Somaya Al-Máadeed

Dr. SOMAYA AL-MA‘ADEED is the head of Computer Science department at Qatar University (QU). She is also the coordinator of Computer Vision research group at Qatar University. She received Letter of thanks and recognition from Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani for her work and consultancy in Biometric Security. She and her team are the recipient of the best performance in ICDAR2011 and ICDAR2015 signature verification. She enjoys excellent collaboration with National, International institutions and industry. She was a visiting Academic at Northumbria University, UK. She organized several workshops and competitions related to biometrics and computer vision. She was selected as a participant in Current and Future Executive Leaders Program at Qatar Leadership Centre QLC (2012–2013) established in 2008 by an Emiri Decree. She published extensively in computer vision and pattern recognition. She is a principal investigator of several funded research projects generating approximately five million dollars in the last three years. She attended workshops related to higher education strategy, assessment methods, and interactive teaching. She published and delivered workshops on teaching programming for undergraduate students. She supervised students through research projects related to community and industry. This year she was elected as IEEE Chair for Qatar section. She is a senior IEEE member and a member of other Engineering Societies such as IEEE Women in Engineering Member, IEEE Education Society Member, IEEE Electric Vehicles Member.