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Short bio: Dr. Muhammad Imran is a Senior Scientist and Lead of the Crisis Computing team at Qatar Computing Research Institute. His research interests lie in the application of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics to improve decision-making in a variety of contexts such as humanitarian response and resilience. Dr. Imran completed his PhD in 2013 from the University of Trento in Italy and has since worked at Qatar Computing Research Institute as a Scientist for five years and a postdoc for two. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications, including 5 best paper awards. His work has also been featured in mainstream media outlets such as the BBC, WIRED Magazine, New Scientist. He has delivered keynotes and invited talks at international venues, and holds the position of Associate Editor for the Frontiers in Big Data Mining and Management journal, editor of several special issues in top journals, and track chair and program committee member for multiple conferences and journals.

For more information, see his detailed curriculum vitae. (Updated Sep 2022)

Public profiles: Google Scholar | ResearchGate | LinkedIn

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Latest news:

• CFP Special issue 2020: Special Issue on Big Data in Epidemics in the Journal of Big Data Research. More details here.


• CFP Special issue 2019: Special Issue on Using AI and Social Media for Disaster Response and Management in the Journal of Information Processing and Management. More details here.


• CFP ISCRAM 2018: The topics of interest to ISCRAM'18 include, but are not limited to: crisis informatics, geographic information systems (GIS), social media studies, human-computer interaction, humanitarian information management, situation awareness, visual analytics. More details.


• 2017 April: CFP-Special issue - Co-organizing a Special Issue: Social Media in Crisis Management in the International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction (IJHCI). Deadline July 1st 2017. Consider submitting your papers.


• 2017 April: CFP-Special issue - Co-organizing a Special Issue: Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness in the Journal Information Systems Frontiers. Deadline July 1st 2017. Consider submitting your papers.


• 2016 Oct: Our paper A Robust Framework for Classifying Evolving Document Streams in an Expert-Machine-Crowd Setting. got accepted in ICDM 2016 conference.
  


• 2016 Sep: - Delighted to give a keynote talk at the ICIC-2016 conference.
  


• 2016 May: - Received the Best Paper Award at ISCRAM 2016 conference for our paper Cross-Language Domain Adaptation for Classifying Crisis-Related Short Messages.


• May 2016 - Honored to be invited to give a keynote talk at the ISCRAM 2016 conference.


• April 2015 - Journal paper got accepted @ ACM Computing Surveys


• May 2013 - Best Paper Award @ ISCRAM'13
  We were delighted to be awarded the best paper award for our paper Extracting Information Nuggets from Disaster-Related Messages in Social Media. This described our recent work submitted to ISCRAM2013 where we explored the role of microblogging websites during emergencies... more