Funded Projects

1. Dr. Md Abdur Rahman has received a funding of 350K SAR from Madinah Development Authority to develop the "StreetView - Deep Learning Assisted Smart City Services" as the PI.
2. Dr. Md Abdur Rahman has received a funding of 450K SAR from Angel Investment for development of "Building Energy Management through Deep Learning and IoT" as the PI.

Dr. Md Abdur Rahman Winner of the KAUST grand challenge 1M SAR “Ideas and Solutions for Hajj and Umrah 2020” in the category of Crowd Management.

1. Received a grant from KSU DSR as CO-PI with the title “Deep Neural Network-based COVID-19 Case Detection and Recognition from Real-time Medical Image Analysis and Computer Vision Techniques” worth 237K SAR on May 28, 2020.
2. Received a grant worth 500K SAR from KACST with the title “A Multi-Modal Point-of-Care Deep Learning-based AI Framework for COVID-19 Rapid Diagnosis” in May 2020. The project is for 6 months starting from May 2020. Our Project ID is 5-20-01-127-0001

1. Dr. Md. Abdur Rahman, Dr. Elham Hassanain, and Dr. Syed Sadiq Received a grant from UK British Council with the title “Blockchain for Hajj” with 50,000 GBP in March 2018 [Dr. Md. Abdur Rahman – Principal Investigator]
2. Dr. Md. Abdur Rahman and Dr. Elham Hassanain Received a grant worth 7.5 M SAR from KSA RDO with title “An IoT Enabled, Blockchain-Based Secure Framework to Provide Context-Aware, Spatio-Temporal Early Warning Services for a Hajj Mass Crowd” in October 2018 [(University of Oxford and King’s College London)].

Dr. Md. Abdur Rahman and Dr. Elham Hassanain Received a grant from KACST with the title “Next Generation Hajj: A smart City Perspective”, worth 2 million SAR, in October 2015 [Dr. Md Abdur Rahman - Principal Investigator]

1. Dr. Md. Abdur Rahman, Dr. Mohamed Mokbel, and Dr. Thanaa Ghanem, “A System for Querying, Analyzing, and Visualizing Real-Time Social Network Data", KACST NPSTI Grant, Total 2 million SAR, September 2014
2. Dr. Mohamed Abdur RahmanDr. Abdelmajid Khelil, Dr. Salah Aly, "HajjMemo: Pilgrims-Sourced Data Collection for Documentation and Continuous Improvement of Hajj & Umrah Services", KACST NPSTI, Total 2 million SAR, January 2014
3. Dr. Mohamed Abdur Rahman, Dr. Saleh Mohammed Saleh Basalamah, Dr. Walid G. Aref, and Dr. Mourad Ouzzani, "Query Processing and Optimization in Spatiotemporal Database Systems", KACST NPSTI Grant, Total 2 million SAR, November 2013
4. Dr. Mohamed Abdur Rahman, Dr. Saleh Mohammed Saleh Basalamah, and Dr. Abdulmotaleb El Saddik, "Open Source Context-Aware E-Learning Framework for Students with Disabilities", KACST NPSTI Grant, Total 2 million SAR, January 2013

Past Research Projects

Sense Face is a context-aware multi-modal multimedia e-learning environment for the disabled students.

In this project we extract emotional value from text content such as YouTube user comments, Twitter messages, email body and attachments, weather data...

Media Lab Sponsors and Collaborators

International Collaborator: Discovery Park
Purdue University Discovery Park, USA

Local Collaborator: DCA
Disabled Children's Association, Makkah, KSA

Sponsor: UQU
Umm Al Qura University, Makkah, KSA