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35% of incoming students participate in at least one outreach program DOHA, QATAR – Ahead of the March 1 admission deadline, Carnegie Mellon Qatar held a series of workshops to introduce high school students to undergraduate programs in biological sciences,…
The Q-SmartLab Trading Hackathon took place last week, with team Polaris finishing on top. The winning team included Alfred Godwin Ravindrakumar, Anthony Lo and Yijun Dong. The competition took place over three trials which corresponded to three live trading days…
Her Excellency Dr. Hessa Sultan Al Jaber, former minister of Information Communications Technology Qatar (ictQatar), delivered a talk titled “Digital Disruption – Shaping the Future of Qatar” at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar (CMU-Q). Her Excellency focused on the advent…
The largest hackathon in CMU-Q history took place on January 22 and 23, with 74 participants forming 20 teams. Sponsored by Ooredoo, the CarnegieApps Hackathon is an annual programming competition for university students, where individuals and teams compete in a…
Divakaran Liginlal, teaching professor of information systems, led a workshop titled “Content Strategies for Arabic Ecommerce Websites,” which included the findings of an NPRP research study of over 3000 Arabic e-commerce websites. Liginlal and research collaborators Rizwan Ahmad and Robert…
A team from CMU-Q took third place at YHack 2015, the annual Yale University Hackathon, on November 8, 2015. Team members Maher Khan, Musab Ahmed Popatia and Qasim Nadeem developed a group vacation planner during the 36-hour competition. The app,…
Information Systems junior Ibrahim Soltan placed third in DemoJam, an international competition at the SAP TechEd conference held in Barcelona. Teams competed for spots in DemoJam just a few days prior at Innojam Barcelona. Soltan and his team won that…
Over the past several years, advances in information communication technologies have changed the way companies and employees do business worldwide. To highlight how technology can best be used to improve an organization’s business models, Carnegie Mellon Pittsburgh recently hosted the…
DOHA, QATAR – The film, healthcare and energy industries all need one thing – Information Systems. Information systems and communication technologies are key to the growth of all industries. Students in attendance at the 3rd Undergraduate Conference on Information Systems…
Summer internships typically involve students learning a specific skill or doing office work to get their foot in the door of an organization. This is not the case for Carnegie Mellon Qatar students Asma Hamid, a junior information systems major,…
