Qatar University’s College of Engineering (QU-CENG) computer science PhD student, Maram Hasanain, has been selected among 10 students from all over the world to represent the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) at the 50-year celebration of the ACM Turing Award, to be held in June 2017 at San Francisco, US.
Maram has been awarded a travel grant to attend the event as an ACM SIGIR ambassador.
In her selection letter, ACM SIGIR chair Diane Kelly indicated that Maram’s attributes and experiences make her uniquely qualified to represent SIGIR at the prestigious event.
During the next several months, ACM will celebrate 50 years of the Turing Award, often referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Computing”, and the visionaries who have received it.
ACM aims to highlight the significant impact of the contributions of the Turing Laureates on computing and society, to look ahead to the future of technology and innovation, and to help inspire the next generation of computer scientists to innovate.
CENG dean Dr Khalifa al-Khalifa congratulated the student by stating that such an achievement underlines the level of education that students receive at CENG. “The college is committed to providing students with an optimum learning environment to explore and achieve their full potential, which will contribute to shaping the future of professional engineers.”
CENG department of computer science and engineering (CSE) head Dr Sumaya al-Maadeed said the CSE had proved its excellence at different international and regional activities and events.
“We encourage students to get involved in such events and be a part of these to further widen their knowledge and experiences.”
Maram Hasanain said it was a great honour to be selected by ACM SIGIR to attend such a prestigious event.
“I am very excited to get the opportunity to meet computing pioneers who helped and continue to help in the development of computers and computing technology as we know it today.”
u201cI am excited to get the opportunity to meet computing pioneers who helped and continue to help in the development of computers and computing technologyu201d
