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Rayaz A Malik Editor & Author

Dr. Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is a Research Assistant Professor and the group leader of Smart Nano Solutions at Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of South Brittany at Lorient, France, in 2012.


John-John Cabibihan (Senior Member, IEEE) received the Ph.D. degree in bioengineering, with a specialization in biorobotics, from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy, in 2007. From 2008 to 2013, he was an Assistant Professor with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, National University of Singapore. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University.


Abdulaziz Al-Ali received the Ph.D. degree in machine learning from the University of Miami, FL, USA, in 2016. He is currently an Assistant Professor with the Computer Science and Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Qatar University. In addition to developing novel machine learning techniques, his research involves building predictive models for textual, image, and sensor-based data. Dr. Al-Ali’s interest remains to be in the machine learning, artificial intelligence, and data mining fields. He now takes the role of the Director of the KINDI Center for Computing Research in Qatar University.


Rayaz A. Malik, BSc. (Hons), MSc., MB ChB, PhD, FRCP graduated in Medicine from the University of Aberdeen in 1991, obtained his MRCP (London) in 1996, PhD from the University of Manchester in 1997 and was elected to become a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2007. He was appointed as Consultant Physician and Senior Lecturer in 2001 and as Professor of Medicine and Consultant Physician in 2008 in Central Manchester University Teaching Hospitals and the University of Manchester. In 2014, he was appointed as Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and remains an honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Manchester and visiting Professor of Medicine at Manchester Metropolitan University. He was appointed as the Organizational Official in November 2016 and as the Assistant Dean for Clinical Research at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar in February 2019. His research focuses on the pathogenesis, assessment and treatment of diabetic and other peripheral neuropathies and central neurodegenerative disorders.