PRIS18

Registration

60 min.

Auditorium

Opening Ceremony

HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan's Speech

1 Hour

Auditorium

Keynote Speech

Dr. Sanad Bushnaq ~Toshiba Memory Corporation~ "World-Class Mindsets" "عقول تهز العالم"  

45 min.

Auditorium

Dr. Sanad Bushnaq

Dr. Sanad Bushnaq is an expert in advanced technology and semiconductors, who is using his expertise to promote collaboration between Japan and the Middle East. Bushnaq obtained his Masters and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo after he was awarded the Japanese government scholarship. At only 34 years of age, Bushnaq […]

Coffee Break

15 min.

Scientific Session #1

• Prof. Said Ismail: "Genomics; Unlocking the Human Code. Location: Auditorium
• Prof. Nidhal Guessoum: "Latest Astronomical Discoveries." Location: HTU1
• Prof. Ziyad Masoud: “Nature-Inspired Control Systems.” Location: HTU2
• Prof. Reema Tayyem: Dietary Patterns and Cancer. Location: ZINC. 
• Ms. Farah Shamout: "Healthcare Decision-Making in the Era of Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics." Location: TechWorks

45 min.

Prof. Reema Tayyem

Professor Reema Tayyem obtained her BSc in biochemistry and MSc and PhD in Human Nutrition from University of Jordan. Professor Tayyemserved as Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics Department chair and assistant dean at the Hashemite University for about 8 years. She joined the Department at 2001and moved to Nutrition and Food Technology Dept. at the University […]

Ms. Farah Shamout

Farah Shamout is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She pursues an intertwined interests in public health and artificial intelligence. As part of the Computational Health Informatics Lab, her research focuses on machine learning applications on “big data” of healthcare and she aims to produce a […]

Prof. Ziyad Masoud

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and is the Dean of Graduate Studies and Scientific Research at the German Jordanian University.

Prof. Nidhal Guessoum

Prof. Guessoum is an Algerian astrophysicist. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California at San Diego and spent two years as a post-doctoral researcher at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. His research focuses on gamma radiation, from the Milky Way Galaxy and from other sources in the Universe. He has […]

Prof. Said Ismail

Manager of the Qatar Genome program (QGP) and professor of Molecular Biology at the University of Jordan Medical School

Plenary Session #1

Applied scientific research and innovation: the need, the situation, and the future in the Arab region.  

• Dr. Melad Dababneh

• Dr. Sanad Bushnaq
• Mr. Abdallah Abu Sheikh
• Ms. Nujoud Serhan
• Ms. Rasha Barakat

50 min.

Lunch Break

Refuel your brain and make some friends!

70 min.

Special Workshop #1

• Dr. Sanad Bushnaq: "Innovation and Critical Thinking." Location: Auditorium.
• Mr. Ahmad Sharab: "Molecular Biology Techniques/ Part 1". Location: HTU 1.
• Dr. Abdussalam Qaroush: "Technical Writing/ Part 1". Location: HTU 2.
• Mr. Yazan Dabain: "Introduction to Data Science." Location: ZINC
• KAFD: "Game Development Workshop using Unity/ Part 1." Location: The Jordan Gaming Lab, BLDG 23

2 Hours and 40 Min.

Dr. Abdussalam Qaroush

Dr. Abdussalam K. Qaroush received both BSc and MSc degrees from the Hashemite University. In 2009, pursued his PhD under the supervision of Professor Bernhard Rieger (TUM). In there, he developed green sorbents for CO2 activation. In 2015, he started on establishing the Jordanian CO2 team (JCO2T). In the same year, he was called by the HCST […]

Mr. Ahmad Sharab

Ahmad is a young researcher, graduated with a B.Sc. and M.Sc. degree in Biotechnology from Al-Ballqa’a applied university. Recently, he has worked as a research and teaching assistant at medical and science school of university of Jordan as well as a freelance trainer in entrepreneurship and life skills. Academically, he is the 1st of his […]

Mr. Yazan Dabain

Yazan Dabain is heading the weather technology department in ArabiaWeather, driving innovative solutions using unique technologies to solve interesting challenges around the weather. Simultaneously, Yazan is Vice President of Jordan Open Source Association (JOSA) and program lead for the technical capacity program within it. Yazan’s focus in JOSA is in elevating the technical skill of […]

