Lamees Al Qassem
Dr. lamees al qassem Postdoctoral Fellow Electrical Engineering

Contact Information
lamees.alqassem@ku.ac.ae

Biography

Dr. Lamees M. Al Qassem received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 2017 and 2022, respectively. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at Khalifa University. Her M.Sc. thesis focused on Arabic natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on microservice architecture and efficiency models for cloud computing services. She has published in the areas of educational technology, including augmented and virtual reality, Arabic natural language processing, cloud computing, blockchain, and microservice architectures. She received the Best Paper Award from the UAE 2019 Graduate Student Research Competition (GSRC) for her work on Arabic NLP. She has co-advised undergraduate senior projects in Arabic NLP, one of which secured the first-place position in the undergraduate research competition in 2023.


Education
  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, UAE
  • MSc by Research in Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE
  • B.S.c. in Computer Engineering, Khalifa University, UAE


Affiliated Research Institutes/Centers
  • Center for Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC)

Research
Research Interests
  • Augmented Reality
  • Machine Learning
  • Blockchain
  • Microservices
  • Reinforcement Learning and Federated Learning
  • Natural Language Processing