Dr. Sanjay Chawla

News

1. OpenAI Flags ‘High’ Cyber Risk as State AGs Warn Industry Over Harmful Chatbot Outputs

2. Riyadh Air, IBM partner to Launch World's First AI-Native Airline

3. Adobe Leans Into AI to Defend Its Creative Tech Lead in 2026

4. Khazna Strengthens Saudi Presence With New Country Head to Drive AI-Ready Infrastructure Growth

5. Debt, Data Centers, and OpenAI Dependence Put Oracle Under Pressure

6. Qatar Launches Qai, a National AI Company Backed by the Sovereign Wealth Fund

Sanjay Chawla is the Chief Scientist of Qatar Computing Research Institute, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He has contributed extensively to several strategic AI initiatives in HBKU and Qatar, including Fanar, the Arabic-centric multimodal Generative AI platform; the UK-Qatar AI Commission; the National AI Strategy of Qatar; a research partnership with Boeing Research and Technology; and a collaboration with MIT on AI-driven geospatial map generation. His current research interests include robustness of machine learning algorithms and out-of-distribution detection. He has been teaching a Reinforcement Learning graduate-level course at HBKU for the last five years. Before joining QCRI, he was a Pattern and Data Mining Professor at the University of Sydney.