Grants & Awards

Grants

• Signature Research Grant — HBKU — Principal Investigator
  • Advancing Qatar’s AI landscape via developing an Arabic-centric and ethically aligned Large Language Model.
  • Amount: QAR 600,000
• Social Innovation Fund — 8th Cycle — Lead Principal Investigator
  • Mentorship Platform for professional roadmaps: building, sharing, and merging.
  • Amount: QAR 50,000

Honors & Awards

• HBKU Reyada Reward — Entrepreneurship program, 2024.
• Travel grant, ECE Department, UIUC — to attend NeurIPS 2017.
• CompGen Fellowship, UIUC — 2015–2016.
• Arab Women in Computing Scholarship — to attend ArabWIC 2015.
• Grace Hopper Scholarship for Women in Computing — 2015.
• Graduate Woman Cohort Scholarship — 2014–2015.
• Heinrich and Mühlfenzl Scholarship for exchange students — 2012–2013.
• Automotive, Railway and Avionic Multicore Systems Grant (German Federal Ministry of Research) — funded the research stay at UC Berkeley, 2013.
• Tunisian Government / DAAD Scholarship for B.S. and M.S. studies in Germany — awarded for ranking among the top 10 students in Tunisia in the national high-school examination, 2007–2013.
• German Pedagogic Exchange Service (PAD) International Award — winner of the best German-speaking pupils competition in Tunisia (selected among 3 nationally), 2006.
• Prize of the Regional “Journée du Savoir” in Sfax, Tunisia — awarded three times (7th, 8th, 10th grades) for ranking 1st in the governorate of Sfax.