Professor of Computer Engineering · Qatar University
AI ethics and governance. AI in education and healthcare. Technology with wisdom.
I direct the IHSAN Research Lab at Qatar University. I work on how artificial intelligence can serve people, starting with communities and classrooms and reaching into healthcare, governance and security. Running through all of it is multiplexity, a framework grounded in Islamic ideals and offered for everyone.
publications: papers, book chapters and preprints
citations (h-index 81)
PhD/MS students supervised
01 / Research
9 connected themes. Each links to its papers.
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Making artificial intelligence accountable to the people it affects: responsible and human-centered AI, ethical frameworks, and governance and standards for AI in universities and health systems.
Responsible AI · Governance & standards · Ethics frameworks
02
Attacks on and defenses for machine-learning systems — adversarial examples, robustness and distribution shift, privacy-preserving and federated learning, LLM safety evaluation, and cybersecurity for networks, IoT and connected vehicles. A long-standing line of work, published across security, networking and AI venues.
Adversarial ML · LLM safety · Cybersecurity · Privacy
03
Secure, trustworthy and ethical machine learning for clinical care: surgical video, referrals, digital twins, and generative AI for mental-health support, evaluated by whether patients are cared for as well as by accuracy.
Clinical AI · Digital twins · Mental health
04
Rethinking teaching, assessment and academic integrity so that AI tools support the effort through which students form understanding and judgment.
GenAI in the classroom · Assessment · Curriculum
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A framework for integrating the one and the many in technology, education, health and the human being, with ordered levels of reality and attention to change over time.
Multiplex systemics · Integration · Wisdom
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Spiritual excellence (ihsan) as a framework for professional and technological practice — doing things beautifully, sincerely and in service of others.
Ihsan · Islamic ethics · Technology & wisdom
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The technical core: deep, reinforcement and federated learning, computer vision, speech and audio, and AI-enabled cognitive networks — the methods behind the applications above.
Deep learning · Reinforcement learning · Vision & speech
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Foundational work in wireless and computer networking, mesh and software-defined networks, IoT, and information and communication technology for human development.
Wireless & mesh networks · IoT · ICT4D
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Data-driven and AI-enabled systems for cities, energy, mobility and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Smart cities · Energy · SDGs
02 / Multiplexity
Many fields meet the problem of the one and the many: a signal is many frequencies, a network is many networks, a person is body, mind and conviction. Some problems have one right answer; others stay open however long we look. Multiplexity, a framework that originates with Recep Şentürk and is rooted in Islamic ideals, integrates the two. It asks either-or where a single closed answer is warranted and both-and where the question is open, and it keeps many views, levels of reality and change over time in one frame.
03 / Open courses
IHSAN Course 2025 · 8 parts · 103 slides
How to balance the intellectual, ethical and spiritual dimensions of the human being to meet the dilemmas of the AI era — a synthesis of pedagogy, Islamic spirituality, systems thinking, AI ethics and educational design.
IHSAN Short Course · 13 videos · 145 slides
Sincerity and intention, vision, character, doing justice and excelling in one’s work, mastery, productivity and barakah (blessing), and service to others — an introduction to ihsan as a way of professional life.
Also: CS721 Network Performance & Evaluation, an AI-ethics short course and more →
04 / Watch
Talk · Usul Academy · 2026
Talk
05 / Publications
A short selection. The full, searchable list — filterable by theme, topic, co-author, venue and year, with open-access PDFs and BibTeX where available — follows.
J. Qadir, D. Maddah, M. W. Qoronfleh, R. Sentürk
Frontiers in Psychology, section Consciousness Research, Research Topic: Spirituality and Religion: Implications for… 16
A. Qayyum, M. A. Butt, H. Ali, M. Usman, O. Halabi, A. Al-Fuqaha, Q. H. Abbasi, M. A. Imran
ACM Computing Surveys 56(7): 1–38
J. Qadir
International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies (EDULEARN) pp. 8418–8428
A. Johri, A. Katz, J. Qadir, A. Hingle
Journal of Engineering Education
J. Qadir
IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
J. Qadir, M. Qamar, A. Al-Fuqaha
Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society 20(2): 329–342
06 / Projects & grants
Research group
A research lab at Qatar University working on human-beneficial AI, the ethics of technology and engineering education.
Related publications
Non-profit foundation (in formation)
Courses, research and community programs on technology, education and ethics grounded in ihsan — excellence and sincerity in service.
Website coming soon
Open courses
The two IHSAN courses with their slides, the Quran short course, and my papers on ihsan as spiritual excellence.
Explore Ihsan
07 / Biography & service
I am a Professor of Computer Engineering at Qatar University, Doha, where I direct the IHSAN Research Lab. I have supervised 31 graduate students and taught across networking, machine learning and engineering education.
Before Qatar University I was a Professor and Department Chair at Information Technology University, Lahore, and earlier an Assistant Professor at NUST, Pakistan. I hold a PhD from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Full biography → Complete CV →
08 / Contact
The best way to reach me, for speaking invitations, research collaboration or student enquiries, is by email.
Thank you for your interest in working with me. I receive more emails than I can answer, and I am sorry that I cannot reply individually or advise on funding. Graduate admissions at Qatar University are handled centrally, not through a faculty advisor’s recommendation, so please apply directly and follow the published deadlines and procedures. Please do not read a lack of reply as a judgment of your potential. I wish you every success.
When funded PhD or research-assistant positions open in my group, I advertise them formally on this website and on LinkedIn, and they are filled by open competition. Please watch those announcements and apply through them; unsolicited emails cannot be answered individually, and I am sorry for that. A lack of reply is not a judgment of your potential.
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