Focus Areas

Prominent researchers, leading scientists, technologists and industry experts work together with students on projects in the focus areas, providing impact and value for both industry and research.

Digital Health

 

Utilizing predictive modelling for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment, drug discovery and development, and issues related to clinical study challenges (e.g. placebo effect, dropouts, remote digital study design, and secured, privacy-preserving, distributed computing).

Social Analytics

 

Analyze data of social interactions, discussions, topics, flow of ideas, impact and influence. Develop and apply natural language processing (NLP) and social network analysis (SNA) models, algorithms tools and technology to detect and quantify social phenomena.

  • DiaCorpus - Dialectic Arabic Corpora


  • NLP/NLU and SNA in Social Media


  • AraLab – Dialectic Arabic NLP Lab


  • Intellexus Geology of Texts


    Genealogy of Concepts, Intellectual Ecosystems Mapping the Indic and Tibetic Buddhist Text Corpora

AI and Cognitive Computing

 

Designing algorithms to capture and model the interactions between emotion, cognition, and behavior. Applications range from conversational AI to gesture and emotion recognition to personalized AI-based professional services (e.g. private teacher) and AI-led interaction.

  • pClinic - Therapeutic Alliance


As the institute grows, it will continue to focus attention on carefully selected areas of interest (verticals), including:

 

Government and security (including cyber), energy and utility, water, psychology and behavioral understanding, and core AI technology (hardware & software).

  • Business – Finance and Marketing


    Application domains are in fintech, targeted advertising, pricing, business analytics, decision making, risk management, customer relations, next best offer, upselling and cross-selling.