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4th ETSI TC ITS Workshop
07-09 February 2012, Doha - Qatar
Dr. Munir Tag
Program Manager, ICT
QNRF
Qatar National Research Fund
A Driving Force for Scientific Research
Qatar Foundation (QF)
- QF Goals
- Education and Research
Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
– QNRF Funding Programs & Activities
– Wireless Communication Funded projects
– QNRF Impact on Research Culture
– Application Procedure
Outline
QATAR FOUNDATION for Education, Science and Community Development
• An independent, chartered, non
profit organization.
• Founded in 1995 by HH the Emir
Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani.
• Chaired by Her Highness Sheikha
Mozah Bint Nasser .
• QF aims to unlock human potential
through Education, Science &
Research, and Community
Development.
Qatar Foundation Goals
The primary goal of QF is building human capital and creating
future leaders in Qatar by:
Creating a network of centers committed to first-rate
education.
Partnering with world-class educational and research
institutions.
Building a unique Education City, featuring state-of-the-
art technology and facilities.
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Georgetown University School of Foreign Service
HEC Paris
Northwestern University in Qatar
Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies
Texas A&M University at Qatar
University College London
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar
Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar
Education and Research Universities
Science and Research Institutions
RAND-Qatar Policy Institute
Qatar National Research Fund
Qatar Research Institutes
• Qatar Biomedical Research Institute
• Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute
• Qatar Computing Research Institute
Sidra Medical and Research Center
Qatar Science and Technology Park
Qatar National Research Fund
Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF)
Established in August 2006, QNRF is the sole
Research Funding Agency in Qatar.
Vision:
Act as a catalyst for expanding and diversifying
the country's economy.
Enhance the education of its citizens and the
training of its workforce .
Foster improvements in human health and well-
being, environment, and security of its own
people and those of the region.
Mission:
Advance knowledge and education by
supporting original, competitively selected
research in Natural Sciences, Engineering,
Health Sciences, Agricultural Sciences,
Social Sciences and Humanities.
Provides opportunities for researchers at all
levels, from students to professionals, in public
and private sectors.
QNRF Funding Programs &
Activities
QNRF Research Funding Programs
Funding Programs:
New Program:
UREP YSREP NPRP NPRP-EP
TRP
Qatar National Research Survey (QNRS)
Conferences & Workshops Sponsorship Program (CWSP)
SSREP
2006 2007
2008
2009
2010 2010 2010 2012
Secondary School Research Experience Program
Undergraduate Research Experience Program
Young Scientists Research Experience Program
Theme Research program
National Priorities Research Program
NPRP Exceptional Proposals
QNRF Funding Programs Statistics
Number of
Cycles Letters of
Intent / IRP Submitted
proposals Awarded
Projects Amount of Fund
(US$M)
UREP 10 - 1118 507 16.4
NPRP 4 3686 1945 411 345
YSREP 2 43 22 7 1.6
SSREP 1 177 (32
schools) 157 30 N/A
NPRP-EP 1 8 6 Ongoing Ongoing
NPRP 5th
cycle Ongoing 1460 670 Ongoing Ongoing
SSREP 2nd
cycle Ongoing 273 261 Ongoing Ongoing
Addresses key national, regional, and global needs through research.
Accepts individual or collaborative, small or large proposals spanning
between one to three years.
Encourages:
• Multi-year, multi-disciplinary, and multi-institutional projects.
• Collaborative projects partnering researchers and academia from
different campuses, governmental or private institutions.
• Partnerships between institutions in Qatar and outside Qatar.
Offers grants from 20K-350K per year for projects with 1 to 3 years
duration.
• At least 65% of the total annual budget must be expended within
Qatar.
• At least 50% of the proposed funded research days must be
conducted in Qatar by the research team.
NPRP Program
Distribution of Awarded Proposals per Discipline
Engineeringand
Technology
Medical andHealth
Sciences
NaturalSciences
SocialSciences
Humanities AgriculturalSciences
21
8
11
4 2
0
41
22
18
8
3 1
55
31
26
11
2 1
56
36
31
17
4
1
NPRP 01 47
NPRP 02 93
NPRP 03 126
NPRP 04 145
Awards per
cycle
Funded amount per Discipline
Engineering and Technology
42%
Medical and Health Sciences
24%
Natural Sciences 21%
Social Sciences 10%
Humanities 2%
Agricultural Sciences 1%
172 Engineering and Technology ($153.19 m)
98 Medical and Health Sciences ($83.20 m)
86 Natural Sciences ($74.21 m)
41 Social Sciences ($21.6 m)
11 Humanities ($6.91 m)
3 Agricultural Sciences ($2.70 m)
NPRP International Collaboration– Example of Institutes
Communications Engineering and Systems funded
projects
QNRF funded 34 projects in Communications Engineering & Systems with
total amount $26.74m.
