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Khalifa University Becomes First in UAE to Deploy On-Campus AV   His Highness Sheikh Hamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member of the Executive Council of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Khalifa University of Science and Technology, witnessed the launch of the Khalifa University autonomous vehicle (AV), the UAE’s first driverless, autonomous 12-seater shuttle that will transport students and staff around the Sas Al Nakhl Campus, and the signing of an AED170-million operating agreement for the Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC) by the three founders Khalifa University, Etisalat, and BT (U.K.), in addition…

EBTIC and BT Team Win International Awards Based on Innovation, Relevance and Evidence of Success, for their SPL Solution and Trial     The SPL team led by Salwa Alzahmi, a senior researcher at KU’s Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC), has won two awards in two categories at the prestigious 2021 Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning Awards in the UK.    EBTIC is a research and innovation center focused on driving research and innovation in intelligent systems and applications founded by Khalifa University, Etisalat and BT (British Telecom), and supported by the Telecommunication and Digital Government Authority’s (TDRA) ICT…

With the right support to kick off her journey, this entrepreneur took her research to market.   Read Arabic story here.   Salwa Alzahmi is the founder of the tech startup SPL Co. Ltd, award-winning research scientist and multiple patents holder. Having received her Master’s Degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering from Khalifa University in 2014, she is leading the software engineering research group at the Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC, established by Etisalat, British Telecom, and Khalifa University, and supported by the ICT Fund). Here, she shares her story of making the jump from researcher to entrepreneur and the…

Read Arabic story here.   A researcher from the Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC), a joint research and innovation center established by Khalifa University, Etisalat and BT and based at Khalifa University, has penned four books in the last two years that shed light on the foundations and inner workings of Internet Protocol (IP) networking. IP networking is the packet routing technology at the core of today’s information and communication infrastructure and central to emerging technologies such as 5G.    Dr. James Aweya, Chief Researcher at EBTIC, is the sole author of the four books. The latest books, titled “IP…

EBTIC is developing a smart surveillance system to help streamline operations at petrol stations Each of the over 3 million registered vehicles in the UAE needs petrol and with only 170 ADNOC petrol stations distributed among Abu Dhabi city, Al Ain, the Western Region, and the northern emirates, it’s no wonder residents of the UAE are often left waiting to fill up. To combat this, the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) enlisted the help of telecoms company, Etisalat, to provide data analytics and forecasting tools. The Emirates ICT Innovation Center, known as EBTIC, established by Etisalat, British Telecom (BT)…

Khalifa University’s Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC)has scored first place in the “Suspicious Network Event Recognition” - a data mining challenge organized in association with the IEEE BigData 2019 conference, beating out 2,400 solutions that were submitted and winning US$1,000. Dr. Dymitr Ruta, Chief Researcher, and Dr. Cen Ling, Senior Researcher, from EBTIC teamed up with the former EBTIC colleague Dr. Quang Hieu Vu on a challenge to decide which internet security alerts should be regarded as suspicious based on information extracted from network traffic logs. The team developed an efficient model to extract essential summarized content from billions of…

In a challenge set to teams the world over to construct the most efficient machine learning model, EBTIC walked away with first and second place. Their model to predict win rates of the most popular decks of online video game Clash Royale will now be used to improve the game’s AI engine as well as add new objectively vetted predictive capabilities to the work of EBTIC and its partners. Clash Royale is a video game combining elements from collectible card games, tower defense and multiplayer online battle arena, mixing all the popular game mechanics into a card-based online video game…

Paper authored by KU Team proposes new ‘log-lifting’ framework to make business process models more accurate and valuable A paper written by a team of researchers from Khalifa University that offers a new process mining solution that helps companies develop more accurate and insightful business process models was nominated for the Best Student Paper Award at the 17th International Conference on Business Processing Management 2019, which took place earlier this month in Vienna. The paper, which was one of three to be nominated for the selective award, was authored by PhD student Ghalia Tello, Dr. Gabriele Gianini, Senior Researcher at…