Dr. Sanad Bushnaq

Dr. Sanad Bushnaq is an expert in advanced technology and semiconductors, who is using his expertise to promote collaboration between Japan and the Middle East. Bushnaq obtained his Masters and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Tokyo after he was awarded the Japanese government scholarship. At only 34 years of age, Bushnaq […]

Scientific Session #2

• Dr. Omar El Agnaf: Antibody Biotechnology for Diagnostic Purposes and Intervention Strategies for Parkinson’s disease and Related disorders. Location: Auditorium
• Dr. Rana Dajani: From Genes to Behaviour to The Soul: What Are We? Location: HTU 1
• Mr. Mohammad Al-Shaker: The Role of Big Data in Weather Forecasting.  Location: HTU 2
• Dr. Abdelraheem Abualbasal: Entrepreneurship Dream and Reality. Location: ZINC
• Mr. Amjad Abdallat: The Next Wave in Cognitive Intelligence. Location: TechWorks

50 min.

Mr. Mohammed Al-Shaker

Mohammed Al-Shaker is the founder and CEO of ArabiaWeather Inc. – the leading provider of weather products, services and solutions to consumers and businesses in the Middle East. In 2006, Mohammed founded JordanWeather, a single-page application publishing weather forecasts for 25 locations within Jordan. Thanks to its distinctively accurate method of weather forecasting, enabled by […]

Prof. Omar El-Agnaf

Acting Executive Director at Qatar Biomedical Research Institute (QBRI) and Director of Neurological Disorders Research Center at QBRI. His primary research concerns neurodegenerative disease. Since he moved to the region, he has assembled an excellent research team and has been successful in attracting an array of scientific funding from prestigious international funding agencies. Dr. El-Agnaf […]

Mr. Amjad Abdallat

The founder and CEO of Beyond Limits, a pioneering Artificial Intelligence company based in Glendale, California.

Dr. Abdelraheem Abualbasal

Dean of King Talal School of Business Technology at Princess Sumaya University for Technology Dr. Abdelraheem Abualbasal obtained a bachelor degree from Eastern Michigan University in computer information system & Business Administration and a master’s degree in Science Information Systems from Eastern Michigan University. He received a doctorate in Management in Information Technology from Lawrence […]

Dr. Rana Dajani

Rana Dajani: Ph.D. in molecular biology, University of Iowa, USA; Harvard Radcliff fellowship 2017, Eisenhower fellow, a Fulbright alumnus twice, an Associate Professor and former Director of the center of studies at the Hashemite University, Jordan, former Yale visiting professor at the Yale stem cell center and visiting Scholar University of Cambridge and visiting professor at the stem cell therapy center.

Debate: Is Artificial Intelligence Posing a Threat to Humanity in the Present or the Near Future??

Chair:

Team A:

• Prof. Lutfi Al Sharif
• Mr. Saed Khawaldeh

Team B:

• Eng. Farah Shamout
• Mr. Amjad Abdallat

105 min.

Ms. Farah Shamout

Farah Shamout is a PhD Candidate in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. She pursues an intertwined interests in public health and artificial intelligence. As part of the Computational Health Informatics Lab, her research focuses on machine learning applications on “big data” of healthcare and she aims to produce a […]

Prof. Lutfi Al-Sharif

Lutfi Al-Sharif is currently Professor of Building Transportation Systems at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, The University of Jordan. He received his Ph.D. in lift traffic analysis in 1992 from UMIST (Manchester, U.K.). He worked for 9 years for London Underground, London, United Kingdom in the area of lifts and escalators. In 2002, he formed […]

Mr. Amjad Abdallat

The founder and CEO of Beyond Limits, a pioneering Artificial Intelligence company based in Glendale, California.

Eng. Saed Khawaldeh

Saed Khawaldeh is a researcher of neuroscience and biomedical engineering at the University of Oxford. His main research area of interest is developing neurotechnological applications through integrating neuroimaging methodologies (i.e. MRI, EEG, LFP, and MEG), brain stimulation techniques (i.e. DBS, TMS, TACS, and TDCS), and artificial intelligence (i.e. machine learning, deep learning, and feature engineering), […]