dr. Jihad presented the outcome

of his UREP project on communication through images for

nonverbal children with autism. He also presented with his

student Amal AlMohamad the outcome of his NPRP project on

learning through multimedia for children with disabilities, and

introduced to the audience his new NPRP project entitled

MOALEM on converting Arabic text to the best representative

images using different techniques including deep learning.

The instructors can then generate contents dynamically to

teach the children with learning difficulties. The workshop was

attended by a large number of professionals from different

entities in Qatar and families of autistic children. The workshop

was delivered in interactive manner between the audience and

the presenters noting that The forum was the number of

participants in the conference exceeded 500 attendees Dr.

Enas Mohamed, the QNRF Program Manager in Biomedical

Sciences & Health coordinated the workshop and promised to

provide more funding for projects dealing with children with

special

addition, she thanked CSE faculty members

saying “ Thanks for your wonderful contribution to QNRF Research Outcome Seminar (ROS). The event was both

informative and enjoyable; a rare combination in solemn scientific events of this nature, which is a testament to your

competence and devotion “.