System Accurately Summarizes Information Written in Arabic and Could Have Great Impact in Many Sectors, Including Government The amount of information we consume from multiple sources is growing like never before. To handle this massive amount of information, people are turning to computers to provide summarizations that can be quickly read. Advanced algorithms and machine learning techniques have recently been developed by major software companies that successfully paraphrase lengthy English texts better than anything previously available. However, work on algorithms capable of summarizing Arabic text has not been progressing as quickly, until now. A group of researchers from Khalifa University’s…

Khalifa University’s EBTIC Developed Hybrid Algorithms Capable of Solving Complex Computer Science Optimization Problems at Genetic and Evolutionary Computations Conference 2019 An algorithm developed by Khalifa University’s Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC), which is a key part of Khalifa University’s new Artificial Intelligence Institute, together with Spain’s University of Basque Country recently finished 3rd in a prestigious competition at the Genetic and Evolutionary Computations Conference (GECCO) 2019, held in Prague in July 2019. The developed algorithm was designed to solve a complex multi-objective optimization problem known as Travelling Thief Problem (TTP) - a combination of the “Travelling Salesman Problem” and…

Khalifa University's Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTC) Develops Intuitu, an Advanced AI Tool to Drive Optimized Warehouse Deployment The warehouses that pick, pack and dispatch our products and packages are getting smarter, more efficient, smaller, and even portable, thanks to recent advancements in digitalization, big data, and artificial intelligence (AI). As these ‘warehouses of the future’ shift from massive brick-and-mortar buildings to mobile containers closer to the customer, they present unique optimization challenges for the companies that use them. This month, at the AI and Machine Learning Awards 2019 in London – a new line up of awards launched this…

In a world where over 600 million tweets are sent every day, making sense of it all requires specialized big data interpretation – especially when those tweets are in Arabic. Every second, on average, around 7,800 tweets are sent. This equates to 473,000 tweets every minute, 681 million tweets per day, and around 248 billion tweets per year. Of these 500 million per day, Twitter users in the Arab region contribute 17.1 million. While English is still by far the most prevalent language used on Twitter, Arabic is the fastest-growing language used to tweet and social media use has exploded…

Public Interaction on 24 April Highlights New Advances in Operational AI,Sentiment Analysis, Smart City and IoT Applications. The Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC) marked its 10 th anniversary celebrations,showcasing some of its technology achievements, especially advance intelligent systems and network technologies and applications, at the Khalifa University main Campus today. The celebrations on Wednesday 24 April 2019 marked a decade of successful contributions by EBTIC, which was founded by Khalifa University, Etisalat and BT, and supported by the Telecom Regulatory Authority’s (TRA) ICT Fund. Some of the EBTIC projects showcased during the celebrations included intelligent optimization of organizational and infrastructure…

Celebrations on 24 April to Showcase EBTIC’s Alignment with UAE’s Knowledge Economy Transformation Goals and Abu Dhabi Vision 2030 The Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC), founded by Khalifa University, Etisalat and BT (British Telecom), and supported by the UAE’s ICT Fund, will mark its 10 year anniversary with the latest technology demonstrations on an array of research projects. The celebrations scheduled for Wednesday 24 April 2019 will mark a decade of successful contributions by EBTIC. During the event, three members of EBTIC’s Technical Advisory Board will highlight current research directions and challenges, artificial intelligence (AI) applications that impact the society,…

Panel of Judges Selects Student Team that Presents the Most Innovative and Pragmatic Business Concept for Top Award Under the patronage of His Excellency Eng. Hussain Ibrahim Al Hammadi, Minister of Education and Vice Chairman of the Khalifa University Board of Trustees, more than 40 students from across schools in the UAE participated in the fourth Innovation and Entrepreneurship Bootcamp organized by the Emirates ICT Innovation Center (EBTIC) and Khalifa University of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the UAE Ministry of Education. The bootcamp that opened on 31 March, successfully concluded with an awards ceremony on 3 April. It…