MESSAGE FROM UAE GSRC GENERAL & STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR

Colleagues and stakeholders in the government, academic and research sectors, students and faculty members of universities from across the UAE and beyond. Welcome to the UAE GSRC 2023. We would like to express our gratitude and thanks to Highness Sheikh Hamed bi Zayed Al Nahyan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Khalifa University for accepting to hold the conference under his patronage. We are also pleased that UAE GSRC 2023 is being held with the support of strategic partners: UAE Ministry of Education, Emirates’ Scientist Council and Mufakiru Al Emarat. This valuable partnership will undoubtedly ensure the conference builds on the success it achieved to date and expand further in the future.

As General Chair of the UAE GSRC’s and chair of its Steering Committee, it is indeed a great pleasure to welcome you all to the 2023 UAE Graduate Students Research Conference. Khalifa University is proud to have the United Arab Emirates University, American University of Sharjah, University of Sharjah, New York University Abu Dhabi, Mohammed Bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence, British University in Dubai, Abu Dhabi University, and Ajman University as co-organizers of the UAE GSRC 2023. The conference aims to provide opportunities for graduate students to share their research work amongst themselves, faculty and the community. We are also proud that Khalifa University is organizing this event for the fifth time since GSRC was first organized in 2015.

DR. ARIF SULTAN AL HAMMADI Executive Vice President, Khalifa University

Since then, the UAE GSRC has established itself as an exciting multidisciplinary academic event that offers a platform to share the research being conducted at universities across the UAE, and their international partners. For graduate students, the UAE GSRC provides an avenue to showcase their scholarly research work and innovative ideas in various fields of knowledge. This is the 8th year of the UAE GSRC and we are pleased that graduate students from Sultan Qaboos University and University of Bahrain are contributing and participating in the conference.

We are very pleased to point out that this year 760 research papers were submitted, and reviewed independently by faculty from the participating universities. The technical program committee recommended accepting a total of 611 research papers of which 284 for oral and 327 for poster presentation at the 2023 UAE GSRC.

Nearly 79% of the research papers came from students in the ‘Engineering and Physical Sciences’ track, 9% from the ‘Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences’ track, 7% from ‘Clinical, Pre-Clinical, Health & Life Sciences’ track, and 5% from the ‘Business & Management’ track. The conference will select the best papers for awards across the various tracks as is the practice we follow every year.

The success of this conference is attributed to those individuals who have worked hard to ensure smooth operations before and during the event. Hence, we would like to thank the members of the Steering Committee, Organizing Committee, and Technical Program.

Have a fruitful and exciting conference, Thank you,

Dr. Arif Sultan Al Hammadi Executive Vice President, Khalifa University UAE GSRC 2023 General & Steering Committee Chair