Our Team

Dr. Mazen is a certified project management professional (PMP) and an Assistant Professor of Management Information Systems at Qatar University. Mazen’s the Director of the FinTech Innovation Center at Qatar University. Previously, he worked as IT project manager and IT director in Canada for 8 years. Mazen’s expertise is in IT project risk management. He is currently a PI on a 3-year NPRP-7 project on big data analytics. Mazen’s role is to coordinate the intertwined work of the five sub-projects. Specifically, he is in charge of integrating the outcomes of 5 other sub-projects, reporting progress and maintaining phase gates, and insuring achievement of milestones. Moreover, Mazen will be in charge of disseminating the knowledge shared across the 5 other sub-projects.

Dr. Karim Al-Yafi is an assistant professor of management information system at the College of Business and Economics at Qatar University. With a software engineering and business analysis background, he obtained his PhD in Management science and Information Systems from Brunel Business School, Brunel University London. The main research interests of Dr. Al-Yafi include the evolution and evaluation of e-Government solutions and the role of ICT in policymaking and public sector strategic management. His research interests extend to cover also the use of multi-agent systems to evaluate the use of mobile and ubiquitous technologies to optimize enterprises’ functional performance and underlying information systems infrastructure. In this context, he co-authored and participated in several research project proposals submitted to European Commission, EPSRC UK, and the Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF). Other technical fields in which Dr. Al-Yafi is interested are Web 2.0 programming, open source software, e-Learning and business intelligence & data mining. Dr. Al-Yafi has presented his research through multiple research papers and international conferences and workshops, notably at the IEEE international workshop on Enabling Technologies.