CMU-Q research contributes to Qatar’s priorities and impact

The research from Carnegie Mellon Qatar played an important role at the Annual Research Conference 2018 (ARC’18), contributing to advances and developments in crucial areas to Qatar.

Michael Trick, dean of CMU-Q, presented an overview of the CMU-Q research activities, highlighting new funded projects that fall within the Energy and Environment Pillar, the Health and Biomedical Pillar, and the Computing and Information Technology Pillar.

Within the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities Pillar, Dudley Reynolds, teaching professor of English at CMU-Q, presented his research “How English teachers think about professional development.” Associate dean of CMU-Q John O’Brien, who is also an associate professor of accounting and experimental economics, spoke on a panel about the future of financial technologies.

CMU-Q’s project, Alice Middle East, was featured as part of the Qatar National Research Fund booth as a project that has made a significant impact on Qatar. Alice Middle East is educational software that teaches children programming and computational thinking. It is now integrated into the Grade 11 curriculum for all ICT courses, and taught in about 40 government schools reaching roughly 4,000 local students. The QNRF booth also included Meddy, an online physician referral service that was developed by two CMU-Q alumni.

Alice Middle East at ARC 18

Since the beginning of the National Priorities Research Program, CMU-Q researchers have been awarded 57 NPRP and JSREP awards in the fields of biological sciences, business administration, computational biology, computer science, information systems and arts and sciences.