Wireless Networks & Services $5.29 m
20%
Cognitive Radio Networks $4.58 m
17%
Resource Allocation and Channel Coding
$3.92 m 15%
Wireless Sensor Networks $3.12 m
12%
Intelligent Transportation Systems $3.08 m
11%
4G Wireless Systems $3.58 m
13%
Interference Management
$3.17 m 12%
Wireless Networks & Services $5.29 m
Cognitive Radio Networks $4.58 m
Resource Allocation and Channel Coding$3.92 m
Wireless Sensor Networks $3.12 m
Intelligent Transportation Systems $3.08 m
4G Wireless Systems $3.58 m
Interference Management $3.17 m
Sample of NPRP Awarded project related to
Wireless Communication
Awardee Collaborators Project Title
Qatar University -- CopITS: Cooperative Cars and Roads for Safer and Intelligent
Transportation Systems
Qatar University Lebanese American University
American University of Beirut
Optimized Energy Efficient Video Streaming Strategies for Wireless
Networks with Cooperation among Mobile Devices
Qatar University Politecnico di Torino
Wireless Sensor Networks for the Survey of Gas and Water
Distribution Networks
Qatar University Purdue University Wireless Mesh Networking: Experimental Testbed-based Studies of
Radio Access, Routing, and Network Resource Allocation
Qatar University
Concordia University
University of Waterloo
Arizona State University
Enabling Cooperative Diversity Techniques for Underwater Acoustic
Communications
Texas A&M University
Qatar University of South Florida
Signal Intelligence for Next Generation Wireless Communications
Systems
Texas A&M University
Qatar
Qatar University
University of Minnesota Sparsity-Aware Spectrum Cartography for Cognitive Networks
CMU State University of New York -
Binghamton
CameraNets: Coverage, Networking and Storage Problems in
Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks
Qatar University University of British Columbia
Innovative framework for scalable signal processing and power-
efficient communication in healthcare wireless body area sensor
networks
Channel Allocation and Rate Adaptation for Relayed Transmission over Correlated Fading Channels; Proc. IEEE 20th Commemorative Personal, Indoor and Mobile
Radio Communications Symposium (PIMRC'09), Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 2009. Author(s): Kyu-Sung Hwang; Md. Jahangir Hossain; Young-Chai Ko; Mohamed-Slim
Alouini
Code design for MIMO broadcast channel; IEEE Trans. Commun.,vol 57,ls 4, 986-996, 2009. Author(s): Uppal, Momin; Stankovic, Vladimir; Xiong, Zixiang;
Handoff Triggering and network selection algorithms for load-balancing handoff in CDMA-WLAN integrated networks; EURASIP Journal on Wireless
Communications and Networking, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 136939. Author(s): Khalid Qarage; (Texas A&M University – Qatar)
Joint adaptive modulation and diversity combining with feedback error compensation; IEEE Trans. Commun Vol 57, No 11, pp 3214-3219, Nov 2009. Author(s): S-Y
Coi, H-C TYang, M-S Alouini and K A Qaraqe.
Joint channel allocation and rate adaptation for relay transmission over correlated fading channels; Conference (PIMRC’2009), Tokyo, Japan Sep 2009. Author(s):
Mohamed Slim Alouini; (Texas A&M University - Qatar).
Low Complexity Cooperative Communication with Switched Relay Selection and Adaptive Modulation; Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2009-Spring
(VTC¡¯09-Spring), Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009.
Author(s): Kyu-Sung Hwang; Young-Chai Ko; Mohamed-Slim Alouini; (Texas A&M University - Qatar).
Analysis of two-way Amplify and forward relaying with adaptive modulation; Proc. International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference
(IWCMC'09), Leipzig, Germany, June 2009. Author(s): K-S Hwang, Y-C Ko And M-S Alouini.
Compress-forward coding with BPSK modulation for the half-duplex Gaussian Relay channel; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Volume 57, Issue 11.
Author(s): Khalid Qarage; (Texas A&M University - Qatar) Published: 2009
Wireless transmission using cooperation on demand; Physical Communication,Volume 3, Issue 3, September 2010, Pages 190-197. Author(s): Kamel Tourki,
Mohamed Slim Alouini, Mazen Omar Hasna.
On Practical design for joint distributed source and network coding. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, Volume 55 , Issue 4, Pages: 1709-1720. Author(s):
Yunnan Wu_, Vladimir Stankovi´cy, Zixiang Xiongy, and Sun-Yuan Kung.
Performance analysis of incremental opportunistic relaying over identically and non-identically distributed cooperative paths. IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun. Vol.8
No.4 Apr. 2009, pp 1953-1961. Author(s): Kyu-Sung Hwang; Young-Chai Ko; Alouini, M.-S.;
Performance Bounds for Two-way Amplify-and-Forward Relaying Based on Relay Path Selection; Proc. IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference 2009-Spring
(VTC'09-Spring), Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2009. Author(s): Kyu-Sung Hwang; Young-Chai Ko; Alouini, M.-S.;
Joint MS-GSC Combining and Down-Link Multiuser Diversity Scheduling. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. 2009 Jul;8(7):3536-45. Author(s): Ben
Halima S, Alouini MS, Qaraqe KA.
