MESSAGE FROM THE UAE GSRC ORGANIZING & TECHNICAL COMMITTEE CHAIR

On behalf of Khalifa University, I am honored and delighted to welcome you to 2023 UAE Graduate Students Research Conference (GSRC) 2023. Since its start in 2015, the UAE GSRC continues to offer an exciting forum for graduate students across all disciplines the opportunity to showcase the results and innovative ideas from their research. In addition to the multidisciplinary nature of the conference, it provides a valuable opportunity for students to network, develop ideas and explore venues for collaborative research.

Khalifa University organized and hosted GSRC in 2015, 2017, 2021 (virtually) and 2022. 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 coorganizers of the UAE GSRC 2023. We are confident that you will find the rich program of oral and poster technical presentations rewarding and enjoyable.

The UAE GSRC 2023 attracted 760 paper submissions that cover all the thematic fields, namely Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business and Management, Clinical, Pre-Clinical, Health and Life Sciences, and Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences. I would like to thank all 1295 authors from all the participating universities who submitted their papers to the conference. The submitted papers are from all the universities in the UAE who are represented on the GSRC committees. And this year, we are pleased to have contributions and presentations from graduate students from Sultan Qaboos University and University of Bahrain.

The technical program of the UAE GSRC 2023 includes 611 presentations of which 284 are oral and 327 posters. The oral presentations are organized in 48 sessions under 8 parallel tracks. The poster presentations are organized in 12 sessions. The accepted papers are split among the conference major thematic tracks as follows: Engineering, Information Technology and Physical Sciences (496), Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (51), Clinical, Pre-Clinical, Health and Life Sciences (42), and Business and Management (22).

This year, as was the case last year, all the session chairs are graduate students who are presenting papers at the conference. This will give most of them the experience of chairing a session at a conference for the first time.

I would like to thank all members of the Steering, Organizing and Technical Program committees for their dedication and support throughout the preparation for GSRC 2023. Special thanks to the 277 technical reviewers who worked diligently in reviewing the submitted papers and hence helped produce a rich program.

Finally, I hope that your participation in the conference will be enjoyable and rewarding.

Dr. Mahmoud Al-Qutayri Associate Provost, Khalifa University GSRC 2023 Organizing & Technical Committee Chair