Graduated Students
- Haya Al-Thani, PhD, HBKU, As co-advisor, Dissertation Title: Conversational Search in Open-Domain Information Seeking
- Rana Malhas, PhD, Qatar University, As advisor. Dissertation title: Question Answering on the Holy Qur’an
- Zien Sheikh Ali, MSc, Qatar University, As co-advisor. Thesis Title: Detecting Users Prone to Spread Fake News on Arabic Twitter
- Maram Hasanain, PhD, Qatar University, As advisor. Dissertation title: Enabling Effective Arabic Information Retrieval on the Web and Social Media
- Watheq Mansour, MSc, Qatar University, As co-advisor. Thesis title: Did I see it before? Detecting previously-checked claims over Arabic Twitter
- Sara Alrasbi, MSc., Qatar University, As advisor. Thesis title: “SparkIR: A Scalable Distributed Information Retrieval Engine over Spark“. Graduated in Fall 2019.
- Nazar Salim, MSc., Qatar University, As co-advisor. Project title: “Real-time Tweet Summarization Mobile Application“. Graduated in Spring 2018.
- Reem Suwaileh, MSc., Qatar University, As advisor. Thesis title: “On Relevance Filtering for Real-time Summarization“. Graduated in Spring 2018 (Now PhD candidate at QU).
- Hind Almerekhi, MSc., Qatar University, As advisor. Thesis title: “Developing a Test Collection for Significant-Event Detection in Arabic Tweets“. Graduated in Fall 2015 (Now PhD student at HBKU).
- Latifa AlMarri , MSc., Qatar University, As advisor. Thesis title: “Utilizing Hashtags in Microblogs Adhoc Retrieval“. Graduated in Spring 2015. (Now an IT Manager at QU)
- Maram Hasanain, MSc., Qatar University, As advisor. Thesis title: “Query Performance Prediction for Microblog Search“. Graduated in Fall 2014 (Now a PhD candidate at QU).
- Nassma Mohandes, MSc., Qatar University, As co-advisor. Thesis title: “Effective Recommendation of Reviewers to Research Proposals“. Graduated in Spring 2013.
- Eslam Elnikety, MSc., KAUST. Thesis title: “iHadoop: Asynchronous Iterations Support for MapReduce“, As co-advisor. Graudated in Summer 2011 (Now a PhD student at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems).