Cross-Layer Optimal Rate Allocation for Heterogeneous Wireless Multicast. Eurasip Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking. 2009. Author(s):
Mohamed A, Alnuweiri H.
Adaptive Rake Combining in the Soft Handover Region. IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications.2008 Dec;7(12):5156-60. Author(s): Ben Doua ABA, Choi
S, Alouini MS, Qaraqe KA.
Feasibility of Using Cellular Network Signaling To Estimate Road Traffic Information.
Author(s): Adnan Abu-Dayya; Faleh Al-tal; Mahmoud M. Deeb; (Qatar University) Published: 2008
Location Based Services: SMS Cell Broadcast; Journal of Mobile Technologies, knowledge, and Society, 2009, 7 pages, Volume 2009, Article ID 107113. Author(s):
Mohammed Samaka; Hanan Fakhri Hussni Ali; Noha Akram Dhiaa Al-Omari; Seada Mohammed Al-Kubaisi; Zohreh Gholamhussain Moeinzadeh; (Qatar
University) Published: 2008.
A System for Automatic Gathering and Intelligent Analyses of Doha Traffic Data; 6th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications,
Doha, Qatar, 2008. Author(s): Qutaibah Malluhi; Noora Alnaimi; Nuha Barhoum; Abeer Nasser; Alia Swidan; (Qatar University)
Example Publications
• An additional funding opportunity within the NPRP for proposals of exceptional scientific merit that require funds in access of the normal NPRP funding.
• The NPRP-EP total Budget is up to US$ 5m for project duration between 3-5 years.
• At least 80% of the total annual approved budget must be expended inside Qatar (direct and indirect) and therefore a maximum of up to 20% can be expended outside Qatar.
• 65% of effort must be conducted inside Qatar and 35% outside Qatar.
• An annual budget of US$10m is available to fund the awarded NPRP-EP projects.
The Exceptional National Priorities Research
Program (NPRP-EP)
The Young Scientists Research Experience
Program (YSREP)
The program aims to encourage young scientists to lead
research in Qatar.
PIs from local institutions are eligible to apply in all fields
of Sciences.
Projects of 1-3 years duration, with budget of up to
US$100,000 per year per project.
Two cycles per year
Undergraduate Research Experience Program (UREP): • UREP supports undergraduate students research activities. Students
gain experience with “Learning by Doing” research collaboration with faculty.
• UREP Offers US$10,000 per student
• QNRF conducts 2 UREP cycles per year, 11 UREP cycles have been launched so far.
Secondary School Research Experience Program (SSREP) • Aims to engage all students (Qatari and non-Qatari) in all secondary
schools in Qatar (independent and private), under the mentorship of their teachers and/or subject coordinators, in undertaking projects that are directly derived from the curriculum standards accredited by the Supreme Education Council (SEC).
UREP & SSREP
QNRF Activities
QNRS (Qatar National Research Survey)
• QNRS is the national repository of all research publications
produced by Qatari in Qatar.
• Currently the QNRS database contains over 11,000 records
in both English and Arabic languages.
• http://www.qnrf.org/activities/qnrs/search/ .
CWSP (Conferences and Workshops Sponsorship
Program)
• Launched in 2009.
• Designed to provide opportunities to sponsor national and
international conferences and workshops held in Qatar.
Events Sponsored by QNRF’s CWSP
Field Awardee Conference/Workshop Title
Computer Science QU 11th International Conference on Relational
Methods in Computer Science
Telecommunications QUWIC 17th International Conference on
Telecommunications
IT QU ACM workshop proposal (Research
Overtones in Computing Education)
Education TAMUQ NSF Workshop: Electrical Energy Education
Medical and Health HMC The 8th Gulf Heart Association Annual
Conference
Engineering Ethics TAMUQ & QF
Islamic Studies
Workshop - Professional Ethics in a
Globalized World
Health University of
Calgary in Qatar
Workshop - Inaugural Neuroscience Nursing
Specialty Society of the GCC
Telecommunications QUWIC
Conference - The 26th Wireless World
Research Forum in Doha, Qatar; Theme:
Wireless Solutions in Vertical Markets
NPRP Proposals Life Cycle
Lead PI Registration
Read instructions Prepare proposal
QNRF screening
Notifying Ineligible Proposals
RO Registration
Submit Proposal
RO Vet
QNRF
Steering committee
QF-BOD
Approval
QNRF
Applicant
Reviewers
How To Apply?
No. of registered
ROs: 65 in 5 years
Conclusions
A successful model for building research
culture and international collaboration.
A driving force for scientific research in Qatar.
Meeting Qatar's National Vision (QNV 2030)
for creating a knowledge based economy